[Review]XFX nForce 790i Ultra
Introduction
First impression: lots of non-solid capacitors looks bad, sharp corners may hurt one’s hand… All these just not suit 79i Ultra as a top board of NVIDIA
Gigabyte now going to war with ASUS…
You may seen the Quad NIC solution by Gigabyte P45-DQ6, and ASUS now also unveils their P5Q Premium: another mobo with Quad NIC. And now Gigabyte said that is their first idea, and seems angry with these..
What’s more, Gigabyte also pointing out ASUS EPU is fake, not only changing numbers without change its hardware, but its EPU control software is actually only “down clock”. Let pics speak for themselves.
Intel: upgrade GPU have no benefit to users
NVIDIA seems very unhappy with Intel, not only showed us upgrading CPU is useless and even hinted Intel’s upcoming graphic solution Larrabee will be a vaporware:
“Larabee is a PowerPoint slide,I haven’t met a product on my PowerPoint slide that I don’t like. You know, they’re floating Larrabee out there just to put a shadow over us, cast a cloud over us. They’ve already slipped it two years from the time they talked about. They would love to slip it another four years and leave a cloud over me.” (NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, CNET interview)
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Several Intel CPU will be EOL soon
We got infos from our sources that several CPU will become EOLed in few months, because new products have been launched, and they are no longer meet the needs of Intel’s strategic. These CPU not only Pamtium and Core 2 Duo, but also includes two Core 2 Extreme processors.
EDIT:
PDN: Production Discontinue Notice
EOL: End Of Lifecycle
Intel P35 will be EOLed in Dec
Intel’s new main stream chipset P45 will be officially announce in ComputeX this year. And the mobo will also come out soon. But the launch of P45 means P35 will finally facing EOL.
From Info we gathered, we know though P35 and P45 do not have much differences, but after P45’s launch, P35 will still last long enough to Nov.08. It will going EOLed at the end of this year. it is a little later than expected.
Intel’s first Nehalem mobo is X58
As we known, Intel’s next gen processor will be Nehalem, and desktop Nehalem will be Bloomfield. It is a 45nm process technology 4 core CPU, integrated with memory controller, SMT (Simultaneous Multi-threading) up to 8 processing threads, and w/ 8M cache. It has been revealed in IDF 08, but at that time no the supporting mobo is still being kept in secret.
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Galaxy unveils 9600GSO Black Edition
Galaxy told us that they are going to roll out a new product line, called Black Edition. Similar to AMD, Galaxy black edition means more OCbility and bigger graphic memory. The first product of Black Edition is this 9600GSO BE. Click over to read more.
Heatpipe+water block, P45 Diamond first look
MSI have already post one P45 with loads of heatpipe, but this time they are going further, prepared a water block on the chipset. The design reminds us lots of ASUS boards. All these pics are from HKEPC.
Different from ASUS, MSI using flashion acrylic as part of the water block.
Review: NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT,first budget card in GeForce 9 series
GeForce 8600GTS/GT have been launched for more than a year, but till now NVIDIA did not push any new product to replace it. All NVIDIA doing is keep replacing product in the high end segment: 8800GT, 8800GTS 512MB, 8800GS, 9600GT, 9800GX2 and 9800GTX. All these cards are 140USD above, and What NVIDIA going to do is going a new GeForce 9 product to replace the 8600GT/8600GTS. That’s our today’s review card: GeForce 9500GT.
Before we post this review, other site have already make some news out of the card: (all in Chinese)
Because of some obvious reasons, we can not post any pics of GeForce 9500GT(except the core shot and cooler shot).
We must point out, PConline in their 9500GT review totally copied HD video playback part of our G98-8400GS review word by word, (of course they copy our Chinese versions so you probably can not read it) which totally mis-info their readers, because HD playback of 9500GT is not the same with G98-8400GS. now please click over to read our whole review.
Intel P45 mobo Going wild
Though Intel’s P45 chipset still have a whole month to wait for the official product launch, several companies’ P45 have already got previewed. Click over for preview for there mobo previews.
Intel P45 coming soon… ASUS mid range P45 mobo first look
Matbe reported that they have spotted two ASUS mobo. The frist one is a mid range P45, called P5Q-E and the other is a entry level P5Q Pro. P45 chipset supports 1600MHz FSB and DDR3, but these two boards only support DDR2 memory.
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First Look: Galaxy MagicBox, a multifunction panel
Today we have a hands on with this unreleased product of Galaxy, the MagicBox. At first sight we thought it is only a ordinary panel with card reader and RPM control slap together. But after some demonstrations from Galaxy dev we find out it is quite useful.
With all the features you can see in front of the panel like card reader, RPM control, USB, eSATA expansion and CMOS clear button. Thanks to a single chip micyoco built in the panel (they call it MPU, MagicBox Processing Unit), with it linked to a Galgxy mobo, it turn out to be a standard mobo debug card, or CPU turbo and automatic fan control.
GeForce 8300 HD video playback ability is decent, but not perfect
In a previous post some day ago we have reported “the high utilization bar of MPEG2 decoding still shows us this GeForce 8200 is not a 100% decoding solution. We hope it is only a ES issue, they can fix the problem when it finally hits the market.”
And this time we managed to run the same HD video test on GeForce 8300, (or you can call it MCP78U). GeForce 8300 is a upgrade version of GeForce 8200, have a higher Shader clock(up to 1500MHz), and better GeForce Boost performance.
The mobo we ran is another ES, so the final number may differ from retail version. We find out the GeForce 8300 have some improvements of HD video playback, read the pic for details.
Phenom X3 8750 reviewed
Right after AMD officially release the Phenom X3, Korean website BrainBox have posted an review of Phenom X3 8750. Pervious reports from TGDaily said that Phenom X3 is expensive, even few bucks more than a Phenom X4 9750. But in the review (in Korean) X3 8750 performs quite well. Google translation is not good, but you can still reads the numbers from here.
Other reviews:
PCWatch (in Japanese)
