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:: PC Perspective . Motherboard
ASUS Maximus III Gene LGA 1156 Micro ATX Motherboard ReviewMotherboard - Feb 05, 2010 | 10:00 AM The feature sets on many boards can vary widely depending on who they are geared toward, but there is a consensus right now for these basic options -- quad core CPU support, quad GPU graphics support, premium audio (onboard or as add-on), and higher rated DDR3 memory support. These are tall orders for many boards to live up to, but one such micro ATX solution that fits the bill is the ASUS Maximus III Gene. 
MSI Big Bang Trinergy P55 3-Way SLI Motherboard ReviewMotherboard - Dec 09, 2009 | 12:00 PM MSI has developed a new brand to encompass their high-end motherboard products called Big Bang. The first offering under this name is the Trinergy, a P55 motherboard that includes support for 3-Way SLI and THX certified audio. It also includes some great overclocking features and something you don't ever here me praise: great documentation! What?!? 
ECS P55H-A P55 Lynnfield Motherboard ReviewMotherboard - Dec 04, 2009 | 12:00 PM Intel's LGA 1156 and P55 chipset was released a few months ago and since that time we have reviewed several offerings from high-end vendors like ASUS and Gigabyte. Today, we have a more budget-minded board from ECS called the P55H-A that has many features users will find on higher-end P55 boards, but for a fraction of the cost.
Jeremy Hellstrom | Source: [H]ard|OCP | Subject: Motherboard
If you are still in love with the raw performance of the Core i7 series, the amount of LGA1156 based P55 motherboard reviews might have you a bit down. Never fear, the X58 chipset is still alive and well and companies are still improving the features and performance of their boards. The GIGABYTE X58A-UD7 is a perfect example, this $350 board sports SATA 6Gbs ports as well as USB 3 and it has 4 PCIe 16x slots a pair of which can be used at a full 16x speed. All of these improvements don't come without a cost, in [H]ard|OCP's testing they found that a BIOS update is needed for this board to overcome several obstacles they encountered; still, that did not stop the board from coming away with a silver medal.
"The X58A-UD7 is GIGABYTE's newest entry into the fiercely competitive LGA1366 board arena. The board packs a lot of promise, built on GIGABYTE's tried and true X58 based design with some nice bells and whistles added for that extra bit of appeal including USB 3.0 and SATA III features." Here are some more Motherboard articles from around the web:
Jeremy Hellstrom | Source: [H]ard|OCP | Subject: Motherboard
The new revision of the ASUS Maximus III Gene has landed at [H]ard|OCP and they loved this little trooper. It can handle both Core i5 and Core i7 CPUs, a pair of PCIe x16 slots as well as 7 SATA ports, 1 eSATA port, 14 USB ports
and a more; all on a uATX board measuring slight less than 10" square. They described the manual overclocking on this board to be among the easiest they have encountered, though the automatic process could have used a bit of improvement. If you need a lot of performance from a tiny box, this board would be a great place to start from.
"The ASUS Maximus III Gene expands not only the Republic of Gamers product line, but the lineage of "Maximus" motherboards ASUS has created under the name. Thus far every Maximus board has been nothing short of excellent and even bordering on legendary, the Maximus III Gene continues this tradition." Here are some more Motherboard articles from around the web:
Jeremy Hellstrom | Source: Overclock3D | Subject: Motherboard
EVGA hit the motherboard market with nVIDIA's chipset but they are not suffering from nVIDIA's licensing woes. Newest is their W555, set up to handle two LGA1366 processors on a board designed for overclocking, not server applications. Now, this may cause some problems as consumer level dual processor board are not always the most forgiving and stable platforms, but they are worthwhile once set up. Drop by Overclock3D for a preview.
"Was the Classified a bit weedy for your requirements? Got a few grand kicking about and a need for speed? EVGA have your answer." Here are some more Motherboard articles from around the web:
Jeremy Hellstrom | Source: Bjorn3D | Subject: Motherboard
Don't let the name fool you, the Asus P6X58D is nought
but a P6T with support for USB 3.0 and SATA3 as well, not much else has changed. There are a few extra features but the main reason to want this board is native support for the new transport buses. Bjorn3D did some benchmarking with a SATA 2 SSD so the differences in file transfer performance do not stand out as much as they would with a SATA 3 drive; they are still very rare. The board might not be worth replacing an existing X58 board but if you were worried about being limited to a P55 because of the new features, you now have several choices to go with.
