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MSI P965 Platinum

Posted 03/29/2007 at 4:16pm | by Gordon Mah Ung

Among the great mysteries of the universe—the Pyramids, Easter Island, the final season of Seinfeld—you can also include MSI’s RAM color coding.

While the rest of the industry has settled on mounting two DIMMs in slots of the same color to enable dual-channel mode, MSI thumbs its nose at the convention.

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Abit AW9D-MAX

Posted 03/29/2007 at 3:07pm | by Gordon Mah Ung

When Abit hit the financial skids and outsourced its motherboard production, enthusiasts turned their mirrors around, broke out the whiskey, and prepared to mourn.

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Foxconn 975X7AB-8EKRS2H

Posted 02/06/2007 at 2:56pm | by Gordon Mah Ung

It’s no secret that Nvidia had a heavy hand in designing Foxconn’s excellent AM2 Athlon 64/nForce 590 SLI board, but Foxconn’s Intel-powered 975X7AB-8EKRS2H board suffers for a lack of Nvidia-applied polish.

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MSI K9N SLI Platinum

Posted 11/08/2006 at 1:32am | by Gordon Mah Ung

We loved MSI’s last nForce4 board so much that we gave it a Kick Ass award and even bumped the Asus A8N32-SLI board from our Best Of The Best list. Unfortunately, MSI was so late to the nForce4 SLI x16 party that the board debuted right on the cusp of the AM2 launch; thus its lifespan was brief, and product was impossible to find.

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Foxconn C51XEM2AA

Posted 08/16/2006 at 2:09pm | by Gordon Mah Ung

If you want to judge nVidia’s vision for the new AM2 nForce 590 SLI chipset, look no further than Foxconn’s C51XEM2AA. This motherboard is the closest you’ll get to nVidia’s concept design. In fact, nVidia even wrote the BIOS for this board.

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Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe Wireless Edition

Posted 07/16/2006 at 12:14pm | by Gordon Mah Ung

Asus’ modus operandi of late has been to rush out new board designs so far ahead of its competitors that the other guys just seem to give up. Witness the company’s A8N32-SLI Deluxe board. In the dual-x16 nForce category, it was the only game in town for months on end.

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