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Any reason to show off some more Sandy Bridge-E / X79 related goodness is a good one, especially now with it being one of the hottest topics thanks to the launch right around the corner. And thanks to ...

It's little secret that Intel will be launching Sandy Bridge Extreme chips in the near future, to supplant the high-end ground held by the venerable X58/LGA1366 platform. Giving us a glimpse of what ...

ASRock have come out swinging today with some Sandy Bridge-E flavored teasing. ASRock shot off e-mails all across the world announcing they were showing off some X79-based motherboards. No list of ...

The TUF series has always stood for a few vital things and one of the main ones focusses on the thermal aspect of the boards and one part of this is the new generation TUF thermal armor that the X79 ...

Unlike the original Sandy Bridge processors that launched with multiple chipsets, the LGA2011 platform will be supported by a single chipset – or should we say by a single chip. Similar to the ...

Motherboard platforms change frequently, especially when a new chipset is unleashed. The big change coming from Intel recently is the high-end X79 chipset, taking over from the crusty old X58 chipset.

Intel's high end X79 chipset is going to sell for a saucy $73 when it becomes available in November. Intel's Z68 remains the runner up chipset with $48 while the old X58 is out of the focus. Since X58 ...

Here's an overview of the X79 and X58 chipsets. Going over bits we know from the look at the chip architecture, there's double the potential memory bandwidth coming into the second-generation Core i7 ...

It looks like the current Sandy Bridge-E and the X79 just got a bit sweeter as, according to the slide over at XFastest, Ivy Bridge-E should be compatible with the LGA2011 socket and X79 chipset. As ...

Intel’s X58 chipset made for great platform performance, and even though the chip maker has unleashed many more chipsets since the X58 came out, there hasn’t been a true successor in the high-end of ...