"The X58 chipset is currently the flagship of Intel's chipset line, but it was lacking a couple of key features due to its launch date. These where of course SATA 3 and USB 3. This is no longer true thanks to Asus. They have put a SATA 3 Controler onboard as well as adding two USB 3 ports on the back of the motherboard. This gives the X58 chipset a much needed modernization, since its little brother the P55 already has these features. If you happen to not be an Asus fan then you will have other options as well. Gigabyte plans to have a new X58 board out that will also support these features. Other than the adding of these two features there is not much else thats different from the P6T, but lets take a look at the features to give you a refresh of what Asus has to offer." Here are some more Motherboard articles from around the web:
Jeremy Hellstrom | Source: Hardware Secrets | Subject: Motherboard
Intel launched several new Core i3 and i5 processors earlier this month, but the only motherboard that came out with them were based on the low end H55 chipset. We know that there will be an Q57 and an H57 chipset soon arriving, but until now we have not seen what one can do. Hardware Secrets changes that with their review of the MSI H57M-ED65, the first H57 board seen in the wild.
It sports a pair of PCIe 2.0 16x slots that can handle Crossfire (no SLI), though that second slot will run at 4x and not a single legacy PCI slot. DDR3 support goes up to 16GB of DDR3-2133 MHz via overclocking in the BIOS and there are six SATA-300 ports with RAID support and a PATA port supported by an additional JMicron controller. There is also a total of 14 USB 2.0 ports, a single Gigabit Ethernet connection and 7.1 support via a Realtek ALC889 chip.
"Motherboards based on the new H55, H57 and Q57 chipsets are targeted to the new Core i3 and Core i5
processors with integrated video, and MSI has so far released four different models based on H55 and
one model based on H57, H57M-ED65 (a.k.a. MS-7587), which brings lots of extra features. Let's take a
look on this motherboard."
Here are some more Motherboard articles from around the web:
Jeremy Hellstrom | Source: PC Perspective | Subject: Motherboard
The tiny ASUS AT3N7A-I motherboard is home to an Intel Atom 330 with an active cooling system, not that you are going to get to overclock the Atom; but iXBT Labs warns that you may want to modify it as it is quite noisy. As well you will find Bluetooth, HDMI, eSATA, 3 x SATA-II (300 MB/s), 10 x USB, a legacy PCI slot and a pair of DIMM slots. If you are willing to swap out the installed fan, you can have quite a good base for an HTPC. "The NVIDIA ION platform and Intel Atom processors are getting increasingly popular. Vendors are launching new motherboards, nettops, and netbooks based on the "Ionized Atom". The reason for such popularity is simple: ION is presently the only option for a supercompact, relatively inexpensive, and potentially noiseless HTPC or an entry-level gaming computer." Here are some more Motherboard articles from around the web:
Steve Grever | Source: PC Perspective | Subject: Motherboard
The guys at ASUS pulled out all the stops on their massive booth at CES this year and brought with them tons of new netbooks, notebooks, motherboards, graphics cards, and even some conceptual products from their Waveface line.
The ASUS Rampage III Extreme is an LGA 1366 ATX motherboard with four PCIe slots (two of them x16) for quad SLI or CrossFireX graphics configurations that will be helped out a bit by NVIDIA's GF200 chip. It also has six DIMMs that support up to 24GBs of DDR3 2133. It also includes ROG Connect with the ability to overclock using Bluetooth and support for SATA 6GB/s and USB 3.0.
Ryan also got Juan Guerrero to discuss the features on the new Rampage III Extreme motherboard. The video has some pretty technical information, but Juan does a good job of explaining these features so they make sense to consumers.
The ASUS P6X58D Premium is very similar in technical specifications to the ASUS Rampage III Extreme, but only includes three PCIe slots and doesn't support many of the feature associated with the ROG brand. It still has USB 3.0 and SATA 6GB/s on board, and also will support next-gen 32nm, six-core processors from Intel.
