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 | Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 02-07-2010 This case is available for a price of $760 online, making it not for the faint of heart. The target market is for the SOHO designe... |
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 | Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 01-24-2010 SilverStone has combined the unibody construction of the Temjin cases with the vertically mounted motherboard trays of the Raven c... |
 | Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 01-24-2010 In comparison to the competition from NVIDIA, the GeForce GT240, the XFX HD 5670 beats that card across the board in terms of perf... |
 | Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 01-14-2010 If you want a video card today there really isn’t any other choice than an ATI card as they have the highest performance and featu... |
 | Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 01-14-2010 Cooler Master has taken an already excellent case in the form of the HAF 932 and done some modifications to it to provide an AMD E... |
 | Author: Elric Phares Date: 12-27-2009 ECS has taken the reference clocked GT240 from NVIDIA and added a special cooler from Arctic Cooling’s arsenal to provide excellen... |
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 | Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 01-31-2010 ECS has taken the 785G chipset, and added a few features not found on many motherboards including Special ACC, eJiffy and 15 micro... |
 | Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 01-24-2010 ECS is known for having less expensive products than their competition and the ECS H55H-M motherboard is a perfect example of usin... |
 | Author: Doc Overclock Date: 01-19-2010 In terms of features the GIGABYTE MA790FXTA-UD5 motherboard is second to none on the AMD market right now with support for SATA 3,... |
 | Author: Elric Phares Date: 01-03-2010 In terms of target market, the ASUS P7H55D-M EVO board fits the bill as the cornerstone of a digital home theater PC. The integrat... |
 | Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 01-03-2010 Realizing that the majority of computer users use their computer for other tasks than playing Dirt 2 or Call of Duty Modern Warfar... |
 | Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 12-27-2009 ASUS is well known for their motherboards and the Z8NA-D6C fits the bill as a motherboard that can act as a server or a workstatio... |
 | Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 11-30-2009 From a features point of view the GIGABYTE P55A-UD6 is outstanding. Support for the latest technologies including SATA 6 Gb/second... |
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Industry Headlines, News and Reviews From Around the World :: The Motherboard Daily
February 9, 2010 |
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Posted by: THRASHER2
on Mon Feb 08 2010 12:12 pm PST Comments (0)
NVIDIA and ATI dominate the market for gaming-oriented video cards. But neither company sells video cards directly to the consumer; rather, they produce "reference designs" that are manufactured by a number of "partners". Most partners simply produce the reference design and slap an identifying sticker on the card's cooler; although some might replace the reference design cooler with a quieter or more powerful solution, with few exceptions there's little to distinguish one partner's version of a specific card from another partner's version of the same card. EVGA breaks out of this rut with their EVGA GTX 275 CO-OP PhysX Edition, model 012-P3-1178-TR, which combines NVIDIA GTS250 and GTX275 GPUs on the same card, and Benchmark Reviews takes it around the block to see what it's got.
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Posted by: THRASHER2
on Mon Feb 08 2010 12:11 pm PST Comments (0)
We have reviewed quite a few Foxconn motherboards over the years and the high end boards tend to have a lasting impression on us. In most cases performance is exceptional; design and style are outstanding. All of these features can be found in the latest Quantum Force motherboard, the Inferno Katana.
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Posted by: THRASHER2
on Mon Feb 08 2010 12:11 pm PST Comments (0)
Ultra, the company who’s claim to fame is inventing the modular power supply, brings us another one of their X4 creations. Their last power supply got good marks in the lab, lets see if their more powerful version can pull off the same.
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Posted by: THRASHER2
on Mon Feb 08 2010 12:10 pm PST Comments (0)
“With the continued flux of PC cooling companies on to the international scene, reputation is key and perhaps it is this, Noctua’s seemingly legendary status as a premium quality cooling Solutions Company that has held them at the forefront of the market for several years since its establishment in 2005. Formed through the merger of Austrian Rascom Computerdistribution Ges.m.b.H and the Taiwanese Kolink International Corporation, Noctua has focused predominately on the cooling of the central processing unit with an array of aluminium heatsinks and fans symbolised by their peach and brown colour schemes.
Noctua’s fan selection is reasonably extensive and previous designs such as the NF-P12 have been highly decorated with awards but it is until now that the cooling company has decided to add a larger, 140mm fan to its prestigious range.
With limited coolers requiring a 140mm fan though, the NF-P14 FLX is essentially an alternative for the more commonly used 120mm designs making use of a larger impeller for a superior airflow/noise ratio but with the ability to fit on to both 120mm and 140mm mounts. Let’s take a closer look…”
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Posted by: THRASHER2
on Mon Feb 08 2010 12:09 pm PST Comments (0)
"The Antec Nine Hundred Two case is the perfect case for builders who are just getting started or those of us who have been building machines for years. Antec makes the case incredibly versatile by allowing the user to practically customize the location for each storage device. Fan locations and controls are ideal and can be easily reached. All the fans are essentially quiet on their slowest settings, but this is more than enough to keep your rig cool. For hard-core enthusiasts, you can still crank the fans sacrificing noise comfort for airflow. Working with the Antec Nine Hundred Two was very easy..."
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Posted by: THRASHER2
on Sun Feb 07 2010 20:49 pm PST Comments (0)
2.8GHz mainstream quad core
Intel's Core i7 930 is supposed to launch inQ1 2010 and this 2.8GHz quad-core should last all 2010 as the king of Intel’s MS3 fastest Mainstream category in the company's nomenclature.
