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Four MicroATX Mobos for Core 2

By Patrick Schmid published 22 November 2006

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Page 1: Four MicroATX Motherboards For Your Compact Core 2 Duo System
Page 2: Chipset No-Choice: G965 Or G965?
Page 3: Asus P5B-VM
Page 4: Foxconn G9657MA-8KS2H
Page 5: Gigabyte GA-965GM-S2
Page 6: MSI G965MDH (MS-7276)
Page 7: Test Setup
Page 8: Benchmark Results
Page 9: Synthetics
Page 10: Conclusion

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