BEFORE WE CONTINUE with the rest of Asus’ new motherboard line-up, let’s take a closer look at some of the new features that Asus’ Sandy Bridge motherboards will feature. It’s interesting to see how many of the big motherboard companies are turning into software companies to be able to offer additional value-adds, although this article will talk about a bit more than just new software features.
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SO FAR ASUS has been fairly unchallenged in the so called gaming motherboard market, although its R.O.G. series of motherboards are potentially more for high-end overclockers than gamers these days. The latest addition to the series is the Maximus IV Extreme which has taken a slightly different approach to other more recent models.
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NVIDIA IS EOLING the GTX480, but not really, in a similar fashion to the GTX285 last year. This time, it makes sense though, the replacement is already out.
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INTEL’S SANDY BRIDGE processors are scheduled for a January 2011 launch, but as you’ve seen over the past few weeks, motherboard manufacturers are already showing off their new motherboard models based on the next generation chipsets. We attended an Asus preview event just over a week ago, but we weren’t allowed to post any details of the new boards until today, so let’s start with a really small board.
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DURING THE NVIDIA earnings report yesterday, the company’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang decided it was time to have a go at tablets, well, at least tablets that weren’t built around Nvidia’s Tegra 2 SoC. He also put some of the blame for the delay of Tegra 2 tablets on Google, as Nvidia, Google and the tablet manufacturers wanted to offer products that will be competitive against the iPad at launch.
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THERE HAVE BEEN lots of rumblings lately about a settlement between Nvidia and Intel over the chipset lawsuit. SemiAccurate has now heard from multiple sources that a settlement has indeed been reached.
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IT’S BEEN VERY clear for some time that the Chinese motherboard makers want a slice of the action, but it’s hard to break into a market where the Taiwanese brands are so well established, so most of their products only go on sale in China. We spotted an unusual P67 board from a Chinese motherboard company called Topstar which we can see why it would have a certain appeal.
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A LOT OF people don’t understand what AMD is trying to accomplish with it’s Technical Forum and Exposition (TFE). Rather than go into a long rant, we decided to interview TFE’s founder, Dr. Gamal Refai-Ahmed.
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IT’S BEEN SOMETHING of a ride, but Boxee has finally launched the Boxee Box by D-Link. Yes, that is indeed the official name, although we have a hard time seeing how the name of a router manufacturer is going to convince anyone to buy what’s in essence a streaming media player in a rather unusually shaped box.
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FROM TIME TO time there’s a technology company that you’ve never heard of that surprises with a product that you just can’t understand that no-one’s come up with already. We’re not sure if ISYS falls in this category as yet, but its Xi3 modular computer sure made us interested, as we’ve never seen anything quite like it.
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WE CAN’T BE far now from AMD’s introduction of the mobile Radeon HD 6000-series with yesterday’s leak of the new Alienware model with the high-end GPU’s, we found two more models leaked by Acer.
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AMD CONFIRMED WHAT we all knew, Cayman and Antilles are going to be the 6900 series. While not in the slides, they confirmed which is which in their talks.
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AMD IS AT it again, this time with mobile GPU code names. Welcome the ‘Vancouver’ series of mobile GPUs, basically a mobile version of the 6800 line.
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THIN AND LIGHT notebooks are all the rage at the moment, especially after Apple’s launch of the new Macbook Air. Well, it seems like Lenovo has decided to make its own thin and light model in the shape of the 12.5-inch IdeaPad U260, a fairly modest looking notebook in comparison, but it has a few strengths of its own.
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DELL’S UPCOMING ALIENWARE M17x R3 has leaked and with it that AMD is getting ready to launch the first of its new 6000-series of mobile GPU’s. Not much is known about the new Mobility Radeon 6000-series, but the first two models are rumoured to be the Mobility Radeon HD 6870 and 6970.
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