DFI Launches LANParty DK 790X-M2RS Motherboard

Author: Cássio Lima Date: May 16, 2009 - 9:48 AM PST Category: Motherboard More Info: http://img.lanparty.tw/DFIcontent/pressContent?site=CM&fileName=arch53... DFI has launched LANParty DK 790X-M2RS, a socket AM2/AM2+ motherboard based on AMD 790X chipset (SB750 southbridge) equipped with four DDR2 667/800/1,066/1,200 MHz memory sockets, two PCI Express x16 slots, three PCI slots, six SATA-300 ports, Gigabit Ethernet (Marvell 8056), 8-channel audio (Realtek ALC885), POST display, power and reset onboard buttons and six connectors for fans. No word on pricing. click to enlarge Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News | Permalink | Comments (0) top

ECS Launches X58B-A2 Black Series Motherboard

Author: Cássio Lima Date: March 26, 2009 - 2:31 PM PST Category: Motherboard More Info: http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Products/ProductsDetail.aspx?detailid... ECS launched today X58B-A2 Black Series motherboard, a product specially designed for overclocking beginners. Based on Intel X58 chipset, this board comes with a 6-phase processor voltage regulator circuit, six DDR3-1600 (24 GB max) sockets, two PCI Express x16 slots, one PCI Express x4 slot, one PCI Express x1 slot, one PCI slot, eight SATA-300 ports (six controlled by the Intel ICH10R southbridge supporting RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5, JBOD, and two controlled by the JMicron JMB362 chip), two eSATA ports, nine USB 2.0 ports (six on the rear part of the board and three available through adapters), two Firewire ports controlled by VIA VT6308P (one on the rear part of the board and other available through adapter), two Gigabit Ethernet ports (controlled by the Realtek 8111C PCIe chip), 8-channel audio (Realtek ALC 888S-VC codec), POST diagnostics display, clear-CMOS button on the rear part of the board and on-board Power and Reset buttons. This motherboard also comes with a myriad of overclocking options, as you can see below: CPU Voltage: Adjustable CPU voltage from 0.5 V to 1.6 V NB (IOH) Voltage: Adjustable NB (IOH) voltage from 0.011 V to 0.693 V CPU VTT Voltage: Adjustable CPU VTT voltage from 0.013 V to 0.481 V SB (ICH10R) Voltage: Adjustable SB (ICH10R) voltage from 0.05 V to 0.15 V VDIMM: DRAM voltage control from 0.015 V to 0.945 V X58B-A2 Black motherboard is available now, but ECS didn’t disclose its price. click to enlarge click to enlarge Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News | Permalink | Comments (0) top

ECS Presents G43T-M3 Motherboard

Author: Cássio Lima Date: March 16, 2009 - 4:18 PM PST Category: Motherboard More Info: http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/NewsRoom/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=1249&... ECS has unveiled G43T-M3, a Micro-ATX motherboard based on Intel Eaglelake G43 (ICH10 southbridge) chipset featuring on-board video (Intel GMA X4500) targeted to LGA775 processors with a FSB of up to 1,333 MHz. This board has two DDR2-800 sockets, one PCI Express x16 slot, two PCI Express x1 slots, one PCI slot, six SATA-300 ports, 6-channel audio (Realtek ALC662), Gigabit Ethernet (Atheros AR8121-L1E), eight USB 2.0 ports, SPDIF out header and a DVI connector. No word on pricing and availability. click to enlarge click to enlarge Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News | Permalink | Comments (0) top

