Right, were you paying attention at the back? Did you spot the 'E' in the product name for Gigabyte's latest P35 motherboard? No? Well, it's easy to miss at first glance, but as far as Gigabyte ...

If you are looking to build an HTPC or media center PC, there are many Micro-ATX motherboards to choose from. But one that may have escaped your eye is the I-N73HD from Abit; which would be ...

Nvidia's 780i chipset is the latest high-end offering and is basically an update on the company's popular 680i chipset, using a third chip, the nForce 200, to bring an additional 32 lanes of PCI-E. These support ...

The first Striker Extreme motherboard from Asus used an Nvidia nForce 680i SLI chipset, to combine an Intel LGA775 processor with dual Nvidia graphics cards for maximum gaming power, and now it's time for an update. ...

For a time AMD took a technical lead over Intel with Athlon 64, but that lead came to an abrupt end when Intel launched its superb Core architecture. There's no denying that Core 2 Duo and ...

Late last year we reviewed the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650. This was the first 45nm Penryn processor to slip out of Intel's laboratory and, while it was impressive, it had very similar performance to the ...

MSI's K9A2 Platinum presents us with a couple of firsts: it's the first motherboard that we've seen that supports AMD's latest AM2+ processors (i.e. the Phenoms) and it's also the first we have seen that uses ...

Intel is releasing information about its next-generation Penryn Core 2 processors in carefully controlled stages. Penryn is the code name for the move from a 65nm process to 45nm, which dramatically reduces the size of the ...

Let's talk chipsets. Intel introduced its P31/P33/P35 family of Core 2 Duo chipsets six months ago, but it left a gap at the top of the range for an Extreme performance chipset that would replace the ...

There seems to be no limit to the cost of high-end motherboards; charging £180-£250 for a motherboard is the norm these days, but what about us mere mortals? What we could do with is a feature-rich ...

Most motherboard manufacturers at one time or another have dipped their toes in the mobile CPU motherboard market, with varying degrees of success. Some give it up as a bad job while others doggedly keep going. ...

One of the first motherboards to hit the shelves using Intel's new Series 3 chipsets came not from one of the usual suspects - Asus, MSI or Gigabyte - but from Foxconn. You may not have ...

The P5K3 Deluxe Wi-Fi AP Edition is Asus's take on a high-end gaming motherboard that uses the Intel P35 chipset. Naturally it supports the new 1,333MHz FSB and, as you might have guessed from the P5K3 ...

This review has been a long time coming. When Intel launched the P35 chipset we lined up an MSI Platinum motherboard which supported Core 2 Duo with DDR2 memory. The two key changes in P35 compared ...

For once Asus hasn't picked a model code for this motherboard by grabbing a handful of letters from the Scrabble bag, but has instead has plumped for the name 'Commando'. Confrontational or what! This LGA775 design ...

The devil's in the detail with the model code for the Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3P Rev 3.3 motherboard. The 965P part is simple enough as this model uses an Intel P965 chipset, but then it starts to get ...

If you want to run a pair of Nvidia graphics cards in SLI mode then you need a motherboard with an Nvidia chipset. Given that a motherboard with an nForce 650i SLI costs about £70-£75, you ...

ECS has aimed for the high end of the market with its PN2 SLI2+ model. This LGA 775 motherboard uses the new Nvidia Nforce 680i chipset to give you, well, everything really, provided you favour Nvidia ...

Here's a motherboard that deserves to be shown off in a case with a transparent side panel. Why? Because the Pure CrossFire 3200 Advantage (also known as the PC-AM2RD580) is built on a white PCB with ...

The Foxconn K8M890M2MA-R2SH is an amazingly cheap Socket AM2 motherboard, which sounds like it ought to be the conclusion to a review but in reality it's a good starting point. There's only one way that a ...