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 ...

Motherboard manufacturers haven't wasted much time in implementing Intel's latest mainstream chipset, the i915. The new chipset brings support for several new technologies with it; PCI Express graphics and expansion slots, DDR2 memory and Intel's new ...

We all know that the Socket A AMD Athlon processor is due to be forcibly killed off in just a few months time, but until that happens there is a lively upgrade market for all you ...

Motherboard manufacturer Soyo's high-end boards have always been packed with features and the latest version of the P4I875P Dragon 2, v1.0 is no exception. Soyo claims the new board supports Intel's new Prescott processor up to ...

On the 18th of March the CeBIT 2004 show opened in Hannover, Germany and for the first time in living memory processor company AMD won't have a stand. However, it will be launching a number of ...

Generally speaking it is safe to say that integrated graphics are useless for 3D gaming. If you want to build a cheap PC for general office use then it makes perfect sense to buy a motherboard ...

Here's a funny thing. Asus has brought out a new Pentium 4 motherboard that doesn't have dual channel memory support, yet despite that apparently fatal flaw, the P4P800S-E Wireless Edition is absolutely superb. The key to ...

Intel has taken everyone by surprise by announcing a new processor aimed fairly and squarely at the gaming market. Or rather, with this price tag, at the elite, high-end gaming market. Unlike Intel's other processor launches, ...

When Asus announced its SK8N motherboard for the AMD Opteron processor, there was a certain amount of confusion. After all, Opteron is a server chip that can run in two-way, four-way or eight-way configurations, yet this ...

AMD's Athlon is starting to lose its position as the cheap yet fast alternative to Pentium 4, but it's still a very effective processor as long as you combine it with a decent chipset and some ...

You get a lot in the box with the MSI 875P Neo-FIS2R. There are rounded IDE cables, Serial ATA cables, Serial ATA power adapters and three back brackets with a host of features and ports. The ...

Every motherboard in this group uses an Intel chipset and supports the new 800MHz FSB, apart from the Mercury NDSMx. It stands out even further as it is a micro-ATX design with integrated graphics, and to ...

This is the cheapest 875P motherboard in this group, but it'll still cost you £111 plus VAT, which is quite a bit more expensive than the 865PE contenders. Unless you happen to need ECC memory support, ...

ECS also chose the 865PE chipset, just like Albatron. However, the Photon PF1 is a relatively slow motherboard. We're only talking two or three per cent difference, but most Intel designs are nearly identical so it's ...

A LANparty is a gathering of gamers who all carry their PCs to the venue and proceed to 'frag' and 'vape' their way through the weekend against dozens or hundreds of their fellow geeks in networked ...

Our second motherboard is the Albatron PX865PE Pro II. Although you may not have heard of Albatron before, the people behind the company have been in the industry for many years, as it was set up ...

The most popular chipset in this group is the top-line Intel 875P that supports dual channel DDR memory and also the latest 800MHz FSB (Front Side Bus) of the Northwood C Intel Pentium 4 processor. Naturally ...

EQS ("Efficiency Quality Supplier") is fairly new to the UK market but has had a considerable presence in the European market for several years. Its manufacturing facility is Hong Kong/China-based and it has recently entered a ...

Some time ago Asus launched a black PCB version of its well-liked Pentium 3 board, the CUSL2. Now comes the new, very limited edition Black Pearl, based on another of the company's popular boards, the P4PE. ...