Alongside their line of channel and ROG motherboards, ASUS also has business (B/Q chipset) and Workstation (WS) lines for professional markets. The goal of these products is compatibility and stability – the desire to be a rock solid product in the face of any computational conundrum. Today we are reviewing hopefully the first of many ASUS WS motherboards – the P9X79-E WS, for the socket 2011 / performance Xeon market. This is an upgrade over the P9X79 WS, featuring a PLX chip giving seven full length PCIe slots.
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MSI Motherboards at CES 2014: Kaveri and Socketed Kabini
Wrapping up our visit with MSI, we’ve already seen many of their already-launched motherboards (e.g. series 8 chipsets), but MSI did have some upcoming Kaveri motherboards on display with...
1 by Jarred Walton on 1/6/2014
ASUS Rampage IV Black Edition Review
When Ivy Bridge-E arrived, there was discontent at the lack of a new chipset. Users who wanted to migrate to the high performance end of the spectrum received...
19 by Ian Cutress on 1/5/2014
G1.Sniper Mid-Range Expansion: GIGABYTE Launch Z5S and Z5
All the main motherboard manufacturers now have three distinct classes of motherboard to sell to the common home-build end user: the channel range, the overclocking range and the gaming...
16 by Ian Cutress on 1/3/2014
ASRock M8 Barebones Review: My Steam Box
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or so the saying goes. Most development in home computers veers towards the ultra large (high impact gaming machines for...
75 by Ian Cutress on 1/2/2014
Thunderbolt 2 certified on GIGABYTE Z87X-UD7 TH
The drive for faster and more efficient interfaces, particularly those over cables, is driven by a large number of consumer devices producing and displaying higher definition content. This...
23 by Ian Cutress on 12/14/2013
ASRock to Release 990FX Killer Motherboard with M.2
One of the next big things in motherboard development is the progressive move to faster storage – the superseding of SATA 3 Gbps and SATA 6 Gbps. We...
25 by Ian Cutress on 12/12/2013
MSI Launch mini-ITX Gaming Platform: the Z87I Gaming AC and GTX 760 Gaming
Even though we already let in on a sneak preview during our Holiday Guides, today marks the official launch of MSI’s mini-ITX Gaming Platform. The platform has two...
38 by Ian Cutress on 12/4/2013
GIGABYTE to Launch the Z87X-SLI
Hearing the name ‘Z87X-SLI’ took me aback. Z87 supports SLI already, right? Why would a manufacturer need to confirm SLI usage on the Z87 chipset: it is...
24 by Ian Cutress on 12/2/2013
Gaming Motherboards under $175: Holiday 2013
Glad tidings we bring, and this time it comes in the form of gaming oriented motherboards. As an ex-semi-serious gamer (local clan matches, LANs), the motherboard in my...
9 by Ian Cutress on 11/27/2013
Best Mini-ITX Motherboards: Holiday 2013
As part of a stream on holiday buying guides (Black Friday and jolly Noël around the corner), here is my take on the season’s mini-ITX offerings, covering both AMD...
33 by Ian Cutress on 11/23/2013
ASUS Maximus VI Impact Review: ROG and Mini-ITX
In previous generations, the ASUS Republic Of Gamers (ROG) range has been split across three models – the micro-ATX Gene, the gaming oriented Formula and the more overclocker friendly...
62 by Ian Cutress on 11/22/2013_carousel.jpg)
ASRock Launch Z87 Extreme11/AC with 22 SATA Ports and the H81 Pro BTC for Cryptocurrency Mining
This week ASRock are launching a high/low combination of motherboards for Haswell. The first one is going to be one of the wildest designs on the Z87 platform...
20 by Ian Cutress on 11/18/2013
GIGABYTE Launches $170 Z87 G1.Sniper
Astute followers of the Z87 motherboard market might start to notice a trend. For each generation we have had gaming focused motherboards, designed with hardware to lure gamers...
9 by Ian Cutress on 11/8/2013
ASUS Announces Rampage IV Black Edition, Coming 11/19
The extreme end of Intel’s performance platform is a relatively small end-user market, but despite this we had requests back at Sandy Bridge-E launch to test a good number...
15 by Ian Cutress on 11/8/2013
ASRock Z87E-ITX Review: Motherboard Juxtaposition
In the office I am currently running through a series of smaller sized motherboards – both micro-ATX and mini-ITX. Due to the size, there is plenty of scope...
41 by Ian Cutress on 11/6/2013
EVGA X79 Dark Review
Investing into the high performance Intel arena can be expensive. Alongside that $330/$580/$1050 CPU (or more for Xeons) there has to be a motherboard up to the task...
24 by Ian Cutress on 10/23/20133D BOX&MB_carousel.JPG)
ECS Reveals Bay Trail-D Mini-ITX Line
With Intel's Bay Trail platform and Silvermont Atom cores in the news for tablets, we have spotted their use in mini-ITX platforms as far pack as Computex 2013 where...
41 by Ian Cutress on 10/23/2013
GIGABYTE Z87X-OC Review: Overclocking Oriented Orange at $200
Last generation saw a new type of product in motherboards: the cheap OC oriented SKU. At $200-240 we had a single option specifically designed for OC, with other...
23 by Ian Cutress on 10/11/2013
Ivy Bridge-EP Compatibility Announced from ASUS and GIGABYTE
Along with the most of the consumer level X79 products being upgraded for Ivy Bridge compatibility, arguably Xeon compatibility for the server side of each motherboard manufacturer is more...
4 by Ian Cutress on 9/13/2013
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