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Gigabyte 990FXA-UD7 @ HardOCP

“The 990FXA-UD7 uses an 8+2 phase power design. The 990FXA-UD7 features Gigabyte’s 2oz. copper PCB, driver MOSFET, lower RDS MOSFET, ferrite core chokes, and all solid electrolytic Japanese manufactured capacitors. The board also features Crossfire and SLI certification, USB 3.0, SATA 3.0 and support for 3TB+ hard drives. Not only does it boast support for 2 and 3-Way SLI / Crossfire / CrossFireX but 4-Way as well.”

ASRock H61M/U3S3 @ Phoronix

“The ASRock H61M/U3S3 motherboard shipped with a Windows driver CD, quick installation guide, XFast USB guide, I/O panel, Serial ATA cable, and a “specially designed” Serial ATA 3.0 cable. The collection of accessories accompanying the motherboard is light, but that is not a surprise from ASRock and they pass the lower cost onto the consumer.”

Gigabyte G1.Assassin @ Hot Hardware

“Gigabyte will not be the first to move away from the X58. Their latest G1 Killer series of X58 motherboards are specially designed for gamers that accept no compromises. There are three products in this particular line up: the G1 Assassin, G1 Sniper, and G1 Guerrilla. In a military motif, all three come with a black and green color scheme, along with heat sink designs that resemble gun barrels and magazine clips. Today, we’re looking at the big brother of the group, the G1 Assassin.”

Gigabyte X58A-OC @ OCAholic

“With the X58A-OC Gigabyte has a motherboard in its product portfolio that has been engineered only with overclocking in mind. For example the I/O panel, which comes only with the most necessary ports, shows how uncompromisingly this board has been designed and built. Additionally there a numerous features which make the heart of any overclocker beat faster, instantly.”

Asus M5A99X Evo @ OCAholic

“With the M5A99X Evo, ASUS has a motherboard in its portfolio which is based on the very recent AMD 990X chipset. Furthermore it features an attractive pricing and quite a lot of features. There is for example the possibility to connect up to six USB 3.0 drives. This board also features ASUS’ very well though EFI BIOS.”

Gigabyte Z68X-UD7-B3 @ OCAholic

“With the Z68X-UD7-B3 Gigabyte presents it flagship model which supports Intels latest Sandy Bridge CPUs. This board also comes with the new color scheme which really is very nice to look at. Furthermore there is the long feature list which comes with every motherboard that is based on Intels latest Z68 chipset.”

ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z @ OCAholic

“The Maximus IV Gene-Z is a very well equipped mATX motherboard which is based on Intels Z68 chipset. Since ASUS have released with the Rampage II Gene the first mATX gaming board we’ve been following this trend. And the best thing about these boards is that they’re as fast as the bigger ones. Therefore we’re very curious how this board will perform in our benchmark parcours as well as during the overclocking part.”

Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3-iSSD @ TechSpot

“Right out of the box, the Z68XP-UD3-iSSD features an Intel SSD 311 20GB attached via an mSATA connector. Many have complained that the Intel 20GB SLC SSD is too expensive, but we feel $240 for this motherboard/SSD combo is reasonable. How reasonable, you ask? That’s precisely what we intend determine.”

Biostar 1155 TZ68A+ @ OC3D

“Now LGA1155 has been around for a while and we’ve had the initial P67 influx, more and more manufacturers are shifting to the Z68 Chipset to power their LGA1155 socket motherboards. Unlike its P55 and, to a lesser degree, P67 brethren most of the Z68 boards we’ve seen have been definitely at the affordable end of the spectrum.”

MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 @ Vortez

“Big Bang Marshal is the ultimate motherboard offering that will keep power and extreme users entertained for a long, long time. It does come at a high cost but bearing in mind the componentry involved you can appreciate that this board is feature laden and very special.”