Gigabyte X79-UD5 @ PureOC
“In terms of aesthetics and visuals, we think the Gigabyte X79-UD5 looks great with its black PCB and contrasting blue and gray color scheme. The board layout is very good, there’s ample space to work with, and we had no troubles with a behemoth Noctua NH-D14 air cooler.”
Sapphire PURE Black X79N @ TweakTown
“The company’s entry into the motherboard market hasn’t been a smooth one, even though, it started off well with the PURE Black X58. Following the X58 we saw the PURE Platinum P67 Hydra miss the mark. The release of the new AMD A75 chipset and the Sapphire PURE Platinum A75 saw the company again shine in the motherboard market.”
ASRock X79 Fatal1ty Professional @ Hardware Secrets
“ASRock has released eight motherboard models for the new socket 2011 platform, heavily betting that this platform will become more mainstream after Intel releases cheaper LGA2011 processors during this year. This time we will take a look at the X79 Fatal1ty Professional, with four PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots, six SATA-600 ports, eight USB 3.0 ports, and a special USB port with high polling rate for gaming mice.”
Biostar X79 TPower @ Motherboards.org
“To wrap this up let’s take another look at the board itself. It isn’t the prettiest or flashiest 2011 board out there, but I don’t think you’d be able to guess how powerful it is just by looking at it either.”
EVGA X79 FTW X79 Motherboard @ eTeknix
“Feature wise we see a whole range of options available with the 6 PCI-e lanes, SATA II and III interfaces, dual Gigabit LAN, a large array of front panel headers along the base of the board, degbug LED, and the tri-BIOS selection. The other little touches such as the 24-pin ATX connector that is at a right angle to the board, allowing for easier cable management in your case and the onboard power, reset and CMOS reset buttons just add to the selling factor.”
Sapphire Pure Black X79N @ Hardware Overclock
“Hardwareoverclock.com has just posted another review. Last week we have taken a look at the Sapphire Pure Black X79N motherboard. Maybe this board is the right one for your socket 2011 cpu. The most important themes in the review are the new Bios features and the overclocking properties.”
Gigabyte X79-UD5 @ Motherboards.org
“This new chipset has some very interesting features and comes with a very unusual design. One of the first things that you’ll notice when you take one of these out of the box is that there are ram slots on both sides of the CPU socket.”
ASUS Rampage IV Formula @ X-Bit Labs
“The design of the Asus Rampage IV Formula/Battlefield 3 box is dramatically different from the traditional Republic of Gamers packages, which allows you to easily distinguish between this special model with a game coupon inside and the regular one.”
MSI Z77 Motherboard Preview @ eTeknix
“Design wise we are pleased to see that they have omitted any in your face gun or magazine shapes with bullets here there and everywhere, yes they have used this in their CPU area cooler design to a degree but i’ll give them their due its advertising the Military Class of components that are used.”
MSI Z77A-GD65 @ Legit Reviews
“The Intel ‘Ivy Bridge’ platform is quickly approaching on the horizon. We may not have the new 22nm processors in the test lab today, we do have the first of the Intel Z77 motherboards. The MSI Z77A-GD65 features the latest Intel Z77 chipset that natively supports SuperSpeed USB 3.0! We may not have the new processor we do have our Intel Core i7 2600K processor which is easily supported by the new chipset.”