Among all Intel® Z77-based motherboards, the ASUS ROG Maximus V Extreme takes overclocking and competitive benchmarking the furthest, supporting the full range of 2nd and 3rd generation Intel® Core™ processors.

To empower overclockers, it ships with the exclusive ROG OC Key™ attachment, which includes detailed OSD TweakIt and OSD Monitor for deep system parameter modification.

To accommodate truly experimental modding, the new board includes Subzero Sense™ technology, which can quickly detect even deep-freeze cooling of critical components. VGA Hotwire™ headers have been added for easier but precise and complete DIY voltage regulation, and native 10Gbps Intel® Thunderbolt™ support combines display and high speed data transfer capabilities into one streamlined arrangement for faster data transfers and better visuals.

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TUF Sabertooth X79 debuts with a familiar black printed circuit board (PCB) and hardware components.

Unlike past Intel motherboards, the new X79 Express chipset supports quad-channel memory. This means there are now wight DIMM sockets available for non-ECC unbuffered DDR3 memory on the ASUS Sabertooth X79 TUF motherboard, capable of up to 64GB of system memory (8GM DDR3 modules). 1600 MHz is the fastest standard base frequency supported, but if overclocked settings are configured this motherboard can handle 1866MHz DDR3 (yet the UEFI speed selections allow up to DDR3-2666).

Since 32-Bit Windows Operating Systems allow only 4GB maximum memory mapping space (anything more is ignored), having 64GB of available system memory clearly designates this as the ideal 64-bit system platform.

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AMD seems to never tire of launching new graphics cards. We’re still in the first quarter of 2012 and we’ve already enjoyed six new 7000-seres Radeons, but the red team’s not going to stop there.

And perhaps with good reason. There’s a chance NVIDIA will lay the smackdown on Radeon HD 7970 with the soon-to-be-unleashed GeForce GTX 680, but if that’s the case, AMD already has its retaliation lined up in the form of the Radeon HD 7990.

The long-rumoured card will one day take its place atop the 7000-series food chain and, like the 6990 before it, will do so by employing two GPUs on a single PCB. This time around they’ll be 28nm chips based on the GCN architecture and, according to Chinese website inpai.com.cn, each will feature the full complement of HD 7970 features.

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