Stephen ASUS P6T6 WS Revolution @ Motherboards.org
“If you’re looking for a workstation class board on the X58 chipset this is the board for you as it has all the bells and whistles that you expect from ASUS and the extra features you want. SLI works as advertised with the proper spacing for three GTX280 dual-slot cards. Crossfire also works out of the box.”
ECS GF8200A Black Edition @ TBreak
“ECS brings us yet another Black Edition board, the GF8200. This time a Hybrid function board for the AMD AM2+ socket CPU’s. The board comes with a DirectX 10 capable integrated graphics processor with 512mb of shared memory and HDMI output.”
ECS A780GM-A Ultra @ TBreak
“Only recently AMD launched the Phenom II X4 processor that scored pretty well with us. So we decided to test it with the order of the day, the ECS A780GM-A Ultra motherboard. It has great all-in-one features like 160w CPU support and on board video processor based on the ATI HD3200 that supports Hybrid CrossFire.”
MSI P7NGM-Digital @ HardwareZone
“We highly doubt that Intel has given its blessings for this new competitor. After all, our own testing had shown the GeForce 9300/9400 mGPU to be faster than Intel’s G45 chipset so there’s no doubt that the Intel GMA 950 integrated graphics on the typical Atom-based offering is heavily outmatched. NVIDIA is therefore understandably keen on making its integrated chipsets find home in everything from notebooks to desktops.”
Gigabyte EP45-DS3R @ TBreak
“With juicy features packed on high end motherboards, everyone wants a piece of that pie, although not everyone can afford it. There’s a large chunk of end users today that want to see some of those features brought to a budget motherboard. Enter Gigabyte EP45-DS3R, an Intel P45 chipset motherboard, packing a good bang for buck.”
AMD Phenom II X4 810 & X3 720BE @ Guru3D
“Both processors arm your PC with some pretty good bang for your hard earned money. We’ll dive in deep, into the architecture, the features .. but obviously most the performance. Have a peek at AMD’s latest AM3 processor (which work on Socket AM2+ 790 motherboard as well!). Things certainly are looking up for AMD.”
AMD Phenom II X4 810 & X3 720BE @ Hot Hardware
“You see, the AMD Phenom II X4 940 and X4 920 were designed for the socket AM2+ platform, and as such, they supported only DDR2 memory. The latest additions to the Phenom II line-up, the Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition and X4 810, however, are designed for the AM3 platform.”
AMD Phenom II X4 810 & X3 720BE @ OC Club
“With the new line of Phenom II processors anticipation and expectations are growing. The previously reviewed Phenom II 940 was a beast of a processor, though it only supports DDR2 memory, so there is not any room for expansion into the faster DDR3 market. The new AM3 processors tackle this situation and allow you to run the best of both worlds with DDR2 and DDR3 when the AM3 motherboards are released.”
AMD Phenom II X4 810 & X3 720BE @ TweakTown
“To start things off on our AM3 processor, AMD has revolutionised the latest addition to the Phenom II family. All of the 800 series and 700 series CPU’s have a dual mode memory controller. That is, it has a DDR2 and DDR3 memory controller onboard. This is the first CPU to incorporate two memory controllers on one CPU die.”
AMD Phenom II X4 810 & X3 720BE @ PC Perspective
“It does not run really hot, it does not pull all that much power, and it certainly performs well considering the price it is at. In most tests, in comparing to previous results from the Phenom 9950, it was about 5% faster overall than its predecessor at that same speed. It does hold 2x the L3 cache as the 9950, and the extra internal tweaks are likely to help as well.”
AMD Phenom II X4 810 & X3 720BE @ Bjorn3D
“Then AMD surprised us and fielded two more Phenom 2 CPU’s before we got to the followup. So now we’re looking at the daunting task of covering the Phenom 2 X4 940 BE, Phenom 2 X4 810, and Phenom 2 X3 720 BE. That’s a lot of Phenom 2 goodness in one spot so you might want to grab your favorite beverage, kick your feet up and catch the low down on the new Phenom Dragon lineup.”
AMD Phenom II X4 810 & X3 720BE @ Neoseeker
“With the latest BIOS update, it was dead easy to get the HT frequency up to 240MHz, a 20% overclock, but it took a lot of effort to get the last 15% out of it. It seems that there are some “interesting” interactions between the HT multiplier and memory multiplier, such that certain combinations are not stable.”
AMD Phenom II X4 810 & X3 720BE @ Extreme overclocking
“A month ago we saw the launch of the Phenom II X4 940 & 920 processors. Today AMD is launching FIVE new chips to add to their Phenom II lineup. We are finally seeing the socket AM3 (DDR3) design that has been talked about for many months. The two chips we will be taking a look at specifically are the Phenom II X4 810 and X3 720 Black Edition.”
Intel 32nm Westmere @ PC Perspective
“This slide shows the design of the first 32nm Westmere product that uses two physical chips on a single substrate – the processor cores are built on the 32nm process technology while the graphics and memory controller are built on the current 45nm technology. While it might seem odd to see a mix of both 32nm and 45nm products on the same chip, we should note that the graphics chip is actually seeing a drop from 65nm to 45nm process.”
Intel 32nm Westmere @ Hot Hardware
“Hot on the heels of the Core i7, Intel announced the acceleration of their 32nm product ramp today in a press conference. Dubbed Westmere, the new processor family will have a smaller die geometry, increased performance across single and multithreaded usage scenarios (as compared to today’s Core 2 product family), and an integrated graphics engine in some versions, as well as on-board AES encryption processing support.”
Intel 32nm Westmere @ Hexus
“As a recap, Intel is on a self-proclaimed Tick Tock strategy, where a new architecture is released, dubbed Tock, followed, roughly, a year later with a slightly enhanced design on a smaller manufacturing process: the Tick. Then, again a year or so later, the same process technology is kept intact but a new architecture is brought up, which brings us back to the Tock.”
ECS A780GM-A Ultra Black Series @ PureOC
“For those of us not fortunate to be able to afford the bleeding edge and best of computer hardware, our biggest demand is probably value. We want good performance but we want it at an affordable price. At the heart of any new computer is the motherboard, and today we’re looking at the ECS A 780GM-A Ultra Black Series motherboard, which promises a packed feature set and overclockability in a very affordable package.”
MSI X58 Eclipse @ Viper Lair
“Overall, MSI has produced a very nice product with the X58 Eclipse. It was stable, very fast and with the 1.32 BIOS, a very good overclocker. The results compared to its Intel counterpart were close, though it did trail slightly across the board at stock speeds. Where MSI realy comes out ahead though is the included extras such as quality audio and excellent system management hardware and software tools.”
Gigabyte GA-X48-DS5 @ PCStats
“Gigabyte’s high-end GA-X48-DS5 motherboard is, as you might have guessed, based on the Intel X48 Express and ICH9R chipsets. It’s core logic offers up 32 lanes of PCI Express 2.0 bandwidth which makes this platform great for running a pair of Crossfire’d ATI videocards at full tilt.”