Another Z68 motherboard from ASRock; boom or bust?
Earlier in the month Steve reviewed the ASRock Z68 Extreme 7 Gen 3 motherboard and handed it a Silver Award. This so called budget brand has been steadily improving over...
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Hybrid Storage Roundup: Seagate Momentus XT vs. OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid vs. Intel Z68
Back in 2006, storage tech talk was intermittently buzzy with a few different innovations. One was wrapped around the pending release of Windows Vista, particularly two bullets on its feature list: ReadyBoost…
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ASRock Z68 Extreme 7 Gen 3 LGA 1155 Motherboard Review
Introduction Courtesy of ASRock Our test bench has seen a flood of Z68-based enthusiast motherboards this fall and ASRock added their flagship Z68 Extreme 7 Gen 3 board to...
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Gear Up with MSI: Win Intel Motherboards, GeForce Graphics Cards
This is a pretty big week here at PC Perspective as we released our highly anticipated review of the Intel Sandy Bridge-E and X79 platform. If you haven't read that over,...
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ASUS P8Z68 Deluxe GEN3 Board Spotted with PCI Express 3.0 Support
Spending time the San Francisco bay area usually results in some interesting finds. The first one I can talk about? An upcoming launch of refreshed Z68 motherboards from ASUS that include support for…
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MSI Z68A-GD80 G3 LGA 1155 ATX Motherboard Review
Introduction Courtesy of MSI Micro-Star International, better known as MSI, has been busy little bees in 2011 to fend off fierce competition from ASUS, Gigabyte and other motherboard vendors....
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Putting the PCIe 3.0 slot before the card, MSI’s new Z68 board
When [H]ard|OCP reviewed the MSI Z68A-UD3H B3, they took some time examining MSI's version of UEFI called Click BIOS; it did not come out well, they panned it as horrible. MSI listened to their suggestions…
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Just Delivered: MSI Z68A-GD65 G3 Motherboard with PCI Express 3.0 Support
Just Delivered is a section of PC Perspective where we share some of the goodies that pass through our labs that may or may not see a review, but are…
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Gigabyte’s new Z68 board with added NF200 goodness
ASUS is not the only company with extra PCIe lanes on their X68 board anymore, as Gigabyte's new Z68X-UD7-B3 hits the market. With an included NF200 chip there are four PCIe 16x slots,…
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Zotac thinks small with their new Z68 motherboard
If you are looking to bring the benefits of the Z68 chipset to your LAN box, look no further than Zotac's Z68-ITX WiFi mini-ITX board. They've done everything possible to trim…
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New ASRock Z68 Fatal1ty Motherboard Supports PCI-E 3.0
ASRock recently unveiled a new enthusiast Z68 chipset based motherboard supporting the PCI-Express 3.0 standard. Dubbed the Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Gen3, the company claims that when coupled with the...
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Gigabyte makes some interesting choices with the GA-Z68X-UD4-B3
The GA-Z68X-UD4-B3 does not have any video out connectors, a choice which seems very strange for a Z68 based motherboard since it removes the GPU switching ability which is so popular with the…
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MSI shows Gen3 PCIe, X79 Motherboard and GTX 580 Extreme
MSI had quite a showing at this year's Computex starting with a host of new motherboards based on the Z68 chipset. The most interesting of which was the new Z68A-GD80 (G3) that in…
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ASUS Launches new line of ROG Motherboards for Core i7, Bulldozer
On the first day of Computex 2011, ASUS held an event in Taipei to announce a host of new ROG (Republic of Gamers) branded devices including motherboards, displays, headphones, notebooks and even…
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Gigabyte Offers Z68 Motherboard With Bundled Intel 311 mSATA SSD
Gigabyte has been on the ball as far as new Intel based Z68 motherboard launches go, and today is no different as they announce a new motherboard that will ship with an…
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More high end SandyBridge goodness, the ASUS P8Z68-V Pro
The expiration of the NDA on the Z68 chipset has launched an impressive amount of reviews, which represents just how much choice you will have if you upgrade to a high end SandyBridge…
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First Look At The Asus Maximus IV Gene FLP
Interested in a first look at Asus' latest Gene series offering for z68? PC Perspective has you covered with quite a few photos of the up and coming motherboard for you…
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Testing out the Intel Z68’s “best of both worlds” mode with a 20GB SSD
One of the more interesting things about the Z68 is Intel's SRT which allows you to utilize a small SSD as a cache for your HDD, allowing you the speed benefits of an…
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