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Motherboards.org Reviews
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 11-04-2009 Category: Motherboards The P55 Express and LGA-1156 CPU combination has been a success for Intel as they have no real competition in this market due to the lack of a license for NVIDIA and the lack of serious competition from the AMD guys in the CPU spa...
Author: Elric Phares Date: 11-03-2009 Category: Hardware Patriot Torqx 128 GB Solid State Drive SSD Real World Tests. Along with the synthetic tests, we like to show you real world tests to show you how this drive performs in a everyday tasks for the no...
Author: Elric Phares Date: 10-26-2009 Category: Hardware Kingston is one of the strongest players in the memory game and since SSD and memory stick (Flash Drives) products are also memory based products Kingston has their hands firmly in the pie of this market. Kingston is a name associ...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 10-18-2009 Category: Motherboards Phase Power and much more bring this board to one of the most feature-rich P55 motherboards on the market today. The inclusion of a external SATA kit with all the wires and cables needed adds additional value to the board. GIGABYT...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 09-16-2009 Category: Motherboards Intel has done a great job with the DP55KG Extreme motherboard. The board overclocks decently, but the real treat for this board is on the automatic overclocking that Turbo Boost provides. The board automatically changes the multi...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 09-13-2009 Category: Motherboards The MSI P55-GD65 has a few distinctions over the P55-CD53 motherboard which I reviewed on launch day. First is the ability to do Voltage Checkpoints, which the other board cannot do. Second is the higher Overclock ability (slightl...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 09-07-2009 Category: Motherboards ASUS motherboards have always been a favorite among the enthusiast crowd and us reviewers here at motherboards.org as they offer a high degree of overclocking features and the ability to tweak their boards that is second to none. ... Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 08-22-2009 Category: Hardware The ASUS Matrix GTX 285/HTDI/1GD3/A card is an interesting beast of a card. With a lower default clock you would expect performance of the card to be lower than the other cards I’ve tested, but this was not the case. The card scor...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 08-05-2009 Category: Hardware ZOTAC is a new company to me with this being the first product I've reviewed from them. From a performance point of view, the GeForce GTX285 is the fastest single chip card on the market today, and ZOTAC's card comes clocked highe...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 07-27-2009 Category: Hardware External enclosures are a great thing for backup, but the BlacX is better than most enclosures as it offers a hot-swappable bay, and you can use any SATA drive up to 2Tb to store your information. A standard external enclosure onl...
Author: Elric Phares Date: 07-24-2009 Category: Motherboards A full-fledged X58 motherboard for under $170 was just a dream a year ago, fully realized with the ASRock X58 Extreme motherboard. ASRock offers most of the features of the X58 SuperComputer with the exceptions being 3 full length...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 07-17-2009 Category: Hardware SilverStone says they are targeting this case for the Extreme Enthusiast and it has a plethora of features and innovation for just that crowd. The price tag online is $249.99 as of this writing, making it not for the faint of hear...
Author: Elric Phares Date: 07-07-2009 Category: Hardware There are other SSD drives out there and the competition is starting to brew amongst those who are delving into this industry. So far we have seen three SSD drives come through here, and I must say that I was very impressed with t...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 07-02-2009 Category: Hardware The Radeon HD 4870 is not the newest available card from ATI; the HD 4890 replaced it earlier this year. Performance on the HD 4870 is still excellent for the price. Sapphire went the extra mile with the cooling on the card, rarel...
Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 06-25-2009 Category: Motherboards ASUS has taken the Core i7 platform and turned it into a pseudo supercomputer. The combination of three NVIDIA Tesla cards and a Quadro card brings up to four TeraFLOPS of possible computing performance. Performance of the board i...
Author: Elric Phares Date: 06-17-2009 Category: Hardware 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 2TB Green hard drive. Now I can store even more massive quantities of movies and music, but in hone... Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 05-26-2009 Category: Hardware There is a lot to like about the AZZA Solano 1000 case. First is the painted black interior. Second is the ease of use of installation on the case. The ability to install extended ATX and Micro ATX motherboards gives maximum flexi...
