Posted 11/05/2009 at 09:37:21pm

All in all looks like a decent board but I would prefer if they ditched the pci slots for pci-e and used onboard x-fi instead of VIA sound.

Posted 11/02/2009 at 11:12:27pm

you don't need this if you buy a ati 5xxx series video card as it supports the bd audio codecs.

Posted 09/24/2009 at 12:58:32pm

Transoptics here we come

Posted 07/10/2009 at 11:49:10am

I'm still excited but the tech is old!!!! I want clan and word of blake tech.  Even better would be Dark Age.

Posted 07/08/2009 at 08:00:45pm

There is a god... they should stick to the same format but make it more RPG style. Now if Lucasfarts would make a sucessor to xwing alliance all would be right in the world.  Bring on the WOBBIES, down with the jihad.

Posted 05/20/2009 at 10:04:49am

According to this article Ion will run the new chips:  http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13762&Itemid=35 

Posted 05/18/2009 at 09:29:29pm

This brought me back to the days your magazine was called Boot.  I remember my first card in here being a ati pci rage pro and I installed a isa tv tuner that connected to it with a ribbon cable on a pentium 133MHz without MMX.  Next card was a geforce 256 oem from Micron when they were still builing PCs.  Next card was a hercules geforce 2 gts.  Then I had a laptop with a geforce 440 go which is basically a geforce 4400MX.  Today I'm happy with my 2 ATI HD3870 in crossfire.

Posted 04/28/2009 at 11:43:15pm

here is Arstechnicas comparison.  http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2009/04/ars-technica-system-guide-april-2009-edition.ars .  I actually think the MaxPC build is more respectable but now you have a display to consider.

Posted 04/27/2009 at 11:07:19pm

I read this article a few days ago here http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13351&Itemid=1 .  In my opinion it is not true and has more to do with nvidia posturing against intel because of motherboard licencing.  showing one games fps comparing a nahalem to a wolfdale is apples and oranges.  The fact is does the game use sse 4.2 or take advantage of the memory bandwidth from tri-channel, or use the extra cores.  If not which it almost certainly doesn't... I'm not saying that Intel is correct in saying 80% improvement but nvidia isn't being completely honest either.

Posted 04/27/2009 at 04:07:59pm

This is a stupid demonstration of where a bottleneck lies using the GPU to show that it limited gains.  This only shows that under some circumstances you will see limited performance gain.  That doesn't mean that if a program whether a game or another application developed to leverage the i7 and SSE extensions wouldn't.