Asus’ ROG series are running very successfully over the years. Its not only aimed towards PC Gamers, but also towards hardware enthusiasts, a trend where some motherboard manufacturers are following this “trend” for sometime. After all, many enthusiasts are gamers have started giving more attention towards overclocking to get more performance from their existing system. [...]

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A motherboard, being the backbone of any desktop system, should be as good as other components you’re investing on. Its not limited to VRMs, Power Phase, Passive Cooling- but also cramming all the features in a particular form factor keeping the mainstream users in Mind. Asus M5A99FX Pro P 2.0 is a motherboard with 990FX+ [...]

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Gigabyte gave me a Z68AP-D3 board for evaluation and i5 2500k to pair it for testing the board. One of the boards with Z68 and an m-SATA connector and the rest of the Gigabyte’s usual goodies. If you’re looking out for an explanation about Z68 chipsets, Anand Shimpi has done a brilliant and well detailed [...]

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Asus India sent me one of their boards with AMD 870 So let’s see how she does!! Listen

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Better late than never, eh AMD? I’ve been waiting to get a hold of a media sample so that I can say this: Ladies and gentlemen, here comes the 18W E-Series APU, codenamed “Zacate”. Gigabyte sends me a board with AMD E-350 APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) with Hudson FCH (Fusion Controller Hub). New board with [...]

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AsSBs sends in a Crosshair 4 Extreme viz. armed with a Lucid Hybrid chip. Big board and big on features so let’s see how she runs! Chipset comparison, Specs, packaging and contents: The packaging comes with the explanation of the offerings on this board. Notice the Lucid logo in the corner.  The board comes with [...]

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The “Value for Money” hardware is seriously misunderstood and misquoted. The word “cheap” does not always mean “value for money”. When you say “cheap” or a “low cost hardware”, it means “its the cheapest out of the lot what you get in the market irrespective of the quality/feature drop”. But when you say “value for [...]

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We’ll be seeing a lot of new boards from different manufacturers with different form factors and features since AMD have introduced new northbridge and Southbridge. This board comes with HT 3.0 support and the new AMD 890GX/SB850 chipset with an on-board HD 4290 (RV620 core) 700MHz core clock that can run hybrid crossfire with ATi [...]

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With AMD and other motherboard manufacturers gearing up and replacing AMD 7xx chipset boards with the newer 8xx chipset board, the enthusiast crowd are going to see newer boards and newer features like cooling, bios and proprietary software/hardware features, overclocking potential alongwith the usual major/minor upgrades that come with the chipset. When you are a [...]

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Between the 7xx and 8xx series AMD chipsets , there are few differences. Hardware enthusiasts who are planning to build a crossfire setup will like to buy a board with at-least 2x x16 pcie slots and usb 3.0 with Sata 6GB/s if they can afford such a board. Since 790GX and 890GX boards come with [...]

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