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Mainboards 
EVGA X58 SLI review
Posted by: on: 12/18/2008 03:00 PM [
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Today we'll test the fifth X58 motherboard in a row. This time from the folks at eVGA. They recently released their eVGA X58 SLI motherboard loaded with features. Tagged with a 299 USD sales price this motherboard seem to be very impressive. But since it's eVGA, they decided that this motherboard should be all about overclocking, and nothing else. We'll cover the motherboard from A to Z, and to spice it up a little I'll slap on some water-cooling and overclock our processor towards 4.2 GHz, stable.
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Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5P X58 motherboard review
Posted by: on: 11/16/2008 03:00 PM [
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For those of you who missed the little bomb that Intel dropped earlier on, X58 is the enthusiast high-end chipset for motherboards. Enthusiast also means expensive and I won't lie to you, it would make more sense to just sit it out and wait for cheaper chipset to arrive. This review will cover the GA-EX58-UD5P motherboard from the funky blue colored people at Gigabyte.
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ECS X58B-A motherboard review
Posted by: on: 11/12/2008 03:00 PM [
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Motherboard test - ECS released a drop-dead gorgeous looking X58 motherboard. it's feature rich has a few hidden Easter eggs and get this .. it's only 250 USD. Now this motherboard is a Black Edition. meaning black PCB, a solid color schema connector wise, extra hidden features like micro switches for power/reset and even CMOS CLEAR, optical audio TOSLINK outputs, copper heatpipe passive cooling, dual GigE Ethernet and heck it's even SLI certified for two way SLI.
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ASUS P6T DeLuxe review - X58 motherboard
Posted by: on: 11/05/2008 03:00 PM [
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So ASUS has sent us this early version of their X58 motherboards. Sexy looks, loads of features, heck this motherboard will support up to 24GB of DDR3-1333 memory, thanks to its six DIMM slots. It also has features like a Serial Attached SCSI controller to support higher-end SAS hard drives known from the server industry for power users who desire nothing but the best performance. Next to that, it's just an amazing piece of machinery to look at. Nice black PCB, extravagant connectivity, SLI/ Crossfire compatible, passively cooled. And if you opt the P6T Deluxe OC Palm version, you'll even receive an external little LCD screen showing off the latest system info, widgets and overclocking tools at hand. Very cool.
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Intel X58 Extreme DX58SO motherboard review
Posted by: on: 11/03/2008 03:00 PM [
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Intel DX58SO motherboard test. This review is going to cover the basics of Intel's X58 mainboard chipset. The key features of course bringing support to QPI, triple-channel memory and Socket 1366 thus Core i7 processors. the mainboard used is Intels reference Extreme DX58SO motherboard.
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NVIDIA GF9300 (ECS GF9300TA) mainboard review
Posted by: on: 10/14/2008 02:00 PM [
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A test on the ECS GF9300T-A motherboard. Today NVIDIA is introducing their more budget conscious mainboard chipsets. The GF9300 and GF9400 based integrated graphics chipset motherboard products.
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ECS A790GXM mainboard review
Posted by: on: 09/30/2008 02:00 PM [
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A790GXM mainboard test - ECS is trying get a more reach in the enthusiast market, I wasn't surprised to see them release the product as shown today. A mainboard in the 100-125 USD range, yet ECS style - with a bucket load of features like integrated graphics, HDMI connector, passive cooling, 8-channel sound, dual GigE ethernet, Crossfire ready ... and decent tweakability.
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AMD 790GX - Foxconn A7DA-S review
Posted by: on: 09/02/2008 02:00 PM [
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A review of the AMD 790GX chipset based on the Foxconn A7DA-S mainboard. With the more high-end consumer in mind AMD released the new 790GX series mainboards. The mainboard is a lot about status, as AMD want to re-establish their status and performance levels for their products again. Hey in the end, all you have is your reputation right ? And for a chipset manufacturer that means top dog electronics.
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ECS X48T-A review mainboard
Posted by: on: 07/07/2008 02:00 PM [
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Typically an X48 chipset based mainboard will start at roughly 250 USD. The two chips the mainboard manufacturer has to purchase from Intel total up towards 90 USD alone. I'll spill the beans already for today, you can pickup this product for 199 USD. And it even looks superb.
