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• NESTEQ ECS7001 700W Power Supply Unit Review @ TechwareLabs

  Published: Thursday, May 8, 2008 | By: Will

  I would not usually look at a PSU here at Ninjalane, but the name is new to me. Lets look together to see what Nesteq has to offer us for power. 

  "Ruffy takes a look at the new NESTEQ 700W PSU which is rated at 80+ efficiency. We ran some in use tests and shows you why the attention to design detail from the modular design, types of cables, quantity of cables provided that in effect seem to double due to their patented Enhanced Easy Connection System is worth you taking a look at this PSU."

  Looks like we may have a new PSU with teeth coming from Nesteq.

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• ASUS P5E3 Premium WiFi-AP @ Techgage

  Published: Thursday, May 8, 2008 | By: Will

  Well Asus is one of the best board makers out there. The X48 looks like another chipset that they will make forever famous. 

  "X48 is new, but there are many boards already begging for your dollars. We are taking a look at the most robust of them all, the P5E3 Premium, which includes built-in WiFi, a great board design and fantastic overclocking abilities. It would almost be a perfect board if it weren't for the $375 price tag."

  To bad the famous part for Asus is the incredible price tag. So far the boards are only getting higher in price. 

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• VisionTek Radeon HD 3870 X2 Overclocked Edition Review @ OCC

  Published: Thursday, May 8, 2008 | By: Will

  I do love looking at these dual GPU monster video cards. Don't know if they are all they are cracked up to be. Guess we should read to find out.

  "Overclocking a pre-overclocked card? Can it be pushed any further? The answer is yes. It didn't take me long to discover that this video card does not like to be pushed, but I was able to obtain a minimal overclock on the already overclocked beast of a video card. I reached 850MHz on the core clock from the stock frequency of 840MHz, and on the memory I obtained a frequency of 975MHz over the stock 960MHz. It's not much, but we'll see if it gives a performance increase at all."

   I do like not having to overclock my video card. Nice that the manufacture does it for you.

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• ECS GF8200A black edition mainboard review @ Guru3D

  Published: Wednesday, May 7, 2008 | By: Will

   These new ECS boards are starting to look a little better for being on the cheap budget side.

  "It never ceases to amaze me how much fun the more budget oriented products can be. Recently we reviewed ECSes AMD 780G chipset based mainboard, feature-packed for a very small price. It offers just so much fun for the money spent on it. Yet we figured, that's based on an AMD chipset based solution, and NVIDIA recently released their GF8200 based mainboards. So why not grab a Phenom processor, some memory and the ECS GF8200A mainboard and see where we end up? And I'll tell you in advance ... for this kind of money, this little mainboard again is amazing for the price."

  Well the budget minded person can get a cheap case with a window, and feel proud that there board is not purple anymore. Be happy for the ECS Black Edition.  

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• Asus M3N-HT Deluxe @ HardOCP

  Published: Wednesday, May 7, 2008 | By: Will

  The guys over at HardOCP have the new NVidia 780a Chipset under inspection. Lets see what they think of it. 

  "ASUS comes out swinging with their latest NVIDIA chipset based AMD offering, the M3N-HT Deluxe. Based on the AMD version of the NVIDIA nForce 780a chipset, the board packs a lot of promise."

  Is the Phenom starting to look more promising with the new chipsets?  

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• Sapphire Hybrid CrossFire 780G Motherboard @ Modders-Inc

  Published: Tuesday, May 6, 2008 | By: Will

  It looks like AMD is going to try, and make the Hybrid market the wave of the future for all boards. So lets start looking at what it is today. 

  "Are you in the market for a small form factor m-ATX motherboard that can give you blistering performance for your multimedia needs, plus the ability to play the latest Direct X 10 games? And as a bonus you can install a second card to gain CrossFireX for your games. Then you have to check out the Sapphire PURE Hybrid CrossFire 780G Innovation Motherboard."

  Well don't worry Nvidia has a big stick with Hybrid written all over it. Let's watch the beating begin in a few weeks from now. 

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• NVIDIA nForce 780a SLI Motherboard Round-Up, Asus, MSI @ HotHardware

  Published: Tuesday, May 6, 2008 | By: Will

  Well all I can say is it is about time NVidia. AMD needs a new chipset to give us all SLI for the Phenom processor. 

  "Early this year while NVIDIA outlined their plans to mix things up at the high-end of their AMD chipset line-up with the IGP-equipped nForce 780a SLI, but it has taken quite a bit of time to bring that product to market.  Today though, we present to you three nForce 780a SLI-based motherboards (two from Asus and one from MSI), that are sure to pique the interest of all of the AMD fans out there.  For the first time since the Phenom launch, AMD fans will now be able to pair up NVIDIA's flagship graphics configurations with an AMD CPU and exploit all of the features inherent to both."

  Now if AMD can make a faster processor the NVidia chipset may really shine. Let's keep the new stuff a rollin' out.

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• ASUS P5Q3 Deluxe - Intel P45 chipset review @ NordicHardware

  Published: Tuesday, May 6, 2008 | By: Will

  Looks like it is time to start looking at the new Intel P45 Chipsets. Here is the first review I have seen on the P45.

  "In this review, we will take a closer look at ASUS P5Q3 Deluxe, which is based on Intel's P45 chipset. The difference in performance between the P35 and its precursor P965 was minimal; the question is whether the P45 has any additional performance advantages. An important difference between P35 and P45 is that the latter is made using the 65nm manufacturing process, while the former was made with the 90nm process."
  

  Well the P45 using a smaller process may make it run cooler, and give a better overclock. Something we all crave here at Ninjalane. More power!

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• Intel to launch 4-series chipsets at Computex 2008

  Published: Tuesday, May 6, 2008 | By: Dennis

  Intel will officially launch its 4-series chipsets at Computex 2008, while motherboard makers will start shipping products in the third week of June, according to sources at motherboard makers.
  
  Initial 4-series chipset shipments will consist of the P45 and P43, for which the previously reported PCI Express compatibility bug has been fixed already. However, the G45 and G43 IGP versions will be delayed for another 2-3 weeks while Intel works to correct issues with VC1 hardware decoding and to increase the graphics core frequency to 800MHz.

  Its good to see that some actual product launches will happen at Computex this year.

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• ASRock Penryn 1600SLIX3-WiFi 680i Motherboard Review @ ThinkComputers

  Published: Tuesday, May 6, 2008 | By: Will

  ASRock always have some very creative motherboards. Just like the name of the company. Innovation is the only thing I can say about there boards for the most part, and cheap in price.

  "ASRock came on board in 2002, not long after I started building my own rigs. In those six short years, they have come up with some remarkably innovative designs for economy motherboards. Today I will be looking at the ASRock Penryn 1600SLIX3-WiFi motherboard. ASRock has taken the nVidia 680i SLI chipset, given it the capability of running the new Core 2 Extreme 1600mHz FSB processors, added WiFi, and placed that in an economy-minded board."
  

  Now, if only they can get creative with the names of there motherboards. Well I guess at least the names get to the point.

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