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Gigabyte announced their new 333 lineup end of November 2009. At the 333 Event Show, however there was no word on the AMD CPU supporting motherboards. Focus was mainly on P55 and X58 series. Getting a speedy introduction to the wonders and miracles of AMD overclocking via HWBOT Country Cup I was eager to review one of Gigabyte´s latest high end offering, the 790FXTA-UD5. The A in the name reflects... |
by leeghoofd @ 2010-03-21 |
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Looking for a 600~700W PC power supply but haven´t decided yet what to get? In addition to our 2009 summer article we at Madshrimps have tested another four popular products from major brands like Nexus, Enermax, Scythe and Sharkoon. We compared features, performance and efficiency. Which one to get? Read on to find out!... |
by geoffrey @ 2010-03-17 |
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Instead of following the flock of hardware reviewing websites and using a series of at least one hundred benchmarks to come the exact same conclusion, we decided to put Intel´s latest, codenamed Gulftown, to a series of extreme tests. Inside, you will find pictures, benchmark results and info on an extremely overclocked Gulftown B1.... |
by massman @ 2010-03-16 |
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We visited Integrated Systems Europe 2010 this year, the show for professional Audio Video and electronic systems integrations, located in Amsterdam RAI.... |
by petervandamned @ 2010-03-14 |
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It´s that time of year again at Hannover Messe. CeBIT 2010 gave us high expectations. New CPUs from Intel and AMD, Nvidia Fermi video cards and loads more motherboard releases. Since we had only 2 days to wander around, we made the choice to meet and greet first the partners we work closely with and that supply us with all the review hardware. Our schedule had to be quite closely adhered too. Day ... |
by leeghoofd @ 2010-03-08 |
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The Dutch media was kindly invited at the lovely city of Utrecht for a pre CeBIT presentation of Gigabyte and Intel Company. Rendez-vous took place at the castle of Oudaen. The major websites and magazines were present. Shrimps was represented by yours truly and [M] reviewer Danny Terwindt. Too bad we heard Intel canceled their presentation at last call, for till now unknown reasons. Without furth... |
by leeghoofd @ 2010-03-02 |
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A couple of motherboard manufacturers are now including SATA 6Gbps and USB 3.0 chips on their motherboards. In this to the point article, we take look at the performance for SATA 6Gbps and USB 3.0 compared with their predecessors. ... |
by Terw_Dan @ 2010-02-07 |
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Gigabyte announced their new 333 lineup end of November 2009. At the 333 Event Show, however there was no word on the AMD CPU supporting motherboards. Focus was mainly on P55 and X58 series. Getting a speedy introduction to the wonders and miracles of AMD overclocking via HWBOT Country Cup I was eager to review one of Gigabyte's latest high end offering, the 790FXTA-UD5. The A in the name reflects it is a souped up 333 version of the previous model 790FXT-UD5.

Smells in server rooms are pretty much invariably bad news. Something is about to fail, whether it’s a leaking R134 circuit in the aircon or a power supply on the way out, or a 250kg rack sitting on a 15A power cable – there are no upsides. However, this particular pong seemed a lot more biological. It was, pardon my pithiness, a bit farty. I put it down to someone’s substandard eggy soldiers, opened the window and got on with the job, but that same smell was in the room the following morning.
Googled for “egg smell server room”. This leads to a discussion about APC UPS devices emitting eggy smelling gases which suggests that one of the UPSes is about to blow its capacitors.
Looking down the server rack, there is indeed a UPS with every LED lit up – a whole lot less embarrassing, as a cause of an eggy smell, than the alternatives.

When a lot of friends buy computer,They will believe that "A cheap CPU and has enough power will be good".So what kinds CPU will meet this kinds needs? According my experiences that needs of most entry-level users is not high.They just need handle Internet, office and videos and so so,If it can meet certain demand of game will even be better.

These people can be divided into two categories,one category is just handle office applications,such as daily office,Internet and so on .Another categories will have certain game requirements. They main play "World of Warcraft" or RPG games. So these people will need CPU has certain performance and price also relatively cheap. Recently,a lot of CPU price began to fall,So i selected 7 CPU to take a compare test,these CPU price all sub $75.


