Stephen Gigabyte GA-MA785GPM-UD2H @ TweakTown
“And since AMD has taken over ATI’s graphics and chipset departments, their 7 series chipsets have been anything but disappointing, especially with regard to the integrated graphics. To that end, we have the latest installment from AMD’s chipset division. Fresh from NDA today we have the 785G chipset. Based around the 790GX chipset, this puppy is aimed at the budget users. However, it does get one major upgrade, DX10.1 IGP, something the 790GX doesn’t.”
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition @ TweakTown
“When originally released, Phenom had a nick name of the black death. The TLB bug with the L3 cache caused serious stability and reliability problems and the only work around was to disable the L3 cache in the BIOS, removing any performance benefits the Phenom processor had over the Athlon X2 line.”
OCZ Vertex 60GB & Agility 128GB @ Bjorn3D
“Today we’re going to take a look at the OCZ Vertex 60GB SSD and the OCZ Agility 128GB SSD. They both sport the highly touted Indilinx Barefoot Controller which, as we’ve seen, in previous reviews cures the stuttering in the 1st gen SSD’s and provides blazing fast speeds. The OCZ Vertex is the Performance line of SSD’s and the Agility is the Value (or mainstream) line of SSD’s.”
Corsair P64 SSD @ Bjorn3D
“The advantages of a larger drive are of course more storage space, but this comes at a steep price. Right now the 64 and 128 GB SSD’s are your best bet for a combination of storage and price. Corsair has long been one of the leaders in computer technology, so this addition to their line of products should be looked at before you make a choice on what SSD you want.”
Gigabyte Lynnfield P55 Board Preview @ Hot Hardware
“It appears the Intel P55 motherboard previews are all the rage the past couple of days, so we thought we’d get into the mix as well and show off a couple of Gigabyte-built motherboards that feature Intel’s upcoming P55 chipset for LGA1156 processors, codenamed Lynnfield.”
ASUS P7P55D Preview @ Hexus
“The introduction of newer Nehalem-based processors will herald the release of a raft of supporting chipsets to house the LGA1155/1156 chips. The ASUS P7P55D EVO constitutes a typical example of what to expect from a mid-to-high-end P55 motherboard. Overall layout is good, if not perfect, and we should expect to see it retail for less than X58 boards.”
ECS P45T-A Black Series @ PC Shop Talk
“Further to the right, we can find more USB connectors, USB power jumpers, the front panel connector, the Reset and Power buttons for easy access when the motherboard is not installed yet in a case, and a Case Fan connector. To the right we can also see 6 orange S-ATA connectors. The ICH10R supports RAID so we can build RAID 0,1,5 or 10 without problems.”
MSI X58M @ Bjorn3D
“The hard part about being the cheapest board is low expectations. The cheapest generally means that it will not be nearly as good as something more expensive. MSI hopes to rid its users of this thought by providing a top quality board for a basement price point. They certainly have me onboard, but I have doubts as to how well this board will overclock or how it will handle with large amounts of RAM.”
ASRock X58 Extreme @ Motherboards.org
“A full-fledged X58 motherboard for under $170 was just a dream a year ago, fully realized with the ASRock X58 Extreme motherboard. ASRock offers most of the features of the X58 SuperComputer with the exceptions being 3 full length PCI Express slots instead of four and better BIOS options.”
ASUS Rampage II Extreme @ RBMods
“We recieved a real heavy weight board on our test bench! Asus sent a sample of their Rampage 2 Extreme motherboard which really seems to be an overclocker board filled with features so you can boost the crap out of your Core i7 boards. We are going to twist and turn it to see what type of results we can get from the board.”