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WD SiliconEdge Blue 256GB SSD Review @ PC Perspective

“Sequential transfer rates are competitive with most modern units and can best Intel in write speeds.  That said, this new offering leaves something to be desired when it comes to random access performance.  While the drive is true to its rated 5,000 IOPS, that figure is just not high enough to truly compete with the competition offering as high as 35,000 IOPS in the same form factor.”

WD SiliconEdge Blue 256GB SSD Review @ TweakTown

“As it sits right now I have no idea what controller is in the Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue. To further aid to the confusion the cache is larger than anything we have tested before. The good thing is that when we buy SSDs we are rarely buying a name or the laser etches found on the controller.”

WD SiliconEdge Blue 256GB SSD Review @ Hot Hardware

“Storage is going solid state and the move to acquire Silicon Systems back in March of 2009, was a very deliberate course of action for WD that spoke clearly about their intentions.  We’ve heard rumblings of offerings forthcoming from WD’s primary competitor, Seagate, as well but today WD makes it real with their new SiliconEdge line of SSD products.”

WD SiliconEdge Blue 256GB SSD Review @ Legit Reviews

“The new WD SiliconEdge Blue SSDs are available in capacities of up to 256 gigabytes (GB) and feature a SATA 3.0 gigabits per second (Gb/s) interface with sequential read speeds up to 250 megabytes per second (MB/s) and sequential write transfer rates up to 170 MB/s. Not bad performance for a mainstream consumer SSD that has is part of the ‘blue’ series of SSDs from WD.”

ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 @ Extreme OC

“AMD is releasing yet another chipset (the 8-Series), starting with the 890GX & SB850. The biggest feature of this combo is the SB850 now supports SATA 6Gb/s! We will also be taking a look at the ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 motherboard, one of their first models to utilize the new 8-Series chipset.”

Gigabyte 790XTA-UD4 @ iXBT Labs

“The support for the new interfaces will be attractive for those who upgrade rarely. The Socket AM3 platform is a good choice for rare upgrades, by the way, because there will be at least one more processor family for it that will include hexacore solutions.”

Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H @ Legit Reviews

“Both the Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H and ASUS M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 AMD 890GX-based motherboards that we looked at here today are both very solid motherboards and increase the level of performance that you can expect from an AMD motherboard. The faster and improved Radeon HD 4290 integrated graphics are more than enough to power your HTPC for Blu-ray playback and can even manage to do some light gaming on lower resolution.”

MSI 890GXM G65 @ Guru3D

“We test the MSI 890GXM G65. With the six-core Thuban processor slowly rearing it’s head and new technologies like USB 3.0 and SATA 6G on the horizon, AMD needed another update to their motherboard chipset, to get it prepared for the 6-core lovin abut as well as bringing support for the new interfaces.”

ASUS M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 @ TweakTown

“This has been good for Intel, but bad for the market in general. Of course, AMD has made some great strides in the CPU realm and in fact have produced some good and inexpensive products that have quite a bit of room for overclocking. Now they are moving back to the chipset side and are launching a new chipset today, the 890GX.”

Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H 890GX @ OC Club

“This board also comes with Gigabyte’s Ultra Durable 3 design, that uses 2-oz of copper PCB, a Ultra Durable heatpipe to cool the chipset and MOSFETs, dual BIOS, all solid Japanese capacitors and a 4+1 Phase Unit. All of these features have really help Gigabyte stand out as one of the top motherboard manufactures and when the GA-890GPA-UD3H motherboard was the first out of many to overclock my AMD 955BE to 3.9GHz, I was more than sold on the design!”

ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 890GX @ OC Club

“I knew under water I could push the voltage a bit more, so I topped it at 1.5V and pushed the reference clock and multiplier a bit more and was able to boot at 4.3GHz but it was not stable enough to pass benchmarks so I tapped them down a bit and found a sweet spot at 4.226GHz, where everything ran stable and the temperatures were still low.”

ECS A890GXM-A @ Hardware Secrets

“AMD is releasing today a new chipset with integrated graphics, AMD 890GX, and ECS has announced three socket AM3 motherboard models based on it. We are going to take a look on A890GXM-A, which belongs to ECS’ Black Series, featuring three PCI Express x16 slots and SATA-600 ports (but not USB 3.0 ports).”

AMD 890GX Chipset Review @ Neoseeker

“AMD did an awesome job refreshing its I/O solution. The SB850, packing six SATA 6Gbps connections natively, gives an edge to the AMD platform. Furthermore, integrating two PCI-E 2.0 lanes into the southbridge is an excellent idea since it provides the right interface for motherboard manufactures to add dedicated controllers.”

AMD 890GX Chipset Review @ PC Perspective

“The addition of native SATA 6G support should have been a giant addition to the chipset.  Unfortunately, my testing has shown initial issues with this implementation.  AMD has been kicked around for a long time for their southbridge I/O performance in USB and SATA, and the SB850 continues that not-so-proud tradition.”

AMD 890GX Chipset Review @ Hot Hardware

“The 790FX has been riding high at the top of AMD’s line-up for over two years now. It has been paired to newer Southbridge chips and AMD did follow up with the 790GX about a year and half ago, but for all intents and purposes AMD’s flagship desktop chipset has remained unchanged for what is equivalent to an eternity in Internet-years.”

AMD 890GX Chipset Review @ Techgage

“With AMD’s processor line-up as complete as it is, focus has been shifted a bit to the chipset department, and the result is the 890GX. Although it’s packed with features, it’s surprisingly inexpensive. In addition to introducing the Radeon HD 4290 IGP, it also brings native support for SATA 3.0, improved HD support and much more.”

AMD 890GX Chipset Review @ Tech Report

“AMD’s 890GX chipset features a hopped-up Radeon HD 4290 graphics core and an all-new SB850 south bridge with a 6Gbps Serial ATA controller. We’ve taken an in-depth look at the chipset and motherboards from Asus and Gigabyte to see what’s what.”

AMD 890GX Chipset Review @ Bjorn3D

“The 890GX also comes with full support of every AM3 CPU released to date, and plans to keep the chipset in production as long as the AM3 socket is still AMD’s primary desktop socket. As with most of the previous 790 series boards the 890 uses DDR3, so you won’t have the option of running an AM2 CPU.”