Author: Elric Phares Date: 05-19-2009 Category: Hardware I spent over a week toying around with this unit and was impressed with everything other than the crummy iMON software that is being used to use the Media Center remote control, as plainly it sucks and is almost worthless. Media C...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 05-12-2009 Category: Hardware As the GTX260 is a pretty balanced video card in the scheme of things against the competition from ATI and other cards in this price range, the MSI card would logically be a faster version of that card. The card easily overclocked...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 05-08-2009 Category: Hardware In the right situation this keyboard is absolutely a solid winner, and for my setup it solved a lot of issues I was having and let me take back control of my Windows Media Center (MCE) HTCP. I was able to work in the Windows Vista...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 04-27-2009 Category: Hardware EVGA offers the best support on the planet for most of their cards. A 2-year warranty may not seem like much but the fact remains that few people have video cards longer than 2 years, especially for those that want the higher end ...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 04-20-2009 Category: Motherboards In terms of features, the Gigabyte GA-MA790GP UD4H motherboard has it all. It fully supports the new Phenom II CPUs on the market on the AM2+ Socket including the Phenom II X4 940 and Phenom II X3 710 CPUs we have in-house. The ...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 04-12-2009 Category: Motherboards AMD’s launch of the AM3 platform is an interesting one from many angles. For the new computer owner the move to DDR3 memory is pretty clear as fewer and fewer motherboards with DDR2 memory support are hitting the market today comp...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 03-03-2009 Category: Motherboards I went into this review with a few bad experiences with ASRock boards in the past but an open mind as to this board. As they are not as big as other motherboard manufacturers in the enthusiast end of the motherboard market, it was...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 02-16-2009 Category: Hardware It's rather hard to make a judgment on a product that is a 1 out of 500 in the world item. How can you put a price on an item that is only available to a select few people? The nice thing about this case is it is a complete packag...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 02-10-2009 Category: Motherboards ASUS has done a superlative job with the P6T6 WS Revolution motherboard. This board scored among the highest of any X58 motherboards in terms of features and performance nearly across the board. ASUS bills this motherboard as the ...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 02-01-2009 Category: Hardware The positives of this card include an excellent cooling solution that doesn’t quit and keeps the card running cool. Under load temperatures of 44C maximum at default clock speeds is just amazing. The card overclocked successfully ...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 01-11-2009 Category: Hardware 3D has finally reached a point where it is a viable and affordable solution for the gaming environment and NVIDIA has done an excellent job of taking an old idea and turning it into something that actually works. There is a slight...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 12-09-2008 Category: Motherboards MSI has exceeded all expectations with the MSI X58 Eclipse motherboard with a bundle like you wouldn’t believe, performance that matches or beats the competition in this marketplace and overclocking ability like there’s no tomorro...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 11-18-2008 Category: Hardware So there are really two takes on this card today. The XFX GTX 260 216 Black Edition is the fastest available GeForce GTX 260 card on the market with a clock speed exceeding the reference clock speeds by 90 MHz. At this moment the ...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 11-13-2008 Category: Hardware The 9800GTX+ Black Edition from XFX is on the market for a $229.00 price point, or nearly the same price as some of the HD 4850 cards and is still lower than the HD 4870 or GeForce GTX260 chipset models. There’s a lot of overlap i...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 11-10-2008 Category: Hardware Thermaltake has delivered a full-tower case with the features and looks one would expect from a higher priced model. Thermaltake has delivered on its promises of a great case with plenty of expansion room for those 4 dual slot vid...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 10-23-2008 Category: Hardware The positives of this card are many. With the updated Catalyst 8.9 drivers and the higher clock speed of the overclock button, this card can compete well against the ATI 1GB cards, with the increased memory not coming into play un...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 10-06-2008 Category: Hardware With the ever-increasing sizes of files including H.264 content, the need for a NAS server has never been clearer. While the Thecus N5200BR system goes for an amazingly high price of $699 or so, what you get is the ability to back...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 09-22-2008 Category: Hardware The 9800GTX+ from XFX is on the market for a $199 price point, or nearly the same price as the HD 4850 card and lower than the HD 4870 or GeForce GTX260 chip. There’s a lot of overlap in the video card market as video cards that w...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 09-19-2008 Category: Motherboards The Gigabyte EP45-DQ6 has all of the features you would want from a motherboard based upon the Intel P45 and more. The board is so feature-laden in fact that I would have to say it’s a bit over the top compared with most of its co...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 09-17-2008 Category: Hardware If you are going to buy a system it usually involves a whole lot of thought process, shopping around and then deciding who you want to buy from. This really does take some thought process as first off it’s your money, and secondly...