ASUS's first board sporting Intel's new H57 chipset is the P7H57D-V EVO. This LGA 1156 board supports the new i3 and i5 processors and has a unique PCIe x4 bridge chip to boost performance. It also includes support for 16GBs of dual channel DDR3 2133 memory.
The P7H55D-M EVO is a micro ATX motherboard that boosts a single PCIe slot with x16 speeds, USB 3.0 support, and uses Intel's H55 chipset with Remote PC Assist Technology and support for two independently controlled display interfaces.
One awesome display we saw at ASUS's booth was this Rampage III Extreme running with quad ATI Radeon 5870 graphics cards.
A new addition to the Republic of Gamers brand is the Matrix GTX285 that includes 1GB of DDR3 memory and a 512-bit memory interface. The GPU runs at around 662MHz while the shader clock tops out at around 2.484GHz. This card gets up to a 14 percent boost from ASUS's SuperHybrid Engine. There is also a five-level LED indicator for real-time hardware monitoring.
This Bravo series graphics card runs of a GeForce 9500GT and is bundled with Bravo Media Center, which gives users access to view pictures and video as well as transcode video for use with devices like the iPod and PSP. It has 512MB of DDR2 memory on board with a 128-bit memory interface. The engine clock runs at 550 MHz while the shader clock hums along at 1375MHz.
Steve Grever | Source: PC Perspective | Subject: Motherboard
UPDATE: We have posted a video walk through of the Gigabyte product lineup hosted by Gigabyte's Tim Handley.
Today we got an in-depth preview at Gigabyte's newest line of motherboards sporting Intel's H55, H57, and P55A chipsets. The P55A and X58A-based boards support USB 3.0 and SATA 6GB/s that have made pretty big waves here at CES and we think should breakthrough into the mainstream market in 2010.
The Gigabyte GA-790FXTA-UD5 AM3 motherboard includes AMD's 790FX chipset and SATA 6GB/s using Marvell's SE9128 controller. This board includes three PCI-E x16 slots that support ATI CrossfireX graphics solutions. Gigabyte also added a little more performance to the board's memory support that maxes out at DDR3 1866. The GA-790FXTA-UD5 also has the NES Superspeed USB 3.0 controller that brings data transfer rates up to 5 gigabytes per second.
The GA-P55A-UD6 is an upgraded version of the GA-P55-UD6 board we reviewed last year, but includes USB 3.0 support, SATA 6GB/s, and a 24 phase power design like many boards we previewed today. This board also have some unique overclocking features that help users manipulate the board's voltages, which should be a key selling point for overclockers.
The GA-P55A-UD7 is Gigabyte's new flagship P55 board that features better memory support at DDR3 2600 and three PCI-E slots that support SLI and CrossfireX graphics cards. Most of the other features are identical to the GA-P55A-UD6 though the UD7 model does integrate a PLX PCIe bridge chip to increase performance of the USB 3.0 and SATA 6G features.
In the micro ATX form factor arena, Gigabyte used Intel's new H55M chipset on two of their newest mATX boards called the GA-H57M-USB3 and GA-H55M-USB3. The GA-H57M-USB3 can handle the latest i3 and i5 LGA 1156 processors and includes an integrated HDMI, DVI, and DisplayPort interfaces for high definition video playback.
The GA-H55M-USB3 has many of the same features as the H57M version above, but doesn't include dual PCI-E slots with ATI CrossfireX support.
We also saw an upgraded LGA 1366 board from Gigabyte called the GA-X58A-UD7. Along with the USB 3.0 and SATA 6GB/s improvements, Gigabyte added memory support up to DDR3 2100 and an advanced 24 phase power design. They also added a silent heat dissipation solution that uses heat pipes to move heat away from the power components and chipset. For audio enthusiasts, Gigabyte included Dolby Home Theater audio for surround sound listening.
Gigabyte also had four more P55A boards on hand that included the new USB 3.0 and SATA 6GB/s support, which should gain in popularity after more vendors create new devices for these interfaces. We'll look for them when the Consumer Electronics Show officially opens tomorrow. More Power!
