Introduction:
Only a couple of years ago if you wanted a performance
motherboard for your Intel system there wasn’t a
lot to choose from. Stability was guaranteed though, my
last Intel branded board based on the 815 chipset was
rock solid and still ranks up there as one of the best
boards I’ve ever used.
Of course since then the intel sector has taken huge
leaps forward in terms of catering for the power user
with manufacturers such as Abit providing some excellent
enthusiast features and our first board for testing today
is one such board, the Abit Fatal1ty AA8XE which uses
the Intel 925 chipset. If you’re not going down
the Intel chipset route there are several choices, ATI,
SIS, Via and now Nvidia have stepped into the arena with
their Nforce 4 chipset which provides us with the basis
for our second motherboard the Asus P5Nd2- SLI Deluxe…