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Gigabyte GA-X48-DQ6 review
Posted by: on: 05/19/2008 02:00 PM [
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What's so new about X48 opposed to the previous X38 you might ask .. well the only difference between the X48 and the X38 chipsets is the official support for 400MHz FSB (1,600MHz effective) CPUs. And let me restate 'official' there as the X38 mainboards can do that FSB perfectly well if you get the latest BIOS. But hey ... this is where we land a the premises of Gigabyte, they make pretty dandy mainboards and especially their high end series always have some cool features that'll tickly your brain and make you all gigly.
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ECS GF8200A black edition mainboard review
Posted by: on: 05/02/2008 02:00 PM [
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The ECS GF8200A black edition mainboard is a 70 USD/EUR mainboard comes with Hybrid graphics, (integrated GeForce 8200), VGA output, HDMI output, HD audio integrated, Gigabit Ethernet, PCI-Express 2.0, Serial ATA (RAID 0,1,10) DDR2 memory up-to 1066 MHz and all that for a price hovering at roughly 70 bucks ! That's just electrifying. Say you want to build a HTPC capable of decoding 1080P Blu-Ray. Well, purchase this mainboard, slap some memory on it and get a budget processor. Because the integrated graphics core will handle the HDMI and even media VC-1/h.264 decoding for you (Blu-ray / HD-DVD). See this is just a very cheap alternative.
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EVGA nForce 750i SLI FTW For The Win review
Posted by: on: 04/16/2008 02:00 PM [
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eVGA decided to make a new cheaper mainboard opposed to 780/790, designed it l33t, sexy yet offer two or maybe three features less than these sub 300 USD counterparts. And they named their new baby the eVGA nForce 750 FTW. Where FTW literally means "For The Win". Now if you send a product with "FTW" in the actual name then as a company you need to have some pretty big balls, as any reviewer will see if that product lives up-to the reputation. You know what, you need balls as big as an NVIDIA colored bull.
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NVIDIA nForce 790i Ultra SLI review (eVGA)
Posted by: on: 03/17/2008 03:00 PM [
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In this article we'll cover all that you need to know about the nForce 790i Ultra SLI. This is the mainboard that applies to you guys. We'll do the review in Guru style. Meaning the real hands-on experience combined with all data you like to learn, gamers style. Obviously we'll test and compare a little as well. But first let me show you the technical specifications of the NVIDIA nForce 790i Ultra SLI before we attack it with red peppers and drive it to the extreme. NVIDIA made sure that the nForce 790 series is one of the if not the best overclocking platform available. But you will pay top dollar for it, yet by overclocking you will gain that invested revenue back, that's a guarantee.
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NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI review - XFX
Posted by: on: 12/15/2007 03:00 PM [
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The industry has been moving forward and we now see slow adoption of PCIe 2.0, new Intel Penryn (45nm) Core 2 processors are close to it's release and then of course the launch of NVIDIA's 3-way SLI last week which for 780i meant adoption of (3x) 16x PCIe slots. Time for the good old nForce68-i to get an upgrade to the all new nForce 780i.
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ECS G31T-M Mainboard (G31/ICH7) review
Posted by: on: 10/01/2007 02:00 PM [
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Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) recently announced the release of two G31 chipset series motherboards the G31T-M and P33T-A, along with the 945GCT-M2/1333. All three motherboards support Intel processors based on FSB speeds up to 1333MHz. Our review today will focus on the ECS G31T-M.
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Jetway M2A692-GDG 690G mainboard review
Posted by: on: 09/11/2007 02:00 PM [
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Jetway recently released a AMD 690G chipset based mainboard. And as the previous Jetway review revealed .. they offer a lot for very little money. Today we'll show you once again a great little mainboard that will give you heaps of performance and functionality at a top dollar pricing level.
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Albatron 680i SLI mainboard review
Posted by: on: 06/02/2007 02:00 PM [
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The Albatron nForce based 680i SLI even since it's release is an amazing mainboard series. It's simple .. if you want to overclock your PC, chances are large that you at the very least are opting a 680i mainboard with Core 2 Duo processor and some good memory.
