October 11, 2010
It hasn’t always been smooth sailing for motherboard makers in 2010, but at least for the month of September, all the major players managed to increase revenues, most by 25 percent or more.
Pegatron showed the least amount of month-on-month growth of t…
Tags: asus, build a pc, ecs, gigabyte, hardware, News Worthy, pegatron
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October 6, 2010
ASRock has been releasing motherboards at a furious pace and some of the latest models have support for a pair of SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ports on the front of your machine. Read on as we take an in-depth look at the ASRock 890GX Extreme4 and 890FX Delux…
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September 30, 2010
Want to know if you’re a tier 1 nerd? You are if the phrase USB 3.0 Internal Connector Cable Specification Revision 1.0 gets your nerd on. Yeah, we thought you’d get as excited as we did. This is, afterall, one of the final hurdles to getting…
Tags: hardware, News Worthy, spec, USB 3.0
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September 13, 2010
We got a nice little surprise here at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2010 when Intel pulled out their upcoming LGA1155 6-series chipset Sandy Bridge motherboard! The board is called 'Burrage' internally, but you'll know if by the retail …
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September 10, 2010
We’ve been hearing chatter that MSI is getting ready to roll out a line of ruggedized motherboards and videocards, though details beyond that are disappointingly sparse.
We’re not entirely sure how you supe-up a mobo or videocard so that it qualifies a…
Tags: build a pc, graphics card, hardware, News Worthy, rugged, videocard
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September 8, 2010
Asus's ROG (Republic of Gamers) series motherboards have an unparalleled reputation within the overclocking community and their Rampage III Extreme motherboard is no exception to this. Based on Intel's X58 Express and ICH10R chipsets and upda…
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September 6, 2010
The USB 3.0 SuperSpeed spec really is all that and a bag of Baked Lays (unless you’re not a fan of Baked Lays, in which case insert your own awesome variety of chips). For starters, USB 3.0 crushes USB 2.0 in maximum theoretical transfer rates at up to…
Tags: hardware, News Worthy, SuperSpeed, technology, USB 3.0
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September 2, 2010
Those ever talkative “sources from motherboard makers” are again flapping their gums to Digitimes, this time involving Nvidia. As the latest rumor goes, Nvidia’s engineers are busy developing a chipset that combines the function of both a southbridge a…
Tags: build a pc, chipset, GPU, hardware, Intel, Motherboards, News Worthy, Nvidia, rumor, sandy bridge, southbridge
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