Top 15 Motherboards

When we tested the Threadripper this month, it came with the Asus X399-powered Zenith Extreme. We were kind of expecting a slightly more affordable than ...

What do you look for in a motherboard? Clean style? Endurance? Good power draw? Never-ending connectivity? There’s a lot to think about when choosing the ...

The MSI Z270I Gaming Pro Carbon is on its own in this month's group test, being cheaper than the premium offerings, but taking a very different route from ...

Tough-looking shroud that provides excellent cooling X Marks the Spot Simple yet intuitive overclocking controlsWith the introduction of Intel's ...

Core frills to add to the thrills. Afew Aorus motherboards have passed through the labs over recent issues, and this month, the Z270X-Gaming 8 joins the ...

ASUS ROG Maximus X Hero Review - WE’VE ALWAYS TENDED more towards Asus’s Prime series motherboards than its ROG Maximus range, largely because the latter are ...

MSI X299 SLI Plus - Recommended 4/5 VERDICT The X299 SLI Plus proves you don’t need to spend a fortune to get a brilliant Skylake-X motherboard...

ASRock X399M Taichi Review - Due to the colossal size of AMD's TR4 CPU socket, we never imagined Threadripper motherboards would dip below the ATX form factor, ...

While ASRock's X299-ITX/ac is the undisputed king of small form factor high-end desktop (HEDT) motherboards, micro-ATX still offers a handy space-saving size ...

Z390 ATX MOTHERBOARDA very now and then a motherboard manufacturer goes all-out and leaves the rational worlds of value and price points far behind ...

Asus ROG Crosshair VII Hero WiFi Review - A little over a year ago, we were battling with some gremlins with various X370 boards, one of which was the Asus ...

Hailing from MSI's Arsenal Gaming range in Intel motherboards (a series based on military themes and presenting gaming-centric features), the MSI H270 Tomahawk ...

We’re usually fond of Asus’ flagship motherboards, but while they’re usually dripping with features to make any enthusiast drool, very few people can afford ...

Owning a high-end desktop system is rarely cheap, but one advantage of Intel's X299 high-end desktop platform over AMD's equivalent is that motherboards ...

Asus ROG Strix X370-I Gaming - Pure engineering geniusBENCHMARKSAsus ROG Strix X370-I Gaming MSI X370 Gaming Pro CarbonX265 (Avg fps) ...

We love Gigabyte Aorus AX370 - Gaming 5 in our recent reviews, and the AM4 equivalent, the Aorus AX370-Gaming 5 looks every bit as good. Making the move from ...

Hints at an integrated GPU future It's hard to ignore the rivalries that exist in computing. Dogmatic factions stand resolute against logic, faithfully ...

Asus ROG Strix X470-i GamingMINI-ITX X470 MOTHERBOARDSince AMD's X470 chipset was launched earlier this year, mini-ITX seems to be far more ...

MSI Z370 SLI Plus review - We're still waiting for Intel to release Coffee Lake chipsets other than the expensive Z370 model, not least so that its ...

GIGABYTE AORUS GAMING 5 WIFI Review - Gigabyte's Aorus brand may not have the long standing reputation of Asus' ROG brand, but they are making great strides ...

ASRock Z370 Taichi Review - It's becoming incredibly harder for motherboard manufacturers to differentiate their products. They all pay generally the same ...

As the cheapest board on test, the Gigabyte Z270N-WiFi doesn't have many immediate competitors, with just ASRock offering the Z270M-ITX/ac. Both boards lack ...

ASRock Z270 Gaming K6 Review - We’re jumping from the most expensive board in the roundup to the most affordable, in the form of ASRock’s Z270 Gaming K6. As ...

ASROCK FATALITY B360 GAMING K4 Review - ASROCK FATALITY B360 GAMING K4 Review - ASRock, perhaps undeservedly at times, has a reputation for being a value ...

If you dip below when buying an overclockable motherboard, it's unlikely to be an Intel model, simply because only pricey motherboards based on Intel's Z270 ...

GIGABYTE'S NEW BRAND AIMS FOR MAXIMUM EVERYTHING The Aorus brand name has been around for approximately seven years, but few people know that this is actually ...

As a spin-off for this month's Labs test, we've also included MSI's B450M Mortar micro-ATX motherboard in the roundup. It first appears to be a B450 ...