Motherboards > Flex ATX Motherboards > Core Duo

Advantages: Effective
Disadvantages: PCI-E Slot Positions

This is am amazing motherboard. It supports the older AM2 series and AMDs new Tri/Quad cores, the Phenom series. The RAM dual-channels right next to each other and its got a nice 8 channel HD sound. I'm going to skip to the downsides, then finish the upsides. The top-most PCI-E slot won't let you seat a large card like my 4850, the heat pipes are in the way. The other thing is that it doesn't have dual LAN, would of been nice but you get what you ...
...exactly suited for large video cards, the middle two cut off some of the SATA ports. Other then those negatives, the rest of the board is awesome. It overclocks very, very good and just as a side note some of the options require you to press + or minus instead of hitting enter. ... Read review

Advantages: Cheap
Disadvantages: Slim Upgrade Potential

I have been using this product for a while now and it is a great mid range motherboard. It supports Intel Dual core chips, has 2 RAM slots and PCI - Express slots. This means that although the product is very realiable and relativly cheap, I would not recommend this for the computer savy or gamers as upgrade potential is slim to none. Although you can have up to 2GB RAM, which I must say it handles with incredibly well. Never had it overheat, generally ...
...add - on tempeture gauage to check and mointer tempetures. As perviously said I would recommend this motherboard for the average user or possible to build into a spare machine as I have done. Not great for people who wish to upgrade their machine to the latest hardware. ... Read review

Advantages: Great for overclocking, compatible with all current Intel 775 cpus
Disadvantages: Heatpipe foul most large heatsinks.

...last to be released before Intel launches its new Nehalem processor later this year. The current Core2 processors have priven themselves in being very fast as standard but to show their real worth you have to overclock them. If you haven't heard of overclocking then it will be best to google the term but essentially it's about increasing a processor's speed rating by tweaking the motherboard's BIOS. Something that Core2's have been pretty happy to ...
...Compatible with all current LGA775 Intel processors (Celeron, P4, Core2 Duo, Core2 Quad) it also sports the X48 chipset. This is well known for being good at overclocking with similar boards able to reach 540MHz front side bus speeds quite easily. The JW-X48D2 Extreme-P is no exception and I was able to get to this speed by only adjusting the gtl voltage. It also had no problem getting my E8400 processor to 4.3Ghz again just needing an increase in ... Read review

Advantages: cheap enough for the budget buyer with all the best features
Disadvantages: none that come to mind

i am a massive fan of all things ASUS but i still look at there products in the same level of detail as any other brand the first thing you notice when getting your motherboard is the quality of the packaging it is placed inside a strong anti-static packaging which is then inside a rather thick cardboard box with an outer (thinner) sleeve it comes with all the relevant cables and bits you would need including but not limited to : sata data cables, ...
...once i had powered my PC up after installing this new board i was soon appreciating the advantages of full 16x sli i was using 2x 7900gt's on a motherboard which did not allow for full throttle sli and the difference is noticeable the overall quality of the motherboard is astounding it comes with a very handy and helpful manual that is laid out cleverly and soon became my bible this board has so many features it does use DDR ram but to be honest ... Read review

Advantages: Tonnes of features, Low price and more
Disadvantages: Can't think of any

I recently purchased this board as I wanted to build my first gaming rig without hitting the big numbers in price. All I can say about this is WOW... For £50-£60 which you can get this board for now you'd be really stupid to look elsewhere. As with other reviews one of the first things you notice about it is the Care and Attention to detail that is put into its construction and packaging. You feel you've brought something at a premium without the ...
...install and everything you need to use all the features of this board come in the box. I havent had much chance to overclock with it yet but I hear its blinding. Im just waiting for my Q6600 SLACR edition cpu to turn up so I can have a dabble at overclocking. For a novice rig builder though I cannot rate this board enough. I looked at a lot of other more expensive boards out there, but I am so glad I went with this board instead. Also the fact ... Read review