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MSI X79A-GD65 8D @ Bjorn3D
“When testing the MSI X79A-GD65 (8D) we figured it would be a nice board, but didn’t have strong hopes for it to run with the much higher priced overclocking-based boards. We were (pleasantly) surprised. The GD65 surpassed the best OC boards in a few cases, which is saying a lot for a board that is much lower cost than the others in the comparison.”
ASRock X79 Extreme4 @ TweakTown
“Today is all about the $234.99 US X79 Extreme4 and isn’t just the cheapest X79 board we’ve looked at, but it’s actually one of the cheapest X79 motherboards currently on the market period. What’s that mean, though? Are we missing out on things we need when compared to some of the ASUS, GIGABYTE and MSI boards we’ve looked at? Maybe performance isn’t as strong?”
ASRock X79 Extreme9 @ eTeknix
“Due to that, we wanted to get straight into looking at how this board can cope with our 3960X Extreme Edition processor cooled by the Corsair H80 and 16GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR3 memory. It all seems to be a match made in heaven, at least on paper, so let’s get to it and start with taking a look at what ASRock offer in this extreme motherboard, for extreme users.”
Gigabyte X79-UD7 @ Bjorn3D
“The performance as observed is just shy of the Rampage IV Extreme and could possibly do better with a BIOS update or even under extreme cold it could wake up and just walk away but for the regular user the CPU performance will be a little behind the Rampage clock for clock.”
ECS X79R-AX @ TechPowerUp
“With the launch of Intel’s latest well under way, ECS has sent us another warrior to battle the twin dragons of injustice, the ECS X79R-AX. Undoubtably the best board ECS has ever released, the ECS X79R-AX is ready for battle, after receiving training no ohter boards has.”
Intel DX79SI @ Hardware Secrets
“Intel has released two motherboard models for the new socket 2011 platform, the DX79SI and the DX79TO, targeted to the most high-end processor Intel offers for desktops today, the Core i7 “Sandy Bridge-E” models. Let’s take a look at the DX79SI, which comes with three PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots.”
Gigabyte G1.Assassin 2 @ TBreak
“The G1.Assassin 2 comes in a huge box with most of the features of the motherboard presented on the back. There’s no see-through panel, so you’ll to make do with the picture on the back. Inside the motherboard comes in a separate box, with the rest of the cables, accessories and booklets in another box.”
ASUS P9X79 Roundup @ PureOC
“ASUS is known for producing a wide range of motherboards to suit just about any preference, need, or budget, and today we have three motherboards from their new X79 lineup for review. Each of these boards share many similarities but also some distinct differences, and rather than splitting them up into separate reviews, we’ve decided to compile them all into one big roundup.”
Gigabyte GA-X79-UD7 @ X-Bit Labs
“Together with the new platform Gigabyte introduced new technologies called “3D Power” and “3D BIOS”. At this time, there is still room for improvement, but even now you can enjoy broad functionality and rich feature set of the high-quality mainboard designed according to the high standards.”
ECS X79R-AX Black Series @ Legit Reviews
“For the most part the ECS X79R-AX Intel X79 motherboard performed on par with our other Intel X79 systems. In most of our tests it was just below the performance level of the GIGABYTE GA-X79-UD7. In all fairness though, we are talking very small margins of maybe 1%-2% total, well within any margin of error in the benchmarks that we used today.”