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What was the first thing they made after the wheel was invented? I am not sure about what Wikipedia has to say, but to the best of my understanding, it was probably my friend's old school Mazda -- which finally decided to kick the bucket a few weeks ago. To commemorate its death after years of unfaithful service, I decided to poke some fun at him, and brought him to the local junkyard -- also known as a Hyundai dealership -- to check out what the future has in store for him. When I sat down inside the brand new 2011 Elantra parked inside the showroom after gawking at its obnoxiously overdone and fundamentally awkward interpretation of the company's "fluidic sculpture" theme, a pretty female salesperson about our age (I'm 20) walked over and greeted us. She highlighted a few features of the car, and then allowed us to explore on our own. Right after she turned around, I got out of the driver's seat, and leaned over to my friend, who was standing outside. "I think I like the girl more", I said. My friend nodded in agreement. "Yeah, she's prettier than anything around here." (His sister, on the other hand, wasn't very pleased.) My point is, despite the fact there is usually nothing good inside a Hyundai dealership, there can be exceptions. There can be surprises. In the same way, when is the last time you've looked at some compact mini-ITX PC and thought to yourself, "This thing must be one underpowered computer for people who don't care about performance?" Well, as the old saying goes, don't judge a book by its cover. If it has an ASUS P8H67-I Deluxe mITX motherboard under the hood, then don't pee your pants when it smokes the riced out full tower PC next to it. Featuring a standard LGA 1155 socket for the latest Intel Sandy Bridge processors, a PCI Express x16 slot to accommodate the graphics card of your choice, what we have here is some serious awesomeness in a very compact package. Ready to find out more? Let's roll.
The Zotac H67ITX is a very small mini-ITX motherboard for socket 1155 processors, thus being targeted to the Intel "Sandy Bridge" CPUs. It is based on the Intel H67 chipset and comes with one PCI Express x16 slot, allowing you to build a powerful gaming system using a very small case, and some extra features such as IEEE 802.11n WiFi connectivity and four USB 3.0 ports. Let's check it out.
I'm a really big fan of the mATX platform, even more so over the last few years as we've seen that moving to the mATX platform doesn't mean you need to sacrifice the power that most full size ATX boards bring. The release of the new Z68 chipset means a bunch of new boards from companies and today we'll be looking at our first mATX version of the new chipset. The Z68 Pro3-M from ASRock carries a very similar name to a board we've already looked at, the ASRock Z68 Pro3. Of course, the M in this case means we're dealing with an mATX version.
Meet the Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD5-B3 motherboard, a non-integrated graphics take on the new Intel Z68 chipset. While the Intel Z68 is reknown for combining the best the Intel P67 & H67 chipsets had to offer in one platform - and let's face it, also puts the final nail in the coffin of both. Intel Smart Response Technology is a particularly neat solution that addresses the problem of Solid State Drives being too small and too costly for many people. What Intel Smart Response Technology does is bring about like-SSD performance to operating systems and applications installed on traditional mechanical SATA hard disk drives (HDD).
The board deserves its high-end status, in terms of both build quality and features. It has a good cooling system and lets you achieve nice overclocking results."
Was leistet Intels neuster Sockel 1155 Chipsatz. Anhand des Gigabyte Z68X UD7 prüfen wir die Unterschiede zur P67 Version.
Als einer der bekanntesten und größten Hersteller für Grafikkarten aus dem Hause AMD (ehemals natürlich ATI) gilt Sapphire seit Langem. Auch im Mainboardsektor gab es hin und wieder mal eine Platine für den Premiumpartner AMD. Dies hat sich seit einiger Zeit verändert, denn Sapphire möchte sich nun auch vermehrt im „anderen Lager“ etablieren, sprich kontinuierlich Mainboards für Prozessoren von Intel anbieten. So wurden auf der CeBIT 2011 unter anderem eine X58 Platine vorgestellt (diese war bereits bei uns im Test), als auch ein Sockel 1155 Pendant mit P67 Chipsatz. Dieses auf den Namen getaufte Pure Black P67 Hydra befindet sich heute bei uns im Test. Der Name Hydra weißt bereits auf ein Feature hin, welches das Mainboard zu bieten hat. Sapphire hat nämlich dem 1155 Untersatz einen Lucid Hydra 200 Chip spendiert, der es ermöglicht, ein herstellerunabhängiges Multi GPU Setup laufen zu lassen.
Der X58 Chipsatz ist trotz der Vorstellung der P67 Plattform in Verbindung mit den schnellen Sandy Bridge CPUs auch nach über 2 Jahren immer noch die High End Plattform von Intel und für den Enthusiasten Markt vorgesehen. Eine besondere Serie innerhalb dieses Enthusiasten Marktes ist die „Republic of Gamers“ von Asus, dessen Mainboards in ihren jeweiligen Chipsatz-Sparten oft zu den führenden Produkten zählen. Ein besonderes Exemplar aus dieser Reihe ist das Asus Rampage III Extreme für den Sockel 1366, welches sich in den letzten Monaten zu so etwas wie dem Standard-Board für den Gulftown entwickelt hat. Nahezu jeder Übertakter im Extrem-Bereich verwendet dieses Board. Nun hat Asus dieses sehr gute Board nochmals überarbeitet und hat die „Black Edition“ genannte Version veröffentlicht.
So far, ASRock has released three motherboards based on the new Intel Z68 chipset, two for the mainstream market (Z68 Pro3 and Z68 Pro3-M, which is a Micro-ATX version of the Z68 Pro3), and one for the high-end market (Z68 Extreme4). While the Z68 Extreme4 offers three PCI Express x16 slots, the Z68 Pro3 has only one. Let's take a look at this model from ASRock.
With all the news about the P67, the B2 or B3 stepping and now Z68, there is still room for the tried and true X58 chipset. This time on our bench is a mid-range board from GIGABYTE - we have the X58-USB3.
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