http://news.softpedia.com Softpedia News - Motherboards Softpedia News en-us 2001 - 2013 Softpedia. All rights reserved. Wed, 22 May 2013 06:52:06 GMT Wed, 22 May 2013 06:52:06 GMT News http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 10 http://news.softpedia.com/base_img/softpedia_logo.gif http://news.softpedia.com http://news.softpedia.com/news/ASUS-Releases-its-Z87-ROG-Motherboard-Lineup-Too-353856.shtml Having already become acquainted with the “Classic” series of Z87 chipset-based motherboards from ASUS, some might be tempted to think the company only has those five to promote, but that would be false.

As it turns out, those are definitely not the only motherboards, and not even the strongest, something that some may h... (read more)]]> Thu, 16 May 2013 11:39:00 GMT Softpedia News - Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/ASUS-Releases-its-Z87-ROG-Motherboard-Lineup-Too-353856.shtml Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/ASUS-Releases-its-Z87-ROG-Motherboard-Lineup-Too-353856.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/ASUS-Intros-All-Its-Z87-Classic-Lynx-Point-8-Series-Motherboards-353741.shtml Unlike ECS, ASUS is being quite forthcoming in regard to its motherboard lineup that is supposed to welcome Intel's Haswell series of central processing units (fourth-generation Core).

There are five motherboards based on the Z87 chipset: Z87-C, Z87-A, Z87-PLUS, Z87-PRO and Z87-DELUXE.

The first two are ... (read more)]]> Thu, 16 May 2013 07:30:00 GMT Softpedia News - Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/ASUS-Intros-All-Its-Z87-Classic-Lynx-Point-8-Series-Motherboards-353741.shtml Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/ASUS-Intros-All-Its-Z87-Classic-Lynx-Point-8-Series-Motherboards-353741.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/8-Series-Motherboards-from-ECS-Officially-Released-Video-353726.shtml The Lynx Point chipset is no longer a far-off dream, but something that has begun to spawn motherboards left and right. And it should be, with Intel's new CPUs around the corner.

Intel's fourth generation of Core-series central processing units will be officially introduced between June 4 and 8, at Computex Taipei 2013.
read more)]]> Thu, 16 May 2013 07:03:00 GMT Softpedia News - Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/8-Series-Motherboards-from-ECS-Officially-Released-Video-353726.shtml Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/8-Series-Motherboards-from-ECS-Officially-Released-Video-353726.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/MSI-s-Z87-GD65-Gaming-Motherboard-Spotted-352906.shtml MSI may not have released the Z87-G45 gaming motherboard yet, but it somehow reached the hands of someone who snapped photos of it and posted them on CoolEnjoy website.

The platform is everything one might expect of a high-end desktop PC platform, and perhaps more since some features are rare even among those.

For example, the... (read more)]]> Mon, 13 May 2013 13:57:00 GMT Softpedia News - Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/MSI-s-Z87-GD65-Gaming-Motherboard-Spotted-352906.shtml Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/MSI-s-Z87-GD65-Gaming-Motherboard-Spotted-352906.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/A-Style-Purity-Sound-Revealed-by-ASRock-350884.shtml Nowadays, pretty much every motherboard and consumer electronics device has integrated sound generation capabilities, but they don't always perform as well as some may like.

Sound may be choppy, volume might be limited, the bass might not be heard well, overall clarity can be second-rate, etc.

Integrated audio chips in regular m... (read more)]]> Fri, 3 May 2013 13:06:00 GMT Softpedia News - Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/A-Style-Purity-Sound-Revealed-by-ASRock-350884.shtml Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/A-Style-Purity-Sound-Revealed-by-ASRock-350884.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Publishes-Specs-of-8-series-Lynx-Point-Motherboards-350089.shtml Not too long ago, Intel decided it was time to quit while it was ahead and leave the motherboard market. It even cut orders by 80% in March, and we have even covered the presumably last and best mainboard too.

