5th OCWORKBENCH Readers' Award

Best Desktop Chipset

In year 2006, we see a lot of mergers and acquisitions. Early in the year, NVIDIA completes its acquisition of ULi and later in the year, we see the marriage of AMD and ATi. Conroe also made a big impact in the market which rob back a lot of users back to the Intel platform. How will all this change the landscape in 2007 ?

Well, before we even predict what will happen in 2007. We take a look at year 2006. For the best Desktop chipset, our readers have spoken. The top 3 winners seems to be dominated for AMD based solutions while Intel 965P took the top place.

Just in case you are not aware, AMD 580X was formerly known as ATi RD580 chipset. Intel 965P is a super overclockable chipset and it has shined among all the Intel and Intel Conroe supporting chipsets. AMD 580X and NV 590SLI are competitors for the AM2 desktop chipset. Both supports Dual 16x PCIe. One for CrossFire and the other for SLI dual GPU capability.

Best overclockers Mainboard

As Intel made a big comeback in year 2006, the big brands like ASUS, Gigabyte made quite a number of outstanding boards supporting the 965p chipset. It is no doubt that most users who would want to try out the Conroe E6300 considers it the best o/c boards. These 3 boards, matched with the correct Intel CPU should reach 500MHz FSB easily. The first two boards are also feature rich whereas the Bronze winner GA-965P-DS3 is a scaled down version of the 965P-DQ6.

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