This should change in early 2011 as Sandy Bridge is supposed to replace this product. It is way too early to hear about any concrete clock speeds but we can confirm it’s a quad-core with improved performance clock to clock with Nehalem generation.
Sandy Bridge will also be the first quad-core to get a monolithic CPU with graphics, as today you can only get integrated graphics with Clarkdale / Arrandale 32nm CPUs which feature a stitched 45nm graphics core. Sandy Bridge will also be the first monolithic dual core, with totally integrated graphics into same die as the CPU.
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Posted by: THRASHER2
on Sun Feb 07 2010 20:47 pm PST Comments (0)
Twin fans and 7+1 VRM
In addition to a couple of HD 5450 cards announced yesterday, MSI has decided to also introduce another far more interesting card based on the HD 5770 GPU, the MSI R5770 Hawk. The new HD 5770 Hawk has all the goodies that was previously limited to MSI's Lightning series, so this one might end up to be the quietest, fastest and most reliable HD 5770 on the market.
The new MSI R5770 Hawk features a slight factory overclock for the GPU which ended up working at 875MHz, while the memory remained at reference 4800MHz for 1GB of GDDR5 memory. MSI also completely redesigned the PCB and this card comes with 7+1-phase VRM design which is quite a boost from the 4-phase VRM on the reference HD 5770.
The card features MSI's Twin Frozr II cooler which has dual PWM fans and three heatpipes. According to MSI, this is enough for up to 13 degrees lower temperature when compared to the reference cooler. The card also comes with V-Check points for easy multimeter voltage monitoring and support for Over Voltage which can be raised up to 1.35V for the GPU.
The card also features "military class components" like Hi-C Cap, solid state chokes, and solid CAPs, all included with a single goal, to make this card as reliable and stable as it can be.
The price for the new R5770 Hawk should be somewhere around €150, but it is still to show up in retail/e-tail.
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Posted by: THRASHER2
on Sun Feb 07 2010 20:46 pm PST Comments (0)
After Chinese New Year
Our friends all over the Far East are preparing to celebrate its biggest holiday that we know as Chinese New Year and this holiday can be held responsible for a lot of graphics delays.
Fermi is of course the major one that will suffer from it, but we just learned that this holiday will also delay the Radeon HD 5830.
We were told that these GPUs are going to be delayed to factories and that it won’t make it to China before February 10. At this time most factories are closed for the Chinese New Year and won't open their doors for anyone. This might delay the shipping until February 20th.
Without further words you can expect that Radeon HD 5830 will ship after this date and volume availability can probably be expected in March.
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Posted by: THRASHER2
on Sun Feb 07 2010 20:44 pm PST Comments (0)
Still coming February 9
In addition to the HD 5450 which was officially launched yesterday, AMD is preparing another card that should fill the gap between the HD 5450 and the HD 5670. The card in question is the HD 5570 which should be quite similar to the HD 5670, at least when you take a look at main specifications, but it will use lower clocks and cheaper memory.
According to the leaked slides, the HD 5570 card features 40nm GPU with 627M transistors and 400 Stream processors. It has 8 ROPs, 20 texture units, 650MHz core clock and uses DDR3 memory clocked at 900MHz (1.8GHz) paired up with a 128-bit memory interface.
Thanks to the the lower clocks the maximum TDP is 42.7W, while in idle the card's power consumption is 9.69W. The reference solution is based on a low profile PCB with small heatsink and fan combination cooler, but we guess that partners will go for their own solutions and we will probably see quite a few passive cards.
The card should be priced to fit between the HD 5450 and the HD 5670, which is somewhere around €50 to €60, considering the fact that HD 5450 can be found for as low as €40 and the lowest price for the HD 5670 is around €70.
According to our info, the card is still scheduled launch on February 9.
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Posted by: THRASHER2
on Sun Feb 07 2010 20:43 pm PST Comments (0)
With 9800GT as dedicated PhysX card
Two years ago, Nvidia bought Ageia and established itself as the leader on the field of gaming physics technology. Unfortunately, while the future of gaming was never questioned, the adoption of PhysX technology by software developers hasn’t been an overnight feat. In order to accelerate the matter, Nvidia developed Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) which made PhysX a feature on all CUDA-supporting graphics processors, meaning series 8 and newer. This was quite an important move as it allowed millions of Geforce owners to enjoy physics effects, but unfortunately for the company the number of available PhysX supporting titles is still pretty low. The situation is improving though and more and more games include PhysX, and the reason is more than evident after even a few minutes of PhysX gaming.
Of course, all this visual goodness doesn’t come without cost and PhysX requires some serious muscle to run. This job is traditionally done on the CPU whereas the GPU is in charge of drawing it on screen. With Ageia’s technology, Nvidia moved some of this intensive load to the GPU, which is of course much faster in this respect. However, calculating physics on the GPU also makes rendering graphics harder and framerates will usually duck significantly unless you’re a proud owner of one of Nvidia’s fastest cards. Nvidia solved this problem by advising users to utilize a dedicated PhysX processing graphics card. This card thankfully does not have to be a pricey, fast card but rather any Geforce graphics card with a CUDA supporting GPU.
So, if you for instance own a Geforce GTX 260, you can use a cheaper Geforce such as 9600GT to handle your PhysX calculations. In practice, it’s as simple as choosing the dedicated PhysX card in Nvidia’s driver.
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