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Asus, the top motherboard maker ahead of Gigabyte, may be looking to further strengthen its position by acquiring ASRock, the third largest player in the mobo business. It’s an interesting development, not just because it would combine the world’s firs…
EVGA is celebrating their 13th anniversary today! To celebrate we decided to throw their EVGA Z77 FTW Intel Z77 Motherboard up on the chopping block. Not only are we going to throw it through our regular testing, but we are stepping up our CPU coolin…
Remember when you could purchase a high-end AMD motherboard for around $100? You have to look all the way back to the Barton glory days, when the Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Abit NF7-S v2 dominated the talk of bang-for-buck ratios. But that was years ago, and inorder to get a top-of-the-line motherboard today, you’re looking [...]
The brave new world of LGA1155
There’s good news and bad news for Intel lovers. The bad news is for folks who just bought a motherboard using the LGA1156 socket: Yup, it’s obsolete already. The good news: The LGA1155 motherboards using Intel’s pe…
Intel unintentionally put OEM system builders in a bad spot when the chip maker disclosed a design flaw in its 6-series chipset for the Sandy Bridge platform. OEMs were left scrambling to make the situation right with customers, whether it meant extend…
Intel yesterday announced it discovered a design issue in its 6-Series chipsets intended for Sandy Bridge processors and opted to halt shipments of new boards. News of the flaw spread almost immediately across the Internet, though it took some time for…
It’s probably not fair to call ASRock an underdog anymore, if it ever was. Asus gave birth to ASRock back in 2002 with the intent of going toe-to-toe with ECS and other vendors in the entry-level market. Here we are nearly a decade later and ASRock is …
We like Gigabyte’s boards, we’re just not real keen on the pastel color scheme that has dominated the company’s product lineup in recent memory. That’s about to change.
In anticipation of the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Gigabyte offered u…