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AMD today unveiled its server strategy and roadmap, giving a hint at what to expect and not to expect in the consumer desktop market. No signs of 8+ cores Steamroller parts on the horizon.

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Details of upcoming Intel processor, codenamed Haswell-E, has been leaked by VR-Zone. According to a few slides, Intel plans to release a new high-performance platform in the second half of 2014. While Intel plans to release Ivy Bridge-E later this year for the well-established X79 socket, Haswell-E will come with its own platform, codenamed Wellsburg, and the new 2011-3 socket. The all-new high-performance desktop platform is said to implement some advances geared toward greater performance. Notably, a quad-channel DDR4 memory configuration for enhanced bandwidth over current DDR3.

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After reviewing Haswell and a few GTX 770 cards, we noticed that there may have been something wrong with a few of our HD 7970 game results used for comparisons. The results in question were Battlefield 3, Civilization 5, and DiRT 3 using the MSI HD7970.

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We teased you a bit with a few results and several pictures of the ASUS Maximus VI Extreme in our initial Haswell review. Sorry this took so long, but this motherboard has more features than you can even imagine. The wait is over though and now we’re here to cover everything you could want to know about the Maximus VI Extreme!

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Today AMD unveiled its latest offering in the desktop PC market, the first ever commercially available CPU to reach 5.0 Ghz.

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The time is finally here for all you enthusiasts that love bleeding edge hardware! That’s right, Intel’s Haswell has finally hit the scene and with performance that most expected with a similar jump in per clock performance as was Sandy Bridge to Ivy Bridge. But what is an(y) Intel CPU without a board to support it? Today we will give you a look at one of MSI’s higher end motherboards on the Z87 platform (Lynx Point) chipsets, the MSI Z87 MPower MAX. The board is made for overclocking with a lot of its features, but looks to please a more broad market than that. Let’s put it through its paces and see how things work out!

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Back in October of 2012, we introduced all of you to the AMD Trinity A10-5800K APU. Fast forward to today and we have a 2013 AMD A-Series APU to show you, this time called the Richland APU. While based upon many of the same attributes Trinity brought us, there are also important improvements that we’ll cover today. AMD was kind enough to send along their top dog in the Richland product offering for us to review, the A10-6800K.

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Not much needs to be said to introduce the latest news from Corsair out of Computex. See the below press release for full details on the newest Vengeance Pro Series.

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If like us, $1500+ for a plane ticket was a little too rich for your blood, our friends across the internet have you covered with the latest product announcements and news from Computex.

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It’s time to see if the 750 W flavor of the Dark Power Pro 10 is anything like the 1200 W flavor. I hope it is, as the 1200 W is an epic unit. Will the 750 live up to the name and example? We’ll see.

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