A decent board, but the Hybrid SLI feature doesn’t justify the high asking price

Meet a new player in the local motherboard market, with great features and solid performance

With so many factors to consider, choosing a motherboard can be a bewildering exercise. We put 11 models through their pace to find the ultimate in performance, flexibility and value

All the options you could want, although it’s pricey

An uninspiring board with no strong selling point

A capable little package at an attractive price

A slightly bare but affordable media-centre board

Cheap, but there’s not much here to cheer about

A feast of features for those willing to pay

A high-end board bristling with great ideas

Plenty of connectors, but not much pizzazz

An appealingly upmarket board at a fair price

In space, no-one can hear you curse.

A great combination of features at an excellent price makes this our new A-List board - suitable for just about everyone.

Shot in the arm for Microsoft’s DirectX.

Boardroom coup called off as investor is given seat.

Intel's Sean Maloney hypes Wimax, outs P4 chipsets, straddles digital divide. Centrino 2 isn't here yet, but we're getting closer.

We've spotted what appears to be the first sales of Intel's new wonder-chip, and no it's not in an Eee PC.

We're in mod-heaven with Gigabyte's new extreme cooling system, which uses tower-like heat sink and pure copper to stop your rig melting.

Like the KT4 Ultra, the ASUS A7V8X is an Athlon XP board that uses the VIA KT400 chipset. It packs in a truckload of extras, such as Serial ATA, FireWire, Gigabit LAN, AGP 8X and even RAID.