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Asus 5N32-E SLI Plus.

If you're looking at a Porsche or Ferrari, fuel mileage is probably not your main concern. Computer enthusiasts take a similar approach to choosing top of the line gear for a new PC or upgrade project. Energy consumption be damned! Or so it goes... The computer industry has taken it upon itself to tackle the issue of skyrocketing power demands, and it's reassuring to see most new chipsets, CPUs, and everything other than the videocard draws a little less power than its predecessor. nVidia and ATI on the other hand pump out power hungry chips as if they were the oil company. But that's another story.

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The new Foxconn N5M2AA-EKRS2H is an inexpensive solution for overclocker and all-rounder. Although the nVidia nForce 4 chipset is meanwhile somewhat outdated, Foxconn developed a good alternative to the latest Socket AM2 chipsets with this relaunch. Because beside a good basic equipment the board offers several overclocking options and was overclocked up to 300 MHz reference clock during the test. All strengths and weaknesses of the Foxconn WinFast motherboard will be shown in the review and can be compared in the overview with more than 25 AMD Athlon 64 motherboards.

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This Review will clarify if the ASRock ALiveNF6G-DVI MicroATX motherboard with onBoard GeForce 6100 graphics solution and provided HDMR DVI-D card can convince in a normal course of HTPC life, and if it is high overclockable. The first look to the equipment already shows ASRock's main focus of this inexpensive mATX motherboard ...

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X-bit Labs have a review of the ECS AMD690GM-M2 micro-ATX motherboard.  The motherboard is based on the AMD R690G chipset, which contains an embedded graphics core.