| ECS USA Launches Elite Member Service Site |
| Author: Cássio Lima |
Date: March 16, 2011 - 5:58 AM PST |
| Category: Motherboard |
| More Info: http://www.ecsusa.com/ECSWebSite/Member/LoginPage.aspx |
In order to provide the best service to meet the needs of their U.S. customers, ECS USA has launched the Elite Member Service Site for product registration and enhanced technical and customer support. It also offers a 99-hour replacement service exclusively to ECS users who have purchased an ECS Black Series motherboards or video cards. ECS hopes their online service will bring the consumer the most convenient access to their RMA service. 
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| Gigabyte Intros X58A OC Motherboard |
| Author: Cássio Lima |
Date: March 7, 2011 - 12:26 PM PST |
| Category: Motherboard |
| More Info: http://www.gigabyte.us/MicroSite/265/x58a-oc.html |
Gigabyte introduced what they are calling "the world's first motherboard designed by overclockers for overclockers". Which is kind of a suspicious affirmation, since both ABIT and DFI claimed the same at least eight years ago. In any case, the X58A-OC comes with a set of very high-end overclocking features, including a high-end 12-phase voltage regulator circuit, onboard buttons for tuning CPU clock, 2 oz (56 g) copper layers, seven four-pin fan connectors, and two BIOS chips, allowing users to select one BIOS for normal use, and another one for overclocking supporting up to 16 different profiles. It uses only top-notch components. Based on the Intel X58 chipset and supporting Intel 1366 socket CPUs, the X58A-OC motherboard features four PCI Express x16 slots, one slot PCI, six DDR3 memory sockets, six SATA-300 ports, two SATA-600 ports, two USB 3.0 ports, and one Gigabit Ethernet port. Gigabyte did not say when this board will be launched. 
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| MSI Unleashes Big Bang Marshal (B3) Motherboard |
| Author: Cássio Lima |
Date: February 24, 2011 - 5:32 AM PST |
| Category: Motherboard |
| More Info: http://www.msi.com/news-media/news/1191.html |
MSI has officially launched their newest Big Bang motherboard, the Big Bang Marshall (B3), a product based on the fixed version of the Intel P67 chipset (B3 Stepping chipset). This motherboard is a must-have for the high-end enthusiast. It comes with no less than eight PCI Express 2.0 slots (2x16, 2x8, 4x1), four DDR3 memory sockets (32 GB max of up to DDR3-2133 through overclocking), four SATA-600 ports, four SATA-300 ports, 12 USB 3.0 ports, two USB 2.0 ports, two eSATA ports, one Firewire port, and two Gigabit Ethernet ports. The Big Bang Marshall (B3) uses a cooling solution based on an 8-mm heat-pipe that, according to MSI, is to date the thickest heatpipe used on a motherboard (usually motherboards use five-mm heat-pipes), which translates in a better cooling capability (56% improvement, according to the manufacturer). It comes with a high-end regulator circuit with 24-phases and military-grade components. All electrolytic capacitors used on the voltage regulator circuit are SMD (surface mount device), also known as highly-conductive polymerized or simply Hi-c, and solid ferrite chokes, which MSI is promoting as “icy chokes” or “super ferrite chokes”. According to MSI these chokes work 20º C cooler than traditional chokes. Capacitors used outside the voltage regulator circuit are solid. Like other motherboards from MSI, it has a function called “OC Genie”. When this button is pressed, the motherboard automatically overclocks the system (it must be pressed when the computer is turned off). MSI Big Bang Marshall (B3) features voltage monitoring points, where the extreme overclocker can install a multimeter to manually monitor the CPU, memory and chipset voltages. It also comes with an overclocking panel called OC Dashboard. This dashboard is connected to the motherboard using two cables: a proprietary connection and a USB connection. Besides being able to control voltages and clocks, this panel can also monitor the CPU temperature and fan speed. Like other motherboards from MSI, this product comes with an operating system stored inside the motherboard read-only memory that allows you to access the Internet without needing to load the operating system or even without having a hard disk drive installed. This feature is called Winki 3. MIS did not reveal Big Bang Marshall (B3)’s pricing. 
