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"The ASRock 939SLI32-eSATA2 offers excellent performance and a wealth of features at a bargain price. The performance of the board in the majority of the benchmarks was extremely competitive with the ATI and NVIDIA chipset offerings. The stability of the board was superb with the production release BIOS at stock settings. We still find it surprising that a board with this feature set and performance is being offered for a retail price of US $85."

Source: Anandtech.com | Date posted: March 2, 2006.

"The Asus A8R-MVP was a board that was brilliantly positioned by Asus for success. It performed well, overclocked well, and was very cheap. It will cost of around $100 or less. Selling into a market that had no compelling reason for choosing ATI instead, the A8R-MVP had just the right combination of features to attract a large number of buyers."

Source: Anandtech.com | Date posted: March 2, 2006.

"ATI's CrossFire Xpress 3200 chipset performs very well competitive on its main competition with this Asus motherboard remained rock-solid stable as tested by Hothardware. In combination with the ULi 1575 southbridge, the chipset as a whole offers a very complete feature set that includes true dual PCI Express x16 slots for full bandwidth CrossFire support, SATA 3.0Gb/s RAID support and HD audio. The chipset also seems to have a plenty of "headroom" left, as is evident for an excellent overclocking potential."

Source: Hothardware.com | Date posted: March 1, 2006.

"If you are planning to build a home entertainment pc and gaming pc as well, this motherboard suites your needs. With an integrated ATI X300 GPU, this board will save a cost which can perform TV-out with HDTV (High Definition TV) capabilities plus a nice capability of playing games smoothly. Based on the rather new ATI Radeon Xpress 200/SB450 chipset, DFI promises to bring an all-rounded, versatile entertainment PC to the mass at a very affordable price."

Source: VR-zone.com | Date posted: February 10, 2006.

"With options for SATA Raid, PCI-Express graphics (as well as integrated graphics, care of the Northbridge), and 5.1 Audio, it's hard not to love Foxconn's offering for what it is – a mainstream product, intended to help build low cost systems without sacrificing performance. While it would be more beneficial for a true gamer to indeed take the Socket 939 route – for both the speed and upgradeability factors, Foxconn has proved that the Sempron is no slouch for gaming performance, and that even gamers on a budget can enjoy the latest titles with this value-oriented motherboard."

Source: GamePyre.com | Date Posted: January 6, 2006.