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ASUS Rampage III Black Edition X58 Motherboard Review
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 : "The Rampage III Black Edition comes in muted red and mostly black colored layout but keeps the aggressive ROG styling. The Rampage III Black Edition is ripe with overclocking features and exclusive gaming technologies, including the ASUS Thunderbolt LAN/Audio card combo, Extreme Engine DIGI+, BCLK Enhance, QPI/PCIe Tuning, GPU DIMM Post, etc. For users with multiple graphic cards, the Rampage III Black Edition also supports 3-way SLI or CrossFireX and is ready for 4 single PCB 2-slot graphic cards (requires ASUS Xpander NF200 add-on daughterboard)."
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Sentey Arvina GS-6400B Full Tower Case Review
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"The Sentey Arvina is a feature packed full-tower gaming case. The Arvina full-tower case is part of Sentey’s Extreme Division line and comes in red, blue or black. The Sentey Arvina supports the latest dual-GPU video cards and the largest aftermarket heatsinks. To keep system components in optimal thermal condition, the Sentey Arvina comes out of the box with six fans pre-installed, which can be turned off through a fan controller at the top. Users can also connect an eSATA enclosure or a SATA HDD through an external extension on the top I/O module of the Sentey Arvina."
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AMD 990 Chipset / socket AM3b Preview - MSI 990FXA-GD65
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MSI released some snap shots today of its upcoming AMD990FX
chipset motherboard for the AMD socket AM3b processor. No technical
specifications for the MSI 990FXA-GD65 motherboard were released
however.
From the photo's alone, PCSTATS can see the board is
equipped with two PCI Express x16 videocard slots, (6) 6Gb/s SATA III
ports, a pair of USB 3.0 care of an NEC chipset and (4) PCI Express x1 slots.
The rest is a mystery.... I'd like to tell you that the board will run on DDR3
memory, but I can't. I'd like to tell you that MSI will bundling _______ in
with the board, but I can't. I'd like to tell you the MSI 990FXA-GD65
motherboard will run for just over $100, but I can't.
I've gotta ask, will you be buying an AMD
processor to go along with an AMD 990FX board when they finally emerge?
Start the discussion in the PCSTATS Forums... here.
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Contemporary Graphics Cards in Crysis 2
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Today we are going to take a look at one of the most highly anticipated ??? titles of 2011 - Crysis 2 First-Person Shooter video game. The predecessor is still the benchmark to beat even for the latest AMD Radeon HD 6990 and Nvidia GeForce GTX 590 dreadnoughts and the second part is expected to raise the performance bar even higher
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now defunct P67 chipset
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"Some of the high points included the redesigned PCB with the
new low-profile heatsinks and black color scheme. But, the low points
involved sub-par gaming benchmark scores and fair overclocking
results. We were also a bit disappointed with the lack of a full EFI
BIOS with mouse support.
Overall, after Intel's debacle with the P67 chipset is straightened
out, I think Intel's new CPUs and chipset have plenty of room to
mature and I hope Intel and Gigabyte can give overclockers a little
more to work with other than increasing the CPU multiplier and Vcore
on unlocked K-series processors."
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Exclusive - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 580 SO review
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Gigabyte peeked at the NVIDIA reference GeForce GTX 580, then took the GeForce GTX 580 GPU, and threw the rest away. They designed a new PCB loaded with features and overclock potential, slapped some really cool memory on the card and topped off that GPU with the all new WindForce 3X cooler.
The cooler design is Gigabytes first generation triple-fan solution. It features 3 quiet PWM fans, three copper heat pipes and a vapor chamber to strengthen the speed of heat dissipation, and the product is called the Super Overclock edition.
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GeForce GTX 560 Ti, the EVGA Superclocked Edition
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EVGA has supplied us with their take on the GeForce GTX 560 Ti, the EVGA Superclocked Edition. The EVGA SC edition is the second-lowest-clocked card of their factory overclocked cards. The first is the FPB edition, then the SC, followed by the SSC and the FTW editions. The EVGA GTX 560 Ti comes overclocked by about 75MHz on the core and 50MHz on the memory. Judging from previous overclocking results on past cards, this should still leave plenty of headroom to go higher. We will find out just how much higher in our overclocking portion of the review. Let’s get to testing EVGA’s entry into the extremely popular area of the GTX 560 Ti market and see how well they do, shall we?