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| ECS Launches AMD Fusion Motherboard |
| Author: Cássio Lima |
Date: February 24, 2011 - 4:23 AM PST |
| Category: Motherboard |
| More Info: http://www.ecs.com.tw |
ECS has brought out to the market a motherboard with a built-in AMD APU, which can be a single-core E-240 or dual-core E-350 model. APUs or Accelerated Processing Units are processors that have a CPU, a GPU, and a north bridge (including a memory controller) in the same die. The ECS HDC-I is a mini-ITX motherboard targeted to users building small form factor computers (SFF). As we’ve mentioned, this motherboard features an AMD E-350 APU (dual-core, 1.6 GHz) or an AMD E-240 APU (single-core, 1.5 GHz) with a Radeon HD 6310 integrated graphics engine, has two DDR3 DIMM memory sockets (up to 8 GB), one PCI Express x16 slot, one mini PCI Express slot, four SATA-600 ports, one eSATA port, six USB 2.0 ports, two USB 3.0 ports, one Gigabit Ethernet port, Bluetooth, 8-channel audio, and VGA, HDMI and DVI video outputs. No word on pricing was provided. 
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| Intel Confirms Problem with 6 Series Chipsets |
| Author: Cássio Lima |
Date: February 2, 2011 - 10:53 AM PST |
| Category: Motherboard |
| More Info: http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2011/01/31/int... |
Intel has halted the production of 6 series chipsets (H67 and P67, codename Cougar Point) due to a problem that can affect significantly the performance of the four SATA-300 controlled by these chipsets. The problem, however, do not affect the two SATA-600 ports. Intel has already fixed the problem and will come back to production of the 6 series chipsets by the end of this month. Users who have already bought a motherboard based on the H67 or P67 chipset should contact the vendor to proceed with replacement. This recall should cost USD 1 billion to Intel.
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| ASRock Intros World’s First P67 Motherboard Supporting Intel 1156 CPUs |
| Author: Cássio Lima |
Date: January 11, 2011 - 10:19 AM PST |
| Category: Motherboard |
| More Info: http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=P67%20Transformer |
The Intel P67 chipset is targeted to the second generation Core i3/i5/i7 CPUs (Sandy Bridge architecture) based on the socket 1155 platform. But ASRock has launched a socket 1156 motherboard (for Intel Core i7/i5 processors based on the “Lynnfield” core) based on the new P67 chipset. According to the manufacturer, the P67 chipset provides a better bandwidth to SATA-600 and USB 3.0 ports compare to the P55 chipset. Dubbed ASRock P67 Transformer, this motherboard features a PCI Express x16 slot, three PCI Express x1 slots, two PCI slots, four DDR3 memory sockets (up to DDR3-2600 through overclocking), two USB 3.0 ports, two SATA-300 ports, one eSATA port, coaxial and optical SPDIF outputs, and eight-channel audio. This motherboard is already being sold in the US market for USD 118 at Newegg.com. 
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| CES 2011: MSI P67 Motherboard With Eight PCI Express x16 Slots |
| Author: Cássio Lima |
Date: January 8, 2011 - 8:03 AM PST |
| Category: Motherboard |
| More Info: http://www.msi.com |
Following the footsteps of the Big Bang XPower, MSI released this CES the Marshal, a socket 1155 motherboard based on the Intel P67 chipset featuring eight PCI Express x16 slots. It makes use of a Lucid HydraLogix 200 processor, meaning that you can not only build SLI and CrossFireX systems, but mix cards from different generations and even mix AMD- and NVIDIA-based video cards. With eight slots you can have up to eight single-slot video cards working in parallel at the same time, even if they are from different chip makers! Other features include the presence of switches to disable each PCI Express x16 slot, ultra high-end voltage regulator circuit (30 DrMOS phases with military-grade components), voltage monitoring points, and more. Although this motherboard doesn’t have other kinds of PCI Express slots, keep in mind that you can install x1, x4, and x8 card in x16 slots. 
