Raja and I have been working on a Holiday Guide the past couple of weeks and hopefully we will complete it this week. Our emphasis has been on finding components that offer a great bang for the buck even though they might not be the absolute best in their class. While we will offer our opinions on what is best in class, our focus has been on balanced performance,…
Our good friends over at GSkill passed along this press release about their 4GB DDR3 kits being used in the winning P55 system in the F1OC overclocking competition. We have had great success utilizing their Ripjaws and Perfect Storm kits in our P55 testing.
“G.Skill wins the F1OC
SuperPi 32M on Intel P55 contest.
Taipei,
Taiwan?2nd…
We had a significant amount of requests for Flight Simulator X results in our Core i5/i7 and P55 coverage. I was able to run some quick comparison results between the Bloomfield and Lynnfield platforms last night to answer most of the email and comments requests. However, I am still running the Phenom II and Core 2 Quad benches. I do not know if we will be…
Seagate is launching the industry’s first 6Gb/s7200rpm 2TB hard drive today. The 2TB Barracuda XT contains a four platter design sporting 500GB each and rotating at 7,200 RPM. Seagate is including a new 64MB cache scheme, five-year warranty, maximum sustained transfer rate of ~140MB/s, and an estimated street price of $299. The drives should be…
This has been an interesting week to say the least for those of us stuck in the labs and not at AMD’s DX11 GPU press briefings. Based on feedback from the Lynnfield launch article we have spent the last couple of days running additional benchmarks to address overclocking and clock for clock requests. Yes, we do listen and respond to the comments no matter how…
It Slices, It Dices. But Wait, There’s More!
Actually, there is not more. A couple of years ago rumors were floating
around that Intel’s first Platform Controller Hub (PCH) would contain the
latest in features like 6Gb/s SATA ports, USB 3.0, and full PCI Express 2.0
capabilities all at a price that even McDonald’s would…
Western Digital is launching two new 2TB hard drives today. Unlike their 2TB Caviar Green, the
latest Caviar Black and RE series drives have their platters rotating at 7,200 RPM. Each drive contains four platters sporting
500GB each along with a new 64MB cache scheme, dual processors, and five-year
warranties. The drives retain the…
We will finish up our P55 previews this weekend (or later) with a couple of new boards from ASUS and Biostar. In the meantime, I just wanted to comment on the Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2. I have over a dozen P55 boards in the labs with several more arriving shortly. Already, two motherboards have risen to the top in regards to overclocking performance and a couple of…
We have always been a big fan of Seasonic power supplies, especially their 300W to 430W units for HTPC duties. Seasonic recently introduced their new S12D series geared for the enthusiast market. They are available now at Newegg. The full press release is provided below.
“To offer computer users a more stable and efficient
solution to cope with…
We’re Back!!!
Just when we thought we had finished our P55 pictorial process, several
more motherboards showed up for the launch article. We decided to continue with the pictorial
process as the early September launch is quickly approaching and figured early
coverage now would assist you while wading through all of the P55…
