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

The Labs team delves into the guts of this month’s motherboards, and points out what you need to know to chose the right one for your needs.

Senior managers, c-level executives, directors, and boards, in fact all of industry's masters and commanders who don't have the acumen to optimise their technology deployments as strategic levers, are neglecting their responsibilities to their shareholders, stakeholders, partners and staff.

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.

MSI's new motherboard is based on the Intel 865, or Springdale chipset, heralding the arrival of a host of new technologies (such as support for dual-channel DDR-RAM, AGP 8x and SATA) in Pentium 4 boards. These technologies have been commonplace in Althon boards for more than six months, and it's been an agonizing wait for many Pentium 4 fans.

Nvidia has said it will allow Intel's X58 chipset to natively support SLI graphics.

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One of the mid-priced Intel 845PE boards, the Soltek SL-85DR3 comes in just shy of $200.

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Emagens entry is a fairly mixed system, with some excellent and some average features

Prepare to say goodbye to the Pentium as we reveal the next generation

IT recruiters are upbeat about what they see as a growing demand for IT professionals in Australia.

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

An appealingly upmarket board at a fair price

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Graphics card manufacturers’ obsession with multi-GPU boards continues this month. The Asus HD 3850 X2 brings to market the novel formula of two ATi Radeon 3850 GPUs on one card.

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

A beautifully tiny computer-on-a-board that you should only consider if you have a specific use in mind

Clever corner cutting gives us an affordable, upgradeable performer.

This is one of the few nForce boards here to take advantage of the GeForce4 MX graphics chip and supply an AGP 8x slot.