Stephen Intel Core i7 980X Extreme Edition @ TBreak
“Intel’s Extreme Edition of CPUs have always been their highest end desktop processors at the time of their arrival. That doesn’t necessarily mean that all of them have been great CPUs- just the best that Intel has had to offer at the time of their release. The Core i7 980X launched recently is the newest member to the Extreme Edition family and as expected, it is the fastest desktop CPU Intel has at the moment.”
AMD Phenom II X2 555 BE @ Bjorn3D
“AMD is always adding new chips to their lineup to fill any gap that you can imagine. Today we have the Phenom II X2 555. This chip comes clocked slightly higher than its younger brother, the 550. This stock clock will show some improvement, but who runs a Black Edition CPU at its rated speed?”
Inside Intel’s Atom Z600 @ Tech Report
“The new Atom platform, code-named Moorestown, brings a PC-compatible system into a pocket-sized package with dramatically reduced power consumption. We talked with the chip architects who helped pull off this amazing feat of engineering.”
Intel Unveils Next-Gen Moorestown @ Hot Hardware
“Today, Intel is officially unveiling the Moorestown platform, which consists of the new Intel Atom Processor Z6xx Series (previously codenamed Lincroft), the Intel Platform Controller Hub MP20 (previously codenamed Langwell) and a Mixed Signal IC (MSIC), codenamed Briertown.”
ASRock P55 Deluxe @ PCPer
“This board truly has a ton of features, and at $149, it is a steal for users looking to upgrade to SATA 6GB/s as well as triple graphics cards with Eyefinity or 3DVision. The dual heatsink mounting holes for two different socket types was a very nice touch as well as the board’s overall layout and construction.”
ASUS Crosshair IV Formula @ PureOC
“Featuring the new AMD 890FX chipset, the ASUS Crosshair IV Formula looks to bring a litany of impressive features and performance to the Phenom faithful. Let’s take a closer look at this new motherboard and see just what it can do on a flagship hex-core chip.”
Gigabyte GA-H55M-USB3 & GA-H57M-USB3 @ X-Bit Labs
“These two products offer a very successful and neat combination of all features and interfaces a contemporary platform might need, including a popular USB 3.0 standard. Among the great features we should also list rich BIOS functionality, good overclocking potential and flawless operation.”
ASUS Z8PE-D12 @ Motherboards.org
“ASUS has an interesting board here with the Z8PE-D12X. The motherboard can take all current Intel Xeon CPUs including the recently released 56xx series that have 6 cores with HyperThreading. The inclusion of features including Flex-E, PIKE and the ability to have two workstation video cards installed is excellent.”
Foxconn A7DA-S 3.0 @ eTeknix
“This particular board comes with support for the latest AMD Phenom II processors, 4 DDR3 slots and uses the AMD 790GX and SB750 chipset and has integrated 7.1 channel HD audio, Gigabit LAN and onboard Radeon 3300 graphics.”
ASRock 880G Extreme3 AMD 880G @ OCWorkBench
“The ASRock 880G Extreme, shares something similar to the 890GX Extreme3. Both supports the ASRock UCC chip unlocking feature. Throw in a Phenom II X3 710 and it becomes a quad core with the feature turned on in BIOS. Likewise a Phenom II 550BE will become a quad core too. This is only made possible with the UCC chip has the ACC feature found in SB750 no longer works on the SB850.”