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ABIT Motherboards

ABIT AB9 Pro Intel P965 Express Motherboard Review Since we're dealing with the Intel ICH8R southbridge, SATA RAID 0/1/5/10/JBOD is standard. Of course there's more to the AB9 Pro than just Serial ATA,... continue	ABIT AW9D-MAX 975X Express Motherboard Review ABIT, which is now officially known as Universal ABIT, is recapturing is former glory. The ABIT AW9D-MAX motherboard is based on Intel's top of the li... continue	ABIT FATAL1TY AN9 32X nForce 590 SLI Motherboard Review The ABIT FATAL1TY AN9 32X motherboard PCSTATS is evaluating today is a prime example of what lengths ABIT is traveling to demonstrate its prowess. continue	ABIT AN8-32X nForce4 SLI x16 Motherboard Review ABIT's newest flagship Athlon64 motherboard is the ABIT AN8 32X, based upon the nForce4 SLI x16 chipset. continue
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Acorp Motherboards

ACorp 4D845A Socket 478 Motherboard The 4D845A mother board we're looking at today should appeal to thrifty buyers as ACorp produce relatively inexpensive motherboards for the value mark... continue	ACorp 7KT266A Motherboard Review The 7KT266A is based on - if you haven't guessed already - VIA's KT266A chipset... continue
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Albatron Motherboards

Albatron KI51PV-754 Mini-ITX Motherboard Review At 170 x 170mm in size, the Albatron KI51PV-754 is quite a bit smaller than a regular desktop or even Micro-ATX motherboard. continue	Albatron KM51PV-AM2 Geforce 6150 Motherboard Review The KM51PV-AM2 is based on the nVIDIA GeForce 6150 and nForce 430 chipsets, and as such it supports all current socket AM2 AMD Athlon64/FX/X2 and Semp... continue	Albatron Mars PX915SLI Intel 915PL SLI Motherboard Review Albatron is one of the more innovative motherboard manufacturers, and its team of engineers has actually figured out a way of running SLI on the budge... continue	Albatron K8SLI Motherboard Review The Albatron K8SLI motherboard being tested over the following pages is a compact nVidia nForce4 SLI board that packs in quite a bit into a small spac... continue
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AOpen Motherboards

AOpen i945Ga-PHS Motherboard Review The motherboard is a pretty well rounded platform, it even supports HDTV component output (Y, Pb, Pr) by default! continue	AOpen i915Pa-PLF Motherboard Review The Aopen i915Pa-PLF motherboard is a socket 775 Intel Pentium 4 solution designed for mainstream users getting ready to upgrade a little of every... continue	AOpen n250a-FR Socket 754 Motherboard Review his board supports any Socket 754 AMD Athlon64 or any of AMD's new budget 32-bit AMD Sempron processors. continue	AOpen AX4SG Max II i865G Motherboard Review Looking at the long list of features which accompany the AOpen AX4SG Max II, the item that stands out the most is undoubtedly the support for up to si... continue
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ASRock Motherboards

ASrock Penryn 1600SLI X3-WiFi nForce 680i SLI Motherboard Review The Penryn1600SLI X3-WiF motherboard is built on nVidia's nForce 680i SLI chipset, and as you may have guessed this platform supports Intel 'penryn' q... continue	ASRock ALIVENF7G-HDREADY/M/ASR Geforce 7050 Motherboard Review With onboard video care of a Geforce 7-series videocard and nVIDIA's PureVideo acceleration technology, this compact MicroATX mobo is the basis for a ... continue	ASRock AM2V890-VSTA VIA K8T890 Socket AM2 Motherboard Review The ASRock AM2V890-VSTA Socket AM2 motherboard is the first motherboard to cross PCSTATS test bench based on the VIA K8T890 chipset. continue	ASRock 775XFire-eSATA2/A/ASR i945PL Motherboard Review ASRock (a division of ASUS) is one of the better known, having made made a mark for itself by serving up inexpensive motherboards with basic amenitie... continue
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ASUS Motherboards