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| CES 2011: ASUS Displays P67 Motherboard With Thermal Cover |
| Author: Cássio Lima |
Date: January 8, 2011 - 7:51 AM PST |
| Category: Motherboard |
| More Info: http://www.asus.com |
The world plus dog released socket 1155 motherboards based on the Intel P67 chipset this CES (the word out there is that Gigabyte alone launched 31 different models), but only a couple of motherboard manufacturers released really different products. ASUS was one of them, with their Sabertooth P67 motherboard. The main feature of this motherboard is the presence of a huge thermal cover, which makes the motherboard to look like a Lego block, check in the pictures below. The cover can be entirely removed, if you want, or you can only remove the part above the P67 chip, if you want to install a small fan to cool down the chipset. 
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| CES 2011: Zotac Displays Mini-ITX Motherboard With GeForce GT 430 |
| Author: Cássio Lima |
Date: January 7, 2011 - 7:17 AM PST |
| Category: Motherboard |
| More Info: http://www.zotac.com/ |
This CES Zotac is displaying a prototype of a mini-ITX motherboard based on the Intel H67 motherboard for Intel “Sandy Bridge” processors (second generation Core i3/Core i5/Core i7) based on the socket 1155 with an on-board GeForce GT 430 graphics processor, targeted to people that want to build a very small PC but want more graphics performance than provided by the CPU integrated graphics processor. The prototype uses SODIMM memory modules. See pictures below. 
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| Manufacturers Unveil AMD Fusion Mini-ITX Motherboards |
| Author: Cássio Lima |
Date: January 5, 2011 - 12:23 PM PST |
| Category: Motherboard |
Gigabyte and Sapphire have already announced the launch of their first AMD Fusion motherboards. These new mini-ITX boards are equipped with an AMD’s APUs (Accelerated Processing Units) and are targeted to users building small home theater computers (HTPC’s). Gigabyte’s GA-E350N-USB3 features an AMD E-350 APU (dual-core, 1.6 GHz), has two DDR3 DIMM memory sockets (up to 8 GB), one PCI Express x16 slot (running at 4x), four SATA-600 ports, eight USB 2.0 ports, two USB 3.0 ports, one Gigabit Ethernet port, 8-channel audio, and VGA, HDMI and DVI outputs. Sapphire’s Pure Fusion Mini E350 also features an AMD E-350 APU (dual-core, 1.6 GHz), has two DDR3 SO-DIMM memory sockets (up to 4 GB), one PCI Express x16 slot, five SATA-600 ports, four USB 2.0 ports, two USB 3.0 ports, one Gigabit Ethernet port, 7.1 channel audio, and VGA, HDMI and DVI outputs. No word on pricing was provided. 
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Gigabyte GA-E350N-USB3
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| Gigabyte Previews Motherboards for Sandy Bridge Processors |
| Author: Cássio Lima |
Date: November 4, 2010 - 2:16 PM PST |
| Category: Motherboard |
| More Info: http://www.gigabyte.com/ |
Gigabyte has presented three motherboards for Intel’s Sandy Bridge processors, which will be launched next year. The boards are based on the forthcoming Intel 6 series chipset and support the new LGA 1155 socket (socket that will be used by Sandy Bridge processors). In the table below you can see the main specs for these new motherboards. Model | P67A-UD3R | P67A-UD3 | H67MA-UD2H | Form Factor | ATX | ATX | Micro-ATX | Memory | 4 DDR3-2200 slots | 4 DDR3-2200 slots | 4 DDR3-2200 slots | PCI Express x16 Slots | 2 slots | 2 slots | 2 slots | PCI Express x1 Slots | 3 slots | 3 slots | 2 slots | PCI Slots | 2 slots | 2 slots | - | SATA-300 Ports | 4 ports | 4 ports | 4 ports | SATA-600 Ports | 2 ports | 2 ports | 2 ports | USB 3.0 Ports | 2 ports | 2 ports | 2 ports | USB 2.0 Ports | 14 ports | 12 ports | 14 ports | LAN | Gigabit Ethernet | Gigabit Ethernet | Gigabit Ethernet | Audio | 8-channel | 8-channel | 8-channel | Video Outputs | - | - | VGA, DVI, HDMI, and DisplayPort |
The P67A-UD3R, P67A-UD3, H67MA-UD2H, and GA-P67A-UD7 (seen at IDF 2010) are expected to become available by the official launch of the Sandy Bridge processors. 
