Previews

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Earlier today, motherboard manufacturer, Sapphire Technology, announced the launch of their first AM3+ motherboard, the Pure Black 990FX. Back in May we took a look at an early version of a Sapphire 990FX motherboard, the Pure Black 990FX-N, which may or may not have been an early version of this motherboard.

We have already taken a look at EVGA’s upcoming dual-socket LGA 2011 motherboard, but today the folks over at VR-Zone posted a whole slew of images from a recent visit to the EVGA labs. Previously thought to be known as the SR-3, we now know that this dual-socket motherboard will be called the Super Record-X [...]

We have already taken some looks at high-end X79 motherboard offerings from GIGABYTE, ASUS and ASRock, but now we have the flagship motherboard from MSI – the Big Bang XPower II. MSI has become known for their consistently good-looking black and blue colour scheme, but they have gone in a new direction with the Big Bang [...]

Intel’s Sandy Bridge-E CPUs are set to launch in just ten days and today we have yet another X79-based motherboard for your preview pleasure. A couple of days ago we took a look at the first X79 micro-ATX motherboard and today we have yet another mATX motherboard for you – MSI’s X79MA-GD45. The X79MA-GD45 look [...]

Over the past couple of weeks we have been previewing a number of X79/LGA 2011 motherboards that we should be seeing when Intel’s Sandy Bridge-E processors launch on November 14. What we haven’t seen to this point is a motherboard smaller than the ATX form factor. Well, today we have a very cool motherboard that packs [...]

Out of the blue we have yet another X79 motherboard from ASRock to show you! This time, we have the flagship X79 Extreme9, which brings a similar design to the Extreme7, but now we have eight quad-channel DDR3 DIMM slots rather than the bizarre six on the Extreme7. In addition to more RAM slots we [...]

Earlier today, MSI announced yet another PCIe 3.0-equipped motherboard – this time with the mATX form factor. The Z68MA-G43 (G3) sports MSI’s typical black and blue colour scheme, which after using the Z68A-GD65 (G3) we’re excited to take a look at!