Are solid-state drives really getting this cheap this quickly? Barely more than a month has gone by since Kingston launched a trio of SSDNow V solid-state drives, including a 64GB model priced at $208 (or $216 as part of an upgrade bundle). Today, Newegg is selling one of those 64GB upgrade bundles at a discount for a cool $144.99 before shipping.

The biggest game to improve here is DiRT 2. AMD claimed an "up to" 20% improvement on Radeon HD 5800 series video cards in this game. We are seeing here a near 13% improvement, which is very good for a driver update to provide that kind of a boost. Unfortunately this was the only game to provide such a boost, in Aliens vs. Predator we are seeing around a 2% increase, which is a bit lower than AMD’s claim of a 5% performance increase, which is all rather small to begin with. Crysis: Warhead was on the list, and AMD claimed a 6% performance improvement. It seems here we are only seeing half that, close to 3%.

The system is currently very dependent on drivers from Lucid, who have to test and validate a huge number of possible combinations. This means a big team and big budgets. Here Lucid has announced that it has received an additional USD 8 million from its investors (Rho Ventures, Giza Venture Capital et Genesis Partners), clearly showing, still according to Lucid, the viability of its concept.
The capitalisation of Lucid is now USD 40 million, which promises the company a certain durability allowing it to continue developing the possibilities of its Hydra chip.

Scythe announces its newest high-end CPU cooler, named “Yasya” to the market. Yasya CPU Cooler is the first cooler from Scythe equipped with the newly developed T.M.L.F. (Trident Multi Layer Fin) structure. This special design maximizes the cooling surface to provide the best cooling result of the heatsink. By placing the heatsink fins as well as total of 6 copper heatpipes in unparallel design, static pressure loss is minimized and heat transfer is maximized. New 120 mm "Slip Stream 120 Adjustable PWM" case fan is supplied for optimized airflow. Although the fan supports the PWM feature user can manually adjust the speed between 470 to 1,370 rpm and 740 to 1,900 rpm.

Gigabyte is readying a new motherboard in the mini-ITX form-factor which is bound to surprise some with its feature-set. The GA-H55N-USB3 is a socket LGA1156 motherboard based on the Intel H55 chipset, supporting the entire range of LGA1156 processors with a powerful 4+2 phase VRM. The socket is wired to two DDR3 DIMM slots for dual-channel memory, which is powered by its own 2-phase circuit. Gigabyte was able to accommodate five SATA channels by the chipset, making space for one eSATA, and four internal SATA 3 Gb/s ports with RAID support.

The Clarkdale-based 32nm part has a TDP of 73W, which is quite impressive considering its high clock. It has 2x256kB of L2 and 4MB of L3 cache. Its integrated graphics are clocked at 733MHz and it officially supports dual channel DDR3 1333. We still don't know the exact price or launch date, but it will probably retail around the €240 mark, which is quite pricey for a dual-core, regardless of the clock. In addition to the 680 dual-core, Intel will also launch the quad-core Core i7 870s. It's an energy efficient version of the plain 870.

We still don't know what will be the difference between the standard and this "special" GTX 480 version but we guess that it might be slightly overclocked as we doubt that any partner will change such an elaborate and beefy cooler that Nvidia is using for its reference design GTX 480.
We are quite sure that Zotac isn't the only Nvidia partner that will gladly sell overclocked GTX 480 and GTX 470 cards. Another unknown fact is the availability date for such "special edition" cards, but they will eventually come.

Intel's king of the hill Core i7 980X has all but sold out in Europe. Although retailers were selling the six-core Gulftown for well over €900, enthusiasts seem to have picked the stocks dry withing days of the launch.
Our price search engine is listing 51 retailers who are offering the 980X, but only two of them actually have it in stock. Mind you, we don't follow the entire European market, but retailers from the UK, Germany and Austria are included in the engine. There is a chance you can get the 980X in other European markets, but we wouldn't bet on it.

Nvidia Partners will get finished versions of Geforce GTX 480 cards from Nvidia, complete with the fancy new cooler, and they will should just slap a nice sticker somewhere on the card and sell it under their own brand.
They will get some more freedom with the cheaper of two, Geforce GTX 470 as partners will be allowed to make their own 470 cards. We are not sure if they will make it for the launch, but these cards will definitely come latest at some point after the launch.

