Fast 3D graphics cards (Albatron, Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, Sapphire)

In the last few months, the world of graphics cards has seen so many leaps forward that now a 64MB DDR board - which would have been top of the range some six months ago - is considered to be a budget, entry level card. Graphics cards fitted with 128MB of DDR memory are now [...]

Athlon motherboards (Abit, AOpen, Asus, ECS, Gigabyte, MSI, Soltek)

Once upon a time, you bought a new motherboard purely as a home for your shiny new processor, and although that may still be true for most people, today’s motherboard designs have so many features that it’s possible to keep your old processor and completely upgrade your system just by swapping the motherboard for one [...]

AMD Athlon Socket A Motherboards (Abit, AOpen, AsusTek, FIC, Gigabyte, Microstar MSI)

At the time, a Pentium III motherboard running at 350MHz may have seemed all you’d ever need, just like 640KB of memory was once ‘more than enough’. But things have moved on. It’s time to upgrade.
Buying a new motherboard and processor will not only give you the opportunity to improve your overall system speed, but [...]