Gigabyte P55A-UD7 @ TweakTown
“GIGABYTE also provides an advanced cooling system for this line of boards. To be honest, the list of features is impressive when looked at on paper. But how does all this work when you drop one of these into a case and turn the power on? That is what we aim to find out.”
Gigabyte 890FXA-UD5 @ PureOC
“The Gigabyte 890FXA-UD5 is a stylish board looks to build upon the success of Gigabyte’s recent product offerings. Bringing strong performance in a solid and no-fuss product, the UD5 brings enthusiast-class quality and features to those looking to push their system to the limit. We put it on dry ice with a Phenom II X6 1090T for some extreme overclocking results.”
MSI Big Bang XPower @ TweakTown
“Their boards were quite simply ahead of the game. When the Gold Finger devices came out, again MSI was at the front of the others in support for advanced cooling and a few other features. But, after that MSI sort of went into hiding. Their products dropped in quality and even in prevalence on the market.”
ASUS Crosshair IV Formula @ Extreme OC
“With the release of the 890FX chipset, ASUS steps up to the plate with their latest top of the line AMD motherboard, the Crosshair IV Formula. Most of the new features for the 8-Series chipset can be found in the SB850 southbridge, the most notable being native support for SATA 6Gb/s.”
MSI 890FXA-GD70 @ Neoseeker
“Although the 890GX has got an IGP upgrade, the 890FX has much less new. The only new part in there is the Input/Output Memory Management Unit (IOMMU). Its purpose is to allow system devices to access virtual memory adressing. Virtual memory adresses are those which processes work with; they are not the real memory adresses. It is the memory controller’s duty to convert virtual adresses to physical ones.”
Gigabyte 890FXA-UD7 @ LegionHardware
“This has been the case with the Gigabyte 890FXA-UD7, which is by far their most extreme AMD motherboard yet. All the stops have been ripped out for this motherboard, and with an asking price of $240 US, it is actually more expensive than the vast majority of AMD’s desktop processors, which can be had for less than $200 US.”
AMD Athlon II 610e X4 @ TechwareLabs
“During the eras of the G5 processors and the P4’s the goal of innovations has been mainly enhancements and improvements in speed and performance of the processors regardless of the cost. Since the dawn of the Core 2’s, however, the goals have been ever so slowly shifting towards savings and efficiency rather than performance in the processor world.”
Intel 6-Series Chipsets on Display @ Computex @ PCStats
“Intel showcased about a half dozen upcoming H67 and P67 motherboards from ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte, Foxconn and several other mainboard manufacturers. PCSTATS has the first shots of the upcoming 6-series motherboards for you! Unfortunately there’s not a whole lot we can tell you about the Intel H67 and P67 chipsets except this…”
ASUS Rampage III Extreme @ PureOC
“There is a wide range of X58 motherboards on the market, but few cater to the diehard enthusiast, particularly the extreme overclocking crowd. And of those that do, only a select few products offer the new SATA III and USB 3.0 features. One of the boards that meets these criteria is the ASUS Rampage III Extreme, designed for serious overclocking and made to be pushed very hard.”
ZOTAC NM10-DTX WiFi @ TweakTown
“What many want to know is, how will these perform when under real world conditions? We took ZOTAC’s Mini-DTX NM10-DTX WiFi motherboard, complete with Atom D510 and put it to the test. At $129.99 on Newegg.com, the board offers you an almost complete system ready to be dropped in. Without further preamble, we will now take a close look at the ZOTAC NM-10-DTX WiFi and the Atom D510.”