Bay Trail competition has begun and heated up considerably in the last few months. Adding fuel to the fire, ASRock has introduced a new Bay Trail board based on the quad-core J1900 processor. The motherboard will be called the Q1900TM-ITX. The Celeron J1900 chip is a Bay Trail-based chip, operating four cores at a clock […]
ASRock has announced that its 990FX Extreme9 motherboard has met the minimum system requirements for AMD’s FX-9000 series CPUs, and it is capable of handling the “overwhelming power and heat” generated by the 5 GHz processors. To demonstrate this, ASRock put together and benchmarked a test system that included both an AMD FX-8350 and FX-9590 […]
ASRock and ECS have already announced the possibility to overclock Intel K-series CPUs on non-Z series motherboards, and now, unsurprisingly, it appears that more manufacturers are also announcing the feature. Both Gigabyte and Biostar have announced the possibility of overclocking 4th Generation Intel Core K-series processors on H87 and B85 motherboards. Previously, in order to […]
ASRock has announced that its flagship overclocking motherboards, the Z87 OC Formula and the Z87 OC Formula/ac, will come with a five-year warranty. These motherboards have been crafted to be the ultimate overclocking motherboards, therefore also being coated with a conformal coating to protect the motherboard from liquids. “ASRock provides the five year warranty package […]
In a sign of the changing PC landscape following the arrival of the Apple iPad, Intel has outlined plans to ramp down its production of desktop motherboards, reports Anandtech. The arrival of the next-generation Intel Haswell platform will be the last series where Intel will develop desktop motherboards to complement its own line of chips. […]