ASUS P8P67 Pro Intel P67 Motherboard Review The ASUS P8P67 Pro motherboard is a pretty standard platform with a good feature set, ideal for mainstream overclockers and gamers. continue	ASUS P8H67-M Evo Intel H67 Express Motherboard Review The ASUS P8H67-M Evo is a decent Intel H67 based microATX motherboard for mainstream computer builders focused on the popular socket LGA1155 Intel 2nd... continue	ASUS P7P55D Premium Intel P55 Express Motherboard Review The ASUS P7P55D Premium is a good representation of overclocking tools, power saving features and tweaks: TurboV Evo, Hybrid Phase, ExpressGate, MemOK... continue	ASUS P7P55D-E Pro Intel P55 Express Motherboard Review The latest round of Intel P55 Express motherboards brings with it new capabilities like SATA 6Gb/s and USB 3.0 support. The age of waiting for your co... continue
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Azza Motherboards

Azza PT-810DMC i810 Motherboard Review Taiwan's motherboard manufacturing industry is so tremendous that it can be deemed a cottage industry itself. I can't begin to count the number of man... continue
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Biostar Motherboards

Biostar TA75M+ AMD A75 socket FM1 Motherboard Review Biostar's TA75M+ motherboard is a micro-ATX entry level platform with relatively robust onboard graphics care of the AMD Fusion APU processor and thor... continue	Biostar TA990FXE AMD 990FX Motherboard Review The AMD 990FX chipset has been out for a while now, yet Biostar's TA990FXE motherboard still gets you in the game with plenty of PCI Express lanes for... continue	Biostar TH67XE Intel H67 Express Motherboard Review The level of integration present here, makes the Biostar TH67XE naturally very quiet too - without a videocard, the only fans in the system need be ... continue	Biostar TH67XE Intel H67 Motherboard - FIRST LOOK While all Sandy Bridge CPUs will have the integrated graphics core tucked away on the socket 1155 chip, to use it you will need an Intel H67 based mot... continue
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Chaintech Motherboards

Chaintech Zenith VNF4 Ultra Motherboard Review There's little doubt that if you're thinking about buying a new system or parts right now, Socket 939 Athlon64 + PCI Express is the way to go. continue	Chaintech Zenith ZNF3-150 nForce3 Motherboard Review Take it from me, with the "regular" Athlon64 'K8' processor you get about 95% of the Athlon64 FX performance, for about half the price. continue
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DFI Motherboards

DFI LANParty UT NF590 SLI-M2R/G Motherboard Review The latest gear from those tweakers at DFI is the LANPartyUT NF590 SLI-M2R/G motherboard, and it's looking like a real gem too. continue	DFI LANParty UT NF4 SLI-DR Expert Motherboard Review On the PCB you'll find a 7.1 channel audio codec, dual Gigabit NICs, an additional four channel Serial ATA controller and IEEE 1394a Firewire. continue	DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR Motherboard Review The DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR is a Nforce 4 SLI chipset-based motherboard incorporating a pair of PCIe x16 slots for dual SLI videocard action with comp... continue	DFI LANParty 875P-T Motherboard Review DFI's LANParty 875P-T is a very interesting motherboard, and one of only a few in its class. continue
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ECS Motherboards

ECS Z77H2-A2X Black Edition Intel Z77 Motherboard Review PCSTATS has a real treat for you today - the ECS Z77H2-A2X Black Edition Golden motherboard! Every metallic surface on this board is gold plated so ... continue	ECS H67H2-M Black Edition Intel H67 Express Motherboard Review On the review bench today PCSTATS tests the ECS H67H2-M Black Edition microATX motherboard, built on the Intel H67 B3-stepping chipset and supporting ... continue	ECS P67H2-A Black Extreme B3-stepping Intel P67 Motherboard Review he ECS P67H2-A Black Extreme is a performance oriented ATX motherboard with a fantastic set of gaming and overclocking features, all set on a sleek ... continue	ECS H67H2-M Intel H67 Motherboard - FIRST LOOK PCSTATS is excited to see what the ECS H67H2-M motherboard will be capable of with a 2nd generation Intel Core i3/i5/i7 2xxx-series CPU installed.... continue
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Epox Motherboards

