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Gigabyte GA-X99-UD3P

Gigabyte GA-X99-UD3P

Gigabyte GA-X99-UD3P Review – Haswell-E has been obliterating everything in its path for months on end. When there’s real, CPU-intensive work to be done, we can’t think of a chip we’d rather have on our side than one of Intel’s three current Core i7-59XX processors. In...

Biostar Z97W Gaming

Biostar Z97W Gaming

Biostar Z97W Gaming Review – What can we say about Biostar? As a company, some of us weren’t even aware it existed until recently. That was until it debuted a new range of rather interesting consumer Z170 boards at Computex, boards with a strange ability to...

MSI H97 Gaming 3

MSI H97 Gaming 3

MSI H97 Gaming 3 Review – MSI has an excellent reputation when it comes to value for money, and the H97 Gaming 3 is its attempt at putting together an affordable option for Intel gamers. Being based on the H97 chipset it obviously doesn’t support SLI,...

Gigabyte X99-Gaming 5

Gigabyte X99-Gaming 5

Gigabyte X99-Gaming 5 Review – Now this is what we expect from an X99 board – check out the four fulllength PCIe lanes, ready to swallow your quad-GPU setup. One of the biggest strengths of X99 is the number of PCIe lanes, so it’s nice to...

Gigabyte H97M-Gaming 3

Gigabyte H97M-Gaming 3

Gigabyte H97M-Gaming 3 Review – This Micro-ATX motherboard from Gigabyte is priced just right for an affordable mini-SFF gaming rig, and has packed a surprisingly large number of features into its tiny dimensions. Based on the H97 chipset it obviously has a few limitations, but they’re...

ASUS H97-Pro Gamer

ASUS H97-Pro Gamer

ASUS H97-Pro Gamer Review – It might not be mentioned on the packaging, but ASUS has enabled overclocking of Intel’s K-series CPUs on this H97-powered motherboard. This fact alone puts it at a bit of an advantage, but even if you weren’t thinking of overclocking it...

ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Killer

ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Killer

ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Killer Review – Sourcing an AMD motherboard is harder than finding a gamer who agreed with Steam’s attempt to commercialise mods; after reaching out to the big four, we had to beg several times for them to include an AMD board. In fact,...

ASRock Z97 Extreme 6

ASRock Z97 Extreme 6

ASRock Z97 Extreme 6 Review – We’ve had a bit of a good run with ASRock this issue. We’ve also managed to achieve some insane overclocks on ASRock boards, notably 5GHz on its Z77 ITX motherboard, with a tiny little Corsair Hydro H60, so we’re...

MSI Z97 Gaming 6

MSI Z97 Gaming 6

MSI Z97 Gaming 6 Review – MSI Gaming, albeit a new line in MSI’s arsenal of products, has had a tangible effect on the marketplace. And you can tell. With so many manufacturers creating their own ‘gaming’ lines in response to MSI’s fiery dragon, it...

Asrock X99 E-ITX

Asrock X99 E-ITX

Asrock X99 E-ITX Review – Insanity, thy name is ASRock. We don’t think there’s been many companies out there who have thought to themselves: “You know what we need to do? A 2011 socket, ITX form-factor, go!” The ASRock X99 E-ITX is nothing short of an...