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...
A Quick Glimpse of the Biostar TP67XE and TH67XE
With Intel’s new socket 1155 and Sandy Bridge archtecture nearly upon us, it was only a matter of time before motherboard vendors started to release promotional shots of their...
27 by Ian Cutress on 9/29/2010ASRock 890FX Deluxe: Comprehensive Motherboard Review & Investigation of Thuban Performance Scaling
We kick off our long overdue focus on AMD with an in-depth review of ASRock's 890FX Deluxe 4. Landing with an MSRP of $180, the Deluxe 4 slots in...
43 by Rajinder Gill on 8/31/2010ZOTAC IONITX-P-E: Can Intel's CULV Processors Reinvigorate Interest in NVIDIA's ION?
NVIDIA’s ION brought a tremendous appeal to mini-ITX last year, but over the past six months Clarkdale has established itself as the natural and more capable choice for small...
42 by Rajinder Gill on 8/26/2010ASUS Rampage III Formula to debut ‘soon’
ASUS’ Republic of Gamers range is soon to have a new member, in the shape of the ASUS Rampage III Formula. Using the X58 chipset, this board is...
20 by Ian Cutress on 8/6/2010ASUS, EVGA, Gigabyte & MSI: Four Flagship X58 Motherboards Reviewed
Thus far, we’ve spent most of 2010 focusing on mainstream segments for our motherboard reviews, there’s more of that to come over the next few months starting off with...
54 by Rajinder Gill on 7/15/2010Computex 2010: Motherboards
Another year, another Computex. Every time it comes around, vendors attempt to tease and tantalise both journalists and Joe Public alike with concept models, previews, machines running really...
33 by Ian Cutress on 6/16/2010Gigabyte H55N-USB3 : Mini-ITX done the Gigabyte way...
We’ve been waiting for one of the major players to get their mitts into mini-ITX for Intel’s chipsets and finally Gigabyte has delivered with the Intel H55 chipset based...
78 by Rajinder Gill on 6/15/2010ASRock X58 Extreme3: An Enthusiast X58 Motherboard at a Budget Price?
Today, we take a look at an X58 motherboard from ASRock, the Extreme3. The Extreme3 is the next iteration up from the ASRock X58 Extreme, with the notable...
36 by Ian Cutress on 6/2/2010News Just In: Gigabyte Announces USB3 Mini-ITX H55 Motherboard
In the race to get a USB3 capable mini-ITX motherboard to market, Gigabyte has today announced the first entry into the arena - the GA-H55N-USB3. Measuring a tiny...
43 by Ian Cutress on 5/24/2010Gigabyte Announces Their New Flagship Motherboard: The X58A-UD9
Gigabyte are currently attacking the X58 market; with no less than 10 boards, from the budget EX58-UD3R (and it's upgrade, the X58A-UD3R) to the premium EX58-EXTREME, their latest board...
14 by Ian Cutress on 5/12/2010MSI has announced the HTPC oriented 740GM-P25
Announcing high end products and 'Halo' type hardware is relatively easy for manufacturers - slap some snazzy artwork next to a few pictures, wring a few industry related endorsements...
33 by Ian Cutress on 5/8/2010ECS H55H-I Review: Mini-ITX at a Sensible Price
So far we’ve looked at three different mini-ITX motherboards here at Anandtech over the past 6 months. While each of the products we’ve reviewed have ticked a certain number...
68 by Rajinder Gill on 5/6/2010Biostar announce the TA890FXE and ‘BIOKING’
Okay, I lied a little. Biostar announce their new tech as ‘BIO-unlocKING’, a feature on their latest 8xx series motherboard to unlock the quad core Thuban based processors...
11 by Ian Cutress on 5/3/2010Big Bang-XPower: A new MSI motherboard announced
Popular motherboard manufacturer MSI has announced the next weapon in their motherboard arsenal - the MSI Big Bang-XPower. Like other second generation X58 motherboards, the XPower will feature...
9 by Ian Cutress on 5/1/2010Phenom II X6 Compatibility, Over 170 Boards Supported at Launch
Earlier today AMD announced its Phenom II X6 processors. One vendor even started offering them at a huge discount if you're willing to put up with a mail in...
35 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/27/2010ASUS Maximus III Extreme - P55 for $349
Uncharacteristically late for ASUS, the P55 based Maximus III Extreme was rolled out to retail a couple of weeks ago. ASUS’s “M3E” follows in the footsteps of boards from EVGA...
23 by Rajinder Gill on 4/26/2010Intel DP55KG and DP55SB - Two P55s Reviewed
It’s been a while since AnandTech featured a P55 board review, but while Intel is expanding on their high-end with $1,100 Core i7 980X CPU’s, their low-to-mid-range P55 platform...
27 by Rajinder Gill on 4/6/2010ASUS M4A89GTD Pro - A Core Unlocking 890GX for $140
With less than a week of public release mileage under its belt, how close have ASUS come to hitting a home run with the M4A89GTD Pro?
47 by Rajinder Gill on 3/10/2010Intel DH57JG “Jet Geyser” - Intel's First Mini-ITX H57
Intel delivers mini-ITX without the frills and fuss...
34 by Rajinder Gill on 3/1/2010