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Mainboards News
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
- 9:41 am | EVGA Preps Dual-Socket Mainboard for Gaming Systems. EVGA Hopes to Bring Back Dual-Processor Gaming Systems
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
- 3:01 pm | Asustek to Spin Off Mainboard Manufacturing on June 1. Asustek Speeds Up Spinning Off Pegatron
Monday, December 14, 2009
- 12:42 pm | Pegatron Technologies to Use Asrock Brand to Compete Against Asustek Computer – Rumour. Pegatron to Retain Asrock Brand to Rival with Asus
Friday, December 11, 2009
- 5:12 pm | Asustek Set to Withdraw from Mainboards Manufacturing. Asus to Spin Off Pegatron Technologies Completely - Filing
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
- 12:18 pm | AMD: Our Goal Is to Control 100% of AMD-Compatible Chipset Market. AMD Wants to Control Compatible Chipset Business
Mainboards
This small mainboard is rather simple, yet not primitive. It features a number of exciting extras but keenly lacks some necessities.
This elite solution from Quantum Force series has all the features and functionality a contemporary mainboard should possess. To our regret, it also accumulated quite a few drawbacks and issues, which may make your experience with this board quite difficult.
This is a technologically advanced mainboard, which functionality for some reason is kept secret from us by the manufacturer. It does have a few drawbacks, but some of its features are still truly unique as of today.
We are already familiar with the flagship LGA1156 mainboard from Intel – DP55KG. We also know a very affordable solution in Intel P55 Express chipset – Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3R. What does Intel DP55WG mainboard from the Media Series have in common with these two, and what is different? Read our review to find out.
Today we will talk about another small but fully functional microATX mainboard that can easily compete against some ATX solutions and can is even superior to some in functionality and features. It is based on Intel P55 Express chipset, supports LGA1156 processors and is called Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD4.
The board we are going to talk about is based on Intel P55 Express chipset and belongs to “Republic of Gamers” series. Are you sure that it will be easy to work with? Let’s find out from our new detailed review!
Can anyone know better than CPU and chipset developers themselves how a mainboard should work? Today we are going to talk about a “reference” LGA1156 ATX mainboard from Intel that belongs to the Extreme series.
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.



