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

A simple board that struggles to justify its price

An uninspiring board with no strong selling point

Plenty of connectors, but not much pizzazz

An appealingly upmarket board at a fair price

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

An HDMI-equipped board ideal for small media-centre systems

Your cheapest MicroATX ticket into Intel's Core 2 world.

Clever corner cutting gives us an affordable, upgradeable performer.

A budget board that open the door to Crossfire graphics.

Soltek, purveyor of all things shiny and glittery, is one of the first companies to release a motherboard based around Intel’s eagerly anticipated i865 Springdale chipset.

Another inexpensive Soltek board that's not too heavy on the features, this KT400A board sports the bare minimum to scrape by, with six-channel audio, dual-USB 2.0 ports and ATA133 support.

Soltek offers a 865 board for a fair price with the SL086MP-L. It has some good core specifications – it hosts both Pentium 4 and Celeron processors, with support for 800MHz FSB and up to 4GB of DDR400.

For an attractively low $119, the Shuttle AB60RS offers all the basics, and also includes SATA, AGP 8x, and support for up to eight USB ports.

QDI offers another board similar to the P4I865GMA Micro ATX board, except this one is full-size ATX.

A barebones Athlon mobo, the AK39N has enough functionality to set this board apart as an ideal platform for building a home PC or workstation.

The MSI K7N2 is a good nForce2 board overall, scoring well against other nForce2 contenders.

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

One of only three ABIT boards in our roundup supporting ATA133, the SR7-8X lacks SATA and features only two-channel audio.