Gigabyte has officially announced its G1.Sniper M3 and G1.Sniper motherboards based on Intel’s Z77 Express chipset. The G1.Sniper M3 is Gigabyte’s first micro-ATX gaming motherboard offering that is looking to compete with Asus’ Rampage Gene. The G1.Sniper on the other hand is the XL-ATX counterpart that is also looking to compete with other gaming motherboards in its segment.

Intel has unveiled its own motherboards based on the Z77 chipset for the LGA1155 Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge CPUs. The lineup consists of three models: the Extreme Series DZ77GA-70K, Media Series DZ77BH-55K, and Media Series DZ77SL-50K with the first one being the high-end offering, targeting gamers and enthusiast.

MSI has released the first details about its upcoming entry-level motherboard based on Intel’s 7-series chipset, the B75MZ-P45. The motherboard is a micro-ATX form factor board and provides out-of-the box support for Intel’s upcoming 22nm Ivy Bridge CPUs as well as the current Sandy Bridge CPUs.

Sapphire is looking to give AMD’s APU users who are looking for a value motherboard a treat with its Pure Platinum A55V motherboard for the Llano FM1 socket APUs. The motherboard boasts a fairly basic layout but Sapphire has made sure to provide all the essential goodies.

EVGA has now made the official announcement of its Classified SR-X motherboard based on the Intel C606 chipset. The Classified SR-X is an HPTX form factor motherboard that can support two Intel Xeon E5 class processors carrying the LGA2011 socket designs. Sandy Bridge-E class LGA2011 processors are not supported.

ASUS also took the opportunity to showcase its 7-series based motherboards at the recent CeBIT 2012 event. The lineup includes the company’s ROG and TUF series enthusiast 7-series motherboards for Intel LGA1155 CPUs. At the same time, the company’s workstation grade dual processor motherboard for Intel Xeon CPUs, the Z9PE-D8 WS has now been made official.

In addition to the Z77 Extreme6, Fatal1ty Z77 Professional and Fatal1ty Z77 Professional-M motherboards that got detailed earlier, more of ASRock’s CeBIT 2012 motherboards have been detailed and it includes the mammoth and fully packed in terms of feature motherboard, the X79 Extreme11 for Sandy Bridge-E and the first feature-rich Z77 based ITX model, the Z77E-ITX for Ivy Bridge.

Since it’s only a month more to go before motherboard manufacturers release their own designs for Intel’s Ivy Bridge CPUs, details about certain models are already starting to surface. The latest addition to the detailed list is MSI’s own Z77A-G45 and ZH77A-G43 which are the company’s affordable LGA1155 motherboard offerings for Ivy Bridge.

Two more of Gigabyte’s motherboards based on the Intel 7-series chipset for Ivy Bridge get detailed and this time, these are not from the company’s gaming series but rather from the mainstream lineup. The two boards on the spotlight are the GA-Z77X-UD3H and GA-Z77X-UD5H with the latter being Gigabyte’s top of the line non-gaming motherboard at the moment while the former is the more budget oriented model.

It looks like it’s not only ASRock that is joining the battle on the mATX gaming front with its mATX Fatal1ty motherboard as Gigabyte has now also been spotted to be preparing its own mATX gaming motherboard dubbed as the G1.Sniper M3 and based on Intel’s 7-series chipset for Ivy Bridge.

Three of ASRock’s Z77 motherboards have now been detailed. This includes the Z77 Extreme6, the Fatal1ty Z77 Professional and Fatal1ty Professional-M motherboards that as their names suggest are all based on Intel’s 7-series of chipsets designed for the upcoming Ivy Bridge CPUs.

ASRock has released its top of the line motherboard for Intel’s Sandy Bridge-E LGA2011 processors, the Fatal1ty X79 professional motherboard. The motherboard comes in the ATX form factor and features premium Gold caps (2.5 x longer life time), 100% Japan-made high-quality conductive Polymer capacitors and loads of overclocking features and expansion slots that can draw out the true potential of Intel’s Sandy Bridge-E platform.

Here are the first pictures of MSI’s unreleased motherboard for both Ivy Bridge and Sandy Bridge CPUs with the LGA1155 socket design. The board is presumed by sources to be the Z77A-GD55, MSI’s more cost-effective offering based on Intel's Z77 "Panther Point" chipset.

Gigabyte has announced its latest motherboard for AMD’s FX-series of processors, the 970A-DS3 Ultra Durable 4 Classic ATX motherboard that is based on the AMD 970 + SB950 chipset and uses a cost effective design.

