ASRock have worked hard in the last year to compete with the big players such as ASUS and Gigabyte in the enthusiast sector. Products like the 990FX Fatal1ty motherboard that we looked at a few months back show just how far they have come and how they can now compete …
Read More »ASRock Z68 Extreme7 Gen3 Review
This year we have seen ASRock launch an attack on the high end market with a steady stream of quality motherboards for both AMD and Intel platforms. I use several of their boards myself at home and have found them to be very reliable and extremely straightforward to overclock. Today …
Read More »Why there is no X78? Chinese sauces reveal truth
Intel likes roadmap and planning. It likes to smooth transitions from generation to generation. As whole world prepare for the arrival of the strongest processors ever, KitGuru must ask. Why is the new name not logical? The X48 happily hosted something like 70 processors. Whether you have a lowly Celeron …
Read More »Zotac enables mini-ITX overclocking with Z68
There are many cases in life where small is beautiful, but not so many when the smaller product still carries as big a punch as the ‘daddy' in the range. We're thinking Optimus Prime versus the accidental kitchen deceptacons in the Revenge of the Fallen. So what is Zotac up …
Read More »Intel to kill P chipset in January
Sources in the Swindon area are telling us that Intel's had enough of the ‘P' chipset for Sandy Bridge and will be canning it around January – just in time for the launch of Ivy Bridge. The launch of the new ‘Z' chipset was a bit of a surprise. With …
Read More »ASrock announce Z68 chipset motherboards
Tick-tock, tick-tock, one generation, the next generation! The much-anticipated Intel Z68 platform will join the party in late Q2 2011; the new generation brings all major advances over the previous platforms. In the past, if users were looking for extreme overclocking, it’s P67. If users needed integrated graphics, then it’s …
Read More »Confirmation on Gigabyte’s Z68 leadership and P67 support
With Intel's new Z68 overclocking platform close to launch, Gigabyte's team took time out of their busy schedules to discuss with KitGuru the changes that are happening in the market, the way that Gigabyte is pushing hard on R&D and the value of long term customer support. KitGuru's recent article …
Read More »B3 chipset lands in CeBIT 2011
Growing up in the cold war meant that B1 and B2 conjured up images of supersonic bombers capable of delivering both nuclear and conventional payloads, great distances. At CeBIT 2011, the characters ‘B' and ‘3' combined to make something altogether more attractive. KitGuru puts down the mustard and investigates. No …
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