Motherboard Reviews
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MSI Z97 Gaming 9 AC: Jack of All Trades
The most distinctive difference between high-end and mainstream motherboards is often the level of luxury they provide. Surprisingly however, the budget and mainstream motherboards from MSI’s Z97 Gaming line share…
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Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 Rev 4.0 Motherboard Review: Old but Gold
If you stumbled upon this article you may be wondering why a review for a two-year old 990FX motherboard has been published in Q3 2014. There are a couple of…
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Gigabyte Z97-D3H Motherboard Review
Opinions have undoubtedly shifted over the years on what is expected from entry level motherboards. While many will not argue about the appropriate price, the functional aspects such as overclockability,…
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MSI Z97M Gaming Motherboard Review
Recently, Intel released their refresh of the Haswell line of CPUs and along with that came the Z97 chipset. The Z97, in a nutshell, adds and updates a few things…
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Gigabyte F2A88XN-WIFI Mini-ITX Motherboard
In the world of Mini-ITX, *small* size is king! Most people when they think of a smaller sized board, they think that corners had to be cut, features left off,…
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Biostar Hi-Fi Z97WE Motherboard Review
It is a misplaced romantic notion to think that some things can be made whole cloth from aether and that great ideas are some sort of a divine blessing from…
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MSI B85M Gaming Motherboard Review
Not every plan goes smoothly and in the tech world, everything moves so fast that odds are stacked towards the likelihood of a plan fizzing out before the idea even…
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ASUS A88X-Pro FM2+ Motherboard Review
It is best to gauge a motherboard manufacturer’s capabilities not at their worst or even at their best, but at a crossroad where their design and manufacturing philosophy is put…
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ECS Z87H3-A2X Golden Motherboard Review
Back in the 1990’s the Elitegroup Computer Systesm, or ECS wasn’t a name that one would associate to high end motherboards. Typically during that time ECS was an OEM manufacture…
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ASUS Z97-A Motherboard Review
It was a mystery to me why most budget and value oriented motherboards looked awful but then I realized that good looking motherboards are actually rare. Not that it truly…
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MSI Z97 MPower MAX AC Motherboard Review
Before we proceed with the motherboard review, a primer on the new Z97 chipset is necessary. First, close your eyes and think of the Z87 chipset features. There. You are…
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MSI A88X-G45 Gaming Motherboard Review
Rencently, AMD released the Kaveri APU to the masses. The Kaveri APU requires a new socket, the FM2+ and along with a new socket comes a new chipset the AMD…