And finally, a note from Allyn, our Storage Guru:
For all PC Perspective's CES 2010 coverage, news and articles, please visit: www.pcper.com/ces
Jeremy Hellstrom | Source: Elite Bastards | Subject: Motherboard
The new Core i3 chips from Intel have necessitated the release of a new motherboard chipset and as usual Intel is using a tiered offering, the H55, H57 and X57 chipsets to Intel's line up with the H55, H57 and X57 to choose between. So far it is the H55 based boards which are appearing on reviewers test benches, such as the ASRock H55M Pro board at Elite Bastards. The performance is very similar to the previous P55, perhaps the biggest bonus is its support forolder Core i5 and Core i7 LGA 1156 CPUs in addition to Core i3 processors, making it a perfect choice for anyone putting together an LGA 1156 system without a boatload of USB or SATA ports.
"In general terms, the H55 chipset isn't a million miles away from the P55 Express chipset in terms of its core functionality. With its support for LGA 1156 CPUs as per P55, H55 leaves both the memory and PCI Express controller up to the CPU itself, although it's worth noting here that in the case of Core i3 parts the memory controller is packaged with the GPU rather than CPU portion of the device (which increases latency) while the PCI Express controller used here has no SLI or CrossFire support. DDR3 memory is supported officially at speeds of up to 1333MHz as you might expect. Looking at the H55 chipset itself, this supports an additional six lanes of PCI Express bandwidth, six Serial ATA ports (complete with eSATA capabilities), twelve USB 2.0 ports and both High Definition audio and a Gigabite Intel Ethernet controller. The biggest addition to H55 is of course the chipset's ability to handle video output from that integrated GPU when present, and this comes in the form of HDMI, DVI and DisplayPort outputs, complete with HDCP and the ability to pass-through audio via both HDMI and DisplayPort. This could well make Core i3 CPUs a tempting proposition for anyone looking to build a Home Theater PC." Here are some more Motherboard articles from around the web:
Jonathan Hung | Source: EVGA | Subject: Motherboard
While CES has been dominated by hot new mobile devices and notebooks, many of your favourite motherboard manufacturers are announcing new products too. Most new boards are Clarkdale based (Intel H55 to be exact), there are some AMD releases too. Here's today's round-up of new motherboard releases from ECS, EVGA, and Gigabyte.
EVGA:
Also revealed is a dual-socket X58 motherboard for two LGA1366 processors, and support for Quad-SLI (see here at Tech Reaction). What a beast. 
Gigabyte:Also covered previously here on PC Perspective, are new boards from Gigabyte. Here's a breakdown:
ECS:While the other manufacturers had concrete product details to give, ECS went the cryptic route instead by showing off high-res images of the products, but no other details. Here is what we can glean from the images:
A pair of new AMD boards, A880GM-A and A890GXM-A, were also featured using presumably AMD 880g and 890g chipsets respectively. Also pictured was a U3N2 2-port USB 3.0 PCI x1 expansion card. Visit this Flickr gallery for the images. 
For all PC Perspective's CES 2010 coverage, news and articles, please visit: www.pcper.com/ces
Jonathan Hung | Source: EVGA | Subject: Motherboard
Hot on the heels of the Clarkdale announcement, EVGA lets loose on two upcoming motherboards based on the H55 and H57 chipsets. Not much information is known at this point, but Jacob of EVGA hints "More details very soon".
Jeremy Hellstrom | Source: Hardware Canucks | Subject: Motherboard
The Asus M4A785TD-V EVO and M4A785TD-M EVO AM3
share very similar designs; the "V" is a full ATX board while the "M" is a mATX. Both use the AMD 785G
chipset with an SB710
southbridge and support up to 16GB of DDR3-1800; perhaps the most noticable difference is the lack of a second PCIe 16x slot to allow you to use Crossfire on the mATX model. Altogether, considering they include the Radeon 4200 IGP, either are a great deal for under $100. Hardware Canucks were a bit surprised by the end of the review, they expected good overclocking results from the full sized board, which they got; they weren't expecting the mATX board to do just as well.
