Neowin News Feed for: Motherboards

ASUS' new graphics cards and motherboards replace 12VHPWR connector with a 600W PCIe

Taras Buria — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 13:52:01 +0000

ASUS has a rather radical solution for the ill-fated 12VHPWR connector: ditch it instead of fixing it. A new BTF standard replaces 12VHPWR and cumbersome cable management for a 600W PCIe connector. Read more...

ASRock announces X670E motherboard series for AMD Ryzen 7000 processors

Matthew Miller — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 04:34:02 +0000

ASRock has announced its first socket AM5 motherboards in support for AMD's 7000 series processors. The upcoming ATX motherboards utilize the X670E chipset for full DDR5 and PCIe 5 support. Read more...

AMD is preparing two regular and two 'extreme' chipsets for AM5 socket

Taras Buria — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 08:06:01 +0000

A leaked slide has revealed details about AMD's upcoming chipsets for motherboards with the new AM5 socket. The company is preparing two regular and two "extreme" platforms with extra features. Read more...

Gigabyte launches new servers with new AMD EPYC 7003 processors

Paul Hill — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 21:02:01 +0000

Gigabyte has launched over 40 new server products that use AMD's newly announce EPYC 7003 Series processors. The firm said the CPU excels at high-performance computing a data analytics. Read more...

TechSpot: 7-Way Intel Z97 Motherboard Roundup

Julio Franco — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 07:27:38 +0000

Codenamed 'Wildcat Point', the Z97 chipset brings support for future Broadwell CPUs, along with SATA Express and the M.2 socket. To help you pick a board we compare 7 models in every possible way. Read more...

TechSpot: Haswell Refresh - Intel's New Z97 Platform Explored

Julio Franco — Tue, 13 May 2014 04:13:30 +0000

Today's Haswell release isn't a tick or a tock, it's simply a refresh. But while we don't expect much more than slight speed bumps, the company has also released new 9-series chipsets. Read more...

ASRock claims to have first motherboards made for Bitcoin mining

John Callaham — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 01:00:00 +0000

The Taiwan-based PC hardware company ASRock has announced two new motherboards that they claim are the first to be designed specifically to help with Bitcoin mining. Read more...

nVidia licenses SLI for AMD motherboards

Piers Hausjell — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:36:01 +0000

Tom Petersen over at the official company blog has announced that nVidia, the graphics technology company, has decided to license its technology to a selection of motherboard companies for the upcoming 900 range of chipsets.... Read more...

ASRock P43 and P45 Motherboards Reviewed

Steven Parker — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:42:29 +0000

This just in from TweakTown: At the 2008 Computex event, Intel officially took the curtains off its 4 series PCI Express chipset range which is set to replace the original 3 series of chipsets. Intel's... Read more...

Asustek announces new motherboards with HDMI onboard

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:57:08 +0000

Asustek Computer has announced the release of the new Intel G35 chipset motherboards featuring on onboard HDMI connector, the Asustek P5E-V HDMI. The motherboards provide users with the ability to showcase high-definition multimedia, highlighted the... Read more...

Asustek launches workstation-based motherboards

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:11:44 +0000

Asustek has released the P5E WS Professional and P5E3 WS Professional workstation motherboards with multiple high speed I/O interfaces including dual PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 and PCI-X slots. The multiple slot interfaces increase expansion choices... Read more...

Nvidia denies it is to launch own-brand motherboards

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:38:56 +0000

With Nvidia pushing the "Designed by Nvidia" scheme to market, it shows that the company has the engineering capability to design motherboards. Because of this, sources at graphics card makers believe that Nvidia will launch... Read more...

AMD Opteron 2200-series Works in Quad FX Motherboards

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 09:28:15 +0000

Dave Graham has posted images of an AMD Opteron 2218 processor running on an ASUS L1N64-SLI motherboard, which is designed for AMD's Quad FX platform. The motherboard BIOS detects the processor correctly and functions properly.... Read more...

Non-Vista-supporting motherboards and VGA cards DOA?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:13:46 +0000

With Windows Vista up and coming, makers of motherboards and VGA cards are now worried they will incur losses from their inventory of low-end products that do support Microsoft's new operating system (OS), according to... Read more...

Asustek to launch Skype motherboards

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:16:47 +0000

Asustek Computer plans to launch two motherboards complete with phone jacks able to turn common household telephones into Internet phones using Skype's popular VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) software. The M2N/TeleSky and P5B/TeleSky motherboards both... Read more...

Volume shipments of G965-based motherboards again delayed

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 09:47:21 +0000

Due to a problem with chipset drivers, motherboard makers cannot start shipping products utilizing Intel's G965 Express chipset, sources at Taiwan's motherboard industry indicated. Expecting new drivers to be released in October, the makers accordingly... Read more...

