Stephen ASUS ROG Crosshair IV Extreme @ Bjorn3D
“The ASUS Crosshair has a long legacy of being one of the best high-end motherboards for AMD systems. One of the trademarks of the Crosshair series is support for multi-GPU. While the first and second generations Crosshair motherboards support Nvidia SLI, the third generation only supports AMD CrossFire due to chipset limitation.”
Gigabyte H55N-USB3 @ PCPer
“I’ve been testing mini ITX motherboards from a variety of vendors including Zotac and VIA to name a few, but never I’ve tested one with the power, performance, and feature set included with the H55N-USB3. Gigabyte’s first mini ITX board should give other vendors something to strive for as they look to create a small motherboard with full-size features.”
ASUS Rampage III Formula ROG @ Bjorn3D
“The ASUS Rampage III Formula supports a stunning 3-way SLI and CrossFireX, making it a dream for any hardcore gamer. The USB 3.0 and SATA 3 is yet another feature that puts this motherboard at the top of the list. What truly makes this motherboard perfect for gaming is ASUS’ excellent Gigabit ethernet with ROG GameFirst and SupremeFX audio solution.”
ASRock 890GM Pro3 @ iXBTLabs
“Compact motherboards based on feature-rich high-performance integrated chipsets are often the optimal choice for an affordable home PC. The integrated graphics core let you play games (on reduced settings, though), but you can also install an external graphics card. Just remember to provide enough enclosure space for additional cooling, because the PSU fan might just not be enough.”
ASRock 870i Cafe @ PureOC
“ASRock has really impressed us lately with their excellent value products, particularly with budget-oriented motherboards for consumers hunting for performance on the cheap. While not record-breaking boards, we love the value they offer in the mainstream market segment. For review, we’ve got the ASRock 870i Cafe, an 870 based motherboard.”
WD Caviar Green 2.5 & 3TB HDDs @ PCPer
“While both Western Digital and Seagate both pushed out their external 3TB solutions a few weeks ago, doing so required them to make changes to their USB bridges (i.e. shifting the sector size to 4kb vs. 512b). Since all other internal drives are expected to use 512b sectors, and so much software is based on that sector size, WD has opted to hold to that standard for the internal Green.”
WD Caviar Green 3TB HDD @ TweakTown
“On the surface 750GB per platter doesn’t really sound all that impressive unless you are really into the whole storage technology scene. Those on the outside will be more excited to hear about the milestone this way; 3TB hard drives that upon launch cost just a little over 200 USD. Do I have your attention now?”
G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3-1600 8GB @ ThinkComputers
“We are here to yet again do a review on another DDR3 dual channel memory kit. With the standards basically being for DDR3 kits to be 1600Mhz. They are widely used on the AMD AM3 platform to Intel 1156 and 1366 setups as well. DDR3 kits range everywhere from 1066Mhz to the 2500Mhz. When DDR3 1600MHz was coming around to be one of the most popular memory kits, the G.Skill Ripjaws where the best value for the offering.”
Kingston H2O 2133MHz 4GB @ Bjorn3D
“Higher memory speed is always an advantage when it comes to getting the most out of memory intensive applications such as video editing and compositing applications, 3D designing software, or even video games. Users working with overclocking also find a high demand for fast memory and try to push their kits even further than stock settings.”
ASUS P6X58D-E @ XBitLabs
“Thus, the ASUS P6X58D-E is one of the few up-to-date LGA1366 mainboards available from ASUS. Besides it, the same functionality including USB 3.0 and SATA 6 Gbps is only provided by the Rampage III mainboards from the Republic of Gamers series and by the ASUS P6X58D Premium. Comparing the latter to the P6X58D-E, they have similar PCBs, but the P6X58D Premium is equipped with two LAN controllers, has more heat pipes in its cooling system, and is equipped with an integrated SSD with Express Gate.”