In the last 6 months Sapphire has returned to the motherboard arena with a whole slew of motherboards for both Intel and AMD platforms. Today we have their enthusiast offering for those jumping on board of the Intel Sandy Bridge-E platform with the LGA 2011 socket and X79 chipset – the PURE Black X79N.
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With CES 2012 hitting its stride we have more motherboard news to bring you today! Remember those Z77 motherboards from GIGABYTE that we mentioned yesterday? Well, the folks over at VR-Zone have a great preview of them so be sure to check it out. Also from GIGABYTE we have a handful of new motherboard features [...]
As you read this, Ivy Bridge motherboards featuring Intel’s Z77 chipset (essentially the successor to Z68) are being shown off at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. We’ll be bringing you motherboard coverage all week, but today we have two of the major players showing off a couple brand new motherboards. First off, [...]
In recent years ASUS has been turning heads with their stylish and feature-rich Republic of Gamers (ROG) motherboards. Right now ASUS already has an ROG motherboard with an X79 chipset on the market (the Rampage IV Extreme) but we have something special for you today, thanks to a preview over at VR-Zone – a preview [...]
Earlier today MSI officially announced their flagship X79 motherboard – the Big Bang-XPower II – and while we took a look at this motherboard a couple of months ago, this board will surely fit in with the already-available high-end offerings from GIGABYTE, ASUS and ASRock. Among many, many other things, the Big Bang-XPower II features [...]
Last week, via their Facebook page, ASRock showed off a couple of Transformer-themed X79 motherboards – the X79 Bumblebee and the X79 Optimus Prime. The mockups of these two motherboards are essentially the X79 Extreme9 with a different colour scheme. Remember that these are just concepts and we think it is unlikely that ASRock will [...]
Motherboard manufacturer, MSI, just announced that they will be releasing two new motherboard peripherals – the MultiConnect panel and Voice Genie expansion card. The MultiConnect panel is a 5.25″ accessory that features Bluetooth 3.0 and wireless 802.11N connectivity as well as two USB 2.0 ports. An OC Genie button on the panel also allows for [...]
It’s not too often that we have motherboards recalled and it’s even less often that we have high-end motherboards being recalled. Yes, that’s right…today GIGABYTE recalled three X79-based motherboards – the GA-X79-UD3, GA-X79-UD5 and the G1.Assassin 2. These motherboards reportedly suffer from a widespread issue revolving around the VRM’s and what happens to them when [...]
Motherboard manufacturer, ASRock, may already have an impressive lineup of X79 motherboards, but here they are adding another two X79 motherboard to their repertoire – the Fatal1ty X79 Professional and the X79 Extreme6/GB. The Fatal1ty X79 Professional carries the traditional Fatal1ty branding and colour scheme as well as a PCI slot layout ideal for those [...]
With an already impressive X79 motherboard lineup, MSI has announced yet another, the X79A-GD45 (8D). As one would expect, this motherboard features 8 quad-channel DDR3 DIMM slots, Intel’s X79 chipset and LGA 2011 socket. While this board shares most of its name with the X79A-GD45, when it comes to overall features it relates more to [...]
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