MSI Z170A MPOWER Gaming Titanium Motherboard Review
We’re now a whole year on from Skylake’s launch and enthusiasts are already getting excited about Intel’s next CPU core – Kaby Lake. Before then, though, we’re still seeing a trickle of...
Cubietruck Plus Review
Cubietruck Plus – also known as the CubieBoard 5 – features a 2GHz Allwinner H8 8-core ARM Cortex-A7 processor. There’s also 2GB of DDR3 memory, 8GB of eMMC on-board storage, Gigabit...

MSI X99S SLI PLUS Motherboard Review
MSI’s Z97 series motherboards are impressive, representing an alluring combination of both style, power and affordability. Their loaded feature sets made good sense to the system builder or someone...
MSI Z97 Guard-PRO LGA 1150 Motherboard Review
Remember a time when we used to be able to overclock an air cooled system for results that would beat a PC that cost twice as much? Of course, back then things were slightly different, and the...
Gigabyte GA-Z87X-SLI Motherboard Review
This is the Gigabyte GA-Z87X-SLI board, which is slightly different to the previously reviewed Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 7 board. For starters, it’s an older Z87 chipset, which means it’ll be able...
ASRock H81M LGA 1150 Micro ATX Motherboard Review
The ASRock H81M is a micro ATX board supporting fourth-generation Intel processors on a Socket 1150 H81 chipset. It has a pair of dual-channel DDR DIMM slots with a maximum capacity of 16GB at...
Asus Z87-PRO LGA 1150 Motherboard Review
Where other motherboard manufacturers have opted for more desktop established technologies, Asus, with its Z87-Pro range, has instead gone down the modernist route and included the ability to connect...
GIGABYTE GA-Z97X-GAMING 7 LGA 1150 Motherboard Review
Gigabyte offers the consumer a wealth of choice when it comes to motherboards. It can deliver low-end, low-price but relatively high-specification boards for high volume system builders, all the way...
ASRock 970 Extreme4 Socket AM3+ Motherboard Review
ASRock famously has a selection of motherboards on offer that can happily compete with the likes of MSI and Gigabyte but without the extra few digits after the dollar sign. This, although very...

MSI Z97 Gaming 5 LGA 1150 Motherboard Review
We’ve had a range of MSI boards through our doors recently, all of which have proved to be superb in near every factor. MSI has certainly pulled out all the stops and is now well in command when it...