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[Blog] EVGA X58 3X SLI 1 Comment By Lu523 on March 4, 2010 I was very happy with the X58 SLI LE. I wanted to build another cruncher so I decided to pick up the 3X SLI for the extra cooling that comes with it. Anyway let’s take a look at it. It has the same black and grey color scheme as the LE. It came with a few more acc. than the LE. No big deal as I did not even open them. The layout seems good. Like most new mobos it has onboard power and reset buttons. The reset button doubles as a hdd activity led. The rear cmos clear can be real handy for t...
The TechREACTION.net & EVGA “Show Us Some Love” Twitter Giveaway! 13 Comments By EnJoY on March 2, 2010 The TechREACTION team and EVGA got together the other day and tried to come up with an easy way to giveaway an EVGA P55 Classified 200 motherboard. We needed something simple and straightforward that allowed us to promote our website and EVGA, while making it easy for people to win. So we came up with the “Show Us Some Love” idea. Here’s how it works… The winner will be selected at random and the giveaway will run until Monday, March 15th. To win, all you have to do is fo...
EVGA P55 Classified 200 Review 2 Comments By Jake on February 24, 2010 Introduction: Today we will be taking a look at the EVGA P55 Classified 200 the brother to their X58 Classified and X58 4-Way Classified motherboards. This board follows in the footsteps with the same color scheme as well as the same EATX form factor. The EVGA Team along with Peter “Shamino” Tan packed this board with all the features and overclocking options even the most hard core overclocker or enthusiast would want. Packing: Let’s take a look at the board and what it comes with. ...
G.Skill F3-12800CL7T-6GBPI Memory 1 Comment By Buckeye on February 18, 2010 I had a chance to run a kit of G.Skill F3-12800CL7T-6GBPI Memory, Tri-Channