With Broadwell-E almost upon us, motherboard vendors have been busy getting ready. While Broadwell-E will be compatible with current X99 LG A 2011-3 motherboards, the new ...
May 23, 2016 at 9:00 pm by Samuel Wan
Not one to be left behind, MSI is making sure they’re ready for Broadwell-E. Set to arrive shortly, the new CPU lineup brings the first consumer deca-core CPU in the ...
May 23, 2016 at 8:20 pm by Samuel Wan
With Broadwell-E listings and CPUs popping up left and right, benchmarks would inevitably leak out. For the last week, Broadwell-E engineering samples have been selling on ...
May 4, 2016 at 9:09 am by Samuel Wan
With the official release nearly upon us, Intel’s Broadwell-E CPUs have started popping up everywhere. First, we had all of the various motherboard vendors announce ...
April 22, 2016 at 9:40 am by Samuel Wan
Last week, we saw the first sign of support for Intel’s upcoming Broadwell-E CPUs. MSI was the first out of the gate with their announcement of new BIOS revisions to ...
April 18, 2016 at 11:20 am by Samuel Wan
Even as the process nodes continue to decrease year after year, it seems like clock speeds only keep going up. When Intel launched Devil’s Canyon and Skylake, ...
January 17, 2016 at 9:51 am by Samuel Wan
Following right on the heels of the first consumer octa-core i7-5960X CPU, 2016 is the year that we may finally see a deca-core CPU from Intel. Called the i7-6950X, the new ...
January 11, 2016 at 9:30 am by Samuel Wan
With new CPU sockets, the cooler and thermal interfaces will have to adapt. EK Water Blocks introduced the new Indigo Xtreme Engineered Thermal Interface for the latest 5th ...
January 22, 2015 at 6:58 pm by Bohs Hansen
Christmas time is almost here and as we wrap up warm over winter, we’re also wrapping up on a year of incredible products here at eTeknix HQ. We’ve had hundred of ...
December 10, 2014 at 12:13 pm by Peter Donnell
Introduction and Closer Look During Intel’s X99 launch in early September one motherboard vendor was noticeably absent from the scene – ASRock. While we’re ...
November 29, 2014 at 10:04 am by Ryan Martin
Introduction and Closer Look A trend that is observable with higher end “gaming” motherboards is that they tend to be geared primarily towards performance junkies, ...
November 20, 2014 at 9:53 am by Ryan Martin
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging A short while ago we took Gigabyte’s X99 Gaming 5 motherboard to our test bench for a review. As the name suggests that ...
September 17, 2014 at 9:49 am by Ryan Martin
Asus have just revealed their new Z10PE-D3 WS Dual CPU Workstation Motherboard, which comes equipped with the latest LGA 2011-3 Sockets and support for the new Intel ...
September 12, 2014 at 10:02 am by Peter Donnell
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging Every major motherboard brand has a particular flagship board that targets overclocking on Intel’s new HEDT X99 platform. ...
September 8, 2014 at 8:11 pm by Ryan Martin
Introduction, Specifications and Packaging The Rampage line of ASUS motherboards are famed for their class-leading performance and prestigious reputation. With every new CPU ...
September 5, 2014 at 4:00 pm by Ryan Martin