Given what was discovered in the company's support download portal, however, we might have to revise our expectatio... (read more)]]> Wed, 1 May 2013 12:27:00 GMT Softpedia News - Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Publishes-Specs-of-8-series-Lynx-Point-Motherboards-350089.shtml Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Publishes-Specs-of-8-series-Lynx-Point-Motherboards-350089.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mini-ITX-Motherboard-from-Axiomtek-Supports-High-end-Intel-CPUs-346507.shtml There was a time when mini-ITX motherboards couldn't really do much, and even micro-ATX mainboards had a hard time powering high-end PCs. Axiomtek is showing just how different things are today.

The company has introduced the MANO873 Mini-ITX motherboard, which supports even the best Intel CPUs, though TDP limits may ... (read more)]]> Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:38:00 GMT Softpedia News - Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mini-ITX-Motherboard-from-Axiomtek-Supports-High-end-Intel-CPUs-346507.shtml Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mini-ITX-Motherboard-from-Axiomtek-Supports-High-end-Intel-CPUs-346507.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Broadwell-CPU-Details-Start-to-Emerge-Will-Follow-Haswell-345770.shtml If people don't generally know much about Intel's Broadwell central processing units, it is understandable, even though information about them has actually begun to surface.

The reason for most people not knowing of them is simple: they aren't out yet, and won't be for some time, as they will follow Haswell, which are... (read more)]]> Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:42:00 GMT Softpedia News - Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Broadwell-CPU-Details-Start-to-Emerge-Will-Follow-Haswell-345770.shtml Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Broadwell-CPU-Details-Start-to-Emerge-Will-Follow-Haswell-345770.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Z77-Gaming-Motherboards-Released-by-MSI-342774.shtml Since Intel will release its Haswell collection of central processing units (CPUs) this June, motherboard makers are preparing mainboard lineups ready to accept them. Some were previewed as early as CeBIT 2013.

Micro-Star International is one of the companies that revealed its Z77 Gaming series at CeBIT 2013, in March.

Since the... (read more)]]> Thu, 4 Apr 2013 06:33:00 GMT Softpedia News - Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/Z77-Gaming-Motherboards-Released-by-MSI-342774.shtml Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/Z77-Gaming-Motherboards-Released-by-MSI-342774.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-Reveals-Kayla-a-Tegra-3-With-Unknown-GPU-on-a-Mini-ITX-Motherboard-338659.shtml At present, NVIDIA's CUDA computing technology is fairly extensively used by PCs, professional systems and supercomputers, but that only goes for the x86 CPU architecture.

As one might guess, the company doesn't want CUDA to be restricted to “normal” CPUs forever, especially when the ARM architec... (read more)]]> Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:48:00 GMT Softpedia News - Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-Reveals-Kayla-a-Tegra-3-With-Unknown-GPU-on-a-Mini-ITX-Motherboard-338659.shtml Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-Reveals-Kayla-a-Tegra-3-With-Unknown-GPU-on-a-Mini-ITX-Motherboard-338659.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Gigabyte-C1007UN-D-a-Mini-ITX-Motherboard-for-Low-End-PCs-336747.shtml Very small motherboards and PCs seem to be coming out more often than ever, but there are still some models that can surprise us, and we dare say the C1007UN-D from Gigabyte is one of them.

We can't exactly judge if the surprise is a good or a bad one. We'll let people decide that for themselves, since it can easily go both... (read more)]]> Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:38:00 GMT Softpedia News - Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/Gigabyte-C1007UN-D-a-Mini-ITX-Motherboard-for-Low-End-PCs-336747.shtml Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/Gigabyte-C1007UN-D-a-Mini-ITX-Motherboard-for-Low-End-PCs-336747.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Haswell-Lynx-Point-Chipset-in-Trouble-USB-3-0-Bug-Needs-Fundamental-Hardware-Change-336198.shtml Lynx Point, the 8-series chipset that will support Haswell fourth-generation central processing units, has turned out to have a much worse problem than previous reports suggested.

