Oh have we waited and waited so long for AMD’s new architecture. The promises and hints on what Zen would bring to the tablet and ultimately what it could mean for competition. Finally the launch of Ryzen is here, and only last week AMD released Ryzen 7 for Desktops. AMD have launched 3 processors for the […]
Review: MSI X99 SLI Plus Motherboard
Thew new X99 platform offers a lot of high performance, but in most cases we would see a much higher price tag associated with them. The MSI X99 SLI Plus features a stealthy all black design, but its main attraction will be the £160 price tag. The board also includes m.2 SATA support, along with […]
Review: Asus ROG Rampage V Extreme X99 Motherboard
The Rampage V Extreme is finally upon us. The latest and greatest offerings from Asus launches along side the latest X99 chipset and Haswell-E processors from Intel. The Rampage V Extreme or RVE offers some insane specs, features, tweaks, and even a custom socket that differs from Intel’s 2011v3 socket (Interested right?). There is a lot […]
Review: MSI Z97 Gaming 9 AC Motherboard
The MSI Z87 Gaming 9 AC motherboard is one of MSI’s top boards for the Z97 chipset from Intel. The gaming series boards offer some great features like Killer LAN, Xtreme Audio DAC, and built in WiFi AC and Bluetooth. The new board as we already mentioned is using Intels’s latest Z97 chipset, so we will […]
ASRock Intel X99 Motherboard Lineup
ASRock are bringing a lot of new X99 motherboards to the market, including some MATX forms. Like our other motherboard lineup posts, below is a small breakdown of the new boards and the features. ASRock X99 WS ASRock Super Alloy – XXL Aluminum Alloy Heatsink – Premium 60A Power Choke – Premium Memory Alloy Choke […]
EVGA Intel X99 Motherboard Lineup
EVGA have announced 3 motherboards using the latest X99 chipset with Haswell-E and DDR4 support. Below are some images and a short specs list of the boards. Release date/availability in Europe has yet to be released, but we suspect they will arrive in the coming weeks. EVGA X99 Micro Specifications Chipset – Intel® X99 Express […]
MSI Intel X99 Motherboard Lineup
X99 is officially here and the new tech is as overwhelming as it gets. The new line-up of processors from Intel also bring a lot the new X99 chipset with a massive amount of features included. We are putting together some posts on the new boards coming from the different vendors and first up we […]
Intel set to shutdown Motherboard business within three years
Intel has announced plans to discontinue their motherboard division over the next three years. This move while silently unexpected won’t affect Intel’s business as a whole. Their upcoming Haswell architecture will still see motherboard development and support, however afterwards all operations will be suspended. Any employees in that division will be transitioned in the next three years into other divisions. Intel […]
Review: Intel DZ77GA-70K and Intel Core i7-3770k
It’s time for another review and thanks to Intel we have the lovely Intel DZ77GA-70K motherboard and Intel i7-3770k processor to play around with and check out it’s performance. So let’s not mess around here and dive right into the specs of each piece of hardware. Intel DZ77GA-70K Motherboard Memory Four 240-pin DDR3 SDRAM Dual Inline Memory […]
Ivy Bridge Chipset info detailed, brings native USB 3.0
The upcoming set of CPU’s from Intel will be launching soon and with them a new chipset. The latest info shows of the newest chipset which is dubbed z77 will bring with it some new features. The one feature that was always known was that of backward compatibility with Sandy Bridge processors. The latest features with the Z77 chipset bring native USB 3.0, […]