Tech News
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Intel Core i7 930 Review @ OC3D
Published: Friday, April 16, 2010 | By: WillThe new Core i7 930 has many people interest peaked right now. With cruising a few forums out there and you will notice a bunch of mixed review about it. So let's see what these guys find out about this 920 replacement.
"Intel have replaced the insanely popular 920 with the 930. Is this an evolution or a revolution?"
Enjoy!
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MSI 890GXM-G65 Motherboard @ iXBT Labs Review
Published: Thursday, April 15, 2010 | By: WillWith the new AMD six-core processors getting ready to launch. It is time to start looking at the new AMD boards. Here is an MSI board that just might fit the bill for the MicroATX crowd out there.
"MSI released a definitely interesting motherboard. Consider it, if you have no prejudice towards microATX form factor, and if you're going to use as few expansion cards as possible. With this motherboard you can build a variety of PCs, including powerful gaming rigs with a couple of high-end graphics cards and a quad-core CPU."
Six-core goodness.
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Sneak Peek of Gigabyte X58A-UD9 Mobo - Seven Slot Edition
Published: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 | By: DennisNope this isn't some crazy porno but a natural progression in enthusiast motherboard design.
According to the leaked picture, the mobo is based on Intel X58 chipset, and supports LGA1366 Core i7 processors. The most glowing feature is the seven PCI-E slots to support NVIDIA SLI and AMD CrossFire technologies. The board utilizes dual 8pin power design for enhanced overclocking performance.
Seven slots is the ATX standard however this board looks to be stretched to make room for the Northbridge chip and cooler. On a positive the 7 16x PCIe slots means you can run quad SLI (or crossfire) provided you're on an open test bench or modified case with room at the bottom to accept a dual slot cooler.
The P55 Classified we recently reviewed comes with 6x PCIe slots, the 7th is shoehorned between the NF200 chip cooler at the top.
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Kingmax Hercules PC3-17600 (2200MHz) 4GB Kit @ Tweaktown
Published: Thursday, April 15, 2010 | By: WillIt is funny to read this clip from the review for it was the exact thing that first ran through my mind. I am very interested in these new Hercules modules. Let's go and read the review to see if it is worth all the talk.
"Every time I think of Kingmax my mind instantly goes back to the days of wishing so much that I could buy PC-150 TinyBGA modules from them, but only being able to afford PC-133 Apacer modules. There was a time when Kingmax was the memory to own; when we moved to DDR2, though, they did get left a bit in the dust to new performance company Corsair with its XMS lines of overclocked memory.
Over the years we've seen Kingmax pull out a few stand-out performance modules, but recently they've been fairly quiet. With some new kits out and a new Hercules series they might just have what they need to get back into the lime light again."Flashback time.
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COMPUTEX Sweeties - Only the hottest will get picked
Published: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 | By: DennisOne of the things that makes Computex so much fun is the booth babes, they are typically models hired to wear a costume and be nice to the sweaty technogeeks looking to take their photo.
Funny thing is the girls have been such a huge draw at the show there are guys from the local paper and news stations whos only job is to capture a shot of each and every girl and then rate them from hot to not.
The hottest ones get the mention on the news, which translates into free press for that company.
In order to help the participating exhibitors to enhance potential sell, a group of 30 COMPUTEX Sweeties with youthful spirits that will stir-up the atmosphere ardently while roaming around the COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2010 in celebration of 30th anniversary. Once the "COMPUTEX Sweeties" activity was announced, there were at least 200 gorgeous applicants have registered, hoping to be selected as COMPUTEX Sweetie. Majority of applicants came from university graduates, advertising models, leading actress from movies and soap operas, contestants from local matinee idol shows and so forth. The COMPUTEX Sweetie is attracting international media attention as the new topic for exhibition.
