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Newegg Daily Deals: Motherboard Roundup

Posted 06/19/2013 at 8:00pm | by The Maximum PC Staff

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Top Deal:

If you're looking to upgrade to Haswell, you'll need a new 1150 socket motherboard to go along with it. Luckily today's top deal from Newegg is the ASrock Z87 Extreme6 LGA 1150 mobo which will support Intel's new processor. The deal is running for $175 with free shipping (normally $190) and you'll get 8GB of Crucial memory free with purchase.

Click the "Read More" button for other mobo deals.

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Asus Teases Upgraded Supreme FX Audio on Z87 Maximus VI Formula Motherboard

Posted 05/29/2013 at 11:29am | by Paul Lilly

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The next evolution of SupremeFX is coming.

I found nestled in my inbox this morning a note from Asus saying it's getting ready to introduce an "even more advanced version of SupremeFX on the upcoming Formula" board built for Haswell. Along with the note, Asus attached a teaser photo marking the recent evolution of SupremeFX (versions III and IV), leaving the world to wonder what it has in store for the next release. Care to venture a guess?

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ASRock's Specially Coated 8 Series Motherboards are Waterproof

Posted 05/22/2013 at 12:58pm | by Paul Lilly

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Don't try this at home.

Before self-contained liquid cooling solutions (LCS) became mainstream, water cooling enthusiasts would march over to places like Danger Den (R.I.P.) and order custom parts, fit them together, and then pray to Poseidon that he'd have mercy against leaks. Back then, water cooling aficionados sure could have used a board like any of ASRock's new specially coated 8 Series mobos. Using a layer of "Comformal Coating," ASRock says its treated mobos aren't afraid to get wet, a trait the company hopes the professional overclocking crowd will embrace.

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Column: Take the Socket Pledge With Me

Posted 04/30/2013 at 4:25pm | by Gordon Mah Ung

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Looking at the future of CPU sockets

The Mainstream tech media declared the PC dead—yet again—and enthusiasts had a full-on freak-out when rumors surfaced thatIntel intended to dump socketed processors within two years. You can read the details of the story here, but let it be known far and wide, Intel will support socketed processors for the “foreseeable future.” AMD, likewise, had already taken the pledge, saying it would be offering socketed CPUs, too.

Note: This column originally appeared in the February 2013 issue of the magazine.

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Asus Shows Off Rampage IV Extreme Black Motherboard

Posted 04/05/2013 at 9:46am | by Paul Lilly

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See every shot in our photo gallery below.

What better way is there to head into the weekend than by spying a few shots of a swank blacked out motherboard that's to be used for some secret project? If you feel the same way, then give kudos to Asus for supplying a bunch of pictures of its Rampage IV Extreme - Black motherboard, which we've placed into a photo gallery for your convenience. So, what do we know about this motherboard?

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Asus Teases Upcoming Haswell Motherboard

Posted 03/11/2013 at 12:21pm | by Paul Lilly

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Haswell is coming and it appears Asus is prepared.

As summer approaches, so too does the launch of Intel's 22nm Haswell platform, the upcoming successor to Ivy Bridge. Barring any last minute delays, Haswell parts are expected to debut in early June, according to leaked roadmaps that have shown up online. At least one motherboard maker is ready. Asus posted a few teaser shots of its Gryphon Z87 mainboard, a next generation slice of silicon with a new socket.

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Thunderbolt Motherboard Reviews

Posted 01/18/2013 at 4:38pm | by Gordon Mah Ung

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Getting the new tech requires a new motherboard

With our skepticism of Thunderbolt officially blown away (see last month’s Head to Head) we’re now ready to embrace the new I/O interface. But unless you’re one of the lucky few to have an older Asus board with support for the company’s Thunderbolt add-in card, you’ll need to buy a new motherboard to enjoy Tbolt goodness. Luckily, Thunderbolt boards have arrived. To gauge the choices, we gathered up both the priciest and cheapest Tbolt boards we could find and set at them.

The Asus P8Z77-V Premium comes fully loaded with features, including Wi-Fi antennas.

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Asus P8Z77-V Premium Review

Posted 01/18/2013 at 4:26pm | by Gordon Mah Ung

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Asus P8Z77-V Premium

LGA2011 boards have always occupied the luxury side of town, whereas LGA1155 has been pretty blue collar. Not anymore. Asus’s new P8Z77-V Premium pretty much shatters the idea that LGA1155 boards are low rent.

The Asus P8Z77-V Premium comes fully loaded with features, including Wi-Fi antennas.

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Gigabyte Z77X-UP4 TH Review

Posted 01/18/2013 at 4:15pm | by Gordon Mah Ung

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Gigabyte Z77X-UP4 TH

It’s commonly understood that if you can run Thunderbolt, you probably also snack on Beluga caviar, wear a Patek Philippe watch, and vacation in a country only rich people know about: Grenyarnia.

Not so, actually. Thunderbolt apparently doesn’t require you to smash the piggy. This is no more apparent than with Gigabyte’s Z77X-UP4 TH. What the TH stands for we don’t know for sure, but we’re guessing it has some relation to Thunderbolt, which the Z77X-UP4 TH has in spades.

It’s hard to believe you can get a board with not one, but two Thunderbolt ports for under $200.

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CES 2013: Look Ma, AMD's 990FX DOES Have PCIe 3.0 Support! [Video]

Posted 01/10/2013 at 2:41pm | by Paul Lilly

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Surprise, surprise -- PCIe 3.0 was baked into AMD's 990FX chipset all along.

Our CES video coverage continues with a tour of Asus' booth, where Deputy Editor Gordon Mah Ung captured on camera the company's E2KM1-L Deluxe mini-ITX motherboard (shown in thumbnail image). It's a replacement for the old E45 Brazos 2.0 boards, the big difference being a soldered on dual-core Trinity CPU. But the real surprise was still to come.

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