The story goes like this: Intel let Kingston build a value version of its X25-M G2 drives. This became the 40GB Kingston V Series Boot Drive. When Intel added TRIM support to the G2 drives, Kingston was told to wait. Kingston would get TRIM support when Intel launched its own 40GB version of the G2. Here’s where things get hairy. Intel and Kingston couldn’t work out terms for the TRIM enabled firmware on the V Series Boot Drives. Intel wanted too much money and Kingston wanted to keep the drive price below $100. The outcome? Kingston V Series Boot Drive owners never got official TRIM support and the product was dropped altogether.
This all took place a few months ago. Two things have happened since then. Intel has, as expected, launched its value SSD: the X25-V. This is basically the Kingston drive we reviewed last year, but with official TRIM support. In other words, it’s a X25-M G2 but with only half the channels populated with IMFT NAND. The X25-V is available only in a 40GB capacity (we’ll see an 80GB version based on 25nm NAND in Q4 2010). The drive is priced at $125 and available today. On a side note, Intel’s pricing shows that there wasn’t any room for Kingston to deliver a sub-$100 version of the X25-V.

With SSD’s becoming more and more affordable they are slowly starting to reach the hands of eager enthusiasts and gamers. In fact, we are just now starting to see a few pop up in rigs at our own LAN parties. One of the biggest brands in this market is OCZ and they have a variety of models including the reasonably priced Agility series. One of which we will be looking at today.

The HIS Radeon HD5670 is a very capable card for the cheap price of only US$89 at your favorite online retailer. Although it is not a screamer, at almost half the price of a HD5750, for the moderate gamer, it could be considered quite a deal for a videocard sporting such an impressive stock cooling solution.

I’ve always been a fan of cube cases, especially being a gamer. I don’t want to have to carry my large tower case filled with components to local LAN parties. Cube cases make it much easier, and even if you are not a gamer they take up less space on your desk and usually look better than other cases. Today we will be looking at Aerocool’s first cube case, the Qx-2000. It features a very unique internal design, room for 2 optical drives, 3 hard drives, and a built in fan controller. Let’s take a look at the Qx-2000 and see if it’s the perfect case for your next LAN box build.

I love pre-overclocked cards. It's always great to get a bit more speed out of a model and not have to pay a whole lot more for it. Thanks to companies like HIS offering overclocked cards, the few companies who used to offer them can't charge the same premium that they used to and if they do, people aren't willing to pay it as often.
What we'll do before we have a look at the clocks that HIS have opted for is check out the package and have a closer look at the card and the cooler they've decided to use.

Are you an avid water cooling user? Then you have probably heard the Koolance name before, and if you say “No never heard of them” then you are probably the only one. Luckily, we have the opportunity to test one of their new full cover GPU water blocks on the Radeon 5870 graphics card. Let’s find out how well it performs in keeping the beast cool and quiet

The Gigabyte X58A-UD3R was a beautiful motherboard that gave me no trouble at all. For the price it is being pushed at this is a great deal - especially with the USB 3.0 and SATA 3.0 support. SATA 3.0 should come in handy real soon with the advances that SSD drives are making, and the RAID-0 capabilities of this board in SATA 3.0 should mate well together.

We've got the ECS A890GXM-A, a full sized ATX board based on AMD's new 890GX chipset. Featuring a sharp color scheme we've seen in other ECS Black Series boards, it certainly has the looks and the new brains, but has it got the brawn?

Today HardwareHeaven are going to test and review the Chill Innovation CP-450F, a product able to continuously output "only" 450W but designed to deliver excellent performance. On paper the CP-450F seems to be the perfect choice for the average home/gaming PC, but can it deliver the performance the company promises? Read on to find out.

Hardwareoverclock.com has stake a look at the performance of the new Beta driver Catalyst 10.3a. This driver released yesterday and is the preview driver of the 10.3 version. The 10.3a is available for desktop and Mobile GPUs. We’ve tried the mobile driver on our Asus G73JH Notebook with Radeon HD 5870M. More about the performance you can find in the short comparison.

