March 4, 2011
Remember when you could purchase a high-end AMD motherboard for around $100? You have to look all the way back to the Barton glory days, when the Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Abit NF7-S v2 dominated the talk of bang-for-buck ratios. But that was years ago, and inorder to get a top-of-the-line motherboard today, you’re looking [...]
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February 10, 2011
If you subscribe the motto that air is for breathing, not for cooling, then MSI’s new N580GTX HydroGen is exactly the type of videocard that should float your water cooling boat. MSI ditched the reference air cooling solution and replaced it with it…
Tags: build a pc, Cooling, GeForce, GPU, gtx 580, hardware, hydrogen, MSI, n580gtx, News Worthy, Nvidia, videocard, water cooling, waterblock
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February 8, 2011
The brave new world of LGA1155
There’s good news and bad news for Intel lovers. The bad news is for folks who just bought a motherboard using the LGA1156 socket: Yup, it’s obsolete already. The good news: The LGA1155 motherboards using Intel’s pe…
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January 27, 2011
It’s probably not fair to call ASRock an underdog anymore, if it ever was. Asus gave birth to ASRock back in 2002 with the intent of going toe-to-toe with ECS and other vendors in the entry-level market. Here we are nearly a decade later and ASRock is …
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January 27, 2011
The MSI P67A-GD65 is the next motherboard to come across the Legit Reviews Intel Sandy Bridge test bench. Our first article featured the ASUS P8P67 Deluxe as well as the ASUS P8P67. Both of these boards did a bang up job and set the bar high. This wi…
Tags: Intel, Motherboards review, MSI, P76A-GD65 motherboard, socket 1155 motherboard
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January 8, 2011
Rounding out our MSI coverage at CES, Senior Editor Gordon Mah Ung takes an early look at MSI’s upcoming AM3+ board, which will allow for, that’s right, AMD Bulldozer support. The board also features SATA 6Gbs ports on the south bridge, a fou…
Tags: am3+, bulldozer, CES, CES2011, Home, MSI
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January 8, 2011
Senior Editor Gordon Ung got a change to take a look at some of the newest offerings from MSI, focusing here on two brand new mini ITX boards. These boards mark the first time MSI has ever made an ITX board for consumers. The first board may seem famil…
Tags: CES, CES2011, Home, Micro ITX, MSI
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December 30, 2010
Asus hoped to ship 25 million million motherboards in 2010, but as the year comes to a close, it will fall short by about 3.2 million boards. Gigabyte will also fall short of its goal, having shipped about 18.5 million units when it hoped to reach 20 m…
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