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Intel Desktop Board Products Based on Z77, H77 Chipset Slated for Sunday

Intel Desktop Board Products Based on Z77, H77 Chipset Slated for Sunday

Posted on Apr 03, 2012 by MG3

Intel is launching motherboards in its Desktop Board brand, based on its Z77 Express chipset this Sunday (April 8), sources told DigiTimes. The product-pages of many of these are already active, on the company website. Among the products launched, will be Extreme Series DZ77GA-70K, Media Series DZ77BH-55K, and Media Series DH77KC.
April 8 will also be the day the Z77, H77, Z75 and B75 chipsets will be formally launched, and it is expected that other PC motherboard vendors will follow Intel in launching their products based on these chips. Apart from out-of-the-box compatibility with 3rd Generation Core "Ivy Bridge" processors, 7-series chipset support new CPU features, native USB 3.0, and im...

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Intel Unveils New Z77 Motherboards

Intel Unveils New Z77 Motherboards

Posted on Apr 02, 2012 by MG1

Intel silently enabled the product pages of several of its 7-series chipset-based LGA1155 motherboards, including three based on the Z77 Express. These include the Extreme Series DZ77GA-70K, Media Series DZ77BH-55K, and Media Series DZ77SL-50K. The DZ77GA-70K is a top-tier model that's built for built for heavily-overclocked gaming PCs. Intel paid due attention to areas such as a strong VRM, and a broad range of connectivity options. With power-delivery, we spy a 10+2 phase VRM backed by Intel's phase-shedding technology. Apart from four DDR3 DIMM slots, the LGA1155 socket is wired to two PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slots (x8/x8, when both are populated).

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Intel Z77 Chipset Motherboards to Start Selling in Early-April

Intel Z77 Chipset Motherboards to Start Selling in Early-April

Posted on Feb 24, 2012 by MG15

Filed in: MotherboardsIntel

Regardless of whether you'll be able to get an "Ivy Bridge" Core processor till the second week of April, motherboards that are compatible with it out of the box, based on Intel's Z77 chipset (successor to Z68), will start selling in early-April. Sources told OCWorkbench that most motherboard vendors have in fact begun shipping orders to their distributors, while some are waiting for the green light. Motherboards based on the Z77 chipset feature LGA1155 CPU socket, are compatible with today's "Sandy Bridge" Core i3, Core i5, and Core i7 processors; and tomorrow's "Ivy Bridge" ones, out of the box. The new chipset offers features such as some native USB 3.0 ports, and support for certain Ivy ...

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Gigabyte X79-UD3 and Core i7-3930K Set Records with New F7 BIOS

Gigabyte X79-UD3 and Core i7-3930K Set Records with New F7 BIOS

Posted on Dec 30, 2011 by MG1

It's been a tough week or so for Gigabyte marketing. It had to admit that quite a few people had burned their motherboards, to which it offered free replacements, and isolated the problem to faulty firmware. There has been talk that this firmware cripples overclocking by throttling CPU clock speed under extreme stress. Gigabyte set out to do some myth-busting. Renowned overclocker and Gigabyte PR guy HiCookie set up a test-bench using Core i7-3930K, an "infamous" X79-UD3 motherboard running the latest version F7 BIOS, and a typical extreme-cooling bench.
HiCookie achieved 5643.2 MHz clock speed, using a base clock of 99 MHz, 57.0x multiplier, and CPU voltage of 1.584V. The rest of the test-...

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New Intel Server Board Holds 1 TB of RAM

New Intel Server Board Holds 1 TB of RAM

Posted on Dec 28, 2011 by MG1

Filed in: MotherboardsIntel

There will also be a quad-CPU enabled Xeon E5 Socket 2011 version, a quarter later from now as vrzone reports.
Two QPI links on Socket 2011 CPUs do enable connecting each processor to TWO other ones, if you accept lesser inter-processor bandwidth compared to just dual-link pairing of two CPUs alone. There will be a separate Xeon E5-4600 series covering that particular market segment, which sits between the high end dual-socket E5-2600 and the enterprise RAS-enhanced even higher end E7 series (those fancy 10-core 30 MB L3 cache Westmere-EX chips and their followons).
These are good for uber-rendering workstations with many threads, as well ...

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Intel Launches DX79TO Motherboard For Frugal(ish) Sandy Bridge-E Adopters

Intel Launches DX79TO Motherboard For Frugal(ish) Sandy Bridge-E Adopters

Posted on Dec 15, 2011 by MG1

Want to make the jump to LGA2011 and Sandy Bridge-E but don’t quite need all the bells and whistles of the DX79SI? Intel might just have the alternative motherboard for you. The company’s new DX79TO mobo is basically a stripped-down version of its bigger DX79SI brother with fewer bells and whistles. The question is, are the enthusiast-type buyers who are already making the jump to Intel’s latest and greatest chips willing to dump features for a modest price discount?