Not too long ago, we got wind of the fact that Intel's Haswell platform had USB 3.0 problems, so we were understa... (read more)]]> Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:10:00 GMT Softpedia News - Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Haswell-Lynx-Point-Chipset-in-Trouble-USB-3-0-Bug-Needs-Fundamental-Hardware-Change-336198.shtml Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Haswell-Lynx-Point-Chipset-in-Trouble-USB-3-0-Bug-Needs-Fundamental-Hardware-Change-336198.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/CeBIT-2013-MSI-Z87A-Gaming-Series-Motherboard-335113.shtml Micro-Star International is doing what several of its peers have already done, namely launch a motherboard, or motherboard line, at the CeBIT trade show in Hannover, Germany.

So far, we've seen LGA 1150 motherboards from Biostar, Gigabyte and ASRock. Now, MSI is adding its name to the list.

The Z87 chipset is making an ap... (read more)]]> Thu, 7 Mar 2013 08:50:00 GMT Softpedia News - Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/CeBIT-2013-MSI-Z87A-Gaming-Series-Motherboard-335113.shtml Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/CeBIT-2013-MSI-Z87A-Gaming-Series-Motherboard-335113.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/CeBIT-2013-ASRock-Has-a-Pair-of-Haswell-Ready-Motherboard-Too-334951.shtml Since we've already seen the LGA 1150 motherboards from Biostar and Gigabyte, including a particularly overpowered model from the latter, we may as well look at the ones from ASRock as well.

Heise.de reports that ASRock has two LGA 1150 motherboards on display in Hannover, Germany, at the CeBIT 2013 trade show.
... (read more)]]> Wed, 6 Mar 2013 15:15:00 GMT Softpedia News - Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/CeBIT-2013-ASRock-Has-a-Pair-of-Haswell-Ready-Motherboard-Too-334951.shtml Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/CeBIT-2013-ASRock-Has-a-Pair-of-Haswell-Ready-Motherboard-Too-334951.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/CeBIT-2013-Gigabyte-Reveals-Three-Other-Haswell-Motherboards-334926.shtml
In theory, any mainboard with support for socket LGA 1150 central processing units should be able to handle a Haswell CPU.

There are some features that motherboard makers would do well to prepare for though, which is why Gigabyte it doing what Biostar has also done.

That is to say, Gi... (read more)]]> Wed, 6 Mar 2013 13:39:00 GMT Softpedia News - Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/CeBIT-2013-Gigabyte-Reveals-Three-Other-Haswell-Motherboards-334926.shtml Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/CeBIT-2013-Gigabyte-Reveals-Three-Other-Haswell-Motherboards-334926.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/CeBIT-2013-Three-LGA-1150-Motherboards-Launched-by-Biostar-334900.shtml While the Mobile World Congress was about phones and tablets, the CeBIT trade show in Hannover, Germany is more about PCs and technology in general, hence Biostar's announcement.

More specifically, Biostar has officially launched three new motherboards, all of them equipped with the LGA 1150 CPU socket.

They d... (read more)]]> Wed, 6 Mar 2013 12:58:00 GMT Softpedia News - Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/CeBIT-2013-Three-LGA-1150-Motherboards-Launched-by-Biostar-334900.shtml Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/CeBIT-2013-Three-LGA-1150-Motherboards-Launched-by-Biostar-334900.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Overpowered-Gigabyte-Motherboard-for-Haswell-CPUs-Released-334739.shtml It doesn't really matter how overclockable a central processing unit is if the motherboard doesn't have the necessary features to take advantage of the multiplier. That is why Gigabyte has made the GZ-Z87X-OC.

The product hasn't been formally introduced, not exactly. Instead, some photos of it have been published by Lab501... (read more)]]> Wed, 6 Mar 2013 07:54:00 GMT Softpedia News - Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/Overpowered-Gigabyte-Motherboard-for-Haswell-CPUs-Released-334739.shtml Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/Overpowered-Gigabyte-Motherboard-for-Haswell-CPUs-Released-334739.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/MSI-Releases-New-X79-Motherboard-for-LGA-2011-CPUs-331935.shtml The newest motherboard to leave MSI's labs is one that will act as a very good platform for multi-GPU systems, a fact that might not be coincidental, given the launch of NVIDIA's new graphics card.

