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Leave it to the TUF team to come up with the most bad-ass looking X99 motherboard. The Sabertooth X99 adds all the usual TUF-tech - Fortifier, Thermal Radar (now 2nd Gen), Thermal Armor etc - and adds a whole lot of new kit too including TUF Detective, TUF ICe, integrated USB 3.1 and ESD Guards 2. See inside for the full details and press release.

ASUS has just launched a new Z97 Workstation (WS) motherboard with 4-way PCI-Express Gen 3 graphics power thanks to a PLX switch embedded in the board. If you need 4 graphics cards for your gaming or GPGPU workloads that needs superb reliability under stress, take a look at the Z97-WS! See the PR inside to see the full details of its exclusive design features.

Intel Z97 and H97 motherboards are here and ASUS has looooooooads to choose from. Motherboards launching now include (Note: not every board is available in every region): Z97-WS (ATX), Z97-Deluxe/NFC & WLC (ATX), Z97-Deluxe (ATX), Z97-Pro/Wi-Fi AC (ATX), Z97-Pro (ATX)Z97-A (ATX), Z97-AR (ATX), Z97-C (ATX), Z97-K (ATX), Z97I-Plus (mini ITX), Z97M-Plus (micro ATX), H97-Pro (ATX), H97-Plus (ATX), H97M-Plus (micro ATX), H97M-E (micro ATX), H97I-Plus (mini ITX), Sabertooth Z97 Mark 1 (ATX), Sabertooth Z97 Mark 2 (ATX), Gryphon Z97 Armor Edition (micro ATX), Gryphon Z97 (micro ATX), Maximus VII Gene (micro ATX), Maximus VII Hero (ATX), Maximus VII Ranger (ATX).

VR Zone has reported on the upcoming dual-socket LGA2011 workstation board, the Z9PE-D8 WS, as not just the usual high-end work-chomping beast with seven PCIe 16x slots and up to 32 thread processing, but the UEFI BIOS even sneaks in support for (non-ECC DIMM) memory overclocking and CPU multiplier adjustments up to 50x. That is, providing Intel launches an unlocked Xeon for overclockers to play with.