Tech News
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Gigabyte to launch a very large motherboard "box"
Published: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 | By: DennisWith CES quickly approaching you will find a variety of "rumors" floating around about what is "next". We already know that Sandy Bridge should launch during CES and that both AMD and nVidia have blown their wad with the HD6950/HD6970 and GTX580/GTX570 respectively. So that leaves the motherboard makers, what do they have up their sleeve??
EVGA has released a photo of their next generation "Classified" motherboard based on the Intel P67. You can see a photo of the P67 Classified in our forums.
Gigabyte has also released photos of their entire line of P67 motherboards in hopes of snatching up all of the keyword placements. Photos of the GA-P67 boards can be found in our forums.
Lastly, we have found some very strange over at Bit-Tech today. The photo shows Tim Handley holding up a massive motherboard box and has gotten several people taking. Is it the now rumored UD11?
Let us know what you think.
This is a new dual 1366 motherboard design to compete with the EVGA SR-2. -or- is simply a large version of a P67-UD7 motherboard box for the visually impaired. -
NL: Review Block - More 69XX Action
Published: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 | By: DennisJust a couple more 6900 series card reviews.
- AMD Radeon HD 6950 & HD 6970 2GB @ Techgage
- AMD HD6950 and HD6970 @ Bjorn3DDon't forget to check out our review of the Sapphire HD 6950, It might be light on benchmarks but is heavy on naked. (no heatsink you sicko)
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Gigabyte X58A-UD5 @ LanOC Reviews
Published: Sunday, December 19, 2010 | By: DennisAfter having used the UD3R I can honestly say I'm not a fan of the slot layout but the board did become my favorite for overclocking. Of course the UD5 and UD7 should do much better.
With X58 motherboards ranging in price from just over $150 to a crazy $600, it can be daunting to find a nice mix of features and quality without breaking the bank. Gigabyte has a range of X58 boards separated with the UDx moniker. The UD stands for Ultra Durable and the 'x' indicating the number of special features, making it easy to spot the more expensive and features filled boards. Today we are taking a look at the X58A-UD5, a mid-range 1366 socket motherboard from Gigabyte. With a price point less than half of their UD9, it has the potential to be a perfect mix of value and performance. Let’s take a look.
For the money I'd prolly push for a UD7, though the UD9 would be to dr00l for.
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Imagine That?
Published: Sunday, December 19, 2010 | By: DennisSeems leaving the same news stories up all weekend doesn't do much to attract new people who are looking for the latest thing in the world of *shurg*.
News is coming.
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Psychology 101: Simply ask the question, "Are you a Terrorist?"
Published: Thursday, December 16, 2010 | By: DennisThis article is not really "tech" news as it relates to motherboards or video cards but does involve some really high tech methods in detecting people with bad intentions.
'How many times in the history of aviation have the scanners and security procedures that currently cause such huge anger and inconvenience actually found explosives in baggage or on a passenger?' Sela asks.
The answer, shockingly, is zero. It's true that a bomb packed by the Jordanian Nizar Hindawi in the hand luggage of his pregnant girlfriend Anne Murphy was discovered at Heathrow in 1986. But she was trying to board a flight on the Israeli airline El Al - which uses the same selector method abroad as at Ben Gurion: it was a selector's questioning that revealed Hindawi's plot.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1336571/Terrorism-Can-really-stop-bomber-asking-Are-terrorist.html#ixzz18Ianx0JOWith CES coming up I'll have to face the dangers of airline travel, and of course it isn't the airlines you have to fear but the thousands of scared people who read too much into bored and greedy journalist who feel that everyone should know everything about everybody.
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AMD Radeon HD6900 Series Card Launch Day
Published: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 | By: DennisWell its launch day of the much anticipated Cayman GPU is here. You can view our review using the link below.
Sapphire Radeon HD6950 Video Card Review @ Ninjalane
As you can imagine we aren't the only ones with a review, here are a few from around the web.