Epox EP-AF550G Pro Geforce 6100 Motherboard Review The Epox EP-AF550G Pro supports all Socket AM2 AMD Athlon64/X2/FX and Sempron processors, and up to 16GB of DDR2-800 memory. continue	Epox EP-5P945 Pro Express Motherboard Review The Epox EP-5P945 Pro is a budget performance motherboard is an affordable Intel platform of complementary technologies for consumers on a budget. continue	Epox EP-MF570 SLI nForce 570 SLI Motherboard Review The Epox MF570 SLI has two PCI Express x16 slots for dual graphics cards, and will support SLI, but with each videocard receiving 8 PCI Express lanes ... continue	Epox 9U1697 GLI ULi M1697 Motherboard Review The Epox 9U1697 GLI motherboard that's passing through the PCSTATS test labs today is based on ULi's last chipset the M1697, which is no sleeper. continue
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FIC Motherboards

FIC AU13 nForce2-ST Motherboard Review FIC's AU13 takes over where the AU11 left off and add's the ever important Serial ATA ports. continue	FIC AU11 nForce2 Motherboard Review Based on the same nForce2 SPP (System Platform Processor) you can already guess that that the FIC AU11 is going to be fast. continue	FIC AN11 Stealth Socket A Motherboard Review The AN11 Stealth is powered by VIA's much loved KT266A chipset, which practically guarantees that the board is going to be a great performer. continue	FIC AZ11E VIA KT133 Motherboard Review A few short months ago came the introduction of VIA's KT133 chipset. Though the chipset itself has remained pretty much constant (aside from a minor S... continue
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Foxconn Motherboards

Foxconn A7DA-S AMD 790GX Motherboard Review The AMD Radeon HD3300 integrated graphics built into the Foxconn motherboard PCSTATS is testing in this review has plenty of power for 2D desktop acti... continue	Foxconn DigitaLife X38A Intel X38 Express Motherboard Review In this review PCSTATS is testing out Foxconn's DigitaLife X38A motherboard, an Intel X38 Express and Intel ICH9R platform that supports both DDR2 and... continue	Foxconn Mars Intel P35 Express Motherboard Review The Foxconn MARS motherboard certainly looks like a great enthusiast friendly motherboard, particularly because it's based on Intel's hot P35 Express ... continue	Foxconn A690GM2MA-RS2H AMD 690G Motherboard Review The Foxconn A690GM2MA-RS2H motherboard is based around AMD's 690G / SB600 chipsets, and although it has both DVI and analog video outputs, it regretta... continue
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Gigabyte Motherboards

Gigabyte GA-X79-UD5 Intel X79 LGA2011 Motherboard In-Depth Review The Gigabyte GA-X79-UD5 is an awesome 'Sandy Bridge-E' motherboard for anyone in the business of content creation, yet still nimble enough to take o... continue	Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD4H Intel Z77 Motherboard Review PCSTATS really liked what we saw from Gigabyte's Intel Z77 based GA-Z77X-UD4H motherboard -- the board graciously offers up a comprehensive feature ... continue	Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H-WB Intel Z77 Motherboard Review The Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H-WB motherboard is a fully featured mainstream-gaming platform based around the Intel Z77 chipset and bundled with a Wireless... continue	Gigabyte GA-E350N-USB3 mini-ITX 1.6GHz AMD E-350 APU Motherboard Review The focus of today's review is the miniITX, 17cm square, Gigabyte GA-E350N-USB3 AMD Fusion motherboard. This platform is based on a dual-... continue
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Intel Motherboards

Intel DH67BL Intel H67 Express Motherboard Review Motherboards like the Intel DH67BL that PCSTATS is reviewing today support one PCI Express 2.0 x16 videocard and have one DVI-I and HDMI video output.... continue	Intel 6-Series Chipset Recall - Sandy Bridge Intel P67 & H67 (v2.2) On January 31st 2011, Intel announced a silicon level problem with its latest 6-series motherboard chipsets - the Intel P67 and Intel H67 for 2nd gene... continue	Intel DG45ID Intel G45 Express Motherboard Review ntel's also been a little more playful lately, and have upgraded the on-board graphics capabilities of the DG45ID as well. Intel's updated GMA X4500HD... continue	BTX Form Factor Exposed - A New Way of Building PC First there was AT, then came ATX, and now we have to deal with BTX!? In the ever changing world of computer case and motherboard form-factors, it pay... continue
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Iwill Motherboards

