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...
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Tag: X99
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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.
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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.,...
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Aside from the two 10G BASE-T LAN ports, there are two more Intel® gigabit LAN ports each supported by an Intel® I210AT Ethernet controller, and best of all, support for quad LAN Teaming. By running IxChariot to test our quad...
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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...
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ASRock has shipped us their ASRock X99 OC Formula. The motherboard can supply “1300W” of maximum CPU power using its 12-phase CPU VRM. This phat X99 motherboard comes with eight DDR4 DIMM slots can support up to 128 GB of...
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With the dust settling from the recent Intel X99-E releases, there is a general view there will be no mITX motherboards. When you consider what’s in the Intel X99-E’s spec, it is unlikely to ever be something to cater for the mITX gamers, so what’s the alternative?
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One of my favorite platforms over the past two years has been the X79. The X79 chipset was a new workstation platform designed to replace Gulftown. At launch the new processor was called Sandy Bridge-E and shared a variety of...
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The purpose of this guide is to help speed up your research and narrow down your X99 motherboard choices, so you can focus on more specific motherboard research. While the X99 platform isn’t necessarily a landmark platform, there is an...
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The Intel Core i7-5960X and other Haswell-E chips are released on the market September 2014 and based on a new socket LGA2011-V3 infrastructure and DDR4 quad channel memory. The new Haswell-E series being released feature three models, two 6-core and...
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We have two photo’s of EVGAs pending Intel x99 chipset based mATX and Classified motherboards. Below the fold you can check out a photo of the upcoming products with showing the black design quad PCB, buttons and a diagnostic LED....
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The company is using a full 4-way PCIe layout, with 8 DIMM slots, 10 SATA 6Gbps ports, two of the SATA feature SATA Express capabilities, which goes hand-in-hand with the M.2 slot smack bang in the middle of hte PCIe...
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We have talked a lot about Haswell-E in the past already, as it is the next big thing in processor land to happen in 2014. A new roadmap leaked on the Haswell-E is an 8 core CPU series. Conformed now...
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