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Jetway 966PDAG-PB mainboard review
Posted by: on: 05/25/2007 02:00 PM [
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Hey all and welcome to a mainboard review from the guys at Jetway. Recently they released the 966PDAG -PB Jetway INTEL G965 + ICH8 based mainboard that comes with a good feature set, and really .. offers good performance. Now for the 80 bucks this mainboard has a couple of extra's as well, how about two x16 PCI-Express slots.
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NVIDIA eVGA nFORCE 680i LT SLI
Posted by: on: 03/25/2007 02:00 PM [
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Let me put it simple .. The 68i SLI LT mainboard is a regular 680i SLI mainboard in all it's ways yet to cut costs there have been several functions stripped. For example .. you'll have to miss out on the 3rd "graphics" PCI-Express slot (the 8x one), you'll only have one GBit/s Ethernet connector, you lost the passively cooled SSP and MCP, it's now done with active fans, you loose LinkBoost and some tweaking options in the BIOS. Other stuff you'll miss are the black PCB, diagnostic LEDs, reset and power off/on micro switches in the mainboard PCB and some other small stuff. We'll explain ... click me !
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eVGA nForce 680i SLI mainboard review
Posted by: on: 03/03/2007 03:00 PM [
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We started using this mainboard pretty much the minute we received it which was early November and ever since it has become the #1 mainboard for testing graphics cards. Intense stability, hefty tweaking features and massive performance. These are the three things I immediately think about when we talk about the 680i mainboards.
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NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI Intel preview
Posted by: on: 08/08/2006 07:00 AM [
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Reason enough for NVIDIA to release the nForce 500 series for Intel's processors (Core 2 Duo as well). Today we'll be taking a brief look at the reference NVIDIA NFORCE 590 SLI mainboard. It by all means is test done with a reference board that is not 100% finished and unfortunately we did not receive a final product from a board partner like ASUS. Nonetheless .. even with this very Beta reference mainboard I was shocked by the combination of Conroe and NFORCE 590 SLI for Intel, in very positive way I must add.
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Albatron K8SLI mainboard
Posted by: on: 08/16/2005 07:00 AM [
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Albatron decided toe ease the pain a little. They introduced a mainstream SLI mainboard based on the NFORCE 4 SLI chipset that is quite affordable and offers a more than enough of functionality versus excellent performance. Being an affordable mainboard costs can be cut a little. Next to that one of my personal wishes finally was introduced .. as stated you need to enable SLI mode on the mainboard if you are using two GeForce graphics card in a SLI setup, which normally can be done with that little SLI card that sits securely on your mainboard and needs to be be flipped around. Some manufacturers ditched that SLI card and allow that change from the BIOS or even automatically. Albatron is such a company, and this mainboard has a digital switch, you seriously don't have to do a thing. Lovin' it!
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ABIT AA8XE mainboard review
Posted by: on: 06/07/2005 07:00 AM [
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The ABit AA8XE mainboard. armed with an orange PCB and stacked with a lot of extra features we are taking a look at the AA8XE which of course is based on Intel's 925 XE mainboard chipset. This is the "Vanilla" version as you might call it as there is a version out with a 'Third Eye' and also the Fatality version.
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NVIDIA nForce 4 SLI Intel Edition
Posted by: on: 04/27/2005 07:00 AM [
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So it was 2004, November if I'm not mistaken, when a press-release came in. NVIDIA announced a cross license agreement with Intel that hold multiple products and more important for the future, product generations. Exciting news for sure, but I did not expect that NVIDIA would have something ready so darn quickly. Intel and more importantly Intel's processors are a huge chunk of the processor market, and NVIDIA can now have a small take of that. The first Pentium 4 chipset mainboard chipset that they've released is of course the product we'll take for a quick spin today.
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Gigabyte G1975X G1 Turbo
Posted by: on: 02/08/2005 09:00 AM [
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This "backplane" is designed for their new G1-Turbo series of mainboards which is targeted at overclockers and hardcore gamers. The Gigabyte G1-Turbo combine the finest from Intel & Gigabyte and have more functions than a Swiss-knife. This mainboard is the firstborn from that G1-Turbo series.
Featuring the latest Intel 975X Express chipset, it support the latest Intel Pentium Dual-core & Extreme Edition with an FSB frequency up to 1066MHz. The new 975X chipset is in many ways similar to the 955X but now has official support for dual PCI-E graphic cards for and even better gaming experience.
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