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Motherboard News |
Monday, 31.10.2011 |
EVGA Z68 FTW Review
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Review of the EVGA Z68 FTW Motherboard. The EVGA Z68 FTW joins an elite group of motherboards aimed at satisfying the needs of overclocking, gaming and hardware enthusiasts. While this group is small by comparison the things they look for in a motherboard can be rather specific and often difficult t...
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Asus P9X79, X79 Sabertooth and Rampage IV RoG Preview
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Preview of the ASUS P9X79, TUF, WS and ROG Rampage IV Extreme Intel X79 Motherboards. There is a lot of anticipation about the new Intel Sandy Bridge-E processors. While we can't give away any performance numbers or to many specific details, we can give you a sneak peak at some of the new Socket LGA...
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MSI 990FXA-GD80 Review
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Review of the MSI 990FXA-GD80 AM3+ Motherboard. AMD's 900 series chipsets preceded the introduction of their Bulldozer processors by several months. While this chipsets offers no additional functionality to non-Bulldozer CPUs, manufacturers jumped on the bandwagon anyway, perhaps because Bulldozer w...
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Foxconn A75M FM1 Motherboard Review
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For users which are not pretentious, the A75M FM1 motherboard from Foxconn represents a solution to consider, in case we want to get the benefits of the Lynx platform, like the powerful IGP or the quad core APUs. For making this board even more attractive, the Dual Graphics feature should be enabled...
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Asus P9X79 Series Intel X79 Preview
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Preview of the ASUS P9X79 Series Intel X79 chipset motherboard. If you are not a gamer or overclocker, the ASUS P9X79 series motherboards should be a better bet in terms of cost/performance ratio. The picture below shows motherboard has 8 DDR3 slots capable of DDR3-2400 OC. There are 3 PCIe slots al...
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Asus Crosshair V Formula Review
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ASUS Crosshair V Formula Bulldozer Motherboard. This particular article, we went a little bit of a different route. We compared the ASUS Crosshair V Formula with the latest AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer processor, to itself with an AMD Phenom II X6 1100T. We wanted to see if there was much of a difference i...
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ECS X79R-AX Intel X79 LGA2011 Mainboard Preview
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Intel is scheduled to launch it's new generation of processors November 2011. With the new chipset and new processor, it means a new motherboard for the larger processor with a new socket type LGA2011. In the following pages, we will preview the upcoming board from ECS.
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MSI X79A-GD65 Motherboard Preview
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Preview of the MSI X79A-GD65 Intel X79 Motherboard. So, in following our normal preview style, we'll check out the MSI X79A-GD65 today and see what we've got to look forward to come November. Apparently I can't be specific about a launch date, but let's be honest, we all have a fairly good idea of w...
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Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3 Review
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Enter the GA-Z68AP-D3 - a budget Z68 motherboard with a price tag just short of 80 GBP. Performance is said to be very good on this motherboard and reports show that it is capable of overclocking very well indeed. Those of you out there who are seeking to get onto the Sandy Bridge bandwagon might we...
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Heatsink News |
Monday, 31.10.2011 |
Thermaltake Contac 39 and Contac 30 Announcement
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Thermaltake is adding the Thermaltake Contac 39 and Thermaltake Contac 30 CPU air cooling to their Contac CPU air cooling series. The shimmering Contac 39 and Contac 30 materialized with dual and single crystal clear blue LED fans presented the blare while it performance, as well as improved curved ...
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Phanteks PH-TC14PE Tested
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Today we are looking at a new offering from a company you might not have heard of before, Phanteks. There has been some buzz about their first HSF offering, the PH-TC14PE. It is a twin tower twin 140mm fan CPU air cooler. In all of our testing the Phanteks PH-TC14PE did very well as it left all of t...
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Thermaltake Frio OCK Review
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The Thermaltake Frio OCK might not be a quiet cooler at full fan speeds, but it is currently the most powerful air cooler available for the overclocking enthusiasts.
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Xigmatek Gaia Review
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We tested the Gaia CPU cooler from Xigmatek, which has three direct-touch heatpipes and a 120 mm fan. It has a tower heatsink, three 8 mm direct-touch heatpipes, and a 120 mm fan.
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Prolimatech Panther Review
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After the huge success Prolimatech had with the Megahalems, I'm interested to see how the Panther compares in quality and performance. Priced at around 38 GBP, the Panther is positioned right in the middle of the CPU cooler market. Prolimatech, founded in 2008 and based in Taiwan, is fairly new to t...
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Xigmatek Loki CPU Cooler Review
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The Xigmatek Loki is a CPU cooler with tower heatsink, three U-shaped heatpipes and a 92 mm fan. Let's check it out.
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Cooler Master Hyper 612S CPU Cooler Review
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The Cooler Master 612S builds on the same formula as its smaller brother and yet is designed to target the high end. Armed with a heftily sized heatsink, six 6mm heat pipes and a single 1300RPM fan, it is clear that it aims to compete against the likes of Thermalright's Venomous X and Prolimatech's ...
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AMD FX-8150 Black Edition CPU Water Cooler Review
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The AMD water cooling kit is very nicely made. AMD took an off the shelf cooler from Asetek that closely resembles the Antec Kuhler 920 water cooler. The changes AMD made, do make it better than the Antec H2O 920. The other changes made by AMD are mostly cosmetic branding changes and some software t...
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Misc News |
Sunday, 30.10.2011 |
Cryo PC Alto HTPC Part 2 Review
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Yesterday we took a look at the raw performance of the Cryo PC Alto HTPC. Today it's more about the usage experience. I won't lie to you, it's going to get subjective and opinionated, but that's what makes these types of reviews that much more fun.
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Razer BlackWidow Ultimate Stealth Edition Review
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Review of the Razer BlackWidow Ultimate Stealth Edition. The Razer Blackwidow Ultimate Stealth Edition mechanical keyboard fights against the Thermaltake Meka G1. Check out how it performs against it's competition.
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UEBO M50 Digital Media Player Review
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The solution I have here is the UEBO M50, a pocket-sized portable media player. Media players are handy to have, but one that you can take with you to other places is potentially invaluable. I can think of countless places where I would want to plug a USB flash drive to play videos or view some pict...
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