Though they usually don't get used by consumers, Xeon CPUs, especially the Xeon E5 series, are very powerful, which means they can pla... (read more)]]> Sat, 23 Feb 2013 09:21:00 GMT Softpedia News - Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/MSI-Releases-New-X79-Motherboard-for-LGA-2011-CPUs-331935.shtml Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/MSI-Releases-New-X79-Motherboard-for-LGA-2011-CPUs-331935.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Gigabyte-Releases-Thin-Mini-ITX-Motherboards-331142.shtml
And by that we mean to say that it has decided to go a step further when it made the newest mini-ITX motherboards called H77TN and B75TN.

While their width and length are normal for their form factor, they are much thinner than usual, by 43% in fact.

The exact size is 17cm x 1... (read more)]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:46:00 GMT Softpedia News - Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/Gigabyte-Releases-Thin-Mini-ITX-Motherboards-331142.shtml Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/Gigabyte-Releases-Thin-Mini-ITX-Motherboards-331142.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/MSI-Prepares-G-Series-Motherboards-for-Gamers-330938.shtml Micro-Star International is about to give the letter “G” a new connotation, one more or less diametrically opposed to the one that Advanced Micro Devices conferred upon it when it released the G-Series APU and supporting motherboards.

That is to say, while AMD uses G-Series to talk about low-end accelerated processing units... (read more)]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:51:00 GMT Softpedia News - Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/MSI-Prepares-G-Series-Motherboards-for-Gamers-330938.shtml Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/MSI-Prepares-G-Series-Motherboards-for-Gamers-330938.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/ASUS-TUF-Sabertooth-990FX-GEN3-R2-0-Motherboard-330373.shtml Advanced Micro Devices may no longer make it a point to have processors capable of battling Intel's on the top-tier market, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have high-end CPUs and APUs. There definitely are such chips, which means there need to be motherboards ready to receive them.

ASUS has just introduced one such motherboard, call... (read more)]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:19:00 GMT Softpedia News - Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/ASUS-TUF-Sabertooth-990FX-GEN3-R2-0-Motherboard-330373.shtml Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/ASUS-TUF-Sabertooth-990FX-GEN3-R2-0-Motherboard-330373.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Gigabyte-Releases-Mini-ITX-Motherboard-With-AMD-Zacate-APU-329445.shtml Having been one of the greatest vendors of branded motherboards during 2012, Gigabyte is eagerly expanding its collection, with everything from high-end platforms to, in this case, small form factor models.

The new mainboard that Gigabyte has launched is the E350N-WIN8, featuring the mini-ITX form factor suited to HTPCs, l... (read more)]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:12:00 GMT Softpedia News - Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/Gigabyte-Releases-Mini-ITX-Motherboard-With-AMD-Zacate-APU-329445.shtml Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/Gigabyte-Releases-Mini-ITX-Motherboard-With-AMD-Zacate-APU-329445.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/New-FM2-Motherboard-Released-by-ASUS-F2A85-V-327810.shtml The new mainboard that Gigabyte has officially introduced is the sort that will accept any accelerated processing unit (APU) from AMD's Trinity collection, thanks to the A85 chipset.

The FM2 socket has a pin configuration compatible with the latest A-Series APUs. A 6-phase VRM supplies it with the power it needs.

Speaking o... (read more)]]> Fri, 8 Feb 2013 08:59:00 GMT Softpedia News - Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/New-FM2-Motherboard-Released-by-ASUS-F2A85-V-327810.shtml Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/New-FM2-Motherboard-Released-by-ASUS-F2A85-V-327810.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/ASRock-Expects-Motherboard-Shipments-of-8-Million-in-2013-326368.shtml The new year has already entered its second month, which means that IT companies have all they need to set their goals. ASRock is the one now expressing what it hopes the year 2013 will bring.

