ECS mobo with Radeon 9600 onboard released

ECS HAS just released the ECS RS-480M which is based on the RS480 ATI Chipset. The latter comes with a Radeon 9600 core which makes it the fastest integrated core by far. The boardcomes with a PCI express x16 port and loads of other connections. Expect it to be retailed cheap.

Our friends from Viperlair send us two Motherboard reviews, the first one is the Epox EP-5LWA+. This 925XE based motherboard supports 1.066GHZ FSB officially, overclocks wonderfully well and has performance to crave for. The second review is the new nForce 4 SLI Intel edition platform motherboard. After a dozen benchmarks, Viperlair finds it a more than worthy competitor to Intel's top end, offering more overclocking options for example and heaps of functions.

Albatron is a brand that pops up here and there, and now and again. Launched by former Gigabyte members, it is still competing for survival. The PX915/G4Pro is one of their motherboards reviewed at Techwarelabs and its particularity is that it is a socket 478 board complete with dual NIC, onboard RAID, PCI Express x16 and x1, SATA and IDE support as well as eight channel onboard sound.

PC-Stats sends us this review of the Gigabyte GA-8N0SLI Royal nForce4-SLI Intel edition Motherboard review. Notice that there is no AMD edition. The board combines the best of nVidia with some welcomed addition such as the Promise PDC20779 SATa II controller. Six SATA cables are included and the general performance is more than satisfactory.

Biostar is another motherboard name that you don't hear often. Trustedreviews tests it and recommentds it. It is a traditional budget socket 754 motherboard bearing the nane of K8NHA. It comes with a Gigabit Controller and a Firewire one and adds in some SATA drive and IDE connectors plus five PCI slots. Could be much worse than that.

LG has what CD Freaks reckons is the fastest DVD writer on the planet. The external GSA-5163D is a super Multi DVD writer capable of 16x DVD+/-R writing, writes to DVD-RAM and proposes both USB and Firewire connections. And they also did a test of the DVDR16LS Lightscribed enabled technology from Philips. This 16x DVD+R drive supports all the latest stuff found on DVD writer plus integrates the Lightscribe gimmicky thing. µ

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