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Mainboards News
Monday, November 23, 2009
- 10:27 pm | Nvidia: Intel Is Scared, We Will Win in Court Next Year. Nvidia’s Chief Exec Again Promises to Win Legal Battle Against Intel
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
- 5:52 pm | Nvidia Wants to Protect End-Users from Intel. Nvidia Criticizes Intel’s Business Practices Again
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
- 7:54 pm | Intel Updates Latest P55 Core-Logic Set [UPDATED]. Intel Initiates Stepping Conversion for Intel P55 Core-Logic
Saturday, October 31, 2009
- 10:47 pm | Asustek Computer Also Adds Serial ATA-600, USB 3.0 to Premium Mainboards. Asus Installs SATA-600, USB 3.0 on New Motherboards Using Add-In Card
- 9:44 pm | Nvidia Condemns Intel for Postponing of SuperSpeed USB Implementation to 2011. Nvidia Claims Its Chipsets Are Better than Intel’s Own
Mainboards
The main hero of our today’s review belongs to the DFI LANPARTY DK series that you are already familiar with. However, it doesn’t mean that we won’t see anything new. We are going to uncover some truly unique technologies as well as new features deep inside the mainboard BIOS.
The recommended retail price for this mainboard is set at $140, but what is it really capable of? Can it meet our needs and expectations fully? Won’t it turn out having limited functionality and being priced too high for what it can offer? Or it has all the potential for successful competition against its more pricy rivals and is worth every penny?
Our today’s review will talk about packaging, accessories and software bundle, strengths and weaknesses of the Biostar mainboard, its functionality in terms of system configuring and overclocking, performance level and power consumption compared with the already tested solutions. We will also talk about the features that sometimes make us exclaim: “OMG”!
The top ASRock mainboard on Intel P55 Express chipset looks good, comes with rich accessories bundle and boasts a number of different functions and features. Unfortunately, fault-free performance in nominal mode is not one of them: the board couldn’t ensure stable CPU functioning at nominal settings.
Gigabyte’s flagship solution has absolutely all, even some unnecessary, features and functions of the previous generation products. However, all real innovations are not too numerous. Today we are going to find out what they are.
Using Core i5-750 and Core i7-860 processors we are going to find out how well they overclock with static and dynamic Turbo Boost implementation and will also discuss the features and functionality of Asus P7P55D Deluxe LGA1156 mainboard on Intel P55 Express chipset.
Not so long ago AMD refreshed their integrated chipsets lineup and launched 785G core logic set. Let’s try to find out which integrated platform, the AMD one or the Intel one, can currently offer the best performance and functionality.
Our today’s primary goal is to study the features and functionality of Foxconn A7DA 3.0 mainboard and provide the general advice about most optimal work with it.
This mainboard is especially interesting because it is the junior model in the Gigabyte lineup on Intel X58 Express chipset. Moreover, this is so far the only Gigabyte mainboard that has been released in two revisions: 1.0 and 1.6.
"Inexpensive" doesn’t mean "cheap". The functionality of this solution is almost as diverse as of LGA1366 mainboards from other manufacturers, and the quality is on the highest level. It could have scored really high if it hadn’t been for a few BIOS flaws and not very high performance.
One doesn’t have to be big to be efficient – this saying perfectly described Asus Rampage Gene II mainboard. Read more in our review!
Nvidia ION platform that combines an Intel Atom processor with Nvidia GeForce 9300 chipset turned out of interest not only to nettop and netbook makers, but also to mainboard manufacturers. We managed to get our hands on a mini-ITX solution like that from Zotac. With the help of this mainboard we learned what we can actually expect from a DIY PC based on ION platform in the new Windows 7 operating system.
This article will be talking about a new LGA1366 mainboard that is way better than any of its predecessors in a number of aspects.
This mainboard from DFI belongs to a "dark" series of products. In our today's review we are going to find out if it manages to make a bright impression on us.
We are going to talk about numerous features of the flagship LGA1366 mainboard from Intel that belongs to the Extreme product series. Read our review for details!
It becomes quite real to put together an inexpensive system on AMD Phenom II or Athlon II processors equipped with DDR3 SDRAM. This type of memory has already become affordable enough, and Gigabyte managed to come up with a Socket AM3 mainboard for DDR3 at a very modest price point. Read more in our review!
This review is devoted to a very interesting and well-done mainboard with a number of unique features and peculiarities, but, of course, not without drawbacks.
A ton of additional controllers, a sophisticated chipset cooler and high price are totally not necessary for successful overclocking and high performance. Read about a mainboard that has it all despite being a mainstream product.
Today we will talk about a flagship EVGA mainboard for Intel processors that is also one of the first EVGA solutions built around an Intel core logic set. Read our extensive review for all the details on this interesting product!
Today we will talk about the features and functionality of a small mainboard with huge potential designed by DFI that belongs to the famous enthusiast LanParty series. Read more in our new review!



