Today the angels whispered in our ears that MSI is coming out with its third Big Bang mainboard. This time round, it's called the XPower. Gigabyte has their iconic "333," so MSI appears to be competing with an evil bath of sixes; 6 DDR3 slots, 6 Gb/s SATA, on a 7666 PCB.

Intel's X58 chipset has appeared in various guises on a fair few mainboards since its launch. Why would Gigabyte want to bring another X58 mainboard to the already-saturated market? For SuperSpeed USB and SATA 6Gb/s, of course!

"7" might not be the most oft-used number for naming products this side of the globe, but Gigabyte has chosen to use the "UD7" moniker on it's upcoming feature-packed mainboard. Today we landed our hands on a pre-production sample, so here we are with the photos.

ZOTAC International has just unveiled their upcoming ultimate LGA1156 mini-ITX high performance platform, ZOTAC H55-ITX WiFi, for users that demand big system performance in small form factor package.

The ASUS P6X58D Premium motherboard has become the first motherboard to be officially certified by the USB Implementation Forum (USB-IF) to support USB 3.0 features. The P6X58D Premium is built on the Intel® X58 chipset and the Intel® LGA 1366 socket. It also supports the upcoming 32nm 6-Core CPU.

The current PC market sees a rise in demand for M-ITX solutions. But with the with ATX and M-ATX motherboards already flooded in the market , will going small means you have to sacrifice in performance? Read on to find out more.

EVGA is preparing to launch a new high-end motherboard at CES 2010 next week, targeting hardcore overclockers and enthusiasts.

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Hardware.info has some information about the PCIe bottleneck issues on Gigabyte P55A motherboards supporting USB3 and SATA3. There are 3 scenarios you could face using that board. One, your graphics card will run at half the PCIe bandwidth (x8) if you use USB3 or SATA3. Two, if your graphics card run at full speed (x16) or if you are on Crossfire/SLI (x8,x8), USB3 and SATA3 will run at half speed. Third, if you are running 3 graphics cards like tri-Crossfire or SLI+PhysX, you can't use x1 slots or the eSATA at all.

BIOSTAR gave us a sneak peek on their upcoming H55 board named TH55 XE supporting the Core i5/i7 processors with integrated graphics. It is a uATX board featuring “Dura Max” technology comprises of IR DirectFET MOSFET, Ferrite Choke, and Japanese Solid Caps and has 7 phase power design. The board is equipped with multi-VGA and audio outputs: D-Sub, DVI-D, HDMI and optical S/PDIF digital audio output which certainly make it a perfect board for HTPC. It will be available in January 2010 when Intel officially launch their new chipsets.

Folks over at Nordic Hardware had reported that Asus is preparing the ROG Maximus III Extreme motherboard for launch at DreamHack in Jönköping, Sweden, this end November. Based on the LGA-1156 socket, this P55 based motherboard is the best in its league and features an additional PCI-Express bridge chip for two x16 links.

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