Gigabyte 890FXA-UD7 @ Hardware Canucks
“The GIGABYTE 890FXA-UD7 comes packed with six mechanical PCI-E x16 slots, and it’s not just for show, this motherboard is one of the few to support 4-way CrossFireX. Because of all these expansion slots, GIGABYTE have had to lengthen the PCB by 0.8 inches past the 12 inch ATX specification. As result, this model is deemed to have a non-standard XL-ATX form factor.”
ASUS Rampage III Formula @ PureOC
“The ASUS Rampage III Formula is certainly a premium LGA1366 motherboard, and by definition it is enthusiasts that will look to a board like this. And in that sense, ASUS has really focused their Republic of Gamers products toward those consumers who want big features and top performance.”
Gigabyte 880GMA-UD2H @ HardOCP
“The GIGABYTE 880GMA-UD2H motherboard is designed around the AMD 880G and SB850 chipsets for a good mix of integrated offerings. The chipsets allow the board to support the following list of technologies: AMD Socket AM3 processors including the newest Phenom II X6 line, DDR3 memory operating in Dual Channel mode up to 1333MHz officially, and ATI Hybrid CrossFireX graphics mode.”
EVGA Classified Super Record 2 SR-2 @ Legit Reviews
“Today we are taking a look at the ultimate enthusiast motherboard. It takes a blend of desktop processor overclocking features and multiple graphics cards, and mixes it with server processors to give you the baddest system you can get your hands on, the EVGA Classified SR-2. The EVGA Classified SR-2, or Super Record 2, uses an Intel 5520 server chipset to give us the power to run two Intel Xeon server processors.”
ASUS Sabertooth X58 @ OCC
“he box in which the ASUS Sabertooth arrived has a dark blackish background that looks similar to brushed aluminum plate. The TUF (The Ultimate Force) badge hangs at the top left and also exposes an image to the right. The top right shows three Intel badges proclaiming it’s six core 32nm CPU ready and offers X58 chipset and Core i7 compatibility.”
ASRock X58 Extreme6 @ OCWorkbench
“So how does ASRock achieve that? Basically, we went a bit further to study the block diagram and discovered that ASRock has made one of the better designs. In earlier designs from other manufacturers, the graphics PCIe lanes are hard wired or run at a lower speed. In ASRock’s design, the 3 graphics port lanes are configured as 16x + 8x + 8x.”
ASUS Rampage III Gene @ Guru3D
“The end results is is, the ASUS Rampage III Gene ROG edition. You know, it is hard to believe that the first Core i7 processors and this chipset were released ages ago. I mean, the Core i7 965 Extreme and X58 chipset were released in 2008, November the 3rd 2008 to be precise.”
ECS P55H-AK @ Benchmark Reviews
“The P55H-AK is at the cutting edge of enthusiast PC technology offering support for USB 3.0 5.0Gb/s and SATA 6Gb/s at the same time as offering Tri-SLI / Tri-CrossFire @ 16/8/8. ECS has doubled up on support chips (2x Marvell SATA 6Gb/s controllers, 2x NEC USB 3.0 controllers and 2x Realtek Ethernet controllers) and has utilized a PLX PEX 8608 PCIe Gen 2 switch and an NVIDIA nForce 200 PCI-Express switch chip with an extra 32 PCIe lanes to bring support for all of these latest features on the P55 platform.”
ASRock P55 Extreme4 @ Think Computers
“When opening the box you will first see some SATA cables and the Manuals and Driver DVDS. After unpacking all the contents of the box, we have 4 SATA cables, 1 IDE Cable, USB 3 Front bay device, 2 Molex to SATA power connectors and of course the ASRock P55 Exetreme4 and the user manuals.”
ASRock H55M-LE @ Vortez
“Coming in at a much lower price-tag to that of the big brother LGA1366, the LGA1156 platform allows consumers to channel into the Core i7 family of processors and get some quad-core goodness. In this first review of the LGA1156 category of motherboards I will be taking a close look at the H55M-LE from ASRock.”