Motherboards
During Computex 2024, ASRock held an event to unveil some of its upcoming X870E motherboards, designed for AMD's Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000 series processors. ASRock's announcement includes a pair of Taichi-branded boards, the X870E Taichi and the lighter X870E Taichi lite, which uses AMD's X870E (Promontory 21) chipset for AM5. The current flagship model announced from ASRock's X870E line-up for Ryzen 9000 is the ASRock X870E Taichi. ASRock is advertising a large 27-phase power delivery through 110A SPS, suggesting this board is designed for overclockers and all-around power users. Two PCIe 5.0 x16 slots (operating in either x16/x0 or x8/x8) provide high-speed bandwidth for cutting-edge graphics cards and other devices. Meanwhile, ASRock has gone with 4 DIMM slots on this board, so system builders will...
GIGABYTE Ships X399 Aorus Xtreme: A Chariot for Threadripper 2
With the first AMD Threadripper 2 processors hitting the market today, GIGABYTE has started shipments of its flagship X399 Aorus Xtreme motherboard for AMD’s new chips. The motherboard comes...
17 by Anton Shilov on 8/13/2018
The MSI MEG X399 Creation Motherboard Review: The New 16-Phase Shark In Town
With the highly anticipated launch of AMD's second generation Threadripper processors, it gives motherboard vendors the incentive and justification to release more boards. As there aren’t tons of Threadripper...
17 by Gavin Bonshor on 8/13/2018
ASRock Confirms Eight-Core Coffee Lake CPUs, Adds Their Support to Intel 300-Series Boards
ASRock on Thursday became the fifth member to join the unofficial 9th Gen Core club, releasing BIOS updates to add support for Intel's unannounced CPUs. Like its fellow club...
23 by Anton Shilov on 8/10/2018
ASUS Adds Support for 9th Gen Core CPUs to Their Intel 300-Series Motherboards
ASUS on Tuesday released new BIOS versions for Intel’s 300-series motherboards, adding support for Intel’s not-so-secret upcoming Core i3/i5/i7 9000-series processors. With the addition of ASUS, now all of...
7 by Anton Shilov on 8/8/2018
GIGABYTE Adds Support for Intel’s 9th Gen Core Processors to Existing Motherboards
GIGABYTE has released new BIOS versions for its motherboards based on Intel’s 300-series chipsets, which add support for the upcoming 9th Generation Core i3/i5/i7 processors. The release reaffirms that...
12 by Anton Shilov on 8/6/2018
The ASRock X470 Taichi Ultimate Motherboard Review: Aquantia 10GbE on Ryzen
With the new X470 motherboard refresh to compliment the release of the Ryzen 2000-series of processors, motherboard vendors have had the opportunity to improve upon their previous X370 models...
44 by Gavin Bonshor on 8/2/2018
MSI Z370 Motherboards Now Support Intel’s 9th Gen Core CPUs
MSI pushed a news item live today that states that the company has released updated BIOS versions for its Intel Z370-based motherboards that add support for Intel’s as-yet unannounced...
11 by Anton Shilov on 8/1/2018
More Details on Intel's Z390 Chipset Exposed
A couple of days ago we revealed that ASUS had published a list of its upcoming motherboards on the currently unofficially announced Z390 chipset. While we know a little...
30 by Gavin Bonshor on 7/31/2018
The ASRock B450 Gaming ITX/ac and B450 Gaming K4 Motherboard Reviews
With the launch of the new AMD B450 budget focused chipset, we’re taking a look at two gaming branded ASRock motherboards; the B450 Gaming ITX/ac and the Fatal1ty B450...
29 by Gavin Bonshor on 7/31/2018
Analyzing B450 for AMD Ryzen: A Quick Look at 25+ Motherboards
One of the secondary stories from Computex was that AMD and its partners were set to launch a new generation of mid-range chipsets and motherboards with the new lower-power...
62 by Gavin Bonshor on 7/31/2018
ASUS Publishes List of Upcoming Intel Z390-Based Motherboards
ASUS has published a list of its upcoming motherboards powered by Intel’s yet-not-announced Z390 chipset. As expected, the company will offer several families of platforms featuring over a dozen...
32 by Anton Shilov on 7/28/2018
ASUS Launches WS C246 PRO: 4 PCIe 3.0 x16, Two M.2, Optional SAS RAID
ASUS has introduced its first Intel C246-based motherboard for Intel’s Xeon E processors. The WS C246 PRO platform is aimed at rather serious machines that use up to four...
21 by Anton Shilov on 7/27/2018
The GIGABYTE X470 Gaming 7 Wi-Fi Motherboard Review: The AM4 Aorus Flagship
The GIGABYTE X470 Aorus Gaming 7 Wi-Fi is specifically aimed at gamers looking to make the most of the benefits of AMD’s newest AM4 based chipset, X470. Like most...
30 by Gavin Bonshor on 7/26/2018
The ASRock Z370 Taichi Motherboard Review: Competitive at $220, Aggressive at $190
The Z370 Taichi, like the X299 Taichi and previous generations, comes fully featured and ready to rock out of the box. Not defined by a naming convention, the Taichi...
32 by Joe Shields on 7/20/2018
The ASUS X399 ROG Zenith Extreme Motherboard Review: Top Tier Threadripper
Today we are having a look at the most expensive motherboard for Ryzen Threadripper processors, the ASUS X399 ROG Zenith Extreme. The motherboard has a very impressive list of...
25 by E. Fylladitakis on 7/17/2018
ASRock Launches C246M WS Micro-ATX Motherboard for Xeon E CPUs
ASRock Rack has announced one of the industry’s first Micro-ATX motherboards for Intel’s new Xeon E processors for entry-level servers and workstations. The C246M WS platform is aimed at...
11 by Anton Shilov on 7/16/2018
The ASRock Z370 Gaming-ITX/ac Motherboard Review: Mini-ITX with Thunderbolt 3
There's a lot of love for mini-ITX, and our next review is the ASRock Z370 Gaming-ITX/ac. This gaming-centric board offers users a number of features which make it highly...
33 by Joe Shields on 7/13/2018
iBASE Lists C246 Motherboards for Intel Xeon E CPUs
iBASE has published specifications of its upcoming MB995VF-C246 motherboard aimed at entry-level/embedded servers and workstations that will support Intel’s upcoming (but not yet announced) Xeon E processors. The mainboard...
20 by Anton Shilov on 7/11/2018
The GIGABYTE B360 Gaming 3 WIFI Review: A Cheaper Alternative at $120
One of GIGABYTE's first B360 series motherboards in the Gaming 3 WIFI. This is our first review of this new chipset, and it offers users a cheaper way into...
18 by Joe Shields on 7/11/2018
Sapphire Unveils FS-FP5V: AMD Ryzen Embedded Mini-STX Motherboard
Sapphire has announced one of the world’s first platforms based on AMD’s Ryzen Embedded V1000-series APUs. The motherboard is aimed at various embedded applications that can take advantage of...
28 by Anton Shilov on 7/9/2018
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