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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 Ma... |
4 April 2013
02:33 GMT |
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EVGA’s team has developed a new BIOS version targeted at three of its Intel-based motherboards. The 1.22 BIOS package is suitable for the Z75 SLI, Z77 FTW, as well as Z77 Stinger (mITX) motherboards, and has the same installation steps for all of the boards.
This BIOS version, just like the 1.21 version, is co... |
13 March 2013
04:54 GMT |
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Now that the release of AMD's Z-60 APU (formerly known as “Hondo”) is over and done with, leak hunters are hard at work again, trying to unearth new bits of info on unannounced products.
One of the items that have been discovered in this manner, and which will be released with a price tag of around... |
10 October 2012
03:08 GMT |
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Today traditional Nvidia video card manufacturing partner, American company EVGA, is launching its top overclocking mainboard, targeting socket 1155 enthusiasts. The new device features an impressive 300% more gold content in the CPU socket assembly. The official name of the new product is EVGA Z77 FTW and while we ... |
11 September 2012
09:31 GMT |
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Micro-Star International is not one for conventions, shown clearly by how it ignored all established expectations when building the Z77IA-E53 mini-ITX motherboard.
Mini-ITX motherboards are normally easy to categorize: small platforms with basic specs, enough to serve as an HTPC platform or something of the sort, b... |
23 August 2012
04:40 GMT |
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AsRock has been getting more and more serious in the highend motherboard business lately and the addition of high speed ThunderBolt connectivity to some of its premium mainboards will make these even more highend and seriously expensive.We just reported here that Gigabyte has decided to introduce a microATX mainboard... |
12 August 2012
09:32 GMT |
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Famous motherboard manufacturer, Taiwanese company Gigabyte has just launched the first micro ATX mainboard with ThunderBolt technology. The new device is powered by Intel’s Z77 chipset and comes with complete support for Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge processors. Gigabyte’s new board is officially denomina... |
10 August 2012
07:35 GMT |
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Well-known mainboard manufacturer AsRock is getting ready to launch its own overclocking oriented Z77 motherboard, featuring the 1155 processor socket. The motherboard was displayed at Computex earlier this year and many thought that it was only a concept as AsRock has a certain market segment it addresses.
Years ag... |
9 August 2012
09:41 GMT |
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Gigabyte, like other motherboard and graphics card makers, has a technique that grants its platforms a higher endurance and stability. It so happens that the latest incarnation of that technique has arrived.
Dubbed Ultra Durable 5, the motherboard design has been demonstrated on video for the benefit of prospective ... |
31 July 2012
09:01 GMT |
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The Z77 chipset isn't something meant for small form factor PCs, but that isn't stopping EVGA from preparing a miniature motherboard based on it. In true preview fashion, the company decided not to actually say or write anything about the specifications when it released the photos, besides the form factor... |
20 July 2012
05:36 GMT |
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Well-known mainboard manufacturer, Taiwanese company Gigabyte has just announced the new Series 7 mainboards that feature two distinct Thunderbolt ports for external devices, on its official website. The mainboards use Intel chipsets and support Intel processors. The two Thunderbolt ports allow the connection of up ... |
6 July 2012
08:31 GMT |
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A little over an hour ago, Jacob Freeman, EVGA Product Manager, announced the latest beta BIOS for EVGA Z77 FTW motherboard series. Starting from $329.99 (263.76 EUR), Z77 FTW motherboards are based on Intel Z77 chipset, supporting up to 32GB of DDR3 2133MHz memory. Jacob Freeman posted on his Twitter feed (@EVGA_J... |
12 June 2012
08:18 GMT |
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We dare say that after being subjected to the mind-bending attributes of the 40-Phase Z77 Wolverine and ASUS' Zeus dual-GPU motherboard, a mainboard that is high-end but without weird gimmicks is almost a relief.
ASRock is the company providing us with that relief. One of the products on display at its Compute... |
6 June 2012
10:29 GMT |
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Since Computex 2012 is ready to kick off, hands-on reports about products are already coming in, such as the one where VR-Zone speaks about Gigabyte's Z77X-UP7.
The Z77X-UP7 happens to be the new so-called “flagship” motherboard with support for Intel's latest central processing units.
Flagsh... |
4 June 2012
08:36 GMT |
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Micro-Star International hasn't released its first Intel Z77 Express chipset-based motherboard yet, but it is getting close to the time when the curtains are parted.
The name of the mainboard will be Big Bang ZPower, or at least that's what the folks at TechPowerUp think.
Speaking of which, they are the o... |
1 June 2012
11:10 GMT |
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One would have expected all motherboard makers to reveal something equipped with Intel's thunderbolt technology this week, but ASRock is either postponing that announcement or not intent on implementing it at all for a while.
ASRock has formally introduced the Z77 Extreme9 which, though a high-end platform, do... |
15 May 2012
03:47 GMT |
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Micro-Star International has made the formal introduction of the Z77A-GD80 motherboard, which features Intel's high-bandwidth interface standard. Thunderbolt is the fastest data connection available on a PC, running at 10 Gbps and transmitting both PCI Express and DisplayPort signals through a single cable. Th... |
12 May 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Elitegroup Computer Systems has a new motherboard on its website, one that has yet to be listed up for sale anywhere, but which shouldn't take too much longer to arrive.
