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Giada N70E-DR mini-ITX mainboard aims at entry-level NAS servers

Giada has unveiled a new and very small fully featured mini-ITX mainboard called the N70E-DR. The little mainboard is aimed specifically at users looking to build network attached storage. The manufacturer of the motherboard says that the board will allow users to build low-cost implementations of NAS servers for file sharing, data backup, and media server functionality. Read The Full Story

Intel’s Desktop Motherboard Business to shutdown within three years

Intel has announced that it will be shutting down its Desktop Motherboard group in the next few years, with the Haswell motherboards being the last of its offerings. The company will still supply chipsets to third parties, but will cease developing its own desktop motherboards once the Haswell launch is over. Read The Full Story

iPhone 5 motherboard suggests LTE and battery boost

, Aug 13th 2012 Discuss [0]

This week the motherboard for the new iPhone appears to have been photographed and leaked by a relatively anonymous source who also suggests a larger battery and LTE connectivity for the device. The user is a forum member from Weiphone previously leaked images of the motherboard for a new iPhone last year - that motherboard turned out to belong to the iPhone 4S. With this new and improved piece of hardware popping up today, several conclusions can be drawn should be be supposed that it's real. Read The Full Story

ASUS P8Z77-V PREMIUM motherboard adds Thunderbolt

, May 21st 2012 Discuss [0]

USB 3.0 has been trundling along quite nicely, but Thunderbolt has had a bit of a harder time finding a foothold in the market. The tech is only really used extensively on Apple’s line of MacBooks and iMacs right now, and accessories have been slow to appear. Maybe some native support on motherboards will help move things along: ASUS has announced that the P8Z77-V PREMIUM will be the first motherboard certified by Intel to include Thunderbolt. Read The Full Story

Asus motherboards break 7GHz speed, set new world records

, Apr 24th 2012 Discuss [3]

Asus has announced that it is breaking all sorts of world records in the semiconductor world, thanks to Intel's latest Z77 chipset and third-generation Core i7 processors. Among the high-level achievements are the P8Z77-V Deluxe motherboard, which reaches an astonishing 7 GHz CPU clock frequency when using the Intel Core i7-3770K processor with 16 GB of DDR3 and clocked at 2800 MHz. Read The Full Story

Ivy Bridge chipset detailed: native USB 3.0 and faster PCIe

, Apr 9th 2012 Discuss [3]

Intel will be releasing its next iteration of CPUs, codenamed Ivy Bridge, in the coming weeks. While the CPUs won’t be available to purchase for another three weeks, Anandtech has had some hands-on time detailing the improvements and new features of the Ivy Bridge chipset on various motherboards. If you’re looking for performance reviews, you’ll have to hold on a little longer, but there are some interesting tidbits to note from the chipset. Read The Full Story

ASUS Rampage IV Formula and Gene hands-on

The desktop market is a little quiet as of late, but there will always be room for hardcore PC gamers, and those who are more than willing to relieve them of their excess cash. To that end, Asus showed off two new high-end motherboards in its Republic of Gamers line at CES 2012, both of which use Intel's X79 chipset. We got some hands-on time with the Rampage IV Formula and the Rampage IV Gene in a meeting with Asus, and came away impressed. Read The Full Story

ASUS Sabertooth X79 motherboard rundown

, Nov 7th 2011 Discuss [1]

It's been revealed by ASUS that their next big platform will be what you see before you here, the Sabertooth X79, seen here in its nude motherboard state. Inside you'll find the upcoming Intel X79 chipset sitting nicely in this TUF series motherboard, the whole thing made to be reliable and a "long term investment" by the folks as ASUS. Military grade hardware for the elements and power galore - let's have a look at what we've got going here. Read The Full Story

ASUS ROG range gets dual-GTX 580 MARS II video card, motherboards, more

, May 31st 2011 Discuss [0]

ASUS' glasses-free 3D gaming notebook will likely get most of the attention, but the Republic of Gamers team has also brought along plenty of kit for the DIY enthusiast. In addition to the ROG Crosshair V Formula series motherboard shown yesterday there are the ROG Maximus IV Extreme-Z and ROG Maximus IV GENE-Z motherboards, plus the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 based ROG MATRIX GTX 580 and ROG MARS II graphics cards. Read The Full Story

ASUS ROG Crosshair V Formula, SABERTOOTH 990FX and M5A99/97 motherboards outed

, May 30th 2011 Discuss [0]

ASUS has brought motherboards to Computex as well as tablets and notebooks, with several new AMD 9 Series models offering things like AMD CrossFireX, NVIDIA SLI and Intel ThunderBolt connectivity depending on 'board. The ASUS M5A99/97 Series, the TUF SABERTOOTH 990FX and the ROG Crosshair V Formula all support 990FX/990X/970 chipsets and AM3+ CPUs, with the Republic of Gamers 'board having a ThunderBolt audio/LAN combo expansion card. Read The Full Story

Asus debuts new P8Z68 Intel Z68 Express Chipset mainboards

Asus has slowly built itself up from what was a computer component firm in many minds with a hoard of mainboards and video card offerings among other things to a company that is more known today for netbook and tablet computers. That doesn't mean Asus has abandoned the core computer hardware market that it is so well known for though. Asus is always working to integrate the latest chipsets and other tech into its lineup of mainboards for Intel and AMD CPUs. The latest mainboards to hit the Asus line include a pair of new offerings that use the Intel Z68 Express chipset. Read The Full Story

NVIDIA SLI multi-GPU coming to AMD Bulldozer motherboards

, Apr 29th 2011 Discuss [2]

AMD may have its own Radeon graphics card range, but that doesn't stop many gamers wanting to use NVIDIA's GeForce cards in SLI configuration. Now, NVIDIA has announced that it is reintroducing SLI support for AMD motherboards, with ASUS, Gigabyte, ASRock and MSI all among the first wave of manufacturers who will be including the technology on their 990FX, 990X and 970 based 'boards. Read The Full Story

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