...makes sense to have all the bases covered in your motherboard range, from entry-level boards to, like this £290 X99S Gaming 9 AC, premium models offering all manner of bells and whistles. MSI ...

Here is where it should become interesting. Using the same parameters, CPU and memory, MSI and Gigabyte both fall short of the bleeding-edge performance offered by Asus. Rival Asus makes big noise ...