ASUS makes a triple play with Core 2

Subject: Motherboards | August 24, 2006 - 11:46 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The Tech Report contrasts three Core 2 motherboards from ASUS.  The P5B Deluxe Wifi-AP Edition (Intel 965), P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe (nForce4 SLIX16) and P5W DH Deluxe (Intel 975X) are all present.  They all have differences, one of the biggest for gamers being that the Intel965 board doesn't support SLI or CrossFire, though it does have WiFi, the nVIDIA board supports SLI, and the 975X supports CrossFire.

SLI is the only thing this board doesn't have

Subject: Motherboards | August 21, 2006 - 06:01 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The ASUS P5B Deluxe WiFi-AP has everything you could possibly want in a motherboard, if you are not planning on buying 2 video cards.  From the layout of the board, to the onboard features, [H]ard|OCP can't really find anything wrong with it.  Head over to check out this overclocking friendly board.

BFG TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES NFORCE 590 SLI MOTHERBOARD - COMING IN OCTOBER

Subject: Motherboards | August 21, 2006 - 12:10 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Lake Forest, IL — (August 21, 2006) — BFG Technologies®, Inc., the leading North American and European NVIDIA supplier of advanced 3D graphics cards, motherboards, power supplies and other PC enthusiast products, announced today that their new BFG nForce® 590 SLI™ motherboard will be available in October at leading retailers and e-tailers.

abit launches AW9D Series - Intel 975X Chipset motherboards built for Core(TM) 2 Duo and beyond

Subject: Motherboards | August 18, 2006 - 11:18 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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August 16 th , 2006 — Today Universal abit launched their much anticipated AW9D and AW9D-MAX motherboards based on the Intel 975X chipset. There has been much anticipation in the industry for this series and as far as looks go, these boards are built to please. The benchmarking has been exceptional in typical abit style and our tweakability and overclocking features have exceeded even our own expectations:

Tech Convergence in the new millenium

Subject: Motherboards | August 15, 2006 - 12:09 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The recent purchase of ATI by AMD, and the merger of Gigabyte and ASUS are very much in the news.  DigiTimes has noticed another, much quieter deal.  It looks like Flextronics has purchased Iwill.  Just what could this all mean to the consumer?

Don't miss out on Ryan's review of the new Socket AM2 motherboard from ASUS, the Crosshair.

DDR versus DDR2 on the same board

Subject: Motherboards | August 10, 2006 - 11:51 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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AnandTech utilizes the abilty for the ASRock 775Dual-VSTA to run either DDR or DDR2 to provide a good look at the benefits of moving to the new RAM.  Find out if the tighter timings on the slower DDR can keep up with the faster and looser DDR2.  Also, since this board supports AGP and PCI-E graphics cards, there is no easier way to move to Core 2 Duo.

GIGABYTE and ASUS Announced their Joint Venture in Motherboard and Graphics Card Business

Subject: Motherboards | August 9, 2006 - 03:51 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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In accordance with the relevant regulations according to Company Law,
Securities Law and Business Merger & Acquisition Law, a resolution
of the board of directors was passed on the 8th of August, 2006 for
GIGABYTE Technology Co., LTD (Stock Code: 2376) to transfer the
relevant assets and businesses of its own branded motherboards and VGA
cards to a newly established subsidiary.

Asus to Acquire Gigabyte??

Subject: Motherboards | August 7, 2006 - 09:44 PM | Ryan Shrout
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The title pretty much says it all, though we can file this under "rumor-mill" for the time being...

Asustek Computer is interested in acquiring another motherboard specialist Gigabyte Technology, which shows better strength in distribution, according to sources in the Taiwan motherboard industry.

Biostar TForce 550 Motherboard Review

Subject: Motherboards | August 7, 2006 - 09:43 PM | Ryan Shrout
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The gang over at HardOCP has reviewed the Biostar motherboard based on the nForce 550 chipset; and they say it makes a decent budget motherboard. 

As Jake mentioned above that the power components would get hotter when water cooling, this is exactly what I saw. The VRMs on the board were at 250F without any airflow at stock settings with the FX-62.

EPoX's affordable take on NForce500

Subject: Motherboards | August 4, 2006 - 01:05 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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EPoX's new MF570SLI is based on the new nForce500 series, specifically the 570SLI.  With dual gigabit NICs, onboard Realtek sound, and lots of space around the CPU socket help make this board even more attractive.  [H]ard|OCP has all the info about it.

Sneak a peek at the new Radeon RD600 chipset

Subject: Motherboards | August 2, 2006 - 12:49 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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TweakTown somehow managed to sneak into a lab working on the upcoming Radeon chipset for Core 2 CPUs.  90nm manufacture, three 16x PCI express slots, 2 X8s for graphics and one X2 for a PPU plus support for DDR3 ... just a few of the mysteries they reveal.

Get your Intel compatible Radeon chipsets before they're gone

Subject: Motherboards | July 28, 2006 - 05:57 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Some of the fallout from the ATI-AMD merger has made itself apparent.  The ATI RD600 for Conroe will still be released, but as TweakTown discovered, it is likely to be the last Intel compatible Radeon chipset.

If you are looking for an Intel based board for Conroe, Ryan has reviewed the ASUS P5W DH Deluxe right here.

Gigabyte's Core Duo motherboard

Subject: Motherboards | July 24, 2006 - 12:27 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 Intel P965 offers support for the newest Conroe Core Duo chips from Intel.  Drop by Hexus to see how a 965 motherboard you can go out and buy performs.

abit Recalls Units from the AN9 32X Motherboard Line

Subject: Motherboards | July 21, 2006 - 01:24 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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July 21, 2006
— Universal abit, maker of high-end enthusiast level motherboards,
is known for its uncompromisingly rigorous testing and quality control.
Universal abit firmly believes that only 100% is good enough for its
customers, and continues to stand by its motto of delivering Advanced
Durability to the user. 

ECS gets extreme with ATI

Subject: Motherboards | July 19, 2006 - 05:15 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The ECS KA3 MVP Extreme is not lacking when it comes to extras, including a completely new way to reset your BIOS for consumer boards.  [H]ard|OCP finds out how it stacks up to the competition, and whether ECS focussed more on features, or overclockability.

Asus Crosshair Series: Republic of Gamers

Subject: Motherboards | July 12, 2006 - 03:47 PM | Ryan Shrout
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Asus sent along word and images of a new AM2-based motherboard coming out soon from Asus.  The new product series has been dubbed Republic of Gamers and has the goal to be the best motherboard for gamers and overclockers.  What kind of new features are they preparing for these boards?  If you remember looking through our Computex coverage from last month, we had a preview look at some of these new motherboard technologies. 

Let us know

ABIT offers a peek at their new P965 chipset based motherboard

Subject: Motherboards | July 5, 2006 - 12:20 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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AnandTech recently received an AB9Pro from ABIT for Socket775.  While this evaluation version does not yet support Core Duo processors, you can have a look at the performance with a single core chip.

Socket AM2 From ASUS

Subject: Motherboards | June 28, 2006 - 01:55 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Drop by [H]ard|OCP for their review of the impressively decked out M2N32-SLI Deluxe.  This motherboard's features and extras are so inclusive, it even comes with a fan and assembly to be used in systems with watercooling.  Add the fact that with a little fiddling, the memory bus broke 400MHz, and you have a board worth your consideration.