Previewed along with the rest of the ROG boards late last year, ASUS has now launched the much awaited last member of its ROG motherboard lineup for the Sandy Bridge-E LGA2011 platform, the Rampage IV GENE. Based on the Intel X79 express chipset, the board comes packed with a full set of overclocking tools and exclusive features found on all ASUS ROG motherboards.

ASUS has a treat for the most extreme of enthusiasts as the leading motherboard manufacturer has now showcased its dual socket LGA2011 motherboard at the CES event at Las Vegas.

MSI has officially and proudly announced its flagship motherboard for Intel’s enthusiast grade CPUs, Sandy Bridge-E. Built on the XL-ATX form factor and based on the X79 chipset, the Big Bang-XPower II comes heavily equipped with features that can give overclockers and other enthusiast the ability to perform almost anything be it a 4-way CrossFire/SLI setup or extreme CPU overclocking.

Major motherboard makers are not expected to reveal their own designs for Intel’s upcoming Ivy Bridge CPUs until next week during CES but Wibtek, a Chinese brand has just gone ahead of the rest by releasing the first pictures of its Z77 based motherboard for Ivy Bridge dubbed as the Hacker Z77.

Although MSI already provided a complete lineup of motherboards for Intel’s Sandy Bridge-E platform, it didn’t stop the company from releasing another one that caters to the same enthusiast grade CPUs.

The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) has announced that Intel’s upcoming 7-series Panther Point chipsets and C216 Chipset Family has achieved USB 3.0 SuperSpeed certification. The chipsets are what Intel will be using for its upcoming Ivy Bridge platform that is due in early Q2 of 2012.

Sapphire has announced its own high-end motherboard offering for AMD’s FX-series processors, the Pure Black 990FX AM3+ motherboard. A bit late compare to the others but nevertheless, Sapphire’s creation sports some great features including the Sapphire QBIOS – the company’s own designed UEFI BIOS and an 8 phase PWM design with Sapphire Diamond Chokes.

When Asus launched its motherboard lineup for Sandy Bridge, it would have been complete if it weren’t for the absence of one model which is the Rampage IV Gene. Now it seems Asus is finally getting closer to the actual launch of its micro-ATX Sandy Bridge motherboard as more concrete details have surfaced courtesy of the guys over at SweClockers.

Asus had officially launched it motherboard lineup for the X79 Sandy Bridge-E platform but the company does have its ROG series and it doesn’t stop with the ROG Rampage Extreme motherboard that got included in the official launch.

ASRock has announced its overclocking oriented motherboards that feature the latest X79 chipset from Intel and supports the new enthusiast grade Sandy Bridge-E processors. The new X79 lineup includes the X79 Extreme9, X79 Extreme7, X79 Extreme4, X79 Extreme4-M and X79 Extreme3. Except for the X79 Extreme4-M which is a micro-ATX, all are ATX motherboards.

EVGA introduces its own official motherboard lineup for the Intel Sandy Bridge-E processors. The lineup includes the X79 Classified, the X79 FTW and the X79 SLI. All new motherboards feature the X79 chipset and provide support for quad-channel DDR3 memory and the Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0.

Asus has announced its complete motherboard lineup for the new Sandy Bridge-E platform from Intel that includes the P9X79 Series, the ROG Rampage IV Extreme, the TUF SABERTOOTH X79, and the professional P9X79 WorkStation Series. All motherboards are based on the X79 chipset and carry with them the new LGA2011 socket design for the new processors.

Intel has thrown in its own X79 motherboards for its latest flagship processors, the Sandy Bridge-E and now we get a detailed look at one of them, the DX79SI courtesy of the folks over at VR-Zone who were able to get their hands on one.

The first wave of the X79 series of motherboards for Intel’s Sandy Bridge-E LGA2011 processors are starting to hit like storm and MSI is not letting the others beat it into showcasing its own offerings for the new enthusiast platform as it now announces its official lineup of X79 series of motherboards that includes the X79A-GD65 (8D), X79A-GD65, X79A-GD45, and X79MA-GD45.

With just a few hours left until the launch of Intel’s enthusiast grade Sandy Bridge-E processors, Gigabyte has officially announced the complete lineup of it X79 series of motherboards that includes the G1.Assassin 2, the X79-UD7, the X79-UD5 and the X79-UD3.

VIA has been producing some good products in the compact PC system category lately and its latest addition now is the VIA VE-900 mini-ITX motherboard that aims to find its way in home desktops and multimedia systems.