Intel DG45FC @ ASE Labs
“When people think about ITX, there are a few stigmas that come to mind. The first is that there is limited choice. The second is that performance is lacking. While these two points may have been true in the past, no longer is ITX relegated to the specific niche crowd. Intel has been releasing ITX boards for a long time and their latest releases have come a long way.”
Intel X25-M SATA 80GB MLC SSD @ Benchmark Reviews
“In early September, 2008 Intel released their mainstream series of solid state drives. In its initial offfering Intel brought two drives to market, the X18-M and the X25-M built respectively on the 1.8″ and 2.5″ form factors. The initial capacity of these drives was 80 GB and recently a 160 GB version was released. Solid State Drives are rapidly changing the computing landscape, and many enthusiasts are using SSD technology in their primary systems to help boost performance.”
HIS Ice4 TurboX Radeon HD4850 @ TweakNews
“As with all HIS videocards I have reviewed in the past, this product pulls through and does exactly what HIS intended it to do. HIS intended to bring a videocard that is overclocked right out of the box while providing a very stable gaming experience thanks to their attractive and very efficient cooler. To say the least, they did accomplish their goal.”
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 285 @ TweakTown
“While we would all no doubt love to own the latest top of the line dual GPU bad boy, for many it’s simply not a purchase that can be swallowed by their partner, bank account or even themselves. The GTX 285, on the other hand, should offer excellent performance while not hitting the bank account as hard. The key words there, though, is “as hard”, because don’t think for a second that the GTX 285 is going to be cheap.”
Gigabyte GA-EP45-DQ6 @ PCStats
“In addition to the P45 chipset’s inherent PCI Express 2.0 and dual videocard Crossfire support, Gigabyte’s EP45-DQ6 motherboard boasts no less than four gigabit network ports, ten SATA channels, three IEEE1394 Firewire and twelve USB2.0 ports! Follow along as PCSTATS reviews the performance, overclocking and ‘Dynamic Energy Saver Advanced’ power saving features of Gigabyte’s GA-EP45-DQ6 motherboard, an enthusiast platform that packs in every feature you can think of.”
XFX nForce 750i SLI @ Motherboards.org
“XFX has a very interesting product with the nForce 750i SLI board. It overclocks very well with the 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo hitting over 3.2GHz on air cooling. That is a pretty impressive feat considering how generally un-overclocker friendly the CPU is. The ability to use two NVIDIA graphics based cards in SLI is another plus that is not available on the Intel LGA-775 platform except for those users having a SLI-capable motherboard like this one.”
Jetway X-BLUE P43 @ PC Shop talk
“On the right part of the motherboard we see one of the 3-pin fan connectors along with a power LED and speaker connector; we also have here a front panel connector marked JW_FP. It is very nice to have the POWER and RESET buttons on the board, when testing it before putting it into a case. The Floppy connector is still here, but the IDE connector is gone, so we have no JMICRON controller present.”
ECS A780GM-A @ PCStats
“The ECS A780GM-A motherboard is an affordable media center platform based on the mainstream AMD 780G chipset. This spunky little integrated graphics chipset is ideal for home theatre PC/media applications, or budget-friendly workstation PC’s because of its built in Radeon HD 3200-class videocard. The AMD 780G brings several new technologies to the table when paired with AMD’s Phenom AM2+ processors, without abandoning support for socket AM2 Athlon64/X2/FX CPUs.”
DFI LanParty DK 790GX-M2RS @ MadShrimps
“DFI has taken the latest AMD 790GX chipset and loaded it on a flashy motherboard fitted with custom cooling and fully fleshed out BIOS which allows you to tweak almost every aspect of the AM2+ platform. Let us find out if the engineers at DFI were able to extract more performance from the 790GX chipset compared to the competition.”
Gigabyte EX58-Extreme @ Motherboards.org
“The EX58-Extreme motherboard overclocked to nearly 4GHz, the second highest we’ve seen from an X58 motherboard so far. Gigabyte’s board is worthy of a Hot Product award with only the fact that it didn’t overclock as high as the fastest board we have tested keeps it from getting the Editor’s Choice award.”