"There is no hiding the fact that while AMD can’t compete in the high end portion of the CPU market just yet, they have some amazing budget-minded processors that will appeal to a broad market. However, these processors would be nothing if they couldn’t be paired up with well priced yet fully featured motherboards such as ASUS’s EVO series. In this review we take a close look at the EVO series in its ATX and mATX forms." Here are some more Motherboard articles from around the web:
Jeremy Hellstrom | Source: VIA Technologies | Subject: Motherboard
Taipei, Taiwan, December 10, 2009 - VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator of power efficient x86 processor platforms, today announced the VIA VN1000 digital media chipset for next generation desktop and all-in-one PCs, offering a world-class HD multimedia entertainment platform compatible with the advanced desktop features of Microsoft Windows 7. The VIA VN1000 is the most power efficient DX10.1 digital media chipset available today, making it the perfect solution for next generation small form factor and all-in-one Windows 7 PCs that focus on entertainment, multimedia and touch screen capabilities. The DirectX 10.1 hardware environment provided by the VIA Chrome 520 IGP means Windows 7 users can enjoy a more fluid and visually enhanced desktop experience as well as the latest gaming titles. The VIA VN1000 digital media chipset features the ChromotionHD 2.0 video processor to guarantee smooth playback of the latest Blu-ray titles with superb hardware acceleration of the most demanding H.264, WM9 and VC1 codecs over the latest display technologies, including Display Port and HDMI. "The VIA VN1000 leverages our optimized VIA Nano 3000 Series processors, creating the most balanced, power-efficient, multimedia-focused desktop platform on the market today," said Richard Brown, VP International Marketing, VIA Technologies, Inc. "Supporting the latest system memory, graphics and entertainment standards, the VIA VN1000 takes the VIA processor platform to new heights of power-efficient visual sophistication." At the core of the VIA VN1000 lies a DirectX 10.1 graphics engine, a necessary requirement for users who want to enjoy the enhanced features of the Windows 7 desktop environment. The DirectX 10.1 engine means that Windows 7 can employ Microsoft's advanced Windows Desktop Driver Model 1.1, bringing significant gains in system memory efficiency, overall desktop responsiveness and an improved visual experience compared to WDDM 1.0. VIA VN1000 Product Highlights
Offering a feature-rich specification with significant emphasis on graphics and HD video playback, the VIA VN1000 features the VIA Chrome 520 IGP, combining a DirectX 10.1 graphics engine, with support for Shader Model 4, OpenGL 3.0 graphics and OpenCL 1.0 for next-generation GPGPU applications. The high-performance ChromotionHD 2.0 video processor offers advanced filtering and cutting edge post-processing to perform ultra smooth decoding of MPEG-4/AVC, H.264, MPEG-2, VC-1, WMV-HD, and AVS video for Blu-ray content. The home theatre experience also encompasses support for the latest connectivity standards, including dual channel support for Display Port, HDMI, DVP, VGA and LVDS/TMDS. The VIA VN1000 supports DDR3 system memory at speeds of up to 1066MHz, one x8 lane and four x1 lane PCI Express II expansion slots, up to five PCI slots and a VIA Vinyl HD 8 channel audio codec. An IDE controller, support for up to four S-ATA II drives, SD/MMS/MMC card reader support and 12 USB 2.0 ports are supplemented with support for PS/2, SPI, GPIO and LPC technologies. The VIA VN1000 Digital Media IGP Chipset is fully compatible with all VIA Nano, VIA C7, VIA C7-M and VIA Eden processors and supports all Microsoft Windows platforms and popular Linux distributions. For more details regarding the VIA VN1000 digital media chipset, please visit:http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/chipsets/v-series/vn1000/index.jsp
Jeremy Hellstrom | Source: PC Perspective | Subject: Motherboard
If you can overcome the disappointment of the non-launch of the MSI Big Bang motherboard featuring Lucid Hydra Engine you can take a look at the Big Bang Trinergy motherboard. Ryan does the review of this board a little differently, it is an HD video review that gives you a chance to actually examine the board and see it in action. Check it out here.
"Of course one of the biggest features of the Trinergy is in its namesake: triple SLI support. By integrating the NVIDIA nForce 200 chip with the PCI Express channels coming from the Lynnfield processor MSI brings us the first motherboard to truly and correctly support 3-Way SLI and 3-Way CrossFireX multi-GPU solutions on the P55 platform."" Here are some more Motherboard articles from around the web:
Jeremy Hellstrom | Source: PC Perspective | Subject: Motherboard
The P55 chipset really doesn't have to do a lot. The Lynnfield processor controls the PCIe and the memory, two chores that used to be the responsibility of the motherboard chipset. That responsibility was the key to the diversity of the motherboard market in previous generations. Now it is about the number of features that can be placed on the board, or the lowest price the board can be sold for.
