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 | Author: Elric Phares Date: 06-30-2009 Hello everyone, today we post our very first video review based on upgrading a 13'' Macbook Pro Laptop with and 80GB Kingston SSD ... |
 | Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 06-24-2009 In Win set out to design a unique solution on their X-fighter case and it shows in the design and features of the case. The X-Figh... |
 | Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 06-18-2009 From a performance point of view, if you're looking for the fastest card there really isn't much choice but to go with the GeForce... |
 | Author: Elric Phares Date: 06-17-2009 I must say that having this much storage space on a single drive is quite appealing and my HTPC is an appreciative host for the WD... |
 | Author: Elric Phares Date: 06-14-2009 Right now SSD drives are one hot commodity in the PC industry at large and with more and more companies jumping on the band wagon ... |
 | Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 06-10-2009 The Sileo 500 case is an exciting example of an inexpensive case that distinguishes itself from other cases in a few ways. First i... |
 | Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 06-05-2009 From a performance point of view the GeForce GTX 275 from XFX performs exactly as specified from a standard GeForce GTX 275 card. ... |
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 | Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 06-25-2009 ASUS has taken the Core i7 platform and turned it into a pseudo supercomputer. The combination of three NVIDIA Tesla cards and a Q... |
 | Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 06-23-2009 ASUS has set a reputation among enthusiasts of offering high-priced excellent performing gaming motherboards of choice with their ... |
 | Author: Elric Phares Date: 06-21-2009 Overclocking on this motherboard is for enthusiast users and not the faint of heart, because to get the optimum results you must u... |
 | Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 06-12-2009 From a platform point of view the Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P motherboard fits the bill as a motherboard that supports AMD's latest CPU... |
 | Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 06-11-2009 ASUS has done their usual solid job with a new motherboard release. As the chipsets used on this motherboard are not new, the perf... |
 | Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 06-02-2009 ASUS motherboards are favorites of me and Doc Overclock. In fact, almost every motherboard in our personal systems has an ASUS mot... |
 | Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 06-01-2009 The fact of the matter is that the P45 chipset is delegated to the mainstream and value market right now. If you want the fastest ... |
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Industry Headlines, News and Reviews From Around the World :: The Motherboard Daily
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Posted by: THRASHER2
on Fri Jul 03 2009 02:01 am PDT Comments (0)
Coolermaster is one of the most well-known cooler manufacturers in the world. Today we will have a look at their new Hyper TX3 cooler, which is compatible with most of current CPU-sockets including LGA1156.
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Posted by: THRASHER2
on Fri Jul 03 2009 01:59 am PDT Comments (0)
"I am very impressed by what I achieved with the TWKR. Going extreme cooling allowed for a great boost in frequency. What amazed me the most is that the processor required much lower voltages than the previous Phenom II chips. Even when overclocked to around 5GHz, it did not need more than 1.6V. However, I know there is much more left on the table. I felt dry ice could not provide the temperatures needed to scale to the top of the processor's performance. In fact, the processor ran better with lower voltages than 1.6V. My theory is that maybe it was getting a bit too warm when I pushed high voltages in it, which it is supposed to sustain without any problems due to its high leakage. The same thing happened if I increased the integrated memory controller voltage beyond a certain point at the same time as the core voltage, even if it ran fine when the only overclock was on the IMC. In other words, I felt dry ice cooling was still very limiting for the TWKR Edition since it did not allow the high voltages it can take."
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Posted by: THRASHER2
on Fri Jul 03 2009 01:58 am PDT Comments (0)
"For our liquid nitrogen testing we insulated the motherboard with a combination of artist eraser and Vaseline and mounted our K|ngp|n F1EE liquid nitrogen pot on top of the CPU with a dab of Arctic Silver Ceramique for the thermal compound. After pulling the pot down to around -188 Celsius we began our runs starting with 3DMark 2006. We were using a Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P with two Corsair Dominator GT 1866C7 2GB modules, two AMD HD4870x2 video cards at 822MHz core 950MHz memory, and a single Corsair HX1000 PSU powering the entire system. We had to push the vcore up to 1.8v to achieve the following 6.6GHz screen shot on the AMD Phenom II 42 TWKR Black Edition processor..."
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Posted by: THRASHER2
on Fri Jul 03 2009 01:57 am PDT Comments (0)
"So in what different are the internals compared to the Phenom II X4 955? Since it is geared toward the extreme overclocking crowd, it is a high SIDD chip. This is an engineering term which means it has a high leakage. In simpler words, the TWKR processors can be supplied more voltage, thus power, and handle it without any glitch."
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Posted by: THRASHER2
on Fri Jul 03 2009 01:55 am PDT Comments (0)
Sapphire's new HD 4730 is based on the RV770 GPU which is used on the HD 48xx Series. Such a choice had to be made because the availability of the HD4770 GPU is extremely limited at this time - while customer demand is up. Sapphire offers their card with 640 shaders and 512 MB GDDR5 memory at an extremely competitive price point of only $79. But is that enough to take over that market segment?
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Posted by: THRASHER2
on Fri Jul 03 2009 01:54 am PDT Comments (0)
Today we’re going to be looking at another model in the HAF lineup, the HAF 922. The HAF 922 is effectively a brother to the 932 and offers a selection of the key features but in a smaller package at a cheaper price.
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Posted by: THRASHER2
on Fri Jul 03 2009 01:52 am PDT Comments (0)
"Once the dynamic overclock setting has been enabled you then must pick the percentage of the overclock. You can select a CPU overclock of either 8%, 15% or 24%, for a maximum overclock of 2GHz. Once the percentage picked you just load the operating system like normal and use the Wind U100. When you are ready for a little more processor power you just need to press Fn+F10, and 'Turbo' mode will be enabled. You have to be plugged into AC power for the setting to work and you should see one of the above icons when you enable or disable the feature. Our MSI Wind U100 was unstable with an overclock of 24% due to instability of the memory module. That means the highest overclock that could be reached was 15%, which is still a great overclock on the Intel Atom N270 processor...."
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Posted by: THRASHER2
on Wed Jul 01 2009 12:35 pm PDT Comments (0)
NVIDIA has silently introduced a new revision of their GeForce GTX 295. The new version crams everything onto a single PCB. While the performance characteristics have not changed, thermals, fan noise and power consumption did change indeed. Is the new single PCB GTX 295 a success or just an unimportant product revision?
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Posted by: THRASHER2
on Wed Jul 01 2009 12:34 pm PDT Comments (0)
"Some of the guys up in Toronto sent us an e-mail this morning and explained that DirectX 11 is important and we should take NVIDIA downplaying it with a grain of salt. It seems they are worried that the tried and true NVIDIA marketing machine will possibly start pumping out a lot of information to deflect and sway consumers. This is likely going to be the case as NVIDIA is rumored to be late to the game with DirectX 11 graphics cards and is going to have a rough time to get them released this calendar year. To help avoid this looming marketing battle, AMD has released a white paper that has been put together by AMD to showcase the importance of DirectX 11 and why it matters. They also gave us quick breakdown explaining that DX 11 is about efficiency..."
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Posted by: THRASHER2
on Tue Jun 30 2009 12:39 pm PDT Comments (1)
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