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Asus' P9X79 Deluxe Performance puts it at the top of our X79 List Featured
Posted on Thursday, 02 February 2012
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Sean Kalinich
One of the things that make Asus products so enticing is simply the number of add-in features that you get with almost every level of product. I am not sure if all of these features would ever be used by…
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Gigabyte's X79-UD5 drops in for a video shoot Featured
Posted on Thursday, 26 January 2012
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Sean Kalinich
Intel is in full swing with the X79 and their Sandy Bridge-E CPUs. We have watched as they have broken and re-broken records for performance and in some cases overclocking. Behind all of this we have the X79 chipset with…
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Asus' Maximus IV Extreme Performance Leaves Us Very Impressed Featured
Posted on Monday, 23 January 2012
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Sean Kalinich
Asus’ Maximus series has always been a great line for the user than demands top notch performance. We have tested them going all the way back to the original Maximus and each one has brought new performance features to the…
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Asus' P9X79 Deluxe stops by for a Photo Shoot Featured
Posted on Tuesday, 27 December 2011
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Sean Kalinich
As 2011 comes to a close the big name in desktop CPUs is Intel. AMD’s Bulldozer failed to impress the market and while it is not a terrible product it does not have what it takes to grab the CPU…
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Asus' Maximus IV Extreme; Designed for Performance Perfection Featured
Posted on Monday, 19 December 2011
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Sean Kalinich
So the X79 is out along with the fastest CPU family on the planet (consumer CPU that is). This means that all of the P67, H67, H61 and Z68 boards are history right? Well you would be wrong. There are…
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The Gigabyte G1.Assassin2 gets its shot at the Lab Featured
Posted on Monday, 12 December 2011
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Sean Kalinich
We have now had the G1.Assassin2 up on the test bench for a little over a week now and are ready to talk about our experience with it. The G1.Assassin2 is Gigabyte’s current top of the line x79 motherboard and…
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Gigabyte G1.Assassin2 Design and Feature Review Featured
Posted on Friday, 02 December 2011
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Sean Kalinich
Intel is enjoying some of the most successful quarters of their life. They have launched what is arguably the fastest desktop CPU that you can buy and have coupled it with a chipset that is clearly set to perform. We…
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Intel's New X79 Chipset and Motherboard poked and prodded Featured
Posted on Sunday, 13 November 2011
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Sean Kalinich
Normally when a new chipset hits the market we like to try and get a motherboard from one of the major companies for use in our reviews and initial testing. This goes for any new CPU regardless of if it…
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Asus' Rampage III Black Edition in the Lab Featured
Posted on Sunday, 11 September 2011
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Sean Kalinich
Quite a while ago we talked to you about the virtues of the Asus Rampage III Black. This board can best be described as The Flagship of the Flagship Rampage III line. It has everything, wireless, Bluetooth, Overclocking, Tri-SLI and…
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Gigabyte's 990FXA-UD5 performs for us in the Lab Featured
Posted on Saturday, 06 August 2011
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Sean Kalinich
We have taken our walk around of the Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5 and found we like the design and many of the features packed into the system. In the second half of our test we will be diving into what you can…
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MSI Z68A-GD80 B3 Performance Review Featured
Posted on Friday, 29 July 2011
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Sean Kalinich
Ok, we have taken a look at the MSI Z68A-GD80 B3 and its design, and features. We uncovered a few things that gave us some concern. Will the board be able to handle being loaded up with cards or other…
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Gigabyte's 990FXA-UD5 stops by for a photo shoot Featured
Posted on Thursday, 21 July 2011
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Sean Kalinich
AMD is a company that not too long ago was on top. They had done something that no one thought possible; they were able to outperform Intel clock for clock. But they had a problem; they had a winning CPU…
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Asus Crosshair IV Extreme Performance Review Featured
Posted on Sunday, 17 July 2011
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Sean Kalinich
Asus has a flare for design and for choosing the right parts to go on their products. Over the years of working with them I have often had them tell me “wait for our design” instead of tinkering with the…
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Asus' Crosshiar IV Extreme in the Lab for some testing Featured
Posted on Thursday, 14 July 2011
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Sean Kalinich
When you hear the term Crosshair several things come to mind. The first is probably the two lines that intersect inside the optics on a targeting scope (which were originally real hairs). The next could be the options in most…
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MSI Big Bang Marshal Performance Review Featured
Posted on Thursday, 07 July 2011
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Sean Kalinich
So we have taken a look into how well the MSI Big Bang marshal was put together and now we are ready to put this board through its paces. We will be taking a look at this product from as…
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MSI's Big Bang Marshal shows off for us Part I Featured
Posted on Monday, 04 July 2011
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Sean Kalinich
The term Big Bang is used by many scientists to describe the moment of creation. They say that before this event the universe was a chaotic mass of gasses and unformed matter. The gravity and heat combined to compress this…
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MSI's Z68A-GD80 Design and Feature Preview Featured
Posted on Sunday, 26 June 2011
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Sean Kalinich
At the request of some of our readers we are going to start splitting up the way we do our reviews. However, instead of the normal “unboxings” that we find out on the Internet we are going to break up…
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The X58A-OC from Gigabyte hits our Lab for some OC time Featured
Posted on Sunday, 19 June 2011
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Sean Kalinich
Overclocking is a big deal these days. I can remember when it was just a bunch of crazed guys with too much money and free time on their hands. We used to do things like solder new resistors onto CPUs…
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Gigabyte's 890FXA-UD7 gets run through the wringer Featured
Posted on Sunday, 15 August 2010
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Sean Kalinich
As you saw with our recent coverage of the Gigabyte Open Overclocking Competition (GOOC) North American Finals Gigabyte is pushing their way back into the fore front of the enthusiast scene. It was not that long ago when their mindset…
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Asus Rampage III Extreme Drops by the lab for some testing time
Posted on Monday, 12 July 2010
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Sean Kalinich
When you talk about gaming, overclocking and performance there are always a couple of names that pop up. One name that is sure to pop up in the conversation is the name of Asus. Asus has been making great products…
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