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X58 is flavour of the week
A BOXING DAY weekend's weight of wibblage awaits, to wit:
Leo at Thrusting Reviews is testing the MSI X58 Platinum. It's a sort of budget X58 motherboard that does some nice overclocking.
HardOCP is also testing an X58 motherboard, the Gigabyte EX58 Extreme. It seems overclocking isn't HyperThreading-friendly.
With Quadfire+SLI-capable motherboards coming into sight, Guru of 3D is giving fans a look into their next-gen Core i7 test base... always worth a gander.
German-language Hardware Mag rounded up 7 high capacity HDDs (Googlenglish) for a spin. Samsung and Seagate get you the biggest bang-for-buck ratio.
VR-Zone is testing Samsung's S2 Portable 160GB USB HDD. Odd CPU utilization rate going on, but it seems otherwise very usable.
TweakTown gives the Thecus N4100PRO NAS server a going over. The unit sports 4 storage bays and is quite upgradable for a NAS.
CPU3D has an interesting review of an Asrock Frankenboard, errr, K10N780SLIX3-WiFi motherboard. This will enable very cheap Tri-SLI for your PC.
Puissance PC is doing a review on the Be Quiet! Dark Power Pro 450W (Googlenglish). Modular and silent, although a bit pricey.
Legit Reviews is looking at how Asrock's "instant-boot" feature works. It looks quite simple, and we should see other mobo makers adopt something like it in no time.
Optoma's GameTime GT7000 DLP projector is available at Thrusting Reviews. Native HD for £429 doesn't seem at all bad.
The Asus R50A is a new MID that bears the Atom curse. Not a Netbook, by definition, but a MID... with 1GB of RAM and Windows Vista Ultimate. UMPC Portal has it.
PC Masters is showing off the Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 Toxic (Googlenglish) which uses the company's vapour chamber cooling to provide some stock overclockability.
IT Reivews in the UK reviewed Benq's MP522ST, a smallish business projector capable of projecting at very short distances.
The Athlon X2 7750 is getting another showing at Inside HW. The Phenom-turned-Athlon squishes an X4 9950 when overclocked.
French site GPS and Co is testing the HTC Touch Pro (Googlenglish) - something that has all the trappings of an iPhone... only not.
Fudo has a first review of the GTX 260 Core 216 on a 55nm process. It's zippier (+100MHz) and risks challenging it's bigger brother the GTX 280.
Anandtech has written up a system buyer's guide for the under $1000 crowd. Lots of options for powerful computing at that range, you know.
Finally, we have Panasonic's Toughbook CF-W8, ruggedised - and ugly as sin - but hazard proof, on review at ITPro. Odd bits and pieces keep it from being a hot listed item. µ
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With Quadfire+SLI-capable motherboards coming into sight, Guru of 3D is giving fans a look into their next-gen Core i7 test base... always worth a gander.
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i dont find the new x58 reviews interesting till i see more of the lucid hydra chip.
X58 OWNS Circus Today & for next 6 Months. Anything Less is Loss.
Yet, On Horizon is 890 & heres bit of wibble:
Q2, AMD will unleash the real upgrade reason; RD890, paired with the new SB800 southbridge.
The RD890 will further build on the new and improved overclocking of AMDs processors and it is supposed to be an improvement over the RD790, which is still capable of bringing a Phenom II X4 945 higher then 6GHz. AMD will also bring Gigabyte Ethernet into the southbridge and support up to four graphics cards with 8x bandwidth each, or two cards with full 16x PCIe 2.0 bandwidth.
More USB and SATA ports, better and enhanced SATA support and speed, better power management, faster CPU-northbridge link, updated hardware monitor and many more things are to be expected when the RD890 chipset arrives in late Q2. So by then NT 6 beta should be able to tell US if any of OLD Equipment will run 7 & Ultimate should break Out of its' Long Hard Shell Completely,BOTH X58 & 890 for retail.Signed:PHYSICIAN THOMAS STEWART von DRASHEK M.D.
"UnLeash Those BAD Black Jaguars' upon Your Chesternautical Brains...."
With everything else getting cheaper on computers (4GB of DDR2 for $30) and 1TB drives for $100, I think it ridiculous for these motherboards to run $300. I would love to get one, but this is just way out of my price range.