The Epia-N is the first of VIA's new Nano-ITX form factor motherboards. This new form factor is a mere 12cm by 12cm, a development of VIA's successful 17cm x 17cm Mini-ITX design. Officially launched in March ...

AMD has taken a bold step with the latest version of the Athlon 64, as the new FX-60 has a clock speed that is 200MHz slower than the previous FX-57. At first glance this seems like ...

There is a growing band of people who can see the benefits of taking a CPU originally aimed for use in laptops and putting it to work in desktop PCs. This results in less power, less ...

The DFI LAN Party UT RDX200 CF-DR is the first Socket 939 CrossFire motherboard that we have ever seen, outside of reference hardware that came directly from ATi. This means that it has a pair of ...

Asus is one of the first motherboard manufacturers to use the new Nvidia nForce4 SLI X16 chipset which supports AMD Athlon 64 processors in its Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe. The original Nvidia nForce4 SLI chipset had a ...

Sapphire is going for the jugular with its PURE Innovation PI-A9RX480 motherboard, which is such a new model that we got our hands on one of only three samples in the UK. While the exact details ...

The first thing that hits you when you open the Asus P5LD2 Deluxe box is, "How have they managed to fit a motherboard in this box?" Because this, the WiFi-TV Edition of the P5LD2 Deluxe, just ...

Nvidia caused a real stir by launching the SLI version of the nForce4 chipset, so much so that most motherboard manufacturers now offer some form of SLI board in their range. And with the company's recent ...

Epox has used the Nvidia nForce 4 SLI chipset to produce a powerhouse of a motherboard for the Intel LGA775 Pentium 4 processor. NForce 4 for Intel has a number of similarities to the Athlon 64 ...

It's taken more years than most people care to consider, but Nvidia has finally sat around a table with Intel to produce the first nForce chipset to support Intel processors. Not only that, but the new ...

Gigabyte's GA-K8NE Socket 754 motherboard uses a chipset that we first saw quite recently. It's an obscure member of the nForce4 family called nForce4-4x, which denotes that the Hyper Transport bus runs at 800MHz, i.e. 4 ...

AMD has launched its latest and greatest desktop processor, the AMD Athlon 64 FX-57. As the name suggests, the FX-57 is a faster variant of the FX-55, raising the core speed from 2.6GHz to 2.8GHz. The ...

ECS is well known for thinking up innovative solutions for motherboards, but the company's developers have surpassed themselves with their latest motherboard; the PF88 Extreme. As a basic Intel board this is very well priced, but ...

When a company like Abit, known for producing overclockable motherboards, gets together with one of the world's top gamers, then you can guess that the end result should be something pretty special. The company's new flagship ...

AMD has had a busy few weeks announcing and releasing a whole raft of dual-core processors. The first wave of products came on the 21st of April when it released three dual-core Opterons in the 8xx ...

A dream motherboard for system builders and home enthusiasts alike would be a motherboard that supported a variety of different sub-system architectures. Ideal for system builders because they could use a single design of board throughout ...

The Hyper-Threading technology that Intel uses in its Pentium 4 and Xeon processors makes a single processor work as two virtual processors, so the Pentium 4 in your PC appears to have two CPUs while a ...

Desktop processors have been used in notebooks for quite some time, especially in desktop replacement designs, but rarely if ever does the reverse happen, at least not in the consumer market. AOpen's latest board, the i855 ...

nVidia's latest chipset for motherboards, the nForce4, is the most feature-rich chipset the company has produced thus far. It brings the long-awaited PCI-E (PCI Express) support for AMD processors as well as a host of other ...

When Intel introduced its new LGA775 processor socket for the Prescott Pentium 4, it handed its customers a bigger dilemma than usual; should they upgrade their Socket 478 PC with a faster processor that was at ...