The most recent Motherboards articles from Personal Computer World

Review: Asus P5Q Pro motherboard

Simon Crisp — 2008-07-22T10:00:00.000Z

Simon Crisp, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 22 July 2008 at 10:00:00

A board with Intel’s latest chipset and plenty of overclocking potential

The P5Q Pro is built around Intel’s new mainstream chipset, the P45 Express. This chipset supports bus speeds up to 1,333MHz and both DDR3 and DDR2 memory; with DDR2 memory,...

Review: Asus Rampage Formula motherboard

Simon Crisp — 2008-06-04T11:17:00.000Z

Simon Crisp, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 4 June 2008 at 11:17:00

High-end motherboard with plenty of stable overclocking potential

Part of Asus’ Republic of Gamers (ROG) range of motherboards, the Rampage Formula is built around Intel’s Socket 775 and X48 chipset....

Review: Sapphire Crossfire X motherboard

Simon Crisp — 2008-03-26T00:00:00.000Z

Simon Crisp, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 26 March 2008 at 00:00:00

An expensive, but well-designed board with decent overclocking potential

After a short hiatus, Sapphire is returning to the motherboard market with range of AMD-based modes. The first one to arrive is the Crossfire X, or the PC-AM2RD790 if you...

Review: MSI P6NGM

Simon Crisp — 2008-03-05T00:00:00.000Z

Simon Crisp, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 5 March 2008 at 00:00:00

A great-value motherboard for home theatre PCs

MSI’s P6NGM is an ideal board to build a compact or home theatre PC around, especially the latter as it comes with a HDMI port on board....

Review: MSI K9A2 Platinum motherboard

Simon Crisp — 2008-02-11T00:00:00.000Z

Simon Crisp, Personal Computer World, Monday 11 February 2008 at 00:00:00

A feature-rich motherboard with support for four graphics cards

This board provides support for AMD’s latest AM2+ processors as well as being fully backwards compatible with all AMD’s AM2 Athlon and Sempron CPUs....

Review: Asus Blitz Extreme motherboard

Simon Crisp — 2008-01-24T00:00:00.000Z

Simon Crisp, Personal Computer World, Thursday 24 January 2008 at 00:00:00

One for the power users

Based around Intel's P35/ICH9 chipset combination, the Blitz Extreme motherboard supports Intel's latest 1,333MHz processors and DDR3 memory (up to 8GB)....

Review: Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H motherboard

Simon Crisp — 2008-01-23T00:00:00.000Z

Simon Crisp, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 23 January 2008 at 00:00:00

A well-designed board

Supporting Intel processors with 1,333/MHz, 1,066MHz or 800MHz front-side bus speeds, Gigabyte's GA-73PVM-S2H is a compact and well-featured motherboard built on a Micro ATX format printed circuit board....

Review: EQS AB1S-RS690MKM motherboard

Simon Crisp — 2007-12-01T00:00:00.000Z

Simon Crisp, Personal Computer World, Saturday 1 December 2007 at 00:00:00

A cramped design, but a decent budget motherboard with HDMI support

The AB1S-RS690MKM is a Micro ATX format motherboard built around AMD's Socket AM2 and RS690G chipset, the company's first integrated graphics platform....

Review: Abit Fatal1ty F-190HD motherboard

Simon Crisp — 2007-11-26T00:00:00.000Z

Simon Crisp, Personal Computer World, Monday 26 November 2007 at 00:00:00

A small yet feature-packed Radeon Xpress 1250 motherboard

Built on a Micro ATX format PCB, the F-190HD is the smallest member of Abit's Fatal1ty range of motherboards. However, despite its size, and just like its larger brethren, it...

Review: Abit AN52 motherboard

Simon Crisp — 2007-11-13T00:00:00.000Z

Simon Crisp, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 13 November 2007 at 00:00:00

A basic AM2 socket motherboard that performs well

There are currently three models in Abit's AN52 family, the one reviewed here being the most basic. All use a combination of AMD's AM2 Socket and Nvidia's mainstream Nforce 520...

Review: Gigabyte GA-G31MX-S2 motherboard

Simon Crisp — 2007-11-02T00:00:00.000Z

Simon Crisp, Personal Computer World, Friday 2 November 2007 at 00:00:00

A good-value Intel motherboard with decent features

This motherboard uses one of Intel's latest mainstream chipsets - the G31 Express. On this board Gigabyte has paired the G31 with the ICH7 Southbridge....

Review: Abit iL-90MV motherboard

Simon Crisp — 2007-10-24T00:00:00.000Z

Simon Crisp, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 24 October 2007 at 00:00:00

An ideal base for a home theatre PC

Abit’s iL-90MV, based around an Intel Socket 479 (Core 2 Duo, Core Duo and Core Solo CPUs), would make an ideal base for a home theatre PC since it has an...

Review: ECS G33T-M2 motherboard

Emil Larsen — 2007-08-30T00:00:00.000Z

Emil Larsen, Personal Computer World, Thursday 30 August 2007 at 00:00:00

Micro ATX board with the raw performance of a much bigger design

The latest refresh of Intel’s chipsets is almost complete, replacing the P965 and X975 models. It all started with the G35 chipset, which introduced DDR3 and 1,333MHz front-side bus (FSB)...

Review: ECS NF650iSLIT-A motherboard

Emil Larsen — 2007-03-20T00:00:00.000Z

Emil Larsen, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 20 March 2007 at 00:00:00

A mainstream motherboard with good features and performance

The new ECS NF650iSLIT-A motherboard is based on Nvidia's middle of the road 650i chipset. This is closely related to Nvidia's 680i chipset, which is widely regarded as the best...

Review: Asus M2A-VM motherboard

Emil Larsen — 2007-03-08T00:00:00.000Z

Emil Larsen, Personal Computer World, Thursday 8 March 2007 at 00:00:00

AMD's first budget motherboard with integrated ATI graphics

The Asus M2A-VM motherboard features AMD's first chipset with integrated graphics since it took over graphics hardware specialist ATI. The RS690 Northbridge is designed for value and mainstream AM2 socket...