- AMD Radeon HD 6950 and 6970 review
- Powercolor HD6970 Graphics Card Review @ KitGuru
- AMD Radeon HD 6950 & 6970 CrossFire Video Card Reviews @ Legit Reviews
- Sapphire Radeon 6970 @ PureOverclock
- AMD Radeon HD 6970 and HD 6950 Review + Voltage Modifications
- ASUS Radeon HD 6950 CrossFire @ techPowerUp
- XFX Radeon 6970 and Radeon 6950 Review with 3-Way CrossFire @ HardwareHeaven
- AMD Radeon HD 6970 & 6950 Graphics Debut: Enter Cayman
- Sapphire Radeon HD 6970 2GB Video Card
- AMD Radeon HD 6970 and HD 6950 2GB graphics card review @ Hexus
- AMD Radeon HD 6970 and HD 6950 Review @ Hardware Canucks
- HIS Radeon HD 6970 2 GB @ techPowerUp
- SAPPHIRE HD 6950 2GB Video Card at Modders-IncThere will likely be more in the comming weeks so stay tuned.!
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Akasa Baymaster AK-ICR-10 @ techPowerUp
Published: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 | By: DennisAnyone with a digital camera needs to have a card reader, it's generally faster to pull photos and video directly from the memory card than it is over USB, which is why these all in one media bays are a great investment.
The Akasa Baymaster combines a 2.5 inch hot-swap bay with an array of slots for different memory cards - all in a very compact 3.5 inch drive bay. You even get two different colored front, so that the affordable device looks good in every case.
Nice to see they ditched the 3.5" floppy option and replaced it with a hot swap SSD port.
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ASUS ROG Crosshair IV Extreme AM3 Socket Motherboard @ Pro-Clockers
Published: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 | By: DennisThese Republic of Gamer motherboards are really starting to grow on me. Good styling, excellent expansion options, and they appear to have all of the features enthusiasts need without going overboard.
As great as those features may be, it is all the other things that ASUS has integrated into the new Crosshair that set the motherboard apart from the competition. First, it begins with the CrossLinx 3 which with the help of the Lucid HYDRALOGIX engine gives the end users the ability mix and match different graphic cards and allows them to run together, enhancing the gaming experience. Not only does this give nVidia fans the option of running SLI on an AMD chipset, but to have an Crossfire-SLi hybrid if you so choose.
The above is enough to have many of us begging for more money in our allowance to go out and grab this motherboard. There is still so much more to the Crosshair IV Extreme, which we will be talking about in the review, and it is only going to add to your desire to own this board.Now all we need to do is get a few here in the Lab for some hardcore testing.
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NL: Review Block - Cases Cards and Coolers
Published: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 | By: DennisCases
- In-Win Ironclad Full Tower Case @ Bjorn3D
- BitFenix Survivor Mid Tower PC Case Review @ Legit Reviews
Video Cards
- Point of View GTX 570 TGT Ultra Charged review @ Guru3D
- ASUS GeForce GTX 570 @ PureOverclock
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 @ Techgage
- EVGA GTX570 Review @ OC3D
Coolers
- Corsair A50 CPU Cooler Review @ Tweaknews
- Noctua NH-C14 @ Viperlair
- Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme Plus @ Hardwareoverclock -
The Shader Difference - GeForce GTX 580 at GTX 480 Clocks @ TweakTown
Published: Monday, December 13, 2010 | By: DennisOne of the common questions about product "refreshes" is how does the new product compare to the previous edition?. In some cases its a night and day difference, but in others it is really hard to tell.
This particular article really seems to be pointless but is a good investigation into how much performance we should have gotten out of the 400 series nVidia cards.
Being able to test the difference that Shaders make isn't something that we normally test or get the chance to test very often. The launch of the GTX 480, though, was full of so much drama in relation to yields and its performance. The biggest change that seemed to happen right in front of our eyes was a shift from the 512 Shaders we thought the card would ship with, to 480 Shaders. Sure, we knew it was going to cause a performance hit, but how much of a performance hit? - The decreased amount of Shaders was only one of the issues with the GTX 480, though, with other issues being heat, noise and power draw.
While the latter didn't bother me, the first two were real issues; first we saw Galaxy attack the heat and noise with an awesome looking triple fan, triple slot cooler. We then saw GIGABYTE and MSI attack the model; in the end the GTX 480 looked like a great product and to be honest it still is, especially with some of the bargain prices it can be grabbed for now from some places. We wonder, though, what would've happened if the GTX 580 we looked at today launched as the GTX 480 in March; the same clocks, but the new cooler and more importantly the 512 Shaders that we had hoped to have initially.Personally, I'm glad to see the 500 level cards, even if they are basically the same thing.
