The motherboard market is tough – the enthusiast user would like a motherboard that does everything but is cheap, and the system integrator would like a stripped out motherboard that is even cheaper. The ASUS Maximus V Formula is designed to cater mainly to the gamer, but also to the enthusiast and the overclocker, for an all-in-one product with a distinct ROG feel.
Gigabyte Z77X-UP7 Review: OC Oriented Orange Overkill
Aside from Gigabyte’s gaming motherboards (the G1 Series) and its channel motherboards (such as the UP4 TH, MX-D3H), there exists the OC Oriented series of motherboards. The first participant...
41 by Ian Cutress on 3/1/2013
MSI Z77 MPower Review: The XPower’s Little Brother
Like many other manufacturers, MSI is building brands to aid the development of their product lines. Over the past few Intel chipsets MSI have developed their Big Bang...
14 by Ian Cutress on 1/26/2013
ASRock Z77 OC Formula Review: Living In The Fast Lane
Enthusiasts and speed freaks are always looking for an edge – a little something that will help push their gear that little bit faster. There is already a...
48 by Ian Cutress on 1/15/2013
Z77 mITX Round-Up: Five of the Best – MSI, Zotac, ASRock, EVGA and ASUS
The mini-ITX motherboard market seems like a fast growing segment. It has many applications in terms of small home servers, work machines, HTPC devices, mobile gaming desktop machines...
51 by Ian Cutress on 12/31/2012
Gigabyte Z77X-UP4 TH Review: Thunderbolt Times Two
Now that the exclusive license Apple had for Thunderbolt has expired, since Computex 2012 we have seen a number of motherboards destined for PCs with a Thunderbolt connector. ...
15 by Ian Cutress on 9/17/2012
Four Multi-GPU Z77 Boards from $280-$350 - PLX PEX 8747 featuring Gigabyte, ASRock, ECS and EVGA
With only sixteen PCIe 3.0 lanes available on a Z77 motherboard paired with an Ivy Bridge CPU, when we get to three or four-way GPU solutions these GPUs are...
22 by Ian Cutress on 8/22/2012
ASUS P8Z77-V Premium Review: A Bentley Among Motherboards
In the car industry, there is a large variety of cars to choose from - both the cheap and the expensive will get you from A to B, but...
43 by Ian Cutress on 8/13/2012
Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H Review: Functionality meets Competitive Pricing
The motherboard scene contains around fifty shades of grey – whatever size, whatever feature set, if a user cannot get what they exactly want, something similar should be available...
69 by Ian Cutress on 7/25/2012
Biostar TZ77XE4 Review: Dichotomy by Default
Biostar have always been on the radar for motherboard builders, occupying that niche of ‘bang-for-buck’ if your wallet is looking a little empty this month. In the grand...
27 by Ian Cutress on 7/21/2012
EVGA Tease mini-ITX sized Z77
Followers of EVGA media man Jacob Freeman may have noticed something rather interesting from his Twitter feed and the EVGA Facebook page recently. If small is the size...
23 by Ian Cutress on 7/20/2012
ASRock Z77 Extreme6 Review: Legacy Bites Back
ASRock are not afraid of the legacy connections. Not merely content on having both a floppy drive header and an IDE connector on the Fatal1ty Z77 Professional, they...
34 by Ian Cutress on 7/13/2012
Computex 2012: MSI Overclock Warranty
As part of our tour of the MSI booth, I was shown the Z77 MPower motherboard - designed as a mainstream XPower gaming and overclocking board. I was...
0 by Ian Cutress on 6/6/2012
ASUS' Thunderbolt EX Upgrade Card for 7-series Motherboards
Only two members of ASUS' Z77 stack feature integrated Thunderbolt support: the P8Z77-V Premium and the P8Z77-V Pro/Thunderbolt. As the interface is still fairly new and the controllers still...
16 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/5/2012
Gigabyte GA-Z77MX-D3H Review – Z77 and MicroATX
In the first of our non-full-size Z77 motherboard reviews, we are today getting to grips with the Gigabyte GA-Z77MX-D3H. Currently retailing at $135, the Z77MX-D3H offers more performance...
25 by Ian Cutress on 5/24/2012
ASRock Fatal1ty Z77 Professional Review - IDE and Floppy on Z77
Marketing is a very powerful tool. A successful marketing campaign or product segmentation can increase sales more than ten-fold. It is not something we hear or talk...
56 by Ian Cutress on 5/20/2012
ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe Review - Know Your SKU
Now that Panther Point is in full swing, and perhaps Sandy Bridge processor stocks may start to dwindle in favor of Ivy Bridge, market segmentation of motherboards is all...
51 by Ian Cutress on 5/12/2012
Intel Z77 Motherboard Review with Ivy Bridge - ASRock, ASUS, Gigabyte, and MSI
So we have survived one of the biggest days of the year for all things computer performance related - the release of Intel's new Ivy Bridge processor. It...
115 by Ian Cutress on 5/7/2012
MSI Z77A-GD65 Ivy Bridge Motherboard Giveaway
Thanks to everyone who entered our last giveaway. We're waiting for eligibility confirmation from our four potential winners: bigbluerobo, nhilyna, Lord 666 and fiftysixtius. Respond to the email in...
2292 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/30/2012
ASUS Ivy Bridge/7-Series Chipset Video & Giveaway
A couple of weeks ago we ran a call for questions as I got word that ASUS would be paying me a visit in NC. JJ from ASUS sat...
2878 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/24/2012