ASUS Rampage IV Formula @ Bjorn3D
“The Rampage IV Formula does many of things right. The performance of the Formula is right on par with that of the Extreme, which is impressive, although most all of the X79 boards are within a few percent of each other anyways.”
ASUS Maximus V Gene Preview @ Au-Ja!
“The first motherboards based on Intel’s chipset Z77 are indeed already on the market, but Intel’s press partners may still publish performance measurements. Reports on the motherboard and the same photos are allowed, however, so that we – have prepared a little preview of the ASUS Maximus V genes – almost to bridge the waiting period.”
Biostar TZ77XE4 Preview @ eTeknix
“Intel Z77 is the new chipset that is due to come out in April, opening lots of new features including PCI-Express 3.0 and native USB 3.0 support, though the biggest new feature is of course support for the new 3rd generation Intel processors. While Intel won’t confirm, we all know these to be called Ivy Bridge, and will lead to new architecture based upon the already great selling Sandy Bridge CPUs.”
ECS Z77H2-AX @ Hardware Secrets
“ECS is releasing a new motherboard series, “Golden Board,” where all metallic parts are golden, including the capacitors and coils. Two models were announced within this series, the Z77H2-AX and the Z77H2-A2X. Let’s take a look at the Z77H2-AX, which comes with Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, a PLX switch chip allowing a very high-end configuration for its PCI Express x16 slots, and much more.”
ASUS X79 Sabertooth @ Bjorn3D
“The warranty for the TUF series boards is a nice 5 years, which says something about the perceived durability of these boards. Add to this the recent inclusion of X79 to the list of available models for the APS ASUS premium warranty, and this board looks to deliver an experience that would be viewed as second to none.”
ASRock Fatal1ty X79 Professional @ Techware Labs
“The new X79 chipset brings PCI3.0 and Quad Channel Ram onto the Intel market. PCI3.0 is aimed squarely at gamers because of its throughput for the latest high end GPUs and this board has 4x of them. Fatal1ty has always been aimed at the power-user and gamer and they have (seemingly) not disappointed at first glance.”
ASUS Z9PE-D8 WS @ eTeknix
“Any form of rendering and CPU intensive tasks are where this not only flies but excels over and i7-3960x in our Rampage IV Extreme. Whilst some of the results had marginal differences, you have to look at the bigger picture with larger projects, the small differences that we found in our tests would be amplified greatly over a larger workload and this matters – a lot!”
ASUS Rampage IV Formula and Gene @ PureOC
“Today, we have a dual review of the X79 ASUS ROG motherboards, the Rampage IV Formula and the Rampage IV Gene. They are unboxed and ready to go. The Formula and Gene have some considerable differences, namely ATX versus Micro-ATX form factor, so let’s take a closer look and see what they have in store.”
Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H Preview @ Hardware Secrets
“The Intel Z77 chipset will be released by the end of this month, but we had the privilege of getting the Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H for a “first look” article. It will be a top mainstream socket 1155 motherboard targeted to the forthcoming “Ivy Bridge” processors (third-generation Core i3, Core i5, and Core i7 processors) and also supporting the current “Sandy Bridge” models (second-generation Core i3, Core i5, and Core i7 processors).”
Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Preview @ Guru3D
“The GA-Z77X-D3H is intended for Intels 22nm processors that will be coming out later this year based on Socket LGA1155 however the motherboard also supports Sandy bridge processors like the Core i7 2600K. While we are not allowed to publish any testing results whatsoever related to Ivy Bridge on this GA-Z77X-D3H, we are able to give you a closer look at the motherboard itself.”