Tech News
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First Look: EVGA W555 dual-Xeon motherboard @ bit-tech
Published: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 | By: DennisOne of the coolest motherboards of 2010 was on display at CES from the American company, EVGA. The board hasn't been released yet but there are plenty of photos including the ones we took at CES and the ones found over at bit-tech.
The W555 is a dual-processor LGA1366 motherboard with a difference - unlike existing traditional workstation/server motherboards - it's designed to be overclocked.
Created by a design team led by Peter 'Shamino' Tan, the W555 was first unveiled at the CES show a couple of weeks ago. However, the only shots we saw of the board were extremely blurry and covered with heatsinks. Fortunately, EVGA sent us these photos so we could take a closer look at how this monster motherboard is shaping up.We cannot wait to get ahold of this little gem for some real world testing, it should be awesome.
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P55 vs X58 Memory Performance Analysis w/ OCZ Platinum Series @ Tweaktown
Published: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 | By: WillHere is an interesting spin on dual-channel vs. triple-channel. Looks like they are using two different chipsets to test out this theory. Don't forget to read our article using the same chipset to get our take on this subject.
With so many samples passing through my front door over the year, we quite often end up with some surprises; be it a company sending it without letting us know, or it taking a bit longer to arrive than we expected and we forget about it. For whatever reason, we ended up with a couple of kits of PC3-12800 memory from OCZ.
In wondering what we could do with the two kits and how we could work them both into a single article, I thought it was time to see how the old Tri-Chan vs. Dual-Chan debate is going on with our X58 GIGABYTE board and P55 ASRock one."Here is a link for the lazy.
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AMD Phenom II X2 555 BE & Athlon II X4 635 & X3 440 Processors Reviewed @ EXTREME Overclocking!
Published: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 | By: WillAMD has been pushing out good processors for the low end market, and looks like they have some more for everyone to checkout. A new $100 dual-core Black Edition is a pretty good deal there.
"Today AMD is releasing five new processors in their Phenom II & Athlon II lineups. Along with these new chips comes lower prices to existing products, most notably the Athlon II X4 630 (2.8 GHz) will replace the X4 620 (2.6 GHz) at the $99 retail price point! This means that AMD now has two quad core processors priced at $99 or less, and one quad core at only $119!"
Even though a quad-core for $119 is very nice.
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Asus P6X58D @ Bjorn3D
Published: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 | By: WillWith all of the new technologies coming out such as SATA 6.0 to USB 3.0. Most of the X58 motherboards are starting to look a little long in the tooth without some of these new technologies. Don't worry Asus has everyone covered with their newest X58 P6X58D motherboard.
"The X58 chipset is currently the flagship of Intel's chipset line, but it was lacking a couple of key features due to its launch date. These where of course SATA 3 and USB 3. This is no longer true thanks to Asus. They have put a SATA 3 Controler onboard as well as adding two USB 3 ports on the back of the motherboard. This gives the X58 chipset a much needed modernization, since its little brother the P55 already has these features. If you happen to not be an Asus fan then you will have other options as well. Gigabyte plans to have a new X58 board out that will also support these features.
Other than the adding of these two features there is not much else thats different from the P6T, but lets take a look at the features to give you a refresh of what Asus has to offer."Nice looking board.
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Cooler Master ATCS 840 @ techPowerUp
Published: Monday, January 25, 2010 | By: WillStaying with the cases run here with another case manufacture that is on the top of the list here at Ninjalane. Yep, you guessed it or just read the title Cooler Master. Here is one excellently crafted aluminum case from them that is just beautiful.
"The Cooler Master ATCS 840 revives the line of cases which essentially made the brand so popular in 2001. It will be interesting to see if the chassis is worthy to carry such an illustrious name and if it can light that same spark of awe and respect for the now established brand."
I remember that old classic aluminum cases.
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Silverstone Fortress FT02 System Enclosure Review in Metku
Published: Monday, January 25, 2010 | By: WillThis is one clean looking case from SilverStone that I think looks even better than the Raven 2. This is all in the eyes of the beholder as well. Let's get reading to see if it is all that we hope it is.
"By the look of things, it's very much the same chassis as the Raven 2 reviewed earlier, but aimed at a bit different target audience."
Nice case!
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Kingston SSDNow V Series 40GB @ Techgage
Published: Sunday, January 24, 2010 | By: DennisYou know the first hard drive I ever bought was 540megs, Yes I said megs as in megabytes. However back then storage didn't come cheap and anything below a gig was reasonably priced.
Fast forward to now and anything without a triple digit gigabyte rating is often ignored. So why bother with a 40GB SSD??
Want to make the upgrade to a solid-state drive, but prefer to avoid the high cost of adoption? Kingston helps ease that pain with its SSDNow V Series 40GB, a modest drive that features Intel's NAND and impressive G2 firmware, which helps it deliver stellar performance when compared to an HDD, for an easy-to-stomach price.
I guess that would be a pretty good reason.
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G.Skill Falcon II 128GB SSD Review @ Hardware Canucks
Published: Sunday, January 24, 2010 | By: DennisSolid State Hard Drives are one of the fastest storage mediums but are still plagued with higher than expected costs over their rotational counterparts and come with considerably less storage space.
But they are well worth the price, especially if you have a readily available network storage option.As the SSD marketplace expands at a near-breakneck pace, OEMs and manufacturers alike are moving quickly to cover as many price points as possible. One of the most popular portions of this market doesn't lie with the high-performance, stratospherically-priced drives but rather with drives that offer the perfect mix of value and performance. G.Skill's new Falcon II 128GB is one of the SSDs which is leading the push towards affordable, large capacity SSDs.
So here is a question, what is faster than a single SSD? Two of them in a RAID of course.
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NL: Review Block - Motherboards
Published: Sunday, January 24, 2010 | By: DennisIt has been awhile since we have posted a review block so here it goes, and this time it is all about motherboards.
- MSI P55-GD80 Motherboard for LGA1156 CPUs reviewed in Metku
- Gigabyte GA-790FXTA-UD5 Motherboard Review @ Motherboards
- Gigabyte-GA-X58A-UD7 @ Hardwareoverclock
- Jetway NC63-330-LF IPC Motherboard @ PCShopTalkNormally we see some more reviews that this but with more companies exiting the motherboard arena and the remainder of them being rather protective of their review samples the trend can only get worse.
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Anatomy of SSD Units @ Hardware Secrets
Published: Sunday, January 24, 2010 | By: WillAn SSD is a very simple idea, but I'm sure many people still want to know what the guts of one is like. So here it is in a very simple two page read that will give you all that you need to know.
"SSD (Solid State Drive) units are storage devices that store files and programs just like hard disk drives, but use flash memory chips to store data, instead of storing data on a magnetic disk. Because data is stored electronically rather than magnetically, SSDs are way faster than hard disk drives for two reasons. First, no conversion between magnetic information into electronic information is needed. And second, there are no mechanical parts, so data is readily available, while on hard disk drives you need to wait until the heads move to the area where data is stored, which takes some time. In this short tutorial we will show you how SSD units look like inside and what are their main components."
Enjoy!