Back in 2012, ASRock managed to ship around 7.7 million motherboards. That includes everything from mini-ITX to full ATX and larger.... (read more)]]> Mon, 4 Feb 2013 09:48:00 GMT Softpedia News - Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/ASRock-Expects-Motherboard-Shipments-of-8-Million-in-2013-326368.shtml Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/ASRock-Expects-Motherboard-Shipments-of-8-Million-in-2013-326368.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/ASRock-Launches-Two-AMD-Socket-FM2-Motherboards-325296.shtml ASRock has formally introduced two new motherboards featuring the FM2 socket, meaning that they are designed with the purpose of acting as a foundation for AMD APU personal computers.

Even though the latest processor to be released by Advanced Micro Devices is not an accelerated processing unit (APU), ASRock has launched two platform... (read more)]]> Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:59:00 GMT Softpedia News - Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/ASRock-Launches-Two-AMD-Socket-FM2-Motherboards-325296.shtml Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/ASRock-Launches-Two-AMD-Socket-FM2-Motherboards-325296.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Gigabyte-Launches-Three-Workstation-and-Server-Motherboards-324963.shtml
The company has launched three new mainboards, called GA-7PESH3, GA-6PXSV4 and GA-7PESH4.

The first two are made for workstations and the third for mission critical servers, where memory intensive, highly parallel or high-storage applica... (read more)]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:38:00 GMT Softpedia News - Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/Gigabyte-Launches-Three-Workstation-and-Server-Motherboards-324963.shtml Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/Gigabyte-Launches-Three-Workstation-and-Server-Motherboards-324963.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Launches-Gizmo-Integrated-Motherboard-324318.shtml The G-Series accelerated processing unit didn't come up during conversation ever since it was launched back in mid-2012, but AMD is definitely not letting it gather dust, as proven by a certain product shipping through GizmoSphere.

GizmoSphere is an open source embedded system development company, one that Advanced Micro Devices has chosen ... (read more)]]> Sat, 26 Jan 2013 09:03:00 GMT Softpedia News - Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Launches-Gizmo-Integrated-Motherboard-324318.shtml Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Launches-Gizmo-Integrated-Motherboard-324318.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Motherboard-Makers-Don-t-Expect-Any-Growth-form-2013-323561.shtml Since the new year has started, IT companies have begun outlining what they expect from 2013, even though most of them haven't tallied their sales for 2012.

ASUS and Gigabyte have shown a distinct lack of excitement over what 2013 is likely to mean for them.

According to “industry sources” that shall re... (read more)]]> Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:05:00 GMT Softpedia News - Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/Motherboard-Makers-Don-t-Expect-Any-Growth-form-2013-323561.shtml Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/Motherboard-Makers-Don-t-Expect-Any-Growth-form-2013-323561.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Decides-to-Quit-Making-Motherboards-323372.shtml Intel is mainly known for its central processors, but it also makes other hardware, most importantly motherboards. This won't last for much longer though, according to some reports.

AnandTech, CNET and HotHardware all have received much the same information as the one we are imparting right now.

By the time Intel's Haswell pr... (read more)]]> Wed, 23 Jan 2013 08:21:00 GMT Softpedia News - Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Decides-to-Quit-Making-Motherboards-323372.shtml Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Decides-to-Quit-Making-Motherboards-323372.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop) http://news.softpedia.com/news/ASRock-Releases-New-Mini-ITX-Motherboard-323299.shtml Mini-ITX motherboards are a wonder in that they are so very small, smaller than even micro-ATX by a large margin, and yet they can easily power full-feature personal computers.

The H61TM-ITX that ASRock only recently added to its website doesn't exactly have all it needs for top-end hardware, but it comes close.

The reason we ... (read more)]]> Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:52:00 GMT Softpedia News - Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/ASRock-Releases-New-Mini-ITX-Motherboard-323299.shtml Motherboards http://news.softpedia.com/news/ASRock-Releases-New-Mini-ITX-Motherboard-323299.shtml#review_zone Softpedia News (Sebastian Pop)