Asus announced that its new X99-E-10G WS motherboard, which had previously been shown in Europe, will soon come to North America. The key feature on this board is its 10 Gbps Ethernet controller. The X99-E-10G WS is identical to Asus’s X99-E WS/USB 3.1 in almost every aspect, but the primary difference between the two is […]
MSI announced its new X99 Gaming Pro Carbon motherboard and claimed that it has the “world’s first” front USB 3.1 Type-C header. The new header can connect just one USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-C port on the front of the case. Four additional USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-A front headers are also located on the […]
EK Water Blocks has been releasing a steady stream of new products for several months now. Over the summer, the company started dabbling in a fairly new product category. It wasn’t the first time EKWB had released a monoblock, but it certainly wasn’t a popular solution. These days, the company is finding that more and […]
EVGA’s X99 Micro board gets refreshed with a couple of new toys, but without a jump in price. With USB 3.1 and USB Type-C slowly dripping their way onto the market, hardware vendors have to keep their products updated in order to keep pace with the demand for the new tech. To that end, […]
Asus‘ latest workstation motherboard is its first Micro-ATX board that allows you to feed both of your graphics cards with 16 PCI-Express 3.0 lanes. Squeezing a lot of power into a small package is something that we’ve been after for a while with PCs, and Asus’ latest motherboard follows that trend with the workstation-class X99-M […]
One of the main attractions, aside from more CPU cores and PCI-Express lanes, of Intel’s new X99 platform is access to quad-channel DDR4 memory. Today, Kingston upped the ante a bit on DDR4 memory by launching an incredibly speedy and large-capacity kit. Featuring a total capacity of 128 GB and running at a respectable 3000 […]
PC builder Maingear has claimed the “world’s first” by launching a special lineup of small form factor gaming desktops that utilize the Intel X99 chipset. These include “Super Stock” editions of the Potenza, the Drift and the Torq, which are based on the ASRock X99E-ITX/ac motherboard and support processors up to the eight-core i7-5960X Intel […]
A couple of weeks ago when ASRock announced that it would be showing off a Mini-ITX board with the X99 chipset at CeBIT? Now the company has slapped a price tag on it and unveiled all of the juicy specifications. The X99E-ITX/ac is a one-of-a-kind motherboard, as no other motherboard vendor currently has a Mini-ITX […]
ASRock announced that it would be displaying Extreme6 Z97 and X99 motherboards at CeBIT with USB 3.1, but it turns out that there is another board that we will be seeing – the X99E-ITX/ac. This board will could to insanely powerful system in a Mini-ITX case. What ASRock doing so is nothing short of impressive. […]
ASRock announced the launch of new motherboards that feature the USB 3.1 standard, with Type-A and Type-C connectors. The benefits of the Type-C connector are fairly obvious with the advantage that it is smaller, and also that the plug fits in either orientation, up or down. The advantage of USB 3.1 is a boost in […]
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