Iwill P4HT-S i845PE Motherboard Review Looking down at the P4HT-S we find an on board 10/100 NIC, on board 5.1 audio (AC'97 codec), IDE RAID, Serial ATA RAID, memory stick and smart card he... continue	Iwill P4ES i845E Motherboard Review The P4ES has IDE RAID, Serial ATA, 5.1 audio and support for various portable media (compact flash, secure digital cards and memory stick). continue	Iwill P4GS i845G Motherboard A quick glance at the hardware features shows us that the P4GS is a pretty well rounded motherboard, it has onboard 10/100 LAN, 5.1 audio, IDE Raid,... continue	Iwill P4R533-N i850E Motherboard Review Iwill P4R533-N is based on the Intel i850E chipset which combined with the 82801 ICH2 southbridge offers host bus, memory and I/O interfaces capable o... continue
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Magic Pro Motherboards

Magic-Pro MP-K7V-400A Motherboard Review VIA's second attempt at a 333MHz FSB AthlonXP chipset, known as the KT400A, is a good one even though it is a little too late to make a difference... continue	Magic-Pro K7N-Ultra S nForce2 SPP Motherboard Review With the release of VIA's new KT600 chipset the nForce2 finally has some real competition to face up against. continue	Magic-Pro MP-P6PE-1000 i865PE Motherboard Review The board has native Serial ATA support (then again all i865 and i875P based motherboards do as well), onboard 3Com 10/100 LAN and a 5.1 soundcard... continue
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MSI Motherboards

MSI P67A-GD65 Intel P67 Motherboard Review The MSI P67A-GD65 motherboard brings forth a lot for computer enthusiasts to get excited about, not the least of which are dual PCI Express x16 videoc... continue	MSI Computer P67A-GD65 Intel P67 Motherboard - FIRST LOOK If I say ClickBIOS, Military Class II, OC Genie II or Control Center II there's really no need to mention anything else, is there? We'll explain the f... continue	MSI 890FXA-GD70 AMD 890FX Motherboard Review With this enthusiast class motherboard from MSI, the maker has dedicated 32 lanes from the 890FX total available PCI Express 2.0 bandwidth for videoca... continue	MSI Eclipse Plus Intel X58 Express Motherboard Review As MSI Computer knows, sometimes overkill is a good thing. This seems to be the philosophy behind the MSI X58 Eclipse Plus motherboard - a jet bla... continue
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PCSTATS Motherboards

Blown, Burst and Leaking Motherboard Capacitors - A Serious Problem? faulty capacitors are suspected to have been rooted in the theft of an aqueous electrolyte formula which was not copied correctly. continue
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Redfox Motherboards

RED FOX Super Socket7 Motherboard Review A couple of years back, Intel had completely dropped support for the Socket 7 platform starting from the release of the Pentium II and Celeron process... continue
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Shuttle Motherboards

Shuttle AK35GTR Ver 2.2 KT333CE Motherboard Review The Shuttle AK35GTR Version 2.2 is a new board all together and this time it's based on VIA's KT333 chipset. continue	Shuttle AV45GTR Motherboard Review Yet another motherboard from Shuttle that sounds like it should be a car... I mean with a name like AV45GTR who wouldn't think of some wicked little r... continue	Shuttle AK35GTR Motherboard Review The Shuttle AK35GTR is based on VIA's much loved KT266A chipset, so we already have a pretty good idea of how fast this board is going to be. continue
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SIS Motherboards

SiS 655FX Chipset Reference Motherboard With the SiS655FX, the company is now positioned to be a key player in the Intel chipset market, offering better value to motherboard makers. continue
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Soltek Motherboards

