Motherboard

We took a look at GA-EP31-DS3L, a socket 775 motherboard from Gigabyte based on Intel P31 chipset and targeted to mainstream users.

The latest NVIDIA chipset for the AMD platform, nForce 780a, hasn’t been launched yet but we could take a detailed look at an ASUS high-end motherboard featuring this chipset, M3N-HT Deluxe/Mempipe.

We took a quick look at this new high-end socket 775 motherboard from EVGA, based on the new nForce 790i chipset, supporting DDR3 memories and three PCI Express x16 slots supporting 3-way SLI, Quad SLI and other high-end features.

We took a look at the prototype of Foxconn Blackops motherboard, a socket 775 motherboard based on the forthcoming Intel X48 chipset coming with a water-cooling solution and targeted to extreme overclockers.

A quick look at two high-end motherboards ASUS will release using Intel X48 chipset: P5E3 Premium and Rampage Formula.

Foxconn F1 motherboard prototype, a socket 775 board featuring four PCI Express x16 slots allowing CrossFireX using an Intel chipset, water-cooling to cool down the chipset and the voltage regulator and a thermoelectric cooler (Peltier) to cool down the north bridge chip.

We took a look at this new high-end socket 775 motherboard from EVGA, based on the new nForce 780i chipset, featuring three PCI Express x16 slots supporting 3-way SLI and other high-end features.