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A Wild Gigabyte GA-Z270N-Gaming 5 Appears

James (Aibophobia) noted not a moment ago that Gigabyte had released the page for the GA-Z270N-Gaming 5 motherboard. This is a much awaited Z270 board, with a plethora of features and a ‘Phoenix‘ like aesthetic (which I love, personally!). The manufacturer lists the following features; Supports 7th/ 6th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors Dual Channel Non-ECC Unbuffered DDR4, 2 DIMMs Supports PCIe x16 slot bifurcation in 2×8 mode by riser card Fast USB 3.1 Gen 2 with USB Type-C™ and Type-A Support OC Touch Panel for Extreme Overclocking Ultra-Fast M.2 with PCIe Gen3 x4 & SATA interface Intel® Optane™ Memory Ready ALC1220 …

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EVGA’s Z270 Stinger motherboard launched

We’ve covered the 200-series boards from most of the big motherboard companies, but now we’re taking a quick look at EVGA’s offering, the Z270 Stinger. The Z170 Stinger was pretty lackluster, it looked nice, but didn’t have the features to justify its launch price of $199 (though it’s dropped precipitously in price since). The Z270 version though is an already big improvement in that regard by including more features and it is listed for $170 on EVGA’s website. The board has 4x SATA ports, 1x U.2, Intel NIC, 802.11ac wireless, USB 3.1 Type-A and Type-C, and a PCIe 3.0 x4 M.2 SSD …

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ASRock reveals DeskMini RX/GTX: i7 7700K and MXM in under 3 liters

Update: We now have pictures of the motherboard powering this monster here. Last year, ASRock launched their Mini-STX barebones and standalone motherboard products, but today they’ll be showing off a turbocharged derivative of the Mini-STX platform at CES 2017: the DeskMini RX and DeskMini GTX. Simply put, these new barebones systems take the Mini-STX form factor that launched at CES last year, and crank it up to 11. They support Intel’s just-released i7 7700K Kaby Lake processor, the Z270 chipset (meaning you may very well be able to overclock that processor), a Thunderbolt 3 Type-C port, three M.2 SSD ports (!), an M.2 WiFi …

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ASRock 200-series motherboards officially announced

Written by James Schell and John Morrison. Yesterday we saw leaked images of the upcoming Intel 200-series chipset motherboards, but today several manufacturers have officially announced their new line of motherboards. This post will take a look at ASRock’s lineup. [mks_separator style=”blank” height=”2″] Mini-ITX Fatal1ty Z270 Gaming-ITX/ac This is the high-end Fatal1ty ITX board from ASRock for the Z270 chipset. Most of the specs are about what you would expect, Intel Gigabit NIC, 802.11ac wireless, 1x PCIe 3.0 x4 M.2, SATA Express (why?!), and so on. But there is also a HDMI 2.0 port, and, more surprisingly, a Thunderbolt 3 port! [mks_separator …

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Many 200-Series Motherboards Leaked ahead of CES

With Intel’s Kaby Lake soon to be released, many motherboard manufacturers are gearing up for their Intel 200-series chipset lineup. Although new features over the 100-series are limited, this did not keep board manufacturers from innovating and trying to bring something unique to the table. Most of these new boards have leaked from Asus, ASRock, Biostar, Gigabyte and MSI. Here are just a few of the veritable treasure trove of leaked images. Many more can be found in the source link, found below. Mini-ITX ASRock H270M-ITX/ac Asus STRIX Z270i Gaming MSI B250i Gaming Pro AC Gigabyte H270N-WIFI microATX ASRock Z270M-Pro4 …