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How to Jump a Motherboard Without a PWR_SW Button
Following our massive Fury X and Z170 motherboard feature pieces, we thought we'd take a moment to revisit some simpler how-to topics. Today's guide shows how to jump a motherboard without connecting...
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New Shots of EVGA Z170 Boards Reveal Rear I/O
Z170 is around the corner. The new Intel chipset will succeed Z97, which was launched alongside the Devil’s Canyon and Haswell Refresh CPU lines, and Z87, launched with Haswell. Z170 is expected to...
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Hands-On With ASRock's K6 & K4, Gigabyte's HD3 Z170 Motherboards
We recently got to visit CyberPower's offices in California, where the company had a few Z170 motherboards on display in a conference room. We're not talking Skylake specifics for a little while yet,...
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Ask GN 3: Cable Management, Open vs. Closed Liquid, & Gaming Motherboards
PAX now behind us, we've returned to our new-found efforts of addressing direct reader questions via YouTube and twitter comments. This new series has been dubbed “Ask GN” and, to our great...
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EVGA Z170 Stinger Mini-ITX Motherboard Review & Overclocking
EVGA's Z170 Stinger ($200) motherboard, something we reported on months ago, markets itself on enthusiast-level features in a mini-ITX form factor. The motherboard hosts Intel's newest “Performance”...
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ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Extreme Assembly & GTX 980 Ti Platinum at IFA
ASUS is reasonably well-known for their motherboards and graphics cards at budget and high-end price ranges. Today’s topic is the latest ROG motherboard – so it fits into the high-end category – and...
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Biostar Hi-Fi H170-Z3 Motherboard Review – DDR3L & DDR4 on H170
Skylake's launch caused some initial curiosity because of its split RAM compatibility. The Skylake memory controller is capable of running both DDR4 and DDR3L memory – but not both simultaneously – and...
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MSI B150A Gaming Pro Motherboard Review
Not every machine needs a Z170 motherboard. This fact is often overlooked by builders concerned with potentially limiting themselves in expansion options or framerate – a valid concern – but in...
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Best Intel Motherboards for Gaming 2015 - Black Friday Edition
Some PC parts -- CPUs and GPUs -- have tangible benefits: x FPS gained, double-precision performance increased, loading times halved, or similar. Other parts, like PSUs and motherboards, may not have...
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MSI Z170A Krait Gaming R6 Siege Motherboard Announced in Ubisoft Rainbow Six...
MSI is launching its new Z170A Krait Gaming R6 Siege motherboard, heretofore “mouthful,” in collaboration with Ubisoft. The Krait Gaming R6 Siege is essentially a new version of the existing Z170A...
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ASRock Posts Firmware Hack for X99 Owners to Support Broadwell-E
ASRock routinely breaks rules with Intel – like with the SkyOC firmware hack that allows non-K CPU overclocking. In the latest breach, ASRock mentioned Intel's new Core i7-6950X Broadwell-E processor...
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Unreleased Gigabyte Motherboards at PAX East - Broadwell-E Incoming
Gigabyte pleasantly surprised us at PAX East 2016 with a small set of unreleased motherboards. These boards will likely surface about the time that Broadwell-E is released – keep an eye out over the...
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MSI X99A Gaming Pro Carbon Targets Broadwell-E
MSI today announced its refreshed motherboard lineup for Broadwell-E, featuring a carbon fiber paint-job (not actually carbon fiber, of course) and RGB LED lighting across the board. The motherboard is...
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MSI X99A Titanium Motherboard & New “One Click VR” Feature Explained
Day one of our Computex 2016 coverage began and ended with MSI's product lineup. We haven't yet gotten to the VR backpack – that'll come soon enough – but we did go over the new GTX 1080 Twin Frozr VI...
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Hardware Trends for 2016: RGB LEDs, Overblown VR Obsession | Computex
It's gotten a little ridiculous, really. Everyone has some sort of “VR Premium” or “VR Ready” or “VR Certified” badge. Even case manufacturers are finding ways to drop “VR” onto their products. The...
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Ask GN 21: GTX 1080/1070 Actual Availability, Fair 970 Price vs. RX480, More
We're getting close to the June 29 release date of the AMD RX 480 GPU, and we're still tailing the Pascal launch of nVidia's GTX 1080 and GTX 1070. That's planted these last few episodes of Ask GN...
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Gigabyte & EKWB Release X99-Ultra Gaming-EK for MOSFET Liquid Cooling
Gigabyte and EKWB will be launching limited-time bundles of their new waterblocks and motherboards. The EK-FB GA-Z170X Monoblock will be sold along with the Z170X-GAMING 7-EK motherboard, and the...
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Gigabyte Z170, H170, H110, & B150 Motherboards Now Support Kaby Lake
Owners of Gigabyte motherboards in the list defined below will now be able to flash BIOS for next-gen Intel CPU support. This includes Kaby Lake processors, which use the same socket type as found on...
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Best Intel Motherboards 2016 - Cyber Monday Round-Up
Following suit with the rest of our Black Friday coverage, including Best SSDs and power supplies, we’ve next rounded-up a few honorable mentions in the motherboard department. We're specifically...
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Intel Z270 vs. H270 Chipset Differences & Specs
It’s not yet time to pen a full, in-depth comparison between Intel’s forthcoming Kaby Lake chipsets, including Z270, H270, and whatever may become of the lower-end H- and B- lines. There’s still data...
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