Soltek SL-K890Pro-939 Motherboard Review Integrated components include a Gigabit Ethernet adaptor, AC'97 audio codec, firewire and a Promise SATA/IDE RAID controller which adds two extra SATA... continue	Soltek SL-K8TPro-939 Motherboard Review The new Soltek SL-K8TPro-939 motherboard is based on the VIA K8T800 Pro chipset, and with a sticker price of $135CDN is quite a steal next to the co... continue	Soltek SL-K8AN-RL nForce3 150 Motherboard Review Soltek have arguably produced the least expensive Athlon64 motherboard on the market with their SL-K8AN-RL. continue	Soltek SL-85DR2 i845E Motherboard Review The SL-85DR2 is based on the Intel i845E chipset and has support for any Pentium 4 on the Socket m478 form factor (400MHz and 533MHz FSB). continue
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Soyo Motherboards

Soyo P4S Dragon Ultra Plus Motherboard Review Around back we see a typical colour coded set of IO ports with two big exceptions - the USB ports are in a different location and there is an onboard ... continue	Soyo K7VTA B KT133 Motherboard Review Some weeks ago, we reviewed a Socket A motherboard from Soyo, the 7KVTA. As promised, we are now looking at a revised version of the same model the So... continue	Soyo K7VTA KT133 Motherboard Review In the wake of the popularity of the Athlon/Duron platform, Soyo has released 2 Socket A boards of their own: the SY K7VTA B and the SY K7VTA. Soyo Eu... continue	Soyo 7VMA PM 133 Motherboard Review VIA has recently entered the integrated mainboard chipset market with the release of the VIA PM 133, a Socket 370 based chipset. This chipset is essen... continue
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Transcend Motherboards

Transcend AKT4 KT133 Motherboard Review Its been a roller coaster ride the past few months. AMD is totally at the top of their game while Intel has seemed to falter along the way. With AMD b... continue	Transcend AVE3 VIA Apollo 133A Motherboard Review Transcend's position is a very unique one indeed. Now a full scale manufacturer of a wide range of motherboards and memory modules, Transcend can be c... continue
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Transmeta Motherboards

Transmeta Reference Motherboard: PCexpo Of particular interest to us, and I suspect many of you reading this is the announcement of a Crusoe TM5800 System Development Kit (SDK). continue
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Tyan Motherboards

Tyan Thunder i7501 Xtreme S2726UGN Rev.02 Server Motherboard Review Tyan does have a reputation for quality and stability, and the company earns its bread and butter by producing some of the best server and workstation... continue	Tyan Tiger i7500 S2722GNN Dual Xeon Motherboard The Tyan Tiger S2722 is based on the Intel server E7500 chipset and supports up to two Socket 603 Xeon processors. continue	Tyan Trinity KT-A Motherboard Review Tyan have generally been known as the manufacturer of highly stable server boards. While the groundbreaking dual AMD Thunder K7 has recently propelled... continue	Thunder K7 - The World's First Dual AMD Board Tyan has long been known to be working on a dual AMD solution. The Thunder K7 as this mysterious board is known... continue
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VIA Motherboards

VIA PT894 Chipset Reference Pentium 4 Motherboard Review The VIA PT894 supports up to 20 PCI Express lanes, although there will be no SLI option. continue	VIA PT880 Reference Pentium 4 Motherboard Review VIA's memory controllers have been revamped for the PT880, and now implement a technology called DualStream64. continue	VIA P4PA Socket 478 Motherboard Review The P4PA supports existing 400MHz based Pentium 4 processors, and goes an extra step further by including support for the up and coming 533MHz Pentium... continue	VIA P4XB-RA P4X266A Motherboard Review Apollo P4X266A chipset maker VIA, had to do something rather drastic for a chipset manufacturer - they had to start selling their own motherboards. continue
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Various Motherboards

Massive nVidia nForce2 Motherboard Roundup Despite a bit of a delay at the release of the nForce2 chipset, nVidia appears to have learned their lessons well and have not made the same mista... continue	Massive 10 Motherboard i845E/G Roundup Traditionally, Intel chipsets have always been the fastest and most stable for Intel processors; just consider the venerable i440BX, i815E or even t... continue	Business and School Integrated Motherboard Roundup Faced with the purchase of dozens of new computers, government agencies, schools and businesses need to find ways to keep costs down while still getti... continue	VIA Apollo 133A Mainboard Shootout This is not going to be pretty folks, so I'll take this moment to recommend that anyone easily disgusted by low performance, or has a weak stomach to ... continue
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