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It's little secret that Intel will be launching Sandy Bridge Extreme chips in the near future, to supplant the high-end ground held by the venerable X58/LGA1366 platform. Giving us a glimpse of what ...

Intel will be replacing the current X58 Express high-end desktop platform with the X79 Express, according to Chinese website it.com. This is newsworthy because Intel's performance desktop processors ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. ASRock have come out swinging today with some Sandy Bridge-E flavored teasing. ASRock shot off e-mails all across the world announcing they were showing ...

Motherboard platforms change frequently, especially when a new chipset is unleashed. The big change coming from Intel recently is the high-end X79 chipset, taking over from the crusty old X58 chipset.

Today, Intel is launching its long-awaited update and refresh of its top-end enthusiast platform: Haswell-E. It's a refresh that's been a long time coming -- the old X79 chipset was long in the tooth ...

Unlike the original Sandy Bridge processors that launched with multiple chipsets, the LGA2011 platform will be supported by a single chipset – or should we say by a single chip. Similar to the ...

The TUF series has always stood for a few vital things and one of the main ones focusses on the thermal aspect of the boards and one part of this is the new generation TUF thermal armor that the X79 ...

Intel's Sandy Bridge-E has landed. We had the chance to test the Core i7-3960X extensively, as well as take a look at Intel's DX79SI motherboard, which packs the hot new X79 chipset. If you need ...

Intel’s X58 chipset made for great platform performance, and even though the chip maker has unleashed many more chipsets since the X58 came out, there hasn’t been a true successor in the high-end of ...

A few weeks ago, the fine folks at ASUS invited a gaggle of us tech newsies out to San Jose to get up close and personal with their new X79 chipset-based motherboards. In addition to setting us up ...