The ECS P55H-A has gone with features as well as low price, dual PCIe slots, support for DDR3 up to 2130MHz and 8-channel high definition audio and there are mail in rebates that bring the price of the board into the $99 range. Steve did have trouble overclocking the board, but it is probably not anything that a new BIOS revision will not fix. "Its feature set and benchmarks scores aren't going to make consumers put it on lay-away for the holidays, but its ease-of-use and no-frills functionality are great selling points along with the $100 price tag. We've experienced a lot of ups and downs with ECS's "Black Series" motherboards and we've seen where they've had to cut corners a bit to bring the price of the product down." Here are some more Motherboard articles from around the web:
Jeremy Hellstrom | Source: Overclockers Club | Subject: Motherboard
Sapphire has stuck with their motherboard division to compliment their graphics business and their new board is the 785G based PI-AM3RS785G. As you would expect from a board using this chipset your motherboards back panel is quite crowded, with PS/2 ports, an SPDIF Out port, an HDMI port, a VGA port and a DVI port along with four USB 2.0 ports, one LAN port, and 6 channel audio. There is only one PCIe slot, a full 16x but no 1x or 4x slots at all, simply a pair of legacy PCI slots. Overclockers Club didn't have any problems with the board at all but they felt limited by the sparse features on the board. "When it comes to the Sapphire Pure 785G motherboard, I have mixed feelings. When I reviewed its 790GX- based board earlier this year, I felt Sapphire made great improvements in most of the areas that count on motherboards. However, with this board, I feel like the company took a step back. Sure the board runs decent when plugged in at stock speeds, but it is still lagging when compared to another mainstream 785G -based motherboard. When it came to overclocking, there was not much there." Here are some more Motherboard articles from around the web:
Ryan Shrout | Source: PC Perspective | Subject: Motherboard
First, the ASUS-provided spec sheet from that press release: 
Unfortunately there were no images of the new motherboard, so we'll just have to picture that in our mind. But here is what was most interesting: ASUS will be debuting the Republic of Gamers (ROG) Maximus III Extreme,
a bleeding-edge, P55-based motherboard that enables users to tweak
system settings wirelessly over Bluetooth via a mobile phone.
That's right...tweaking the overclocking settings of your motherboard using a cell phone. For users that aren't already familiar with the ROG Connect feature on the P55-based Maximus III Formula, it allows users to connect their systems to a notebook (or another PC if handy) via an included USB cable in order to change BIOS settings, monitor temperatures and more from the remote machine. Even when the system was powered off, the application running on the secondary computer could change the BIOS settings and options before the next reboot. That is indeed a very cool feature! 
The current Maximus III Formula motherboard with standard ROG Connect features Well the new feature coming on this future motherboard goes one step further and will allow you to connect to your PC and adjust its settings while monitoring its speeds and temperatures via Bluetooth to a cell phone. From the press release: Perhaps the most innovative addition to ROG Connect, however, is RC
Bluetooth, a feature which allows users to review the status of their
systems' hardware and tweak parameters wirelessly from a
Bluetooth-enabled PDA phone. RC Bluetooth is also capable of performing
standard Bluetooth functions, such as stereo music playback, Skype
messaging, Internet access via a Bluetooth phone, and mobile phone or
PDA synchronization. All it requires is the press of a button located
on the rear I/O panel to toggle between overclocking and standard modes.
Nice! I don't have a lot more information about the feature that I can share at this time but I do know that the application will be made available for Windows Mobile, Symbian and Android. What about the iPhone? Well you'll never guess, but apparently Apple's application approval process is taking longer than expected (go figure). Now if ASUS can add in WebOS, I'll be a happy camper. The ability to keep an eye on your system and adjust settings remotely at all was exciting but doing it on your phone is something extra that we honestly hadn't even been anticipating. Not only that, but with integrated Bluetooth on the motherboard you will be able to use A2DP compatible headphones for music, Skype, etc. The rest of the Maximus III Extreme looks to be just as impressive; it will support up to 5 PCIe x8 connections so while it doesn't mention it in the specifications, I assume it has to be using the NVIDIA nForce 200 PCIe bridge as well as the P55 chipset. The board will also have support for SATA 6G and USB 3.0 technology (which if you haven't read about yet you really should) to round out a hell of an enthusiast offering. This is definitely a board worth keeping an eye out for.
