ASUS has a rather radical solution for the ill-fated 12VHPWR connector: ditch it instead of fixing it. A new BTF standard replaces 12VHPWR and cumbersome cable management for a 600W PCIe connector.
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ASRock has announced its first socket AM5 motherboards in support for AMD's 7000 series processors. The upcoming ATX motherboards utilize the X670E chipset for full DDR5 and PCIe 5 support.
A leaked slide has revealed details about AMD's upcoming chipsets for motherboards with the new AM5 socket. The company is preparing two regular and two "extreme" platforms with extra features.
Gigabyte has launched over 40 new server products that use AMD's newly announce EPYC 7003 Series processors. The firm said the CPU excels at high-performance computing a data analytics.
Codenamed 'Wildcat Point', the Z97 chipset brings support for future Broadwell CPUs, along with SATA Express and the M.2 socket. To help you pick a board we compare 7 models in every possible way.
Today's Haswell release isn't a tick or a tock, it's simply a refresh. But while we don't expect much more than slight speed bumps, the company has also released new 9-series chipsets.
The Taiwan-based PC hardware company ASRock has announced two new motherboards that they claim are the first to be designed specifically to help with Bitcoin mining.
Tom Petersen over at the official company blog has announced that nVidia, the graphics technology company, has decided to license its technology to a selection of motherboard companies for the upcoming 900 range of chipsets....
This just in from TweakTown: At the 2008 Computex event, Intel officially took the curtains off its 4 series PCI Express chipset range which is set to replace the original 3 series of chipsets. Intel's...
Asustek Computer has announced the release of the new Intel G35 chipset motherboards featuring on onboard HDMI connector, the Asustek P5E-V HDMI. The motherboards provide users with the ability to showcase high-definition multimedia, highlighted the...
Asustek has released the P5E WS Professional and P5E3 WS Professional workstation motherboards with multiple high speed I/O interfaces including dual PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 and PCI-X slots. The multiple slot interfaces increase expansion choices...
With Nvidia pushing the "Designed by Nvidia" scheme to market, it shows that the company has the engineering capability to design motherboards. Because of this, sources at graphics card makers believe that Nvidia will launch...
Dave Graham has posted images of an AMD Opteron 2218 processor running on an ASUS L1N64-SLI motherboard, which is designed for AMD's Quad FX platform. The motherboard BIOS detects the processor correctly and functions properly....
With Windows Vista up and coming, makers of motherboards and VGA cards are now worried they will incur losses from their inventory of low-end products that do support Microsoft's new operating system (OS), according to...
Asustek Computer plans to launch two motherboards complete with phone jacks able to turn common household telephones into Internet phones using Skype's popular VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) software. The M2N/TeleSky and P5B/TeleSky motherboards both...
Due to a problem with chipset drivers, motherboard makers cannot start shipping products utilizing Intel's G965 Express chipset, sources at Taiwan's motherboard industry indicated. Expecting new drivers to be released in October, the makers accordingly...
Micro Star International (MSI) recently introduced a series of motherboards based Intel G965/Q965 chipsets. With full support for the new generation Core 2 processors, the new G965/Q965 series motherboards features digital home and digital office...
Advanced Micro Device's acquisition of ATI Technology Monday gives the chip maker a leg-up in maintaining a stable image platform for corporate buyers, but it doesn't mean there will be branded AMD motherboards anytime soon....
THE AMD socket M2/AM2 based motherboards aren't likely to cost very much more than existing sockets. AMD advised its motherboard partners that the new motherboards will cost them only a little bit more. Socket vendors...
nForce chipsets slated to feature integrated GeForce DirectX 9 and Shader Model 3.0 graphics technology for AMD Athlon 64 platforms. Santa Clara-based graphics manufacturer Nvidia today announced new integrated graphics chipset offerings...
Two second-tier Taiwan motherboard makers – DFI and Jetway Information – expect their businesses to remain brisk in January, with DFI counting on new AMD64 motherboards and Jetway on LCD monitors, according to sources at...
ATI Technologies is cooperating with Gigabyte Technology in China to promote Gigabyte's GA-8TRX330-L motherboard, which is the first motherboard to feature the ATI RX330 north bridge, said ATI chairman KY Ho in Shanghai recently. ATI's...
Intel and ATI Technologies plan a co-marketing initiative called "Driving Change," which will target the channel and bundle ATI own-brand add-in-board (AIB) clients with Intel own-brand motherboards, according to sources at Taiwanese motherboards makers. The...
ASRock expects its motherboard shipments to grow 20% sequentially to two million units in the third quarter due to rising demand from China, India and Europe, according to company sources. Although the exact figures are...
Price competition for entry-level motherboards is expected to intensify in the third quarter as some of Taiwan's second-tier makers, including Biostar Microtech International and Jetway Information, plan to introduce new boards with ASPs (average selling...
Gigabyte Technology, one of Taiwan's top four motherboard makers, has launched 10 entry- to mid-level motherboards, aiming at the same market as the X-series from industry leader Asustek Computer, sources said. Gigabyte's new models, the...
First-tier Taiwanese motherboard maker Gigabyte Technology will promote a second, entry-level brand to expand its sales, according to sources. Gigatrend, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Gigabyte, will handle marketing of the second-brand motherboards, with volume shipments...
MSI HAS officially introduced two new motherboards for the AMD Opteron platform, one uniprocessor and one dual. The dually board is not new news, as it has been known about for quite some time. What...
Motherboard makers are seeing rising motherboard demand in part due to the lowering of prices of Intel 865 chipset-based motherboards. Ever since Intel lowered its 865 chipset prices in June, FOB (freight-on-board) wholesale prices for...
Thanks xStaindx...There is a total mess with Prescott support by existing mainboards based on i865PE and i875P chipsets that are meant to be "Ensured '03 Platforms Are Prescott Ready". Intel does not want to comment...
Dell Computer has launched a service campaign to replace motherboards in nearly 20,000 Inspiron notebooks. The Round Rock, Texas, company will replace the flawed motherboards inside nearly 20,000 Inspiron 2650 laptop models manufactured between the...