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    Official ASUS P67/H67 BIOS Updates

    Updated - 03/03/2011 We have new official UEFI releases for the P8P67M and H67M boards today. You will not be able to roll back to an older UEFI after this update as it contains new firmware and B3 stepping compatibility. Additional UEFI releases for the balance of our P67/H67 product...
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    ASRock P43/P45 Contest

    Hi, ASRock has a Luck Draw contest that is running through July 21st with the opportunity to win a P45 or P43 motherboard. It is a fairly simple question and answer process and should only take a couple of minutes to answer. You can enter here - ASRock Lucky Draw :)
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    Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H Beta BIOS

    Beta F4D BIOS
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    abit IP35-E Beta BIOS 16

    Beta 16 - IP35-E Main changes compared to Beta 15 - E8400/E8500 support greatly improved. :)
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    Intel G35

    We received our first retail G35 board today but will not have a performance driver update until early next week. It appears the roll out schedule is going to be slow for this chipset with the majority of designs not reaching the market until December or January. The DX10 (as if it matters...
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    790FX - Phenom

    Just an update - We will have a short chipset introduction article up shortly on the 790FX and will then follow-up on Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday depending on testing results, with the performance numbers on the MSI and Gigabyte boards. Unfortunately, at the last minute this past week...
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    Motherboard Review Schedule

    Here we go... the first two are basically complete and going through edits now and hoping we can include HD-DVD images on the 690G, the others are in the final phases of document generation. :D 01-14 - AMD Gala - Almost there, had a million problems from HT 3.0 not clocking up well (hint, its...
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    Gigabyte X38-DQ6

    This is the BIOS we will use in our review... F5Huse at your own risk Gigabyte is busily addressing current problems and improving performance.
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    abit IP35-Pro

    B16 Beta, use at your own risk, however, this is a really good BIOS.
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    X38 Release Information - Part Two

    Hi, The NDA release for the third party X38 boards is now October 9th. It is not looking good for the consumer as only a couple boards from Gigabyte and Asus will be widely available (or are already available). It appears boards from the other manufacturers have been updated or are in the...
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    uATX Update

    Good Day... I was held up an extra day on my trip late last week to AMD. While I would love to discuss what we saw, NDA prevents it. All I can say is that November through February will be a "very interesting time" for new product releases from AMD, this includes chipsets, GPUs, and of...
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    X38 Release Delayed Again

    Hi, Just got word from Intel that the launch is being moved to October 11th to give the manufacturers time to stock the channels. G35 is being moved out again so our preview of that board with the G33 roundup next week is going to have to wait but we will have the NV MCP73 available.
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    X38 Release Information

    Hi, Intel had to respin the X38 due to compatibility issues with a few PCIe 2.0 cards and some other items of interest. The latest chipsets have been delivered to the manufacturers and most are in full production at this point. A few of the boards required component changes so those designs...
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    Biostar TP35D3-A7 BIOS Update

    A new treat from Biostar for the owners of the A7 board, this BIOS improves overclocking and memory performance. TP35D3-A7 817 BIOS
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    Gigabyte GA-MA790-DQ6 Intro

    Hi, The following images are from Gigabyte's product overview meeting today for their upcoming GA-MA790-DQ6 motherboard featuring the new AMD RD790 chipset and support for the AM2+ Phenom. Board Overview Board Specs Board Pic CrossFire Capabilities Board Engineering Board...
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    X38 Chipset

    Latest Information - 1. Final Silicon spin is completed, approved, and production level chips are shipping to Tier One launch partners now. This is a two week swing from the last update we had from the suppliers. 2. Drivers are almost complete, undergoing final quality control testing...
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    New Gigabyte BIOS releases for P35 Boards

    As a new service to our readership, we will start releasing Beta or Final release level BIOS spins as we receive them from the manufacturers. If the BIOS is beta, there will not be any technical support from the supplier so use at your own risk. P35DQ6F5G P35DS3PAT.F5D P35ds3rAT.f5b...
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    MSI P35 Platinum BIOS

    As a new service to our readership, we will start releasing Beta or Final release level BIOS spins as we receive them from the manufacturers. If the BIOS is beta, there will not be any technical support from the supplier so use at your own risk. Up today is the P03 Beta BIOS for the MSI P35...
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    uATX Results

    Hi, These are the results from testing for each category and are based on a combination of price, performance, options, and support. I would like to stress that we really did not have a bad board or one that would not be worthy of purchasing depending upon your needs or situation although...
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    Plextor PX-800A 18X DVD±R

    PLEXTOR ANNOUNCES WINDOWS VISTA-COMPATIBLE DVD BURNER Internal Drive Features 12X DVD-RAM Performance and Latest Roxio Software Bundle FREMONT, Calif. - April 3, 2007 - Plextor® LLC, a leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance digital media equipment, today announced the...
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    Catalyst 7.3 Drivers are Up...

