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ASUS P5E3 Deluxe Wi-Fi-AP@n

Gordon Mah Ung — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:18:12 -0600

We’ll be the first to admit that we were unimpressed by DDR3 when we first tested it last year, but there’s finally a glimmer of hope.

What changed our minds? Asus’s spanking-fast P5E3 Deluxe WiFi-AP@n mobo, which uses the enthusiast-oriented X38 chipset. The X38’s main highlights are apparently useful DDR3 support and PCI Express 2.0 support. We say “apparently” in reference to DDR3 because we didn’t have a DDR2 version of the board for a direct comparison, but from our tests, the X38 with DDR3 is a winning combination. Also good to have but not a proven performance boost yet is PCI-E 2.0, which doubles the bandwidth of PCI-E 1.0 from 8GB/s to 16GB/s. But does PCI-E 2.0 matter?

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MSI P35 Platinum

Gordon Mah Ung — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:52:46 -0500

MSI’s new motherboard doesn’t have a mere heat pipe to wick heat from the chipset and voltage-regulator modules. It has a full-on loop de loop heat ride through the amusement park known as the P35 Platinum. Why include the crazy Circu-Pipe? We don’t really know, but it sure does look cool.

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No BS Podcast #8

Maximum PC Staff — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:04:29 -0500

This week on the podcast, we talk about Intel's next chipset, Google's privacy policy, and Vista Activation. Plus, Gordon's rant of the week and an update from the Lab!

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