Thursday, 08 March 2012 03:23

More CeBIT 2012 ASRock Motherboards Get Detailed, Includes ITX and Monster EATX Models

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More CeBIT 2012 ASRock Motherboards Get Detailed, Includes ITX and Monster EATX Models

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.

Friday, 24 February 2012 14:53

ASRock Unleashes the Fatal1ty X79 Professional Motherboard

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ASRock Unleashes the Fatal1ty X79 Professional Motherboard

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.

Tuesday, 14 February 2012 02:06

Origin PC Announces the EON17-X Desktop Replacement Laptop

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Origin PC Announces the EON17-X Desktop Replacement Laptop

Origin PC proudly announces the availability of its EON17-X laptop that aims to be a replacement for a desktop system. This fully feature packed laptop is based on Intel’s X79 chipset and is powered by an Intel Sandy Bridge-E six core processor with the option of opting for a dual overclocked Nvidia GeForce GTX 580M graphics cards in SLI setup.

Wednesday, 18 January 2012 02:55

ASUS Officially Launches the Rampage IV GENE LGA2011 mATX Motherboard

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ASUS Officially Launches the Rampage IV GENE LGA2011 mATX Motherboard

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.

Wednesday, 04 January 2012 03:18

MSI Unleashes the Big Bang-XPower II Flagship Motherboard for Sandy Bridge-E

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MSI Unleashes the Big Bang-XPower II Flagship Motherboard for Sandy Bridge-E

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.

Friday, 16 December 2011 10:51

MSI’s New Sandy Bridge-E Board Supports 128GB of RAM

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MSI’s New Sandy Bridge-E Board Supports 128GB of RAM

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.

Thursday, 17 November 2011 03:24

Ivy Bridge-E CPUs will be Compatible with Intel X79 Motherboards

Written by Raphael, Posted in CPU, News

Ivy Bridge-E CPUs will be Compatible with Intel X79 Motherboards

Intel’s latest enthusiast processors, Sandy Bridge-E have just been recently released and for those who are immediately concerned and are wondering if these chips will be compatible with the next generation extreme processors, the answer is there is a big probability at least according to the Intel slide published at Xfastest forum.

Thursday, 17 November 2011 02:16

Asus Preparing the Rest of its X79 ROG Boards

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Asus Preparing the Rest of its X79 ROG Boards

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.

Wednesday, 16 November 2011 03:31

ASRock Introduces its All Black Themed X79 Motherboards

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ASRock Introduces its All Black Themed X79 Motherboards

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.

Wednesday, 16 November 2011 03:00

EVGA Dishes Out its Own X79 Motherboard Lineup

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EVGA Dishes Out its Own X79 Motherboard Lineup

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.

Wednesday, 16 November 2011 02:35

Asus Launches its Complete X79 Motherboard Lineup

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Asus Launches its Complete X79 Motherboard Lineup

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.

Tuesday, 15 November 2011 04:44

Intel’s DX79SI Extreme Series Motherboard Gets Detailed

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Intel’s DX79SI Extreme Series Motherboard Gets Detailed

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.

Tuesday, 15 November 2011 02:49

G.Skill Debuts RipjawsZ Series Quad-Channel DDR3 Memory Modules

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G.Skill Debuts RipjawsZ Series Quad-Channel DDR3 Memory Modules

Although revealed earlier, G.Skill has now officially announced its latest memory product offering, the RipjawsZ series of quad-channel memory modules that are optimized for Intel’s newly released platform based on the X79 chipset and enthusiast grade Sandy Bridge-E processors.

Monday, 14 November 2011 09:54

MSI Serves Up its Own Official X79 Motherboard Lineup

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MSI Serves Up its Own Official X79 Motherboard Lineup

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.

Monday, 14 November 2011 09:24

Gigabyte Officially Launches its X79 Series of Motherboards

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Gigabyte Officially Launches its X79 Series of Motherboards

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.

Wednesday, 09 November 2011 14:24

MSI Showcases its Big Bang XPower II X79 Motherboard

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MSI Showcases its Big Bang XPower II X79 Motherboard

MSI has published in their Facebook page the first pictures of their top of the line motherboard, the Big Bang XPower II that is based on the X79 chipset and made to house Intel’s upcoming enthusiast grade Sandy Bridge-E processors.

Wednesday, 09 November 2011 02:52

Gigabyte Motherboards Will Also Feature 3D Power

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Gigabyte Motherboards Will Also Feature 3D Power

We know now that Gigabyte will be introducing the 3D BIOS in all of their upcoming X79 motherboards. For the unfamiliar, it’s that BIOS interface that shows users a 3D image of their motherboard and allowing configuration of the components by simply hovering their mouse pointer over those components and clicking.

Tuesday, 08 November 2011 02:39

Sapphire Throws In Its Own X79 Motherboard

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Sapphire Throws In Its Own X79 Motherboard

Sapphire Technologies, who is known for its AMD Radeon graphics cards has entered the market for Sandy Bridge-E as it introduces its X79 Pure Black motherboard that comes with nice features including a 7-phase digital PWM power supply that draws power from an 8-pin EPS connector and a total of six PCI-Express 3.0 with three being x16 capable while all of them being x8 capable.

Monday, 07 November 2011 14:05

Gigabyte’s “3D BIOS” Interface Makes Configuring Easier

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Gigabyte’s “3D BIOS” Interface Makes Configuring Easier

The UEFI interface has already been adapted in almost all of the modern motherboards of today and with manufacturers aiming to stand out from the rest of the competition many variations and customizations are being made.

