Gigabyte recently posted an album to their Facebook page teasing a few of their new Z97 Intel chipset motherboards. Three flavors were previewed specifically so far: Z97X0-UD5H-BK, the Z97X-UD7 TH and the Z97X-SOC FORCE. The new motherboards will all be compatible with Intel Haswell refresh processors, in addition to existing Haswell CPUs. The
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Gigabyte FM2+ Kaveri motherboards are in the pipeline with a press release from Gigabyte throwing their support behind the new APU with their new series of motherboards with the FM2+ socket. The new Gigabyte motherboards will support the A88X and A55 (rev. 3.0) chipsets. Here is what Gigabyte had to say about their support behind
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ASUS has announced that they will be adding in another motherboard in the Maximus VI ROG series. The new motherboard’s full name will be the ASUS Maximus VI Z87 Formula. Obviously this motherboard will be using Intel’s newest chipset made for Haswell processors. According to the press release, the ASUS Maximus VI Formula motherboard was
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In the past few months multiple motherboard manufacturers have been pushing BIOS updates and firmware codes so that Intel Haswell “K” processors (i7-4770K and i5-4670K CPUs) will be able to be overclocked using Intel H87 and B85 chipsets. While consumers of these chips love this because the H87 and B85 chipset boards are cheaper than
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New A88XM-A and A55BM-A/USB3 motherboards support upcoming AMD Kaveri FM2+ APUs, plus existing Richland and Trinity FM2 APUs. ASUS today announced the new A88XM-A and A55BM-A/USB3 motherboards, the first from any manufacturer to support new Socket FM2+ APUs (Accelerated Processing Units) from AMD. The A88XM-A with AMD A88X chipset and A55BM-A/USB3 with A55 chipset are both
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Coming in the next couple of months a revised and updated chipset for Intel 8 series motherboards will be releasing for Intel Haswell C2 stepping processors. When Intel Haswell was in its final stages of production before release a flaw was found that affected how USB 3.0 worked. Since all the motherboard manufacturers were neck
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Overclocking Intel Haswell with ASUS H87 and B85 Motherboards Now Available
With Intel Haswell being released with the flagship i7-4770k CPU and the Z87 chipset being the only chipset that has been available to actually overclock with is no more. ASUS is now releasing BIOS updates to overclock the ASUS H87 and B85 chipset motherboards. The
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