{"id":71054,"date":"2014-12-21T08:18:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T06:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=71054"},"modified":"2014-12-21T08:20:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T06:20:42","slug":"powerful-motherboards-released-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/71054-powerful-motherboards-released-in-2014","title":{"rendered":"Powerful motherboards released in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

2014 saw a giant leap forward in motherboard technology, with the release of the X99 boards ushering in the era of DDR4 RAM and Haswell-E processors.<\/p>\n

The X99 boards can take up to 128GB of the new DDR4 RAM (which is faster and more energy efficient that DDR3), and\u00a06 to 8 core CPUs.<\/p>\n

This does not mean the previous boards are dead and buried just yet, with some sweet Z97s and the like getting released in 2014.<\/p>\n

Here are some of this year’s most powerful\u00a0motherboards. (There are a lot of Asus boards in the mix.)<\/p>\n

Asus Sabertooth\u00a0Z97 Mark S<\/h3>\n
\"Asus<\/a>

Asus Z97 Sabertooth<\/p><\/div>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Asus Sabertooth Z97 Mark S<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CPU Socket<\/td>\nLGA 1150 (4th, new 4th, and 5th gen i3, i5, i7)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chipset<\/td>\nIntel Z97<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
RAM<\/td>\nUp to 32GB DD3 1866MHz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PCI Express<\/td>\n2 x PCI 3.0\/2.0 x16 slots, 1 x PCI 2.0 x16 slots, 3 x PCI 2.0 x1 slots<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Multi-GPU<\/td>\nNvidia quad-SLI and AMD CrossFire<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sata<\/td>\n6 x 6Gbit\/s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Networking<\/td>\nIntel I218-V Gigabit LAN controller<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
USB<\/td>\n8 x USB 3.0\/2.0 ports (4 on back panel, 4 mid-board)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dimensions<\/td>\n30.5×24.4cm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

Asus Rampage Extreme X99<\/h3>\n
\"Asus<\/a>

Asus Rampage Extreme V<\/p><\/div>\n

The board features, as the names suggests, Intel\u2019s X99 chipset which means gamers can slap on a Haswell-E processor \u2013 6 or 8 cores if you wish \u2013 and some super-fast DDR4 RAM.<\/p>\n

The Rampage supports up to 64GB of DDR4 3300; Nvidia 3-way and 4-way SLI; AMD 3-way and 4-way CrossFireX; and comes equipped with the expected USB, WLAN, Ethernet, Bluetooth, and audio ports.<\/p>\n

Other powerful boards from 2014<\/h3>\n

Asus ROG Maximus VII Formula Z97<\/h3>\n
\"ASUS<\/a>

ASUS ROG Maximus VII Formula Z97<\/p><\/div>\n

MSI X99S Gaming 7<\/h3>\n
\"MSI<\/a>

MSI Gaming 7<\/p><\/div>\n

Gigabyte X99 Gaming 5<\/h3>\n
\"Gigabyte<\/a>

Gigabyte X99 Gaming 5<\/p><\/div>\n

Asus X99 Deluxe<\/h3>\n
\"Asus<\/a>

Asus X99 Deluxe Motherboard<\/p><\/div>\n

MSI X99S XPOWER<\/h3>\n
\"MSI<\/a>

MSI X99S XPOWER Motherboard<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re all about those boards, those boards, no… damn, I suck at song writing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":69177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[21,13164,12896],"class_list":["post-71054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-headline","tag-motherboards","tag-x99-motherboards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71056,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71054\/revisions\/71056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}