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Gigabyte Confirm Support for Windows 10
With the launch of yet another Windows OS, motherboard manufacturers the world over are testing the archives of motherboards to ensure compatibility with it. Gigabyte is the latest motherboard manufacturer to certify that a large range…
GeIL DRAGON RAM 8GB 1600MHz Memory Kit Review
Introduction Today we are examining our second memory kit from GeIL after looking at their lovely EVO POTENZA kit. The DRAGON RAM series is where the kit we’re looking at today comes from and from the…
GeIL EVO POTENZA 16GB 2400MHz Memory Kit Review
Introduction GeIL, or Golden Emperor International Limited, are certainly not a new player in the technology industry even if many people in the “West” have not heard of them. GeIL Memory are veterans of the DRAM industry having…
Asus Go Against Intel, Add Devil Canyon Support To Z87 Motherboard
Intel was working hard to encourage motherboard makers to push users into upgrading to Z97, which features the latest Intel Series 9 chipsets. This meant that to use the new Devil Canyon CPU’s from Intel, you…
EVGA Reveals Their Z97 Haswell-Refresh Compatible Motherboards
EVGA has just revealed their lineup of new motherboards that are hitting the market along side the launch of Intel’s Haswell refresh. The new boards are pretty much what you would have expected from EVGA, and…
Gigabyte Brix Pro GB-BXi7-4770R Ultra Compact Barebones System Review
Introduction In the early stages of last year, Intel released one of the biggest products of 2013 into the market place and no – it was not Haswell. What I am referring to here is the…
MSI Z87I Gaming AC (LGA 1150) Mini-ITX Motherboard Review
Introduction The mini-ITX trend continues to gain ground in the desktop market as enthusiasts look to make cooler, sexier and more compact systems. To an extent the shift towards more compact form factors and designs is…
Avexir Blitz Series 1.1 4GB 1600MHz Memory Review
Introduction Avexir may not be the biggest name in the world of performance desktop memory but they have certainly been gaining in popularity and reputation over the past year, and rightly so. Today we are taking…
Gigabyte G1 Sniper Z87 (LGA 1150) Motherboard Review
Introduction With AMD fizzling out in the high end desktop market segment, people are increasingly choosing the Intel LGA 1150 platform for high end gaming systems. Not surprisingly motherboard vendors have responded to the popularity of…

ASRock Z87M Extreme4 (LGA 1150) Motherboard Review
Introduction Intel’s Z87 chipset may be aimed at high end consumers and power users but the reality is the majority of people who use the Z87 chipset don’t need as much connectivity as is offered by…
Intel Xeon E3-1230Lv3 1.8GHz Quad Core “Haswell” 25W CPU Review
Introduction Intel’s Xeon E3-1230Lv3 CPU has been a hotly anticipated processor for a wide variety of target audiences – home users, office users, small business users and enterprise users. Today we’ve got an opportunity to put…
EVGA Z87 Classified motherboard Released
EVGA launches the long-awaited Z87 Classified motherboard. Its been quite a while since Intel announced the Z87 chipset and Haswell platform; since then EVGA has been working on their flagship motherboard. The Classified products always hold…
ASUS Z87I-PRO (LGA 1150) Mini-ITX Motherboard Review
Introduction ASUS has been at the forefront of the high performance mini-ITX revolution since it became popularised by small form factor mini-ITX cases like Bitfenix’s Prodigy. Today we have one of those innovative mini-ITX solutions of…
ASUS Z87 Maximus VI Formula (LGA 1150) Motherboard Review
Introduction ASUS released a very extensive range of Z87 motherboards for Intel’s new Haswell platform. To date we’ve already reviewed their Z87 Sabertooth and Z87-C motherboards and today we’ve got something new from their Republic of Gamers series.…
ASRock Z87 Extreme6 (LGA 1150) ATX Motherboard Review
Introduction Despite Z87 being present on the market now since June it is still Intel’s newest consumer desktop platform and offers consumers a lot of cutting edge functionality. Today we have a rather fine looking motherboard…
GIGABYTE Low Budget Z87 G1.Sniper Released
Today GIGABYTE has launched a new G1.Sniper Z87 model for the lower budget machine but still with overclocking support and SLI/Crossfire. When the Z87 series has been released, very few models were aiming at gamers for…
Gigabyte Z87-D3HP (LGA 1150) Motherboard Review
Introduction Gigabyte’s range of Z87 motherboards have already been a big hit with system builders. In particular two motherboards from that series that we checked out – Z87X-UD3H and Z87X-UD4H which we reviewed here and here – have…
MSI Z87-G43 (LGA 1150) Motherboard Review
Introduction Since the launch of Haswell LGA 1150 processors and the Z87 Intel chipset back in June we’ve seen a tonne of motherboards come through eTeknix for review. In fact, we’ve still got quite a few…

ASUS Z87 Sabertooth (LGA 1150) Motherboard Review
Introduction The ASUS Sabertooth/TUF series of motherboards is well known throughout the computer hardware industry as being one of the most rugged motherboard designs available. ASUS put the Z87 Sabertooth that we have here today through…
Gigabyte Reveal Thunderbolt 2 Ready Motherboards At IDF 2013
Intel’s Thunderbolt 2 standard is set to be implemented on a pair of Gigabyte motherboards in the near future. Legit Reviews spotted the Gigabyte Z87X-UD5 TH (above) and the Z87X-UD7 TH (below) motherboards at IDF 2013.…
ASUS Reveal Z87 Deluxe Quad Motherboard
ASUS have just unveiled a brand new Z87 motherboard. The Z87-Deluxe/Quad motherboard is apparently the world’s first motherboard to be certified with Intel’s Thunderbolt 2 technology. The ASUS Z87-Deluxe Quad motherboard is ram packed with connectivity…
ASUS Reveal Maximus VI Impact Mini-ITX Motherboard
ASUS have just unveiled their latest mini-ITX creation and yes this time we’ve got a mini-ITX motherboard that is part of the Republic of Gamers series. This is a motherboard that is absolutely ram-packed with exclusive…
ASUS Reveal USB 3.0 NFC Receiver
ASUS has just announced its latest motherboard accessory to help synchronise your electronic life. ASUS revealed the NFC Express NFC reciever with a 2 port USB 3.0 hub designed for desktop PCs. The device allows you…
Avexir Reveal Core Gold Series Memory Modules
Everyone who has followed the launch of Z87 and Intel’s new Haswell platform will have seen the new ASUS motherboards that come with a Gold/Mustard Yellow colour scheme, such as the ASUS Z87-C motherboard we recently…
ADATA Launch XPG V2 3100MHz Overclocking Memory
ADATA have just launched a brand new series of gaming RAM from its XPG series. Their new XPG V2 3100 modules run at a staggeringly high 3100MHz and are designed to take advantage of the new…
ASUS Debut The Maximus VI Formula Z87 Motherboard
It has been quite a long time coming but finally ASUS has released its Maximus VI Formula Z87 motherboard for Intel’s new Z87 Haswell platform. At first glance the Maximus VI Formula is a radical overhaul…
Revised Intel 8 Series (Haswell) Motherboards Available In September
Digitimes reports that Intel’s new C2 stepping 8 Series (Z87/Z85/H87/H81/B85) Haswell motherboards will be available from September to consumers. The issue with the current C1 stepping is a design flaw with the USB 3.0 host controllers…