Today we get a sneak preview of the ASUS Rampage III Extreme.

The Ladybird GeForce GTS 250 is compared to the Powercolor Radeon HD 4770. The Ladybird GeForce GTS 250 has 1024MB Memory twice that of the Powercolor Radeon HD 4770.

The days of buying a stock reference video card and not having other options is long past and Gigabyte is capitalizing on the aftermarket bonanza. Their Ultra Durable line of GPU's feature a 2oz copper PCB to decrease electrical resistance and decrease operating temperatures. Solid Capacitors to extend the life of the GPU and Tier 1 Samsung or Hynix memory for better overclocking. Combine all that with a great aftermarket fan factory installed and you have a lean mean overclocking machine.
Enter the Gigabyte HD 5870 Ultra Durable (GV-R587UD-GD) ATI Radeon video card and you get all that in a massive graphic powerhouse and it features a nice dual fan inclined cooling solution that is pretty unique. While we love the look of the ATI 5800 series GPU's and their black and red cowling heat is always a concern when purchasing an expensive GPU and the Inclined cooling fans on the Gigabyte HD 5870 might be just what the doctor ordered.

Today, Microsoft is announcing Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. Detailed information regarding SP1 will be released over the next several months; but today Windows Server 2008 R2 is announcing that SP1 will deliver two important new features that directly affect Microsoft’s desktop virtualization stack: Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX.

Not so long ago we talked about the multimedia capabilities of the new Budget solutions from Nvidia and they proved to be quite impressive. Today time has come to check out their competitors from the AMD camp: Radeon HD 5670, 5570 and 5450. Which one will be the winner of another round in this never-ending battle for technological superiority?

Microsoft made a slew of virtualization announcements today, affecting both current and future products. Arguably the most important tidbit is that the company has removed the virtualization layer's hardware requirements for the XP Mode available in Windows 7. Those already running XP Mode don't need to bother updating since they already have it working, but users who were unsure of their PC hardware can grab the update and try out XP Mode on Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Enterprise, or Windows 7 Ultimate. The update is available for Windows 7 32-bit (3.7MB) and Windows 7 64-bit (4.1MB).

The move of the media embargo makes it easier for everyone to dig deeper into the new NVIDIA architecture and from our point of view this is a lot better than launching on March 26th, even if PAX 2010 is now risking to become nothing but a big tease and not the big launch even we first anticipated

The device is actually called ZPC-GX31 and it’s an All-in-one made in a different taste than currently popular devices. The rig runs based on Intel’s G31 Express chipset and supports Intel’s Core 2 Duo/Core 2 Quad CPUs up to 3GHz/95W as well as some others. It will take up to 4GB of 800MHz DDR2 memory and up to 1TB SATA HDD.

The ZPC-GX31 comes in silver and black and at a pretty steep price of between $699 to $1099 depending on the configuration, but in the good old-times-reminiscent spirit, we’re willing to not care for once. I mean, look at it - it looks like Commodore 64.

Internal benchmarks reveal that GeForce GTX 470 is some 5-10% faster than Radeon HD 5850 and similar for GeForce GTX 480 over the Radeon HD 5870. Interestingly, the TDP of GeForce GTX 480 is almost similar to Radeon HD 5970 which is a dual GPU card.
GeForce GTX 480 : 480 SP, 700/1401/1848MHz core/shader/mem, 384-bit, 1536MB, 295W TDP, US$499
GeForce GTX 470 : 448 SP, 607/1215/1674MHz core/shader/mem, 320-bit, 1280MB, 225W TDP, US$349


Less than two months after announcing its partnership with Seagate, LSI Corp. has proudly announced that it has begun to sample the LSISSS6200 PCI-Express SSD which targets enterprise servers. The new storage solution makes use of the SAS protocol and is claimed to deliver up to 150,000 4K random I/Os per second (IOPS), as well as 1,500 MB/s sustained sequential I/O and 1,200 MB/s sustained random I/O, regardless of read/write mix.

In our today’s review of the most extraordinary mainboard we are going to dwell not only on its features. We will also take a glance at solutions from other makers, reveal their peculiarities and discuss the existing tricks for successful overclocking of new processors.

GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and other computing hardware solutions today proudly announced their entire X58 Series of motherboards now support Intel’s newly introduced Core™ i7-980X “Gulftown” CPUs, enabling the industry’s most extreme level of processing power for gaming, computing enthusiasts and overclockers alike.
GIGABYTE has specially tuned the BIOS of their X58 Series motherboards to unlock the mind-blowing performance of Intel’s first 32nm 6 core CPU, featuring 12 processing threads and 12MB of L3 cache. With a simple BIOS upgrade that became available in 2009, users are able to take advantage of the Industry’s highest performing desktop CPU which is already shattering many overclocking records.

The people at CoolIT took notice and went back to the drawing board to produce not only a more widely compatible cooling solution, but to try to make this product as affordable as possible. Things like mounting of both the heat exchanger and how to mount the radiator all came into play. Alongside the compatibility there was also efficiency and noise levels that were major factors that needed to be solved before the release of their new product. Just to show where the company stands on the quality of their product, they sent samples around for the media to test. Reports came in about a possible mounting issue and CoolIT recalled them all, redesigned the mounting and resent the retail ready versions for another round of our labs abuse.
With the engineering of their new product covered, let’s get down to what we are here for. The time has come to get out the camera and get some images of CoolIT’s new ECO A.L.C. all-in-one CPU water cooling solution. Then we can see if the claims made up to this point ring true and that this is a solution that can make most of the popular air cooling solutions cry in shame while being at a similar price point.

Overclocking is getting easier than ever, and more and more users are finding that they want to try their hand at what used to be an art reserved for hardcore computer enthusiasts. In this article Benchmark Reviews tests the Patriot Gamer Series 4GB PC3-12800 DDR3-1600 dual-channel system memory kit, SKU PGS34G1600ELKA. Patriot designed this DDR3 kit to work with BEMPs (Black Edition Memory Profiles) that have been uploaded for use with the AMD Overdrive program in order to make overclocking even easier for the average enthusiast. This Patriot Gamer Series DDR3 RAM is designed to work in tandem with AMD Black Edition processors, but can be overclocked quite effectively in nearly any DDR3 compatible system. Priced at $130, the Patriot Gamer Series PC3-12800 DDR3-1600 kit represents a great opportunity for PC hardware enthusiasts to upgrade to low latency, high-performance memory at a very affordable price.

AMD has released a Gamers Manifesto that details how the company works with developers to benefit all gamers, not just those with Radeon graphics cards. Join us as we take a closer look at the manifesto's guiding principles and how they apply to DirectX 11, Eyefinity, and GPU-accelerated physics

The Cooler Master the UPS 100 has been designed for the enthusiast, and comes with some nice features that most users have come to expect in a chassis. It also includes a respectable 550W power supply to add to the value here. We take a closer look to see how well it stacks up.

I am very impressed with the Asus P6X58D Premium. This board was able to keep up with the big players on the market while even adding new features and keeping a lower price. With the upsides of the implementation of USB 3.0 and SATA 6.0Gb/s, Asus does a nice job future proofing this board.

The HD 5830 was released a few weeks ago and since then we have seen numerous versions from ATI’s board partners. Prices have also settled somewhat so this card could have the makings of a good value-oriented product. In this review we take a look at the XFX HD 5830 1GB and see if the weeks after launch have changed our thoughts about ATI’s newest card.

Although AMD's latest chipset the 890GX, codename RS880D, is very similar to last year's 785G - RS880, the most striking improvement is the addition of a new southbridge, the SB850. Supporting USB 3.0 and SATA 3.0, the SB850 opens up much needed additional bandwidth for faster external accessories and solid state drives. While many 890GX boards utilize a full size ATX format, MSI's initial offering is the 890GXM-G65, a microATX style. The 890GX offers integrated graphics, using the RV620 graphics core, which supports DirectX 10.1, Shader Model 4.1 and a host of video decoding and acceleration formats. CrossFire is supported but the 16 available lanes must be split into a dual 8X configuration. Hybrid CrossFire is also available, allowing use of a HD5450 discrete video card to be paired with the onboard for up to a 25% improvement in gaming performance.

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