Stephen ASUS Rampage II GENE @ TBreak
“Asus’ Rampage II GENE is an amazing motherboard that will suit the gamer most. It is packed with features such as CrossFire and SLI support, can accept up to 24Gbytes of DDR3 memory and also features superb overclocking options. In fact, its overclocking options are almost identical to those offered by its bigger brother, the Rampage II Extreme.”
MSI Eclipse Plus @ OC Club
“MSI has certainly delivered a great board with the Eclipse Plus, overclocking my i7 to 4GHz was fairly easy although with base clock frequencies past 200 some moderate tweaking had to be done, I even managed to get a CPU-Z at 4.5GHz. If an overclock fails, the motherboard must restart three times to clear – an annoyance but with the clear CMOS button near the PS/2 ports users can easily reset the BIOS and continue overclocking.”
MSI Eclipse Plus @ X-Bit Labs
“The reason why we remembered about all these circumstances today is because we got our hands onto a new MSI Eclipse Plus mainboard, which we are happy to discuss in our new review. It differs from the predecessor not only by the “Plus” in its model name: it looks different, boasts a number of additional features and most importantly works way better. We would like to start, as usual, with the closer look at the board and accessories.”
Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P @ PC Perspective
“The appearance of the board is quite pleasing, and the layout again cause very few issues with me. The cooling system on the chips was also quite functional, and again was quite attractive in design. The Ultra Durable 3 features also seem to add a lot of value and security, and I believe that they actually add real engineering value to the product.”
ASUS Maximus II Gene @ Benchmark Reviews
“ASUS has some tough shoes to fill. Fortunately, they’re familiar shoes; their own, in fact. A long string of high performance motherboards that got adopted simultaneously by the enthusiast and gaming sets, led ASUS to create a specialty brand segment they call “Republic of Gamers”.”
ASUS Rampage II Gene @ Neoseeker
“The layout is nothing short of flawless – everything that needs user intervention is a breeze to access. Asus managed to cramp onboard start and reset buttons which are unbelievably handy. It’s also important to note that all five fan connectors have 4 pins and support up to 24W. Yes, 24W!”
ASUS M4A79T Deluxe @ Benchmark Reviews
“ASUS has it tough. No question about it, everyone loves to hate the front runner. It’s hard to remember when they weren’t one of the top dogs, and in this business, it’s as hard to stay on top as it is to get there. For the last several years, like everyone else, they’ve been paying the bills by selling Intel-based systems. They kept faith with the AMD crowd however, and have consistently offered a full range of products to support the underdog in the CPU race.”
Jetway NF94-270-LF @ Modders Inc
“Modders-Inc is taking a look at another fine motherboard from Jetway. Currently they are offering some of the best all-in-one mini ITX motherboards. Jetway is packing all sorts of goodies into a very small form factor that is highly suitable for a Home Theater PC or for a space saving desktop.”
ASUS M3A78-T @ MadShrimps
“Today, we have a look at the Asus AM2+ motherboard, the M3A78-T, which is one of the higher-end motherboards from their AM2+ series. It comes with HD3300 onboard GPU which we overclocked to the limit… and beyond, running Crysis at 1280×1024 at 30fps!”
Gigabyte EX58-UD4P @ TweakTown
“Intel has certainly put a high price premium on the X58 IOH to its partners, which in turn causes the boards produced to be somewhat expensive. Coupled with the higher price of Core i7 processors, this means that we are stuck with a huge bill to build a capable overclocking gaming rig, or are we?”