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Asrock Vision 3D HTPC
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" The Asrock Vision 3D HTPC was designed to deliver cutting edge home theater technology in a compact form factor. The Asrock Vision 3D HTPC uses an Intel “Arrandale” mobile processor, paired with an NVIDIA GT 425M GPU, instead of the typical Intel Atom processor found in most pre-built HTPCs. The components of the Asrock Vision 3D HTPC are compactly housed inside a thick, heavy, anodized aluminum enclosure. A slot-loading Blu-ray or DVD drive can also be found inside, with a 2.5” 7200rpm HDD for storage and 4GB of DDR3 SO-DIMM memory, upgradeable to 8GB. The Asrock Vision 3D HTPC is not only capable of 3D media playback with 7.1 HD audio support over HDMI 1.4a, but users can also enjoy media encoding and even 3D Vision video gameplay."
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Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 Flex Edition 2GB DDR5 DX11 Video Card Review
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"Sapphire is back on the scene with the Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 FleX Edition. The Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 FleX comes with the onboard ability to use Eyefinity without the need of a DisplayPort monitor or Active DP adapter. The underlying 6950 is still the original stock model. This sports a 800MHz core clock and 1250MHz (5 Gb/s effective) memory speed. The HD 6950 has 2 DVI, 2 mini Display Port, and a single HDMI 1.4a slot. There is also advanced technology with the HD 6950, including dual graphics engines, 22 SIMD engines, and 88 texture units. Sapphire has also included TriXX utility support and their Vapor-X cooling solution."
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Sapphire Radeon HD6670
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"The final GPU core clock I was able to get to was 890MHz, which ends up being about an 11% increase. The memory overclocking was done using the exact same procedures. I was able to arrive at about an 18% increase, which was 1180MHz. To make all of these adjustments, I was using the Sapphire TriXX overclocking utility."
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Jou Jye BITWIN BW-B520JL 520W
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Jou Jye's new BITWIN Series is 80 PLUS certified and the models are specially designed for gaming and overclocking since they can work continuously at full load with ambient temperatures up to 40°C. A new and interesting feature is the multi-link connector which lets you install more than one PSU into the system and combine their power output.
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ECS Elitegroup H67H2-I LGA1155 Mini-ITX Sandy Bridge Motherboard Review
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Futurelooks checks out a little Sandy Bridge powered board with some bite ... ECS Elitegroup H67H2-I LGA1155 Mini-ITX Sandy Bridge Motherboard Review Mini PCs are extremely enticing if you?re looking for something that can do most of what a full sized computer can do. This includes surfing the web and most productivity apps. While some are capable of HD playback, some aren?t as efficient when it comes to providing speedy video encoding, transcoding, and running many large applications at once. That means high performance gaming may not be an option. However, with the right platform, your own processor, memory, and video card of choice it?s possible to have it all and then some! Let?s have a look at the ECS Elitegroup H67H2-I motherboard and you?ll see how this is possible!"
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Inno3D GTX 560 Ti iChiLL Edition vs PowerColor Radeon 6870 PCS++ Review
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"Today we have the PowerColor 6870 PCS++ which includes an enhanced PCB and cooler and overclocked specifications. What card should it go up against? Well that would be the latest Inno3D GTX 560 Ti with triple slot cooler and its own overclock. We will be putting both cards through a selection of real world gaming, media and GPU computing tasks to find out which consumers each suits."
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Tritton AX Pro True 5.1 Headset Review
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"under the Tritton brand Mad Catz have a number of headsets which are designed to excel at their various price points. At the top of the range is the AX Pro 5.1, a true 5.1 headset which has features such as optical in and compatibility with PS3 and XBOX 360 as well as PC. Today we run the AX Pro through a selection of tests to find out if it is as impressive in the headset market as the R.A.T. 9 was for mice."
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Sapphire Radeon HD 6670 and Radeon HD 6570 Graphics Cards Review
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"Today we have two of the new value orientated Radeons on our test bench, the Sapphire 6570 and 6670. These cards are more than just rebranded reference designs thanks to their Arctic Cooling coolers and redesigned PCB's so let's take a look at how they perform in some of the most popular games around, as well as GPU computing and media related tasks."
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ASUS Sabertooth P67 - B3 Revision Motherboard
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"Today we have another of ASUS' models on our test bench, the B3 revision Sabertooth P67 and will be putting it through a selection of synthetic and real world tests to establish how it compares to the competition."
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