Monday, 07 November 2011 13:24

MSI X79MA-GD45 Micro-ATX Motherboard Detailed

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MSI X79MA-GD45 Micro-ATX Motherboard Detailed

MSI is sure to throw its own micro-ATX motherboard for the LGA2011 Sandy Bridge-E processors and proof of that is the X79MA-GD45 motherboard that as of now is only the second board in the micro-ATX form factor to be confirmed for the upcoming processors from Intel apart from ASRock’s X79 Extreme4-M.

Friday, 04 November 2011 01:13

Biostar Revives the TPower Brand with its TPower X79 Overclocking Motherboard

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Biostar Revives the TPower Brand with its TPower X79 Overclocking Motherboard

It may not look like much but Biostar’s incoming TPower X79 motherboard for Sandy Bridge-E packs a lot of essential overclocking features. It looks a bit lacking at first compared to the other overclocker oriented motherboards out there but don’t be fooled as the company’s TPower brand, even in the past was not really known to carry so much load with it but rather only those features that are really important for overclocking.

Thursday, 03 November 2011 12:25

Foxconn Quantum Force X79 Motherboard Final Design Pictured

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Foxconn Quantum Force X79 Motherboard Final Design Pictured

Foxconn’s gamer-overclocker oriented motherboard, the Quantum Force X79 has been pictured bearing the final design that it will take when it finally hits retail later this year. The board will support the upcoming Sandy Bridge-E processors from Intel and will take on the other manufacturer’s products including Asus’ ROG series, Gigabyte’s G1.Killer and ASRock’s Fatal1ty Professional motherboards.

Wednesday, 02 November 2011 14:30

X79 Exteme4 Completes ASRock’s LGA2011 Motherboard Lineup

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X79 Exteme4 Completes ASRock’s LGA2011 Motherboard Lineup

ASRock’s LGA2011 lineup becomes complete with the emergence of the X79 Exteme4 motherboard that adapts the same gold and black theme including the active fan-heatsink found over the chipset itself that have recently become a trademark of the company’s motherboards for the new Intel platform.

Wednesday, 02 November 2011 02:01

ASRock’s Top of the Line X79 Extreme9 Motherboard Joins the Competition

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ASRock’s Top of the Line X79 Extreme9 Motherboard Joins the Competition

ASRock is looking to join the top boys offering the best LGA2011 enthusiast grade motherboard with its own bet, the X79 Extreme9 motherboard that comes fully packed with features starting with the high-grade PWM circuitry with two 8-pin EPS connectors that powers the CPU, a full array of eight DDR3 DIMMS and a total of five PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slots.

Tuesday, 01 November 2011 14:41

Gigabyte Looking to Throw in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 with X79 Motherboards

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Gigabyte Looking to Throw in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 with X79 Motherboards

The race is on for the one who can place the best feature on their motherboards for them to look attractive enough to be considered by the many awaiting buyers looking to build a new rig based on the upcoming Intel Sandy Bridge-E platform.

Tuesday, 01 November 2011 14:11

ASRock’s X79 Extreme4-M is the First LGA2011 mATX Motherboard

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ASRock’s X79 Extreme4-M is the First LGA2011 mATX Motherboard

ASRock has showcased the first micro-ATX motherboard for Sandy Bridge-E LGA2011 processors to surface in the form of the X79 Extreme4-M motherboard that although is small in size, still packs a hefty number of X79 motherboard features.

Friday, 28 October 2011 11:19

Gigabyte X79 UD3 and UD5 Motherboards Get Detailed

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Gigabyte X79 UD3 and UD5 Motherboards Get Detailed

New motherboards for the Intel Sandy Bridge-E LGA2011 processors have surfaced and this time the goodies come from Gigabyte. The motherboards in the spotlight are the GA-X79-UD3 and the GA-X79-UD5 that will be part of the company’s main offering for the platform.

Thursday, 27 October 2011 01:31

EVGA X79 FTW Motherboard Smiles for the Camera

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EVGA X79 FTW Motherboard Smiles for the Camera

It’s raining motherboards for Intel’s Sandy Bridge-E LGA2011 processors as another one surfaces to join the lineup and this time it’s EVGA’s standard ATX form factor, the X79 FTW motherboard that makes use of 100% POSCAP capacitor design instead of the conventional cylindrical conductive polymer capacitors in able to gain better performance and reliability even during overclocking.

Wednesday, 26 October 2011 12:13

Asus TUF Sabertooth X79 and P9X79 Deluxe Completes the Lineup

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Asus TUF Sabertooth X79 and P9X79 Deluxe Completes the Lineup

Asus’ ROG Rampage IV Extreme got detailed a little earlier and now two other boards, the TUF Sabertooth X79 and the P9X79 Deluxe has joined the scene as they too gets pictured and detailed completing the high-end motherboard lineup of Asus for the Sandy Bridge-E LGA2011 processors.

Wednesday, 26 October 2011 03:30

ASUS ROG Rampage IV Extreme LGA2011 Motherboard is a Beast

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ASUS ROG Rampage IV Extreme LGA2011 Motherboard is a Beast

Gamers rejoice! Asus ROG (Republic of Gamers) Rampage IV Extreme motherboard for Intel’s LGA2011 processors based on the X79 chipset is almost ready to be unleashed as revealed by the first images and details to surface. So many features were thrown in to the flagship motherboard that this could very well be one of the best enthusiast motherboards ever made.