“These days, with the economy the way it is, budget computers are getting more and more popular. The tradeoff between features and price is always a tough decision. ASRock’s newest mATX motherboard is hoping to gain some of that market. The ASRock G43Twins-FullHD is a small, but feature packed LGA775 motherboard based on the Intel G43 chipset.”Here are some more Motherboard articles from around the web:
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A home for that unused LGA775 CPU
The socket775 Intel G43 chipset doesn’t get a lot of coverage, mostly because of the poor graphical performance associated with the Intel GMA X4500. The ASRock G43Twins-FullHD
is available for under $80, a big difference in price from X48 based boards, which may garner the attention of anyone with a C2D or C2Q sitting in a box somewhere. A quartet of DIMM slots that can handle either a pair of DDR2 or a pair of DDR3 @ 1066 or 800
and a single PCIe 2.0 16x slot may seem limiting, but on a budget build you aren’t going for a pair of HD5970s and DDR2 can only manage dual channel, so really it sits in a nice niche. Check out the full review at Extreme Overclocking.