As some of you know I attend Computex most every year and the final day of coverage is dedicated to the booth babes. Hopefully this year I can capture some better photos, now that I Know how to use my Rebil XSi
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 SLI Review @ Hardware Canucks
Published: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 | By: WillI cannot wait to get over and read this review for I think this is a killer setup. SLI with the GeForce GTX470 and add some overclocking would make for a serious point pusher on HWBot.
"With NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 470 cards slowly marching towards broad availability, more and more consumers are looking for the possibility of pairing up two of these cards for a somewhat affordable DX11 SLI system. In this review we take a look at the performance offered by a pair of these cards and how they compare against the best that ATI has to offer."
Going right now to read.
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A look at new SSDs from Corsair, Kingston, Plextor, and WD
Published: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 | By: WillGotta love it when someone does all the work for you on figuring out what is your best buy. Looks like we have some serious heavy hitters in this roundup of SSD drives.Let's see what deserves your hard earned cash.
"SSDs are finally cheap enough to be tempting for use in high-performance desktops. The market is teeming with new entrants, too. But which one is best? We look at new drives from Corsair, Kingston, Plextor, and WD to find out."
Enjoy!
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Bootable USB Drive, Flashing Nvidia GPU BIOS, Recovering from a Bad Flash @ Bjorn3D
Published: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 | By: WillHere is a good guide for a few different things. One of the main ones is making a bootable USB flash drive. Everyone should have one of these handy at all times if they are going to updating any kind of BIOS.
Some days you wake up knowing exactly what you are going to do. Some days you wake up intending one thing and end up doing another. Today was one of those days. Often we get motherboards or GPU's with early BIOS and as testing drones on you get updates. After a while it gets old yanking the one working floppy drive we have left out and booting to it to flash BIOS on GPU's and motherboards. Well floppy disks haven't been the greatest quality of late and it's better to boot to a known good USB Drive than an iffy floppy that may have been on the shelf for years.
Having had to do that today it struck me that other people might want easy access to a 'How to make a USB drive windows 98 bootable' for flashing their boards. Hours later here I sit with pictures in hand, bootable USB drive flashing my GPU BIOS and half wondering how I got here.
All that aside lets get started. First we are venturing into making a USB Stick bootable then we'll do a short how to flash an Nvidia cards BIOS thing (GTX-480 in this case). That's easiest because that's what we needed the USB Drive bootable for.I might have to give the old GTX480 a flash here soon.
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Win a complete EVGA P55 barebones system from Ninjalane
Published: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 | By: DennisIn celebration of the 10 year anniversary of Ninjalane.com we are hosting a forum contest this month where the winner will walk away with a complete EVGA P55 barebones computer system.
Components for this system were provided by EVGA and Thermaltake and consist of the following:
- EVGA P55 LE Motherboard
- Thermaltake Element G Gaming Chassis
- Thermaltake Toughpower 775 Power Supply
- Thermaltake SpinQ VT CPU CoolerEntering this contest is easy; first you need to find one of the 2 special Ninjalane Contest Entry Codes. One is located on the Team EVGA Facebook page while the other is posted somewhere on the Thermaltake Facebook page.
Finally, to enter, visit the official contest thread in the Ninjalane Message Forum for further details.
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NL: Review Block - Motherboards
Published: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 | By: DennisIn the past the Intel 775 socket was the premier processor socket to have, and it was for several years. The best part was the socket supported everything from budget systems up to extreme edition quad core monsters.
Well times have changed and the new standard in mainstream computing is the LGA 1156 on the P55 and H55/57 chipsets.
Motherboards
- ASUS Maximus III Extreme LGA1156 Motherboard Review @ Hardware Canucks
- iXBT Labs Review: Gigabyte P55A-UD6 Motherboard
- ECS H57H-MUS (V1.0A) LGA1156 Motherboard @ PCShopTalkAs you can imagine we have reviewed quite a few of these boards as well. Most recently is the EVGA P55 Classified. This is the board that has everything, and gives 113%.
