A competitively priced AMD motherboard but some corners have been cut

Intel's LGA1366 socket is the highest performing PC platform, period. With motherboards typically costing over £200, it's also pretty pricey. In that context, the recently revised Gigabyte X58A-UD3R is a bit of a bargain at just £159.

Like Zotac's H55-ITX, the Pure Mini couples the cut-down form factor with a full power processor. It's a socket AM3 board which supports AMD's dual core Athlon or Phenom CPUs, and it comes with built in ATI 4200 graphics and Via VT1708S audio. There's even room for a PCI-Express graphics card, if you so wish.

If, in some perverted alternate reality, Watty Piper had been more interested in PCs than trains, Asus' latest piece of Republic of Gamers rolling stock would be the The Little Board That Could. The Rampage III Gene has more features per square inch of PCB than almost any other we can think of, nearly matching its stablemate, the Rampage III Extreme for extras put packing it into a micro-ATX format

Asus ups the ante again with a new X58 motherboard for the budget focused

AMD gets back its competitive edge with this i7-worrier

Do we need another new chipset?

Only the extreme need apply, only the extremely rich can afford

MSI's H55-GD65 brings support for Intel's fusion processors to the full-ATX form factor

Gigabyte has the digital video bases covered with its latest pint-sized powerhouse

Can this Republic of Gamers mobo justify its astonishingly high price tag?

Can this new motherboard from Asus snatch the H55 chipset crown?

Can a new chipset give AMD's sluggish CPUs some much-needed shizzle?

Smell something fishy? That'll be the fusion, Intel style

We find out how just how fast USB 3.0 is with the Asus 7P55D-E Pro motherboard

An AMD board that will let you clock your Phenom to a speedy 3.4GHz

This P55 mobo offers DDR3 and Core i7 support for under a ton

A super speedy AM3 board for those wanting something overclocking friendly

A deluxe X58 motherboard for the overclockers

The MSI's pint-sized P55 micro-ATX Core i5 motherboard has landed

A micro-ATX mobo for that media centre you said you were going to build

This motherboard offers support for the forthcoming 6 core AMD chips, but is it worth it now?

Amidst the gloom of global economic meltdown and tumbling PC sales, Intel's plucky little Atom processor has provided a glimmer of hope.

Are this X58 board's features a geek too far?

Black Ops traditionally refers to a group of soldiers who answer to no government and are unidentifi able. Which is kind of bad news if you've just bought a BlackOps motherboard – who do you return it to if it goes wrong? There's probably a secret BIOS setting that sends Jason Bourne crashing into your house, only for him to shoot you in the head and make off with your beloved mobo. Well, actually it just goes through the normal channels. Missed opportunity there – nil points for marketing.