Tech Gadget Review

The GTX 280, on average, the fastest graphics card, you can now buy one, but also seriously hefty price tag, which most of us simply do not consider resorting to pay. This fact was driven home with all the subtlety of sledgehammer by ATI, a week or so later, when they released their own brand new card, in the form of HD 4870 and proved to be great, that performance does not cost the earth.

Is this the end, nVidia may have a hard time over the next few months, as the vast majority of people considered limited because of the additional 40 per cent pay only for the (average) 10 percent more performance. But this is not the end, because nVidia also just released a GTX 260, which uses the same chip GT200 GTX 280, but has a few bits of it off, so it is somewhat slower, but most importantly it costs less. So let’s see how it stacks.[Trustedreviews]

A few months ago, having undergone ASUS Striker Extreme II. Despite high prices We were very impressed by the 790i Ultra SLI chipset, since only crams in every feature, you can ask for, and then for some. Positive though he was with Striker II NSE, Asus has done with things and come with meaningful way to save a modest amount of money, but we did not lose too much in the way of features. It is unclear what takes the NSE (unless it is “not exStreme Edition”), but do not know that the difference between the Extreme and NSE are down to the chipset. The Extreme uses nForce 790i Ultra SLI chipset while the NSE uses the nForce 790i SLI. Missing Ultra hand, there is no difference across the heap in the most important functions, such as NSE comes with three graphics slots, which support the latest Core 2 processors, Penryn, Tri-SLI.

Earlier in the week, VIA announced the next version of its mini-ITX form factor - we were able to capture the picture of a reference board following the press conference. I will be fairly light on details here, as Gordon has done an excellent job of discussing the new form factor, but I must say that I am very pleased that VIA has achieved here.

Not only there full PCI-Express x16 slot, but there are also four SATA 3Gbps connectors IDE connector and two memory slots DDR2; Council also demands 24 - pin ATX connector, as well. Moreover, the rear I / O panel properly packed connectivity. He has one port VGA (HDMI port and do not necessarily add to maps), three 3.5 mm audio connectors for six-channel audio, Gigabit LAN, and at least four port USB 2,0.

Only when you begin to list the characteristics of this forum Do you realize how much work VIA made with mini-ITX form factor of 2.0 - previous councils suffer poor connectivity, complete lack of upgradability options and seemed much more crowded than this reference board at all.

This is not something that we in the enthusiast world really think about, but there is a market there for high-end computers, which will probably never make any game, be overclocked, water cooled, or any other useful functions, what to do with geeks their rigs. For example, a design engineer may desire CAD station, using several big screens … more than six or eight … high resolution. Any design animation like this rig. So what does someone wants to build a modern upper end graphics workstations do? Asus has the answer with P5K64 been working motherboard based on a very successful chipset Intel P35. Today, we look forward to P5K64 was to make sure it is anything that would hold the interest of enthusiasts. Can it meet the geek? Read ahead to see.

How many of you are no doubt aware, Intel plans to officially release new basic chipset in a few weeks, P45. In terms of functions, the new P45 somewhat similar to last year’s P35. P45, however, will have the official support for PCI Express 2,0, with a more flexible lane configuration with several GPU graphics and chipset itself is made on 65nm, as opposed to 90nm. Using a more complicated process to create a chip should lead to lower energy consumption and reduce operating temperatures, as well. P45 will also be paired with a new series ICH10 south, which is similar ICH9 without inherited several features.[via]

ASUS is a famous brand and quality in all its products. With the launch of NVIDIA 680i chipset ASUS presented enthusiastic Strike Extreme with the board with prices of around $ 400. The price is very unwise for the majority of consumers in this country. Because everyone knows, ASUS is not made of money they fired P5N-E SLI board, which uses cheaper chipset 650i. This is a very big option for consumers who want to support SLI on Core 2 Duo platform. So let’s take a look at this budget board from ASUS.

There are three models of the x38 chipset motherboard. Basic Asus Maximus Extreme Formula has all the usual features including dual x38 PCIe 2.0 graphics slots, support for the latest Penryn Core 2 processors and a comprehensive system that combines cooling on the chipset and power regulation hardware. This model supports DDR2 memory.

It seems that Intel was so concerned about the quad-core AMD phenom that is ready to release 1600MHz front side bus a few months earlier and which led to vocal demand for motherboards from reviewers in all four corners of the world. Strictly speaking, that the only chipset should support the QX9770 was soon to be released MSI X48 Platinum, but they were very thin on the ground. Inventive Taiwanese came up with BIOS updates for motherboards x38 and P35 to QX9770 runs and were very successful on the job.  So now we have a real MSI Platinum motherboard x48 on research and looks almost identical to the x38 Diamond. The only difference that caught our eye is the expansion bracket, which will lead to a single Firewire port in the x48 when the package has the support x38 One FireWire port and two USB ports.