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ASUS ROG STRIX X370-F Gaming motherboard review
The ASUS ROG STRIX X370-F is a high-end AM4 motherboard, retailing for close to £200 ($200) and sitting only underneath the £260 Crosshair VI Hero in ASUS’ lineup. The ROG STRIX branding means we can expect some pretty high-end features added onto the X370 chipset, including on-board RGB lighting, SupremeFX audio and comprehensive support for overclocking…
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Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD7
Introduction Welcome to the world of motherboards! This is a place where cheap alternatives often beat the most expensive flagships. Creating a competitively priced but well performing product is the goal. With that in mind, here’s Gigabyte’s new AMD AM3+ socket motherboard, the GA-990FXA-UD7, based on the AMD 990FX chipset. The AM3+ socket is backwards…
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Sapphire Pureblack P67 Hydra
Introduction Sapphire are GPU manufacturers at their heart, but they’ve been known to dip into other markets in the past few years; perhaps one of the most interesting ones being motherboards. Today I’m looking at their latest foray into the mobo game, the Sapphire Pureblack P67 Hydra. It’s got 4 PCIe ports, an onboard post…
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Zotac Mini ITX M880G
Introduction Zotac is a company that muscled their way onto the graphics card scene in 2006, but they’ve not stayed stagnant. In the past couple of years they opened up their market to mini PCs and even ITX motherboards. Today that’s what we’re taking a look at the, M880G which packs an AMD Turion CPU.…
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Foxconn H67MP-S Preview
While Sandy Bridge chips may only be starting to leak out of Intel's fabrication facilities, one of the things we can do in the mean time is have an ogle of the motherboards we'll be using as soon as we can get a hold of these new CPUs. Today Foxconn have sent over their H67MP-S…
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Asus P7P55D Deluxe
The introduction of a new platform is always a rather secretive affair but as the i5 launch date nears, P55 chipset motherboard previews are coming through thick and fast. Although whispers of high overclocks and unrivalled performance are usually rumoured with a new socket, the i5 series seems to appeal more to the average user…
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MSI 770 C45
MSI are a big brand when it comes to motherboards and they've received world wide regard for their P35 motherboards. Since then, not everything has gone their way, though, with some critics disappointed with their P45 range in part down to the BIOS configuration.However, MSI have never been one to roll over and they have…
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Foxconn Digitalife ELA P45
With Intel’s dominance throughout the CPU market, many users are making the obvious decision of choosing the big ‘I’ over AMD. Also with the success of ATI’s latest graphics cards, most enthusiasts are going for either an ‘Xx8’ or ‘Px5’ series of motherboard.One such motherboard which uses the P45 series chipset is the Foxconn DigitaLife…
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MSI P45 Platinum
Over the last few years, Intel have completely dominated the enthusiast CPU market, and thanks to recent problems with nVidia chipsets, Intel based mobos have become common place in the high end enthusiast and gamer system. To cater for this wider audience the Intel boards are appealing to, they have two ranges of boards the…
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Biostar TA690G AM2
” Introduction With the introduction of HDMI pumping graphics cards, the motherboard market has jumped on the band wagon, with many featuring full HDMI output con audio. The abit AN-M2HD with it’s GeForce 7050PV and nForce 630a chipset is one such example, but today I have AMD/ATI’s reply; the Biostar TA690G AM2. As the name…