Then again, it isn't really accurate to say that the mainboard has its own product page, because it does, in fact, not have one that we&... |
3 May 2012
06:10 GMT |
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MSI has just announced on its official website that the MSI Z77A-GD65 motherboard based on the Intel Z77 chipset has been successfully overclocked at 7 GHz using an Intel Core i7-3770K CPU. The motherboard is build using very high quality components and was certified to conform to the MIL-STD-810G standard via third-... |
30 April 2012
10:05 GMT |
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Intel's introduction of the Ivy Bridge central processing units was followed by a whole slew of motherboards, but many of them aren't what one would call affordable.
That doesn't mean such things don't exist, though. After all, even if the new CPUs are high-end, there will be mainstream ones eve... |
28 April 2012
04:32 GMT |
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There will soon be a new motherboard up for sale, one that will directly compete against all the other platforms compatible with Intel's Ivy Bridge central processing units. The motherboard we are referring to is one that ASUS invented and which AnandTech somehow got a video presentation of. This is probably ... |
25 April 2012
08:08 GMT |
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ASUS has unveiled one of its highest-end motherboards, part of the established TUF series and outfitted with the Thermal Armor cooling technology that seldom gets called upon.
Thermal Armor is a military-grade cooling solution that uses a convection hole design and optimizes VRM cooling, as well as pretty much ever... |
20 April 2012
08:44 GMT |
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More and more reports showing a special header on the new Z77 and H77 models from ASUS have emerged. It’s designated as “TB_HEADER” and seems to be the method ASUS has chosen to provide Thunderbolt connectivity for its new mainboards. This header most likely transmits the motherboard's Di... |
18 April 2012
10:42 GMT |
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As information stickers on new Z77 motherboards show, builders of Z77-based systems will need an Ivy Bridge CPU to make one of the long PCIe slots work. This is quite strange as it’s the first time we’re presented with a disabled PCIe x16 slot on a wide range of high-end PC motherboards. Whether that... |
10 April 2012
05:58 GMT |
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It looks like some Japanese built to order (BTO) desktop PC makers really can't wait for the Ivy Bridge processor platform, having hurried to be the first to release computers equipped with the latest motherboards.
To get right to the point, some Japanese PC makers have launched systems powered by the Z77 high... |
9 April 2012
13:31 GMT |
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In anticipation of Intel’s Ivy Bridge launch, California-based video card and motherboard manufacturer EVGA has just announced its new EVGA Z77 FTW motherboard on its official website. The mainboard is targeted at PC overclocking enthusiasts and power users. The mainboard has robust overclocking features, good... |
9 April 2012
10:39 GMT |
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Like others before it, Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) has brought out some Ivy bridge-ready motherboards, but its announcement focuses on the top pair instead of describing the whole collection.
In this respect, ECS is more similar to Biostar rather than Gigabyte, ASRock and Micro-Star International (MSI).
The... |
7 April 2012
04:31 GMT |
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Biostar has done what its various rivals did, or will do soon enough, namely launch a whole bunch of new motherboards in preparation for the event that will supposedly take place on April 23.
Biostar made a point of saying that this is the “for the first time” product lineup and, sure enough, used those... |
7 April 2012
03:45 GMT |
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New drivers, utilities and BIOS start to pour in as the motherboard manufacturers list them for public access, and we're watching everything closely.
Asrock was the first manufacturer to release drivers for the new Z77-based motherboards, with MSI following closely, and Asus and Gigabyte simply announcing the n... |
12 March 2012
12:30 GMT |
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Hurray! The long-awaited new generation of motherboards surfaces and the first one on our website is the Asrock Z77 Extreme4-M.
This new board comes with Intel's Z77 chipset (as it's very name says) and can accommodate both 2nd generation of Sandybridge CPUs and the unlocked K-series processors. The maximu... |
8 March 2012
10:56 GMT |
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Some photos of a new ASUS motherboard have made their way to the Internet, alongside most relevant information on it, except pricing and availability, alas.
The mainboard in question, according to the report on VR-Zone, is called Sabertooh Z77 and is part of the TUF line.
The overall design is not that strange in... |
6 March 2012
07:32 GMT |
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Intel has unleashed quite a few motherboards over the past week, like the Media Series and the Executive 7-Series, all part of the 7-Series, and now we get to look at the high-end models too. According to VR-Zone, there are two high-end 7-Series motherboards on the way, powered by the Z77 chipset. Like them, we a... |
25 February 2012
03:47 GMT |
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The Z77, one of the chipsets in the Panther Point family, has been used by a certain Chinese company in the making of a microATX motherboard.
The platform is something that does not seem to put too much effort into standing out, save for an additional PCI Express-PCI bridge compared to peers.
Even that extra featu... |
20 February 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Since the Ivy Bridge collection of Intel CPUs is almost upon us, Biostar has decided to introduce a motherboard that supports all their features, and more.
Called TZ77XE4, the new platform from Biostar has not been given a price, and probably won't get one before CeBIT 2012.
For those who don't know, the... |
14 February 2012
02:54 GMT |
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Intel may be trying to enforce a specific date before which its partners aren't allowed to unleash 7-series mainboards, but its luck hasn't held out perfectly.
Chinese company Wibtek decided to defy the chip giant's authority and reveal the Hacker Z77 motherboard some days sooner.
If anything, this ... |
3 January 2012
03:38 GMT |
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Together with its upcoming 22nm Ivy Bridge processors, Intel also plans to release a new range of motherboard chipsets which are going to be based on the Panther Point PCH and finally bring native USB 3.0 support to its product line.The consumer sector will witness the introduction of three platform controller hubs (... |
27 April 2011
16:31 GMT |
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