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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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

X79 Motherboard Review Round-up

by Cole on November 14, 2011 · 1 comment

in Motherboards,Reviews

The X79 motherboards have landed! This post will be continually updated with new links to reviews from around the Web. If you would like to have your review linked on this page, send us an email (motherboardnews [AT] gmail.com) or leave a comment!

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 [...]

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!

Apparently voice activated motherboards isn’t the only thing MSI is showing off at IDF 2011 as MSI has now shown off three X79-based LGA 2011 motherboards. First up, we have the high-end X79A-GD65 (8D) which features eight, yes eight, quad-channel DDR3 DIMM slots, 3x PCIe 3.0 x16 slots, 2x PCIe 2.0 x16 slots, a single [...]