Month: July 2010

As usual, here is a pretty good listing of the most popular processors and motherboards from the likes of Intel, AMD, ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte and more. We have boards listed based off of the X58, P55, H55 / H57, AMD 785G / 790GX and ION platforms. If you’re in the market for any of these products, click through to find the best prices on the web.

Thanks for your support all!

Intel Processors
Core i7-940
Core i7-920
Core i7-870
Core i7-860

Core i5-750
Core i5-670
Core i5-661
Core i5-660
Core i5-650

Core i3-540
Core i3-530

AMD Processors
Phenom II X4 955
Phenom II X4 945
Phenom II X4 940
Phenom II X3 720
Athlon II X4 620

X58 Motherboards
ASUS Rampage II Extreme
ASUS P6T
ASUS Rampage II GENE
EVGA X58 SLI
Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R
Intel DX58SO
MSI Eclipse SLI

P55 Motherboards
ASUS Maximus III Formula
ASUS P7P55D Deluxe
ASUS P7P55D EVO
EVGA P55 FTW
EVGA P55
Gigabyte GA-P55-UD6
Gigabyte GA-P55-UD5
Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD4P
Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD4
Intel DP55KG
Intel DP55WG
MSI P55-GD65
MSI P55-GD80

H55 / H57 Motherboards
ASUS P7H55-M PRO
Intel DH55TC
Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H
EVGA H55
ASUS P7H57D-V EVO

AMD 785G / 790GX Motherboards
ASUS M4A78T-E
Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2
MSI 790GX-G65
ASUS M4A785-M
MSI 785GTM-E45

ION Motherboards
ASUS AT3N7A-I
Zotac IONITX-A-U
Zotac IONITX-C-U
Zotac IONITX-B-E

Gigabyte H55N-USB3 HTPC @ BenchmarkReviews

“GIGABYTE has grown a lot in the market lately. They mainly produce top-notch quality motherboards and GPUs, and they have even entered new areas as well. We couldn’t say they had a specific motherboard for each user until they finally released their Mini-ITX H55N-USB3 motherboard. Last year, Mini-ITX motherboards meant low CPU-performance.”

Biostar TA890FXE @ PCStats

“Meet the Biostar TA890FXE motherboard, an AMD 890FX platform that eschews tons of frilly extra’s for a core feature set and competitive sticker price. Naturally overclocking friendly, Biostar have added core unlocking into the BIOS on this board so up to five cores may be unlocked from certain AMD triple or quad-core CPU models.”

MSI Big Bang XPower @ PC Per

“The Big Bang XPower motherboard continues with MSI’s new goals of becoming a powerhouse in the world of high quality PC components and the result here is pretty impressive.  If you are looking for a motherboard that offers a great combination of overclocking features, high quality components, added extras and graphics expandability and can afford a slightly higher price for the job, the MSI Big Bang XPower is a great option!”

ASRock 880G Extreme3 @ TweakTown

“ASRock makes a return to our test bench with their latest creation. This is the 880G Extreme3. The 3 stands for all of those “3” labelled options that are available now; USB 3.0 and SATA 3.0. ASRock mentions another one; this is eSATA 3.0, although I really do not know what that means. This new board also features support for up to three way Crossfire and hybrid Crossfire.”

ASUS P6X58D-E @ Think Computers

“Though well equipped, including Asus’ TurboV, Asus Express gate, and Asus EPU6, among many other features, that first Asus X58 motherboard I had, the P6T, has become a little dated, especially compared to Asus’ newer motherboards.”

ASRock N68C-S UCC @ HardwareSecrets

“The forthcoming N68C-S UCC from ASRock is an low-end micro ATX socket AM2+ motherboard based on the NVIDIA GeForce 7025 chipset, featuring both DDR2 and DDR3 memory sockets and a CPU core unlocking tool, a feature usually not found on entry-level motherboards.”

ASRock P55 Deluxe3 @ MadShrimps

“ASRock has redesigned their “old” P55 series to include SATA III and USB 3.0 and this way they made them future proof, at least in terms of connectivity; the performance of the P55 Deluxe3 board is decent and has no problem at all reaching 4GHz with an i5 750 CPU.”

ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 @ HardOCP

“The ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 is based on AMD’s 890GX chipset and SB850 south bridge. This motherboard currently sells for $139.99 with Free Shipping. The board implements an 8+2 phase power design. While that number may not sound impressive it seems more than sufficient as most motherboard manufacturers lately have done a great job with implementing “quality phases” as opposed to quantity.”

H55 Micro ATX Shoot Out @ FutureLooks

“The things we would like to note is that both the ASUS and GIGABYTE both support SATA3 and USB 3.0 devices where as the MSI does not. We aren’t sure why MSI has decided to omit this feature in their H55 boards. Perhaps they opted not to support them since those devices still aren’t quite mainstream yet. However, as a mainstream user, we always shoot for the latest features and this could seriously hurt MSI in the long run.”