In this review I’m looking at the MSI X99A Gaming 7 motherboard. As the name suggests this is a X99 enabled motherboard prepared in MSI Gaming trim and is really a perfect example of what a high-end gaming motherboard should...
Read More...In this review I’m looking at the MSI X99A Gaming 7 motherboard. As the name suggests this is a X99 enabled motherboard prepared in MSI Gaming trim and is really a perfect example of what a high-end gaming motherboard should...
Read More...We are big fans of mITX motherboards, though only in recent years. They have come a long way from their beige roots and now will tickle the geekiness of many gamers around the world. For us it’s the fact that we don’t need another big chassis in the office or in our homes, we generally have a few mITX rigs around, as daily drivers and as test machines.
Read More...We recently review the Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR4 2400Mhz Memory and it scored an excellent 4.6 out of 5.0. DDR4 is still new and still exclusive to X99 Chip sets at the time of writing, so though it’s an excellent memory kit, big gains can be main when a technology is learning to walk through its initial phases of development.
Read More...During Computex 2014 Gigabyte was showing a very limited edition Z97X SOC motherboard called the SOC LN2. This motherboard was specially designed for LN2 overclocking and had no provisions for aircooling due to the unique memory location. This sort of...
Read More...Small, smaller aaaaand stop .. 17 CM ! Tagged in their L337 Gaming series, ECS released the Z97I Drone motherboard. It offers decent features at a very good price. ECS took the Z97 chipset and made a nice dark looking...
Read More...Today we’ll review the ASUS Z97 SaberTooth Mark S Limited Edition motherboard, a motherboard with that wow-factor. The product is the Sabertooth TUF mark series, but in this round ASUS went the extra mile as they listened to the audience...
Read More...With the advent of the X99 Chipset from Intel, a bunch of new motherboards are needed to support this. Intel also released a revised Intel i7 CPUs to support this.
Read More...In this review we’ll check out the Gigabyte X99 UD4; the more affordable X99 motherboard in the Gigabyte line-up, and we’ve have had our hands on. It has a nice feature set like SLI/Crossfire support, heaps of SATA3 connectors, M.2.,...
Read More...Tagged in their L337 Gaming series, ECS recently released a Z97 motherboard with a tasty design, good features and a very good price. ECS took the Z97 chipset and made a nice dark looking motherboard that has SLI/Crossfire support and...
Read More...Reviewing motherboards isn’t always the easiest and every reviewer tends to look at different aspects. Some are super critical of fan controls while others may only look at feature differences between an entire group. Link
Read More...In this review we will pair the MSI 970 Gaming with the new AMD FX-8370E processor. This more energy friendly CPU still has eight physical CPU cores but has have a much lower base clock of 3300 MHz, but it...
Read More...In my Intel Core i7-5960X Extreme CPU Performance Review, I argue that the Haswell-E CPU is not really a good fit for most enthusiast users, since processors like the Core i7-4790K provide better performance in most applications for much less...
Read More...Some say that overclocking is a niche market dominated by hardware enthusiasts and gamers who finally moved out of their parent’s basement. Truth is overclocking is a rather large market perpetuated by mainstream hardware sales. A good example of this...
Read More...ASRock categorizes their high-end motherboards into three series; Extreme, Overclocking, and Gaming. The three different series of motherboards are easily distinguished by their color schemes. The Gaming motherboards have red highlights on the PCIe and RAM slots while the Overclocking...
Read More...The GA-X99-UD4 is based on the Intel X99 Express chipset and is designed for socket LGA2011-v3 processors which currently includes Core i7 5xxx series CPUs and Xeon E5 1xxx-v3 and E5 2xxx-v3 CPUs. The X99-UD4 utilizes an 8-phase digital PowerIRstage...
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