What do you when you have a motherboard that is at the pinnacle of its type like the MSI Eclipse and then it turns out that you have a similar board that eclipses it? Well, just change the SLI at the back of the name to Plus! The Eclipse Plus is a high-end performance X58 board targeted at the ultimate enthusiast and performance users. Incorporating MSI’s new OC dial onboard overclocking controls, plenty of extras bundled together and an extra PCI-e x16 slot, the Eclipse Plus promises better performance for your Intel Core i7 processors. How does it measure up?

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For years now, we’ve seen two extremes of motherboards out in the market catering to mainstream users and enthusiasts. And it comes to no surprise that the mainstream market seem to be getting most of the success because the enthusiast community is a minority. These days, our mainstream users are growing more in tuned with today’s technologies, and so the demand for better, or more functionality, and performance has increased ever more. Seeing as how the mainstream market is vital, ASUS has provided a suitable board to suit their needs – the P5Q Deluxe.
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People seem to be apprehensive when DDR3 technology first came out. There were a lot of things to worry about. First off, Intel chipsets were the only one that was supporting DDR3 memory. That would mean buying a totally new motherboard. Secondly, any new component or hardware is bound to come with high price tags. All these made people reluctant to transition to a new platform, that is until NVIDIA themselves decided to come up with their own chipset that was capable of handling DDR3’s high bandwidth. And that’s none other than the nForce 790i SLI chipset, which MSI is proud to introduce in their P7N2 Diamond.
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Intel has increasingly come up with even smaller chips as of late. Previously, their CPUs were manufactured based on the 65nm process, which then transitioned on to the 45nm process. It’s interesting however, that Intel doesn’t develop chipsets on the same architecture process concurrently. While the 65nm processors were around, Intel’s chipsets were made on the 90nm process. Today, the cycle repeats itself with Intel’s chipsets being produced on the 65nm process. Intel’s latest offering of 65nm chipsets come in the form of the P45. MSI was the first to send one our way.
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The Intel DX48BT2, formerly codenamed Bone Trail, is targeted at enthusiasts and gamers.

It is the first Intel board to support 1,600MHz frontside bus (FSB) — the interconnect between processor and RAM — for even faster memory access and extra room for overlocking.
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