    ATI Driver Page Vista Driver Release Notes
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    mATX Roundup

    Good Day Everyone, We are in the final phases of the mATX roundup. All testing has been done under Vista Ultimate 32-bit to date. The majority of benchmarks utilized in the 690G roundup are back along with a couple of new ones. We have also received the abit Fatal1ty F-I90HD (thanks to...
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    ASUS Striker Extreme Beta BIOS 1001

    1001 BIOS Beta Release only, greatly improves Vdroop issues. This should be released shortly.
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    BigFoot Networks new Killer K1 NIC

    Bigfoot Networks Introduces Affordable New Killer K1- Bigfoot Networks today introduced the Killer? K1, a new, more affordable version of its flagship gaming product, the KillerTM NIC. The Killer K1 is available for a limited time from selected e-tailers for a price as low as $149.99 after...
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    AMD 690G Review Samples and New Dates

    Our upcoming preview of the AMD 690G chipset that was scheduled for this Friday will not be available until 2/28/07. AMD has requested that we do not publish performance results until the general release of the chipset on 2/28/07 or we will be in violation of the board manufacturer's NDA. Our...
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    DFI LanParty UT ICFX3200

    This screenshot is of current settings with an E6600 at 7x511, Tuniq 120, CPU at 1.5V, OCZ Flex 2GB kit at 2.48V, ATI X1950CF, Seagate 7200.10 320GB x 2, audio enabled, Promise RAID enabled, in other words the system is loaded. ;) CPU-Z 7x511 The system just passed Orthos Stable at four...
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    New Gigabyte DS3 BIOS

    Care of your friends at Gigabyte - new features and such..... Will change the download link to our FTP later, the database is being worked on currently. Link
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    Retail Kit Pictures for the DFI RD600

    First Box Shot... more to come tonight.... but the eagle has landed. ;) RD600 Box Box Contents RD600 CPU Area RD600 Board - 56K Beware RD600 Side RD600 Front RD600 Ports
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    P965 Final Roundup

    The final High End article is basically complete. We had to test every board again due to the improvements in CrossFire performance from the 6.11 drivers. In fact, some game scores improved up to 11%. All boards have been retested and the scores in the final article will reflect the new...
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    Gigabyte Promotion

    Hi, We have not perfected a new system yet for Press Releases so I will start posting news items in the forums for the time being. The first one up tonight is from Gigabyte. Gigabyte Contest
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    New DS3 BIOS

    Please try this BIOS and let me know how it works. Still at Gigabyte trying to get it fixed. Link to F8i
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    OCZ GameXStream 850W

    We received the OCZ GameXStream 850W - OCZ-850W PIC - a few days ago. Even though it does not have native Quad PCI-E connectors we have not had any issues running the following configuration 24/7 yet. X6800 - overclocked to 3.93GHz Asus Striker Extreme 680i MB 2 x Video Cards - MSI GeForce...
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    NVIDIA nForce 680i

    Here is the first official picture. We are under NDA at this time so additional pictures or final specifications are not possible. However, we will have more coverage on this board late next week. This board is manufactured by eVGA. :) NVIDIA 680i p.s. Performance = :D Dual G80s on it...
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    First Pic of NVIDIA 680i Board

    Here is the first official picture. We are under NDA at this time so additional pictures or final specifications are not possible. However, we will have more coverage on this board late next week. The board is manufactured by eVGA. :) NVIDIA 680i p.s. Performance = :D
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    NVIDIA nForce 680i

    Here is the first official picture. We are under NDA at this time so additional pictures or final specifications are not possible. However, we will have more coverage on this board late next week. The board is manufactured by eVGA. :) NVIDIA 680i p.s. Performance = :D
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    P965 Motherboard Roundup

    Good Day. Our roundup will be published later next week, really, the article is already in the mail (part one) for the edits. ;) I sincerely apologize for the delays but there have been so many changes to the original group of boards that we extended it well beyond our original date and...
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    DFI RD600

    DFI RD600 Yes, it does exist. :)
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    NVIDIA 590SLI for INtel Edition NDA Lifted

    The NDA has been lifted on the NVIDIA 590SLI Intel Edition but production level boards will not be available for a couple of weeks, maybe more. We have review samples on the way and will post once we have results.
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    Retail E6300 Overclocking

    E6300 First Results E6300, Tighter Memory Timings Should have some additional results later on along with new board specs. :) p.s. - Using the new Scythe Infinity Cooler with a high speed 120mm fan on it.
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    E6400 Retail Overclocking

    Good Day, In our recently published E6300 & E6400 - Value through Overclocking article we had several comments/emails about our usage of the B1 Stepping 5 CPU press samples from Intel possibly being cherry picked and therefore skewing the results. Although Intel assured us we would not see...