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| ECS Unveils the A890GXM-A2 Motherboard |
| Author: Cássio Lima |
Date: October 5, 2010 - 4:14 AM PST |
| Category: Motherboard |
| More Info: http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Media/NewsRoom_Detail.aspx?NewsID=135... |
ECS has just launched its newest socket AM3 motherboard within the Black Series, their A890GXM-A2. This new ATX motherboard is based on the 890GX chipset and features integrated video (ATI Radeon HD 4290) with 128 MB DDR3-1333 on-board to speed-up video (a feature called SidePort), four DDR3 sockets (32 GB max), three PCI Express x16 slots, one PCI Express x1 slot, and one slot standard PCI slot. The A890GXM-A2 provides five SATA-600 ports and one eSATA-600, all of them supporting RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10. Audio is generated by the chipset using a Realtek ALC892 codec (8-channel, no more technical information was provided). This motherboard has two Gigabit Ethernet ports, two USB 3.0 ports, and VGA, DVI, HDMI, and DisplayPort outputs. The motherboard price was not announced. By the way, we’ve already written about another ECS socket AM3 motherboard based on the 890GX chipset, the A890GXM-A. Take a look here. 
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| Intel Patsburg Chipset to Support SAS |
| Author: Cássio Lima |
Date: September 21, 2010 - 8:03 AM PST |
| Category: Motherboard |
| More Info: http://www.intel.com |
In the second half of 2011 Intel will introduce its Xeon processors for the server market based on the new Sandy Bridge architecture. The chipset that will support these upcoming processors, codename Patsburg, will feature four 6 Gbps (600 MB/s) Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) ports with RAID (0, 1, 10, and 5) support. By supporting software RAID, Intel hopes to lower the cost of SAS implementation on servers. 
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| MSI Launches 870A Fuzion Power Edition Motherboard |
| Author: Cássio Lima |
Date: September 1, 2010 - 5:48 AM PST |
| Category: Motherboard |
| More Info: http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=newsdesc&news_no=1087 |
MSI has just launched the 870A Fuzion Power Edition, a socket AM3 motherboard equipped with a Hydra 200 chip, which allows you to install video cards from AMD and NVIDIA at the same time to work in parallel, in a kind of SLI/CrossFireX mode. This motherboard also breaks the limitation that SLI has to only allow video cards using the same graphics chip, allowing you to install two NVIDIA-based video cards that are based on completely different GPUs. This new MSI motherboard is based on AMD 870 + SB850 chipset, has four DDR3-1600 memory slots, two PCI Express x16 slots, three PCI Express x1 slots, one PCI slot, six SATA-600 ports, one USB 3.0 port, one FireWire port, Gigabit Ethernet, 8-channel audio, and a 12-phase voltage regulator circuit. The price of this new motherboard has not been announced yet. 
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| Zotac Announces H55-ITX WiFi Motherboard |
| Author: Cássio Lima |
Date: August 10, 2010 - 6:24 AM PST |
| Category: Motherboard |
| More Info: http://www.zotac.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&... |
Zotac has announced the release of its latest mini-ITX motherboard based on the Intel H55 chipset, the H55-ITX WiFi (H55ITX-C-E). The novelty of this board is the support for two USB 3.0 ports. The H55-ITX WiFi supports Intel socket 1156 processors, features two DDR3-1333 memory slots, one PCI Express x16 slot, six SATA-300 ports, built-in 802.11 b/g/n wireless, one Gigabit Ethernet port, eight channel audio, and DVI and HDMI outputs. No word on pricing or availability. 
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