EVGA Announces X58 SLI Classified Motherboard

Author: Cássio Lima Date: March 12, 2009 - 12:12 PM PST Category: Motherboard More Info: http://www.evga.com/articles/00447 EVGA has just announced its X58 SLI Classified (141-BL-E759-A1) motherboard. According to the company this is one of the most feature-rich LGA-1366 motherboards launched so far. Based on Intel X58 chipset, this board is targeted to rich overclockers and features two 8-pin 12V connectors (to provide more current to the CPU), processor voltage regulator circuit with 10 phases (memory power voltage circuit with four phases), solid caps, more amount of gold in the CPU socket than normal, six DDR3-1600 (12 GB max) sockets, four PCI Express x16/x8 slots, one PCI Express x1 slot, one PCI slot, nine SATA-300 ports (supporting RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5, JBOD), one eSATA port, one IDE port, eight USB 2.0 ports (four on the rear part of the board and four available through adapters), two Firewire ports (one on the rear part of the board and other available through adapter), a floppy disk drive connector, two Gigabit Ethernet ports, 8-channel audio, POST diagnostics display and on-board Power and Reset buttons. X58 SLI Classified motherboard will reach the market soon priced at USD 450. A demonstration video of this board can be viewed here. Click here to read our review of the EVGA X58 SLI motherboard, this motherboard's little brother. click to enlarge click to enlarge click to enlarge click to enlarge click to enlarge Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News | Permalink | Comments (0) top

Biostar Launches TPower X58A

Author: Cássio Lima Date: March 6, 2009 - 8:35 AM PST Category: Motherboard More Info: http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en-us/t-power/introduction.php?S_ID=397 Biostar has just announced its second motherboard based on Intel X58 chipset, TPower X58A. This socket 1,366 motherboard supports up to 24 GB DDR3-2000 (six sockets), has three PCI Express x16 slots (x16, x16 and x4) supporting SLI or CrossFireX technologies, one PCI Express x1 slot, two PCI slots, six SATA-300 (supporting RAID 0, 15, 10) ports, two eSATA (supporting RAID 0,1) ports, one IDE port, 10 USB ports (eight on the rear part of the board and two available through adapters), Gigabit Ethernet, 8-channel audio (Realtek ALC888S), SPDIF output (optical and coaxial), processor voltage regulator circuit with 12 phases (memory power voltage circuit with eight phases), Japanese solid caps and POST diagnostics display. No word on pricing and availability. click to enlarge Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News | Permalink | Comments (0) top

MSI Presents Winki OS

Author: Cássio Lima Date: March 5, 2009 - 4:53 PM PST Category: Motherboard More Info: http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=newsdesc&news_no=737 Motherboard manufacturers are always trying to implement exciting new features on their product in order to make the user’s experience more enjoyable and easy. Following this tendency, MSI showed during CeBIT 2009 Winki, an operating system based on a Linux distribution that comes installed on a flash memory and that can be hooked up on one of the motherboard’s USB headers. Once the Winki OS is loaded, a screen shows up and offers functions like built-in web browsing, MSN, Skype, ICQ and Yahoo, so there’s no need to load the main OS from hard disk. You can even use the Winki with a system without a hard disk (this is the same idea of ASUS Express Gate feature). So you can have a system with common PC functions with no hard disk, thus saving some money. Winki will be available on some MSI motherboards, but the list of them has not been disclosed yet.     Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News | Permalink | Comments (0) top

ASUS Presents New Motherboard Concept

Author: Cássio Lima Date: March 4, 2009 - 7:36 AM PST Category: Motherboard More Info: http://www.asus.com/news_show.aspx?id=14509 During CeBIT 2009, ASUS showed a new motherboard concept called Marine Cool, with the aim of improving stability and cooling system on the motherboards. By doing this ASUS want to present and discuss the Marine Cool concept before implementing it on upcoming products. As you can see on the pictures below, the conceptual Marine Cool motherboard has a futuristic design. Its heat-pipe system, in charge of cooling the main motherboard components, looks like a NASA robot. On the back part of the motherboard, where usually we find the solder side, there is a micro-porous ceramic backplate to provide a larger surface area (thus helping to effectively convey heat from the motherboard printed circuit board) and to protect terminals on the solder side of the board. According to ASUS this thermal design is up to 2 times better than standard solutions. The conceptual Marine Cool motherboard has an on-board UPS using polymer battery that serves as an extra backup power supply that activates when a power failure is detected. This is a cool idea because it prevents damage on the on-board main components, loss of critical files and data corruption due to inconsistent and fluctuating power caused during unexpected blackouts. This motherboard uses SO-DIMM memory modules (targeted to notebooks) instead of standard DDR-DIMM modules, which takes more space but are faster and stores more data than SO-DIMM modules. This board also features a built-in memory to help the system boot-up in the case of errors on the main memory system (this feature is called Failover Memory by ASUS). So let’s see if ASUS will implement one of the Marine Cool concepts on upcoming products. click to enlarge click to enlarge click to enlarge click to enlarge Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News | Permalink | Comments (2) top