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Intel Intros New Z68-based Extreme Series Desktop Boards

Intel Intros New Z68-based Extreme Series Desktop Boards

Posted on Sep 28, 2011 by MG1

Intel released two new Desktop Board Extreme Series motherboards based on the Z68 chipset, supporting Core processors in the LGA1155 package, the DZ68ZV and DZ68BC. The DZ68ZV uses the same exact PCB as the DP67BG, replacing the P67 PCH with Z68 (they're pin-compatible). It lacks display connectivity. The only plus here is support for Intel Smart Response Technology. It uses a 8-phase active-swiching/load-balancing digital PWM power circuitry for the CPU, and quite a few overclocking features. Expansion slots include two PCI-Express 2.0 x16, three PCIe x1, and two PCI. Storage connectivity includes two SATA 6 Gb/s four SATA 3 Gb/s and one eSATA 3 Gb/s. Then there's 8-channel HD audio, USB 3....

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Intel 8-Way Multi-GPU MIC Knights Ferry demo

Intel 8-Way Multi-GPU MIC Knights Ferry demo

Posted on Sep 16, 2011 by MG1

Intel was running a real-time ray-tracing demo of Wolfenstein at the IDF in San Francisco. According to xbitlabs to achieve this feat, the company used a 2-way Xeon server with eight Knights Ferry graphics cards.
At the Intel Developer Forum 2011, Intel Corp. showcased a system running a new version of its real-time “Wolfenstein” ray-tracing demo. In order to render the game scenes in full HD (1080p) resolution and with additional visual effects, Intel had to use a 2-way Xeon system with eight code-named Knights Ferry compute accelerators.
The up-to-date Wolfenstein game is rendered through a real-time ray tracer with several special effects that haven’t been possible before in games with.....

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Intel Z77 Motherboard Lineup for Ivy Bridge Processors surfaces

Intel Z77 Motherboard Lineup for Ivy Bridge Processors surfaces

Posted on Aug 15, 2011 by MG3

Together with the launch of its first wave Ivy Bridge processors, Intel will release new LGA 1155 motherboards based on the Z77 PCH (platform controller hub) that will offer native support for USB 3.0.
It now seems that 11 LGA 1155 models will be introduced in the first half of 2012, two of them belonging to the company's extreme performance series as softpedia reports:
These are the DZ77RE and DZ77GA and both feature “Max-OC” support (whatever that might mean), are two-way SLI and CrossFireX compatible and use the standard ATX form factor.

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Intel 7-Series Ivy Bridge Motherboard Chipsets to Arrive in Q2 2012

Intel 7-Series Ivy Bridge Motherboard Chipsets to Arrive in Q2 2012

Posted on Jul 18, 2011 by MG3

Filed in: MotherboardsIntel

This was kind of in the line with the latest rumors on launched dates but Intel plans to launch three new 7 series chipsets – Z77, Z75 and H77, supporting its upcoming 22nm Ivy Bridge-based CPUs and the existing 32nm Sandy Bridge-based CPUs, in March or April 2012. For the enterprise market, Intel is set to launch Q77, Q75 and B75 chipsets with new vPro technologies to replace its existing Q67, Q65 and B65 chipsets, according to sources from motherboard makers.

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Intel to launch X79 chipset end this year  with reduced functionalities

Intel to launch X79 chipset end this year with reduced functionalities

Posted on Jul 18, 2011 by MG3

Filed in: MotherboardsIntel

Its the weirdest rumor, but vr-zone claims that Intel is trying very hard to get a new platform out this year, although this means that the company will axe a lot of platform features, here's a blunt CC from them.
Judging by the information we've seen, Intel is having several issues with the new platform, ranging from storage, to PCI Express and apparently even CPU revisions. It's pretty much bad news all around. But let's take a step back and look at things with a view from Intel's Xeon roadmap. The picture below is from a partner presentation and although it's been seen before, we're going to leave that partner un-named as we don't want to get them in any trouble. As you can see, it detai....

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Computex 2011: Intel's Thin miniITX Sandy Bridge Platform

Computex 2011: Intel's Thin miniITX Sandy Bridge Platform

Posted on Jun 01, 2011 by MG3

Filed in: MotherboardsIntel

Intel's Mooly Eden just showed off its new thin mini ITX Sandy Bridge platform. The form factor is a standard mini ITX but with a low profile backplane so it can fit into thinner systems - particular ...

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Rumor: Intel's Z68 Express Chipset Launching May 11th

Rumor: Intel's Z68 Express Chipset Launching May 11th

Posted on Apr 26, 2011 by MG3

Filed in: MotherboardsIntel

Sandy Bridge is sitting pretty in the eyes of system builders now that the design flaw that affected initial shipments of early 6-series chipsets is a thing of the past. Looking ahead, things are abou...

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Intel X79 enthusiast chipset details leaked, scheduled for Q4

Intel X79 enthusiast chipset details leaked, scheduled for Q4

Posted on Apr 05, 2011 by MG1

Filed in: MotherboardsIntel

Chinese site it.com.cn has managed to get their hands on an alleged Intel slide outlining the company's next platform for enthusiasts. According to the roadmap, the successor to the popular X58 platfo...

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Socket Pin Burnout Returns to Haunt LGA1155?

Socket Pin Burnout Returns to Haunt LGA1155?

Posted on Jan 17, 2011 by MG1

Filed in: MotherboardsIntel

Last year, credible reports of a design defect with LGA1156 sockets made by a certain component manufacturer in particular, made headlines. Reviewers found that extreme overclocking using increase vol...

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