Motherboard Reviews & Testing
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Gigabyte Z170X-UD5 Motherboard Review: All Bases Covered
In fighting game circles, there is an interesting technique called “option select” which is essentially a combination of moves that guarantee the maximum possible best-case coverage depending on the scenario.…
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Biostar Z170X Gaming Commander Motherboard Review: A Measure of Control
How’s this for a controversial opinion: Brand names do not matter. Let me clarify what I mean before you grab pitchforks and rally in front of my house demanding for…
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Gigabyte Z170X-Gaming 7 Review: Everything and Then Some
As late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel recently found out, gamers simply cannot take a joke. With the fervor of millions of religious zealots, he received death threats and was…
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MSI B150A Gaming PRO Motherboard Review: Mixing Business with Pleasure
Intel provides the B150 chipset as an entry-level business solution that will most likely be used for something boring like spreadsheets and countless hours in Farmville when the boss isn’t…
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EVGA Z170 FTW Motherboard Review: An Overclocking Gambit
It is called a motherboard for its encompassing domesticity as a hub of function and like its biological counterpart, a motherboard is judged by her matronly efforts to maintain a…
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Biostar N3150NH Mini-ITX Motherboard Review: Passive Progressive
Computers have become so ubiquitous in daily life that it is absurd to think that the very concept of having one in every household was considered a joke a mere…
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Asrock Z97 Extreme 4 Motherboard Review: Bang-for-Buck Beast
Often times when one makes the effort to provide everything to everybody, the end result is a lot less fulfilling than just simply going for a niche. Unfortunately for motherboard…
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MSI X99A Gaming 9 ACK Motherboard Review
Have you ever purchased a product, installed and used it for a while, and said to yourself “Man, I wish it had X (as a feature)”? Not that said product…
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Gigabyte X99 Gaming 5P Motherboard Review
Gigabyte has one of the largest selections of X99 motherboards. A quick search on their website yields a result of 16 motherboards across three lines. Gigabyte recently released their Champion…
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Gigabyte X99M Gaming 5 Motherboard Review
There is no doubt that the Haswell-E and X99 are high-performance computing platform parts. With 40 lanes of PCIe available on all but the lowest Haswell-E CPU, quad x8 SLI…
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Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5 Review
Long are the days of the SUPER TOWER chassis being the king of the gamers den, in the past few years the SFF (Small Form Factor) has taken over the…