Jeremy Hellstrom | Source: [H]ard|OCP | Subject: Motherboard
If you are looking to set up a low end LGA1156 system, the $150 MSI P55-GD65 is worth a look. 7 SATA II and an eSATA port should keep your storage subsystem happy, 14 USB 2.0 ports will accept a huge collection of gadgetry and there is even a pair of 16x PCIe 2.0 slots for graphics. As with all of the P55 boards, one touch overclocking is possible, though [H]ard|OCP managed a better overclock when they manually modified the BIOS settings. A Gold Award winning board for just $155 is hard to turn up.
"MSI’s latest Intel P55 based board looks to be cut from the same mold as its big brother P55-GC80 motherboard. The GD65 is mean, lean, and ready to rumble. While it does not pack in all the features of the GD80, the GD65 does not act like a $155 motherboard." Here are some more Motherboard articles from around the web:
Ryan Shrout | Source: PC Perspective | Subject: Motherboard
A new motherboard from ASRock is making the rounds today for the upcoming Intel Clarkdale processors. If you don't have any background on the Clarkdale CPU and what it offers that is new, you should definitely check out the preview we posted from back in September that looks at both the Clarkdale and Arrandale (mobile version) cores.
The upcoming ASRock H55DE3 will be one of the first options available for the new platform.
You can see the board offers support for multi-GPU graphics, but only CrossFire. There are integrated graphics of course (courtesy of the Clarkdale processor) with VGA, DVI and HDMI outputs. Not much more detail is available and keep in mind that you can use ANY LGA1156 processor on this board but you will only be missing integrated graphics if you don't use a Clarkdale core.
It looks like the winter will see yet another big boon for Intel in the CPU market.
Jeremy Hellstrom | Source: GIGABYTE Technology | Subject: Motherboard
City of Industry, November 24, 2009 – GIGABYTE Technology CO., LTD., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards today is pleased to introduce their latest 333 Onboard Acceleration technology featuring support for USB 3.0, Serial-ATA Revision 3.0 (6Gbps) and a 3x USB Power Boost, as well as 8+2 power phases, Ultra Durable 3 (UD3) and Easy Energy Saver (EES) on AMD 700 series chipset motherboards including the GA-790FXTA-UD5, GA-790XTA-UD4 and GA-770TA-UD3. “By extending our 333 Onboard Acceleration technologies to the AMD platform, GIGABYTE is enabling more of our customers to take advantage of the many benefits high speed data transfer and storage has to offer,” commented Henry Kao, Vice President GIGABYTE Motherboard Business Unit. “As the leader in motherboard innovation, GIGABYTE is proud to be able to deliver the very latest technologies to our customers, and with next generation storage capabilities including USB 3.0, SATA 3.0, as well as GIGABYTE’s own unique 3x USB Power Boost, tomorrows performance has truly arrived today.” Equipped with the AMD AM3 socket, the GIGABYTE GA-790FXTA-UD5, GA-790XTA-UD4 and GA-770TA-UD3 motherboards allow users to elevate their rig beyond the standard limits with support for the latest 45nm AMD Phenom™II/ Athlon™II processors featuring HyperTransport 3.0 and integrated DDR3 memory controller. Built with the highest level of top notch engineering, these 3 new models feature an extremely durable 8+2 CPU VRM power phase design, able to handle the power demands from 140W CPUs with ease. GIGABYTE also makes it easy for users to take advantage of extended power savings with the GIGABYTE Easy Energy Saver™. Featuring an advanced proprietary software design, GIGABYTE Easy Energy Saver™ is able to dynamically adjust CPU power depending on workload, delivering just the right amount of power needed for the task. USB 3.0 Support
SATA 6 Gbps Support
3x USB Power Boost
For additional information about the GIGABYTE GA-790FXTA-UD5, GA-790XTA-UD4 and GA-770TA-UD3 motherboards, please visit the GIGABYTE website at: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/FileList/WebPage/mb_091020_333/data/tech_090814_amd-models.htm Want more news? Check out our Archive |
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