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Release roundup: Case news, Sandy gaming laptops, and more by Cyril Kowaliski — 4:15 PM on March 24, 2011 This week on the roundup, we've got a couple of case-related announcements from Corsair and NZXT, plus a new Biostar motherboard and some iBuypower laptops... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Cases Mobile computing	6
Asus AM3 boards gain Bulldozer support by Cyril Kowaliski — 12:37 PM on March 17, 2011 If you stuck by AMD's side during the great Intel onslaught of 2010, when Core i7 processors savagely beat their Phenom II rivals, you might... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Motherboards	64
PLX bridges gap between USB 3.0 and PCIe 2.0 by Geoff Gasior — 9:56 AM on March 15, 2011 Add PLX to the growing list of companies developing USB 3.0 hardware. The company is bringing its expertise in bridge chips to the SuperSpeed... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards	12
Deal of the week: Sandy Bridge is back by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:21 PM on March 11, 2011 Intel's Sandy Bridge processors were great deals when they came out in January, and they're still great deals today—it's just that accompanying motherboards have been... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Motherboards	17
Release roundup: SSDs, memory, and Sandy Bridge boards by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:05 PM on March 10, 2011 This week's release roundup isn't as intense as the last one, but our inbox has still accumulated a few announcements. Let's kick things off with... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Storage Memory	17
Release roundup: Wi-Fi, USB 3.0, and LGA1366 gear by Cyril Kowaliski — 1:46 PM on March 4, 2011 This week's release roundup is a doozy, with noteworthy announcements from Bigfoot Networks, Corsair, Gigabyte, Kingston, and Transcend. We've got an upgrade to Corsair's Obsidian... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Storage Memory Networking	18
B3 Sandy Bridge mobos start showing up at Newegg by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:41 AM on March 4, 2011 Sandy Bridge motherboards are back at last—well, some of them are, at least. Both Asus and Gigabyte publicly announced the resumption of Sandy... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards	11
Asus starts shipping new Sandy Bridge boards, too by Cyril Kowaliski — 4:57 PM on March 1, 2011 Lagging just a tad behind Gigabyte and Micro Center, Asus has announced that it, too, has kicked off shipments of bug-free Sandy Bridge motherboards. The... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards	8
Micro Center gives customers Sandy mobo shipment news by Cyril Kowaliski — 3:50 PM on March 1, 2011 Just yesterday, Gigabyte announced that it had begun shipping Sandy Bridge motherboards featuring a bug-free, B3-stepping 6-series chipsets. Now, we're told by a TR... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards	3
Gigabyte begins shipments of B3 Sandy Bridge mobos by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:24 AM on February 28, 2011 Thunderstorms in the distance are signaling the end of the Sandy Bridge drought. Gigabyte has announced that shipments of its B3-stepping Sandy Bridge motherboards Type: News story Tags: Motherboards	24
Lucid ships Virtu software to mobo makers by Scott Wasson — 4:58 PM on February 22, 2011 You may recall that the folks at Lucid have been cooking up a GPU virtualization program called Virtu for Sandy Bridge motherboards. Virtu has a... Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Motherboards	10
Release roundup: CyberLink updates and server gear by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:07 PM on February 17, 2011 The pickings are a little slimmer this week, but we still had a couple of interesting announcements sitting in our inbox. The first is from... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Systems Software Servers	22
MSI offers advance replacement for Sandy Bridge boards by Cyril Kowaliski — 1:12 PM on February 15, 2011 As frustrating as Intel's Sandy Bridge chipset snafu might be, major motherboard makers are at least taking care of their users. MSI has let us... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Chipsets	12
Report: Asus and Gigabyte to get B3 6-series chipsets next week by Geoff Gasior — 10:49 AM on February 14, 2011 Finally, some good news for motherboard makers. DigiTimes' sources say that Intel has agreed to pay all expenses related to the production and... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Chipsets	9
We take a closer look at Gigabyte's Mini-ITX Fusion mobo by Cyril Kowaliski — 10:48 AM on February 10, 2011 Well, what do we have here? Gigabyte has sent us a preview sample of its upcoming E350N-USB3 motherboard, a slick little Mini-ITX design that features... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards	43
Asus provides details on Sandy Bridge bug response by Cyril Kowaliski — 5:37 PM on February 8, 2011 Following in the footsteps of MSI, Asus has expanded its official response to the snafu involving Intel 6-series chipsets for Sandy Bridge processors, offering... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Chipsets	17
Gigabyte helps Sandy Bridge early adopters with SATA tool by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on February 7, 2011 The 6-series Intel chipset bug has left early adopters in a hairy situation. Some of their Serial ATA ports may malfunction, but last we've... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Chipsets	9
MSI posts new return instructions for Sandy Bridge users by Cyril Kowaliski — 6:00 AM on February 4, 2011 Yesterday, we pointed to an MSI announcement that said motherboards affected by the now-infamous Intel 6-series chipset bug would be eligible for return... Type: News story Tags: Motherboards	14

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It's not a benchmark suggestion, but a benchmark*ing* suggestion, I've always wanted to see more older CPUs thrown into what benchmarks they can to sh...

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Obligatory "what about Higher resolution desktop monitors" post. +26

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