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Intel To Retire Z77, H77, Z75 and Q75 Chipsets In 2015
Last month Intel made it known that it was to be discontinuing and retiring a whole stack of Ivy Bridge CPUs. The following CPUs are to have their shipments stopped after June 5th 2015, with the last order date being December 24th 2014: the Core i5-3330, i5-3330S, i5-3340, i5-3340S, i5-3470, i5-3475S, i5-3470S,…
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GeIL DRAGON RAM 8GB 1600MHz Memory Kit Review
Introduction Today we are examining our second memory kit from GeIL after looking at their lovely EVO POTENZA kit. The DRAGON RAM series is where the kit we’re looking at today comes from and from the above picture it is quite easy to see how the DRAGON theme is working.…
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GeIL EVO POTENZA 16GB 2400MHz Memory Kit Review
Introduction GeIL, or Golden Emperor International Limited, are certainly not a new player in the technology industry even if many people in the “West” have not heard of them. GeIL Memory are veterans of the DRAM industry having made memory products since 1993. GeIL as a broader company also make power supplies under…
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G.Skill Unleash 32GB 3000MHz DDR3 Trident X RAM Kit
G. Skill are at it again releasing another series of RAM with stupidly high speeds. G.Skill have released, or should that be re-released, their Trident X series for Intel’s new Z87 platform. They are offering 2666MHz to 3000MHz kits with 8GB or 4GB DIMMs in sets of two or four.…
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Intel Core i7 3770K Overclocked To 7.2GHz On Gigabyte Z77X-UP7 Motherboard
A week ago we showed you a CPU-Z validation of an Intel Core i7 4770K at 7GHz with a ridiculously high core voltage of 2.56 volts. This time we have another Intel processor cracking the 7GHz marker but it is a current generation Core i7 3770K. A recent validation showed…
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Asus Z77-A (Z77) Motherboard Review
Haswell and the Z87 chipset may be on the horizon, but the drive to have motherboards at all price points in the market for Z77 is as fierce as ever. A large number of users are seeking the budget options, both on the grounds of backwards compatibility and also their…
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MSI Z77A-GD65 Gaming (Z77) Motherboard Review
Whilst at CeBIT earlier in the year, I swung by the MSI booth to see what products they had to show off to the world. Now for most people that attended the show, being able to look around MSI’s booth was not going to be possible as they were situated…
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Asus P8Z77-V LK (Z77) Motherboard Review
Following my recent look at one of Asus’ mainstream boards, the P8Z77-V which saw me highly impressed with its feature pack and relatively competitive levels of performance that give some of the higher end board a run for their money, its time to see what else is available in…
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Asus P8Z77-V (Z77) Motherboard Review
Out of all the different types of hardware that I look at, motherboards – along with graphics cards – tend to be one of those that I look at most often from a wide range of manufacturers. And whilst this is all well and good for the high end…
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EK Announce ASRock Z77 Extreme 11 Motherboard Water Block
EK blocks are well known for making very specialised and niche water cooling products, their latest water block is no exception. EK is introducing a full motherboard water block for ASRock’s premium Z77 motherboard the Extreme 11. The EK-FB ASR Z77 Extreme 11 water block is a complete cooling solution…
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MSI Unveil Gaming Series Motherboards
MSI has today announced the latest and quite exciting addition to its range of motherboards. The new gaming series of motherboards from MSI covers Intel’s LGA 1155 socket with three motherboards for Z77 and one for B75. This new series of motherboards from MSI will be available well into 2014…
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MSI Z77 MPower (Z77) Motherboard Review
Every manufacturer of computer components has a particular line of products that stand out above the rest for one reason or another. On the consumer level this is either because of their feature enriched boards that are designed to meet the demands of the everyday user, but more commonly we find boards…
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MSI Z77 Gaming Motherboards on Show at CeBIT 2013
CeBIT 2013: Its been a busy day here at CeBIT in Hanover, Germany and one of our first meetings has been with MSI. Alongside their huge display comprising of laptops, systems and all-in-ones, they have a range of their motherboards and graphics cards on show. What has caught our eyes is a new…
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Gigabyte Z77X-UP7 (Z77) Motherboard Review
Gigabyte’s top level motherboards have always stood out from the rest of their motherboard offerings, not just on paper with the best specifications that they have to offer, but they also physically stand out with striking designs and colour schemes to suit. To accompany the new UP7, dubbed as “A…
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Gigabyte GA-Z77-UP4 TH (Z77) Motherboard Review
It’s been a few months now since the roll out of Z77, closely followed by the very successful Ivy Bridge platform. We know that to some its all a bit of hot air and since its got the hugely successful Sandy Bridge platform in its wake, its understandable why. Moving…
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