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 08-19-2008 Category: Hardware Few things excite me more than innovation in case design. The Cool Master folks have done it again with the HAF 932 case. The case is available for a mere $160, which is a small price to pay compared to many of the other Full Tow...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 08-16-2008 Category: Motherboards From a performance point of view, the ASUS Maximus II Formula is simply head and shoulders above the other P45 motherboards I’ve tested in the important categories of Sysmark (overall system score) and 3DMark (Graphics scores). Fr...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 08-12-2008 Category: Hardware There is nothing to balk about with this release, even the price is not overtly overboard from an out of gate newcomer X2 series card as the 4870 X2 will even out price wise at about $500.00 US, and that’s not too out of line for ...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 07-31-2008 Category: Hardware Thermaltake builds cases, Power Supplies and other computer components. They are famous for their water and air cooling systems and their cases. Today I’m reviewing the Thermaltake Armor VH6001 Case, which is a Full Tower case and... Author: Doc Overclock Date: 07-26-2008 Category: Hardware Being such a large company like Palit is they are not limited by virtue of the numbers game to any one chipset slinger and offer VGA solutions from both the big guys ATI and NVIDIA. This gives Palit a broader spectrum of sales and... Author: Doc Overclock Date: 07-06-2008 Category: Hardware Tagan is a company that was founded in 2001 by a group of technical professionals from all over the world who gathered to discuss the growing problems associated with power supplies at the Taipei Computex show. This discussion wa...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 06-16-2008 Category: Hardware Wow, there is fast and then there is faster and then there’s the fastest. The new EVGA GTX208 FTW Edition VGA card is the fastest single card solution we have ever had to grace our labs period; it’s as fast as an entry level 9800G...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 06-06-2008 Category: Hardware CoolIT systems are a company that specializes in various cooling units based on both liquid and Peltier solutions for the end user client. They have made advances in the cooling industry by making High-End cooling easy for the com...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 06-06-2008 Category: Hardware OPPO is known in the Audio Video community for building high-quality components for inexpensive prices. They make HDMI cables, the HM-31 HDMI switch being reviewed here, and Universal DVD players with HDMI connections. The HM-31 i...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 06-01-2008 Category: Hardware The video card market is defined today by the battle between NVIDIA and ATI, the last men standing from a group of over 30 video card companies back in 1996. Companies like 3DFX, Evans and Sutherland, S3 (the original S3), Renditi...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 04-24-2008 Category: Hardware Everyone who is heavy into their PC knows what a Raptor drive is, and what it stands for, fast drives that exceed the competition and enhance system performance. The Raptor was introduced as a SATA (Serial ATA) drive series to co...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 04-04-2008 Category: Hardware XFX has made a solid place for themselves in the VGA community and the dog has put many other companies in the dog house, especially when it comes to performance based VGA cards for the gamers who like top end products. The mid le...
Author: Ben Sun Date: 03-26-2008 Category: Motherboards ASUS has done a wonderful job with their ASUS MAXIMUS Formula board. Based upon Intel’s X38 chipset, the Maximus Formula brings the performance, the features and the stability one would expect from a top of the line motherboard fr... Author: Ben Sun Date: 03-21-2008 Category: Hardware The E8500 is the fastest Core 2 Duo solution on the market with the clock speed set at 3.16GHz, fully 266MHz higher than the next fastest E series CPU. For a MSRP on the Intel CPU price list of $266 this makes an affordable soluti... Author: Jonathan Russell Date: 02-19-2008 Category: Hardware Computers have become your complete multimedia entertainment center. You them for music, movies, games, photos, and more. When you’re playing your favorite game, watching a movie or listening to music it is fun to turn the volume... Author: Doc Overclock Date: 02-17-2008 Category: Motherboards Gigabyte uses the X48 Northbridge and ICH9R Southbridge combo to good effect. You’ll notice the inclusion of DDR2 memory instead DDR3 that the X48 chipset supports. The full feature set of X48 chipset and Gigabyte’s unique feature... Author: Ben Sun Date: 02-13-2008 Category: Hardware It has been a long drought for ATI in the high-end of the video card market. NVIDIA’s 8800 GTX has been the king of the video card market in terms of performance of single card solutions since its introduction over a year ago, wit...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 01-27-2008 Category: Motherboards Asus reigns supreme when it comes to motherboard sales and they have the biggest selection of boards as well, being that they manufacture products from all the major chipset players including Intel, NVIDIA and ATI to name the majo...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 01-24-2008 Category: Motherboards The Intel P35 chipset was launched a little over 8 months ago as the replacement for the 965P platform that was the mainstream chipset equivalent to the 975X platform. The Bear Lake platform introduced new features including supp...
Author: Doc Overclock Date: 01-04-2008 Category: Hardware Overall I would have to say that if you are looking for large monitor over the 22" size, the V7 D24W33 is something to seriously consider. If price is also a point in your buying plans the D24W33 also offers an excellent price poi... |
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