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Sapphire getting (back, kinda) into the motherboard business with the Pure Black X79

By David Hollingworth | 16:57 Jan 9, 2012 | Comment Now

It's been a while between drinks, but Sapphire's about to release the Pure Black X79N, to match up with the latest Intel chips.

CPUs, Motherboards & RAM

The Curious Case of the Exploding Motherboard

By John Gillooly | 09:39 Jan 5, 2012 | Comment Now

Over the holidays a Youtube video led to erroneous reports of Gigabyte recalling X79 motherboards. We look at what really happened.

CPUs, Motherboards & RAM

GIGABYTE's Brisbane Extreme Overclocking Event a massive success

By John Gillooly | 11:19 Nov 29, 2011 | Comment Now

Gallery: Over the weekend we went to Brisbane to watch TeamAU and a bunch of Atomicans push AMD's Bulldozer chips to their limits.

CPUs, Motherboards & RAM

AtomicCon Video: GIGABYTE and Western Digital!

By David Hollingworth | 11:23 Nov 28, 2011 | Comment Now

Video: See what GIGABYTE was cooking at AtomicCon, and the excellent bit of PC building undertaken by Western Digital in a new CM Storm Trooper case.

CPUs, Motherboards & RAM

AtomicCon video - Intel and Antec

By David Hollingworth | 11:46 Nov 24, 2011 | Comment Now

Video: See what you missed at the recent AtomicCon, with these two videos of Intel and Antec's closed-door presentations!

Earlier News

16-11-2011

Intel displays new tech, gives away new tech!

16-11-2011

Futuremark announce 3DMark for Windows 8 PCs and Tablets

15-11-2011

Live event: Intel and Atomic to demonstrate "ultimate desktop" PC platform

15-11-2011

Intel Core i7-3960X and i7-3930K officially launched

10-11-2011

GIGABYTE wants you... to learn overclocking!

08-11-2011

Socket 2011-fest: GIGABYTE's UD3 and UD5 X79 motherboards

08-11-2011

MSI's new X79 motherboard spotted in the wild

01-11-2011

More X-79 mobo goodness: GIGABYTE's UD7 OC board

27-10-2011

LGA 2011 Socket-fest 2011 continues with ASUS' P9X79P-Pro

27-10-2011

Take a sneak peek at ASUS' X79 Sabertooth mobo

26-10-2011

Exclusive shots of the new X79 Killer motherboard from GIGABYTE

18-10-2011

AMD's new chip: what a load of Bulldozer

28-09-2011

The great PCI-Express 3 fight, and why it doesn't matter

13-09-2011

Pricing for AMD's Bulldozer leaked online

01-09-2011

GIGABYTE announce Ultra Durable 4 Classic

18-08-2011

Intel LGA2011 processors to ship without reference heatsinks

15-07-2011

Melbourne Revolver kicks it up a notch

07-07-2011

Leaked air-cooled AMD FX-8130P ‘Bulldozer’ hits 5.14GHz

21-06-2011

Intel Knight’s Corner challenges NVIDIA supercomputing stranglehold

08-06-2011

What Computex taught us about Intel's X79 chipset

31-05-2011

ASUS launch 9-series AMD mobos

24-05-2011

The Atomic Revolver Resource Center launches!

19-05-2011

Sneak pics of MSI's new 990FXA motherboard

11-05-2011

Gigabyte goes all-in with Intel's Z68 chipset

20-04-2011

What you'll see at the Atomic Revolver!

07-03-2011

New HyperX T1 RAM from Kingston

25-02-2011

GIGABYTE launch three ultra-premium 'G1' X58 motherboards

25-02-2011

ASUS starts to ship new Sandy Bridge boards

22-02-2011

GIGABYTE acts on Sandy Bridge retailers

16-02-2011

For Sale - AMD?

16-02-2011

MSI (not actually) first to market with new Sandy Bridge boards

02-02-2011

The Sandy Bridge recall - reactions and updates

01-02-2011

Intel announces Sandy Bridge recall - epic silicon fail!

20-01-2011

Intel confirms that DX11 processor graphics are in the pipeline.

18-01-2011

Discover the devastation of Umart firsthand

13-01-2011

Aussie tech retailer Umart suffers in Brisbane

11-01-2011

Intel and NVIDIA sign massive licensing deal

07-01-2011

CES: Chips and tablets and 3D, oh my!

25-11-2010

A sneak peak at Gigabyte's P67A-UD7

15-11-2010

ASUS previews its brand new Sandybridge mobos in Singapore

12-11-2010

GIGABYTE Sandy Bridge motherboard spotted running naked in Taipei

22-10-2010

Will AMD's big Fusion bet pay off?

20-09-2010

Intel create US$50 DLC for the Pentium G6951

15-09-2010

Intel's secret motherboard feature seen on GIGABYTE P67-UD7 board

14-09-2010

Intel Developer's Conference - what's happening?

08-09-2010

Intel to cave in to immense USB3.0 pressure?

30-08-2010

AMD finally engulf ATI in yet another branding shakeup

03-06-2010

Intel is confident of its Sandy Bridge integrated GPU

03-06-2010

ASUS and Sandy Bridge at Computex 2010?

02-06-2010

MSI turn heads with LEDs and tech

01-06-2010

GIGABYTE show off products at Computex 2010

27-05-2010

Vendors distance themselves from Foxconn

19-05-2010

GIGABYTE GOOC 2010 Australia

13-05-2010

Intel is a fundamental computing company

29-04-2010

AMD Phenom II X6 might pose a threat to Intel Core i7

23-04-2010

Elpida develops 4Gb SDRAM

15-04-2010

MSI allows AMD and Nvidia DX11 cards to coexist

14-04-2010

Intel updates on Sandy Bridge

09-04-2010

AMD plans to underclock its Phenom II X6 chips

31-03-2010

Xeon 7500 Nehalem EX lands

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Issue: 133 | February, 2012

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