While it might be late to the Z690 party, NZXT’s N7 Z690 was an interesting item to land in our lab. It features a PCB cover in black or white, with our white sample just begging to be placed in a clean, white PC case, preferably with other white hardware. At $300, it’s also reasonably …
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 refreshed Z170 boards with new features. As well as offering some aesthetic boosts, these new boards such as MSI’s Z170A MPOWER Gaming Titanium, …
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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 Ethernet, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs, 70 GPIO pins, a micro-SD slot and SATA 2 support for additional storage. More importantly, though, there’s an on-board …
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 looking to build a new PC. Now MSI have released the X99S SLI Plus, an all-black ‘military edition board that significantly ramps up the number of …
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 motherboards we performed these feats on seemed a little more hardy than many of today’s offerings. MSI newest …
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 to support the fourth generation of Intel processors on an LGA 1150 socket. It has four DDR DIMM slots for a maximum of 32GB at …
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 1600MHZ, Intel HD 4600 on-board graphics, 7.1 channel audio, two SATA3 6Gbps and two SATA2 3Gbps ports, with two USB 3.0 …
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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 your PC to your phone or tablet. It’s not a bad idea, but it can be a little niche. This is an ATX board that supports …
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 up to extreme overclocking, very high-end gaming boards — with the price to match as well. This is a motherboard from its Gaming range, specifically …
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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 appealing, isn’t always good and there are times when ASRock’s line up isn’t quite as good as it could be. The ASRock …
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