Mainboards
Asus Crosshair II Formula
Asus has recently released a new Republic of Gamers product based on AMD’s AM2+ socket. Thus, the new Crosshair II Formula motherboard is compatible with AM2+ Phenom FX / Phenom X4 / Phenom X2 / Athlon X2 / Sempron and legacy AM2 processors and integrates HyperTransport 3.0 technology, allowing the latest quad-core system to [...]
Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H
If you’re looking for a mainboard to build a low cost PC, having an all-onboard solution is the best choice, and if we talk about that, choosing one with the AMD 790G chipset is the only thing to do, but what if your budget is very low? Well, in that case, you can easily go [...]
NVIDIA 790i Problems
According to NVIDIA, the mainboards based on their 790i chipset “provide the perfect combination of price and performance for 1600 MHz FSB Intel CPUs. With an arsenal of SLI® technology, high-bandwidth DDR3, unmatched DirectX® 10 gaming, and extreme CPU overclocking, you will smoke the competition.” So far, so good, but I don’t think they thought [...]
More on AMD/ATI’s 790GX Chipset
Several years ago, the most important motherboard chipset makers kept a tight collaboration with Intel and AMD. But at one point, things started to get a little bit out of hand. It’s known that Intel was relying more and more on its own chipsets rather than VIA’s and NVIDIA’s, but AMD clearly needed some helping [...]
Intel Aknowledges SiS Supremacy
Intel seems to be happy with its new Atom CPU series, but sometimes the competition hits hard, leaving you in awe. Even though Intel prepared what they thought was a good platform for their Atom series, they have ultimately admitted that SiS might have a better solution.
I’m not saying that SiS is really the supreme [...]