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Today we are going to look at one of the first Socket FM2+ motherboards designed for gaming, the Gigabyte G1 Sniper A88X. This has similar characteristics as the other products in Gigabyte’s gaming range, including the trademark green and black colour scheme.
Intel's Sandy Bridge CPUs have breathed new life into the computer industry by providing an incredibly fast and smart processor that can appeal to mainstream users by condensing and simplifying a lot of options. The biggest barrier to entry in the PC realm has been the complexity issue, and this was definitely a step in the right direction. However, this was not something everyone was too happy about, as many enthusiasts disliked the way Intel had limited overclockability by only allowing K-series CPUs to be modified, and even then, were limited to the very basic of options.
Today we shall review a motherboard that, while its features are rich enough, is positioned as a more typical solution. But thanks to that it's also affordable.
APH Networks reviews Intel's enthusiast motherboard. How does it step up against the classic competition?
The new chipsets are similar to Intel P55, but they let you use the integrated graphics core of the new Core i5, Core i3 and Pentium processors. On the other hand, they lack decent support for dual discrete graphics cards. Which of these solutions you need is up to you to decide.
AMD's latest flagship chipset, the 890FX, has arrived in the form of the MSI 890FXA-GD70 motherboard. This socket AM3 mainboard is designed from the ground up for performance enthusiasts and promises innovations like native SATA 6Gb/s, USB 3.0, increased PCI Express 2.0 bandwidth for ATI Radeon videocards in four-way Crossfire, and support for 45nm AMD processors up to 140W TDP including 6-core Phenom II X6 processors.
Implementing all of the extra features that belong on an RoG board on a compact Mini ITX board was a challenge, and ASUS had to come up with some clever solutions. The components for the CPU power supply, for example, have been put on a vertical PCB, and the SupremeFX sound card is also located on a separate PCB (which benefited the audio quality). Extra features such as a debug HEX display were also put on an extra little PCB between the I/O connectors. ASUS definitely achieved squeezing a large amount of features onto very little surface area.
Forming the entry-level Z87 board in ASRock’s gaming-orientated Fatal1ty series, is the Z87 Killer able to prove itself as a good-value gaming motherboard?
We have a look at a Z77 motherboard from GIGABYTE which comes in the Mini-ITX form factor.
Let's take a look at the X99 Extreme6/3.1, a top mid-range socket LGA2011-v3 motherboard from ASRock with a high-end audio controller, ten SATA-600 ports, and three USB 3.1 ports.
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