motherboards

Absolutely bananas Asus Rampage III Extreme motherboard first offered by Origin

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/asusrampage.jpg" />This is the greatest motherboard that has ever lived. It's the Asus Rampage III Extreme, and it's designed for people

Gigabyte: 1 million USB 3.0 motherboards served

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/USB_3.jpg" />Gigabyte's USB 3.0-capable motherboards have gone platinum, as they say in the record biz. Gigabyte announced that it has sh

The motherboard as art: The Mona Lisa

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/motherboard_mona_lisa.jpg" />Well, I think we finally know what Asus does when they get a dead motherboard. They take it apart, and turn

Abit leaving the mobo business; I mourn

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/abit.jpg" /> The motherboard humming away in my nice <a href="http://www.nzxt.com/products/tempest/">Tempest </a>case right now is an Abi

New Intel processor does away with front side bus, adds third level of cache, brings back Hyperthreading

The fine people over at APC Mag got their hands on Intel’s Core i7 Nehalem processor (codenamed Bloomfield) and have bestowed upon us the following information: Intel has moved the memory controller

New VIA VB8001 ‘Nano’ processor and motherboard combo, plus more early info about holiday offerings

You guys like computers, do ya? Me too. I spent a fair amount of time with the good people at VIA today and got some info about various upcoming products – some that have just been announced and som

Dual-core Atom chip coming from Intel, new mobo too

Intel’s got a dual-core Atom chip on the way, likely in September to dovetail with the release of a new motherboard that’s compatible with the CPU. The processor is called the 330 and, although th

VIA quitting the third-party motherboard business

Looks like the motherboard business has lost its luster for VIA. Custom PC is reporting that VIA "sees no future in making chipsets for third parties such as Intel and AMD." A VIA rep said t

New Mini-ITX mobos from Intel hint at more tiny PCs

Two new Mini-ITX motherboards from Intel have been recently spotted — the Eklo and the Fly Creek. The Mini-ITX segment has been long populated by Via and its C7 line of processors, which have ca

NVIDIA introduces new GPUs, motherboard as part of 'fastest GeForce platforms ever'

If you’ve got $600 burning a hole in your pocket, maybe head on down to your nearby electronics superstore and throw down for the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2. It’s got 256 processing cores on

New Tiny Pico-ITX Form Factor Is (Almost) Here

Get ready for a tiny, tiny motherboard. If you’re looking to build, say, a system that fits in a box of Pop Tarts, the Pico-ITX form factor is right up your alley. Although it was announced way