ASUS Launches Rampage II Gene Motherboard

Author: Cássio Lima Date: February 25, 2009 - 9:41 AM PST Category: Motherboard More Info: http://www.asus.com/news_show.aspx?id=14446 ASUS has officially launched Rampage II Gene, a microATX motherboard based on Intel X58 chipset. This board supports Intel Core i7 processors, has six DDR3 sockets supporting triple-channel configuration, two PCI Express x16 slots supporting to SLI or CrossFire modes, one PCI Express x4 slot, one PCI slot, seven SATA-300 ports, one eSATA port, one ATA-133 port, Gigabit Ethernet and 8-channel audio. Rampage II Gene comes with several overclocking options that can be adjusted on-the-fly through a joystick-like control without entering the BIOS Setup. This board also has a neat feature called MemOK! that works as following: in the event of a boot failure after installing new RAM, the user can press an easily accessible button on the motherboard and MemOK! will automatically load the failsafe settings needed to ensure a successful system boot. ASUS didn’t disclose the price of this motherboard. click to enlarge Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News | Permalink | Comments (0) top

Biostar Unveils AMD Dragon Platform Motherboard

Author: Cássio Lima Date: February 9, 2009 - 12:06 PM PST Category: Motherboard More Info: http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en-us/t-series/content.php?S_ID=395# Biostar has announced its first motherboard based on AMD Dragon platform, TA790GX A3+. This socket AM3 motherboard features AMD 790FX chipset (SB750 southbridge chip), supports DDR3 memory up to 1,333 MHz (max. 16 GB), has two PCI Express x16 slots, two PCI Express x1 slots, two PCI slots, one ATA-133 port, one floppy disk drive port, six SATA-300 ports (RAID 0, 1, 5, 10), one Gigabit Ethernet port (Realtek 8111DL chip), on-board video (ATI Radeon HD3300), on-board audio (Realtek ALC888), one Firewire port, seven USB ports (four on the rear panel and three via the USB brackets connected to the internal headers), and VGA, DVI and HDMI connectors. No word on pricing and availability. click to enlarge click to enlarge Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News | Permalink | Comments (0) top

Gigabyte Announces AMD Dragon Platform Motherboard

Author: Cássio Lima Date: January 22, 2009 - 9:05 AM PST Category: Motherboard More Info: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx... Gigabyte has announced its first motherboard based on AMD Dragon platform, MA-790FXT-UD5P. This socket AM3 motherboard is part of Durable 3 series, features AMD 790FX chipset (SB750 southbridge chip), supports DDR3 up to 1,666 MHz (max. 16 GB), has two PCI Express x16 slots, three PCI Express x1 slots, two PCI slots, one ATA-133 port, 10 SATA-300 ports (six controlled by the southbridge chip and four controlled by Gigabyte SATA2 chip), one floppy disk drive port (controlled by ITE 8720 chip), two Gigabit Ethernet ports (Realtek 8111DL chip), three Firewire ports (two on the rear panel and one via the Firewire bracket connected to the internal header) and 12 USB ports (eight on the rear panel and four via the USB brackets connected to the internal headers). No word on pricing and availability. click to enlarge click to enlarge Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News | Permalink | Comments (0) top

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