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A roadmap for next-generation mobo firmware by Geoff Gasior — 10:43 AM on October 13, 2011 Later this week, I embark on a super-secret mission to Silicon Valley to get a sneak peek at Asus' upcoming X79 motherboards. At a... Type: Blog post Tags: Motherboards	37
The more things change... by Fred Silver — 9:26 AM on June 13, 2011 Type: Blog post Tags: Motherboards	37
Motherboards and their owners by Fred Silver — 10:21 AM on June 6, 2011 Some motherboards are easier to work with than others. Type: Blog post Tags: Motherboards	46
Musing on the state of motherboards by Geoff Gasior — 11:11 PM on March 3, 2011 Manufacturers routinely ask us what we think of their current products and what we'd like to see from future ones. Sometimes, I get the... Type: Blog post Tags: Motherboards	86
PC hardware enthusiasm.. miniaturized? by Scott Wasson — 1:02 PM on February 23, 2011 I've been into building PCs for many years now, but before that, I was never a particularly handy or mechanically inclined type of guy. ... Type: Blog post Tags: Game consoles	37
A cautionary tale by Scott Wasson — 10:04 AM on October 7, 2010 Boy, Tuesday was a rough day. Walked into my office in the morning expecting to get some testing done, only to discover that my... Type: Blog post Tags: Motherboards	88
The great upgrade: Tales from the ancient past by Scott Wasson — 10:51 AM on July 14, 2010 Our current contest challenges readers to relate their first PC upgrade experiences for a chance to win a copy... Type: Blog post Tags: CPUs Graphics Motherboards Storage	19
Just fix the AHCI already, AMD by Dustin Sklavos — 12:21 PM on August 17, 2009 I've been partial to AMD for a long time. The first PC I built for myself had an Athlon Thunderbird running at a blistering 1.4GHz,... Type: Blog post Tags: Motherboards Chipsets	108
A compact, fast, and quiet PC for the kitchen by Scott Wasson — 12:54 PM on June 25, 2009 If you've read our summer system guide, you might enjoy hearing the story of how our very cool Pocket Swiss Army Knife config came... Type: Blog post Tags: Motherboards Cases Systems	57
MSI and OCZ overclock by Adam Eiberger — 12:00 PM on June 12, 2009 Since we're an enthusiast site, little explanation of overclocking is needed here. We tend to focus on the intricacies of hardware and how it performs,... Type: Blog post Tags: Motherboards Miscellaneous The Tech Report	5
The sorry state of BIOS-level fan speed control by Geoff Gasior — 11:51 PM on April 2, 2009 I'm constantly amazed by the pace at which technology improves. Take what's happened in, oh, the last six years, for example. We've gone... Type: Blog post Tags: Motherboards	59
The case for a secondary motherboard OS by Geoff Gasior — 10:08 PM on March 26, 2009 It seems like every year, someone thinks that Linux is on the verge of making real inroads on the desktop. And every year, the... Type: Blog post Tags: Motherboards Operating systems	47
A sneak peek at Asus' P6T Deluxe Nehalem motherboard by Geoff Gasior — 12:36 PM on October 3, 2008 Intel's next-gen Nehalem processor has yet to be released, but a compatible motherboard has already arrived in The Benchmarking Sweatshop. Behold Asus' P6T Deluxe: Type: Blog post Tags: Motherboards	43
What do you want from a motherboard? by Geoff Gasior — 11:56 AM on May 5, 2008 In a few hours I set off on a super secret mission into the heart of the motherboard industry. I can't say much about... Type: Blog post Tags: Motherboards	47
Hit by the Red Ring of Death by Geoff Gasior — 3:24 PM on March 10, 2008 After more than a year and a half of hosting epic table tennis battles and endless laps around the Nurburgring, my Xbox 360 finally succumbed... Type: Blog post Tags: Game consoles	30
How Intel ruined my Christmas vacation by Cyril Kowaliski — 4:00 PM on January 11, 2008 Okay, Intel didn't actually spoil my entire vacation, but it came awfully close. To understand why, you need to go back a couple of months:... Type: Blog post Tags: Motherboards Multimedia Windows	19
Realtek resolves EAX issues, sort of by Geoff Gasior — 12:26 PM on July 31, 2007 Realtek's series of ALC codec chips are by far the most popular solutions for integrated motherboard audio. Unfortunately, we discovered last year that the company's... Type: Blog post Tags: Motherboards	20
Confessions of a console convert by Geoff Gasior — 12:55 PM on July 6, 2007 I've been a PC gamer for as long as I can remember. Those memories begin with "LOAD .,8,1" on a Commodore 64 in elementary... Type: Blog post Tags: Game consoles	19

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