ReviewsXFX nForce 780i SLI
Posted 02/08/08 at 02:35:25 PM by Gordon Mah Ung
We knew something was up when Nvidia officials were light on details concerning its 780i chipset during a recent press briefing. Normally quite happy to toot its hardware horn, Nvidia practically skipped the PowerPoint slide on the chipset.
Why? Like Intel’s x48, the 780i isn’t really that new. In fact, those familiar with the 680i are well acquainted with the 780i, which is pretty much a 680i with an extra chip (interestingly named the Nforce 200) thrown in to add PCI-E 2.0 support and a full x16 tri-SLI mode.
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ReviewsASUS P5E3 Deluxe Wi-Fi-AP@n
Posted 11/30/07 at 06:18:12 PM by Gordon Mah Ung
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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ReviewsGigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6
Posted 09/19/07 at 06:03:17 PM by Gordon Mah Ung
Gigabyte cranks up the specsmanship for its GA-N680SLI-DQ6, which offers no fewer than 10 SATA ports and four Gigabit Ethernet ports. Yep. Four. What you’d ever need four Ethernet ports for, we don’t know.
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ReviewsMSI P6N SLI Platinum
Posted 07/10/07 at 01:30:01 PM by Gordon Mah Ung
Make no bones about it, the MSI P6N SLI Platinum is a budget Core 2 board that gets you SLI for a song and a dance. It features the cheapest chipset available with SLI: the Nforce 650i SLI.
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ReviewsMSI P965 Platinum
Posted 03/29/07 at 06:16:38 PM by Gordon Mah Ung
Among the great mysteries of the universe—the Pyramids, Easter Island, the final season of Seinfeld—you can also include MSI’s RAM color coding.
While the rest of the industry has settled on mounting two DIMMs in slots of the same color to enable dual-channel mode, MSI thumbs its nose at the convention.
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ReviewsAbit AW9D-MAX
Posted 03/29/07 at 05:07:07 PM by Gordon Mah Ung
When Abit hit the financial skids and outsourced its motherboard production, enthusiasts turned their mirrors around, broke out the whiskey, and prepared to mourn.
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ReviewsMSI K9N SLI Platinum
Posted 11/08/06 at 02:32:43 AM by Gordon Mah Ung
We loved MSI’s last nForce4 board so much that we gave it a Kick Ass award and even bumped the Asus A8N32-SLI board from our Best Of The Best list. Unfortunately, MSI was so late to the nForce4 SLI x16 party that the board debuted right on the cusp of the AM2 launch; thus its lifespan was brief, and product was impossible to find.
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ReviewsAsus P5W DH Deluxe
Posted 10/05/06 at 12:34:39 PM by Gordon Mah Ung
Oh, how the world turns. Last month you marched past the Intel 975X chipset motherboards holding your nose, but with the release of the Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme CPUs you’ve made a U-turn to give this chipset a second look.
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