MSI launches Intel G965 and Q965 series motherboards

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:35:47 +0000

Micro Star International (MSI) recently introduced a series of motherboards based Intel G965/Q965 chipsets. With full support for the new generation Core 2 processors, the new G965/Q965 series motherboards features digital home and digital office... Read more...

AMD: We're Not Manufacturing Motherboards

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:01:10 +0000

Advanced Micro Device's acquisition of ATI Technology Monday gives the chip maker a leg-up in maintaining a stable image platform for corporate buyers, but it doesn't mean there will be branded AMD motherboards anytime soon.... Read more...

Socket AM2- M2 motherboards to cost $5 to $10 more

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 15:30:38 +0000

THE AMD socket M2/AM2 based motherboards aren't likely to cost very much more than existing sockets. AMD advised its motherboard partners that the new motherboards will cost them only a little bit more. Socket vendors... Read more...

New Nvidia Chipsets Tweak Athlon 64 Motherboards

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 19:10:00 +0000

nForce chipsets slated to feature integrated GeForce DirectX 9 and Shader Model 3.0 graphics technology for AMD Athlon 64 platforms. Santa Clara-based graphics manufacturer Nvidia today announced new integrated graphics chipset offerings... Read more...

DFI introduces new AMD64 motherboards

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 10:58:37 +0000

Two second-tier Taiwan motherboard makers – DFI and Jetway Information – expect their businesses to remain brisk in January, with DFI counting on new AMD64 motherboards and Jetway on LCD monitors, according to sources at... Read more...

ATI teams up with Gigabyte to promote ATI RX330 motherboards

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:27:27 +0000

ATI Technologies is cooperating with Gigabyte Technology in China to promote Gigabyte's GA-8TRX330-L motherboard, which is the first motherboard to feature the ATI RX330 north bridge, said ATI chairman KY Ho in Shanghai recently. ATI's... Read more...

Intel to bundle ATI VGA cards with 915/925 motherboards

Fri, 23 Jul 2004 19:36:44 +0000

Intel and ATI Technologies plan a co-marketing initiative called "Driving Change," which will target the channel and bundle ATI own-brand add-in-board (AIB) clients with Intel own-brand motherboards, according to sources at Taiwanese motherboards makers. The... Read more...

ASRock aims to ship two million motherboards in 3Q

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 14 Jul 2004 09:43:25 +0000

ASRock expects its motherboard shipments to grow 20% sequentially to two million units in the third quarter due to rising demand from China, India and Europe, according to company sources. Although the exact figures are... Read more...

Price competition for entry-level motherboards to intensify

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 26 May 2004 08:30:54 +0000

Price competition for entry-level motherboards is expected to intensify in the third quarter as some of Taiwan's second-tier makers, including Biostar Microtech International and Jetway Information, plan to introduce new boards with ASPs (average selling... Read more...

Gigabyte launches RZ-series motherboards

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 12 Mar 2004 08:28:38 +0000

Gigabyte Technology, one of Taiwan's top four motherboard makers, has launched 10 entry- to mid-level motherboards, aiming at the same market as the X-series from industry leader Asustek Computer, sources said. Gigabyte's new models, the... Read more...

Gigabyte to launch second-brand motherboards in March

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:56:50 +0000

First-tier Taiwanese motherboard maker Gigabyte Technology will promote a second, entry-level brand to expand its sales, according to sources. Gigatrend, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Gigabyte, will handle marketing of the second-brand motherboards, with volume shipments... Read more...

MSI launches two AMD Opteron motherboards

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 12 Sep 2003 13:56:01 +0000

MSI HAS officially introduced two new motherboards for the AMD Opteron platform, one uniprocessor and one dual. The dually board is not new news, as it has been known about for quite some time. What... Read more...

Intel 865-based motherboards drop 12.5% since June

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 28 Jul 2003 08:17:27 +0000

Motherboard makers are seeing rising motherboard demand in part due to the lowering of prices of Intel 865 chipset-based motherboards. Ever since Intel lowered its 865 chipset prices in June, FOB (freight-on-board) wholesale prices for... Read more...

Prescott Support on i875P/i865PE Motherboards a Total Mess

Tue, 22 Jul 2003 16:26:01 +0000

Thanks xStaindx...There is a total mess with Prescott support by existing mainboards based on i865PE and i875P chipsets that are meant to be "Ensured '03 Platforms Are Prescott Ready". Intel does not want to comment... Read more...

Dell: House calls over bad motherboards

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 03 May 2003 08:08:34 +0000

Dell Computer has launched a service campaign to replace motherboards in nearly 20,000 Inspiron notebooks. The Round Rock, Texas, company will replace the flawed motherboards inside nearly 20,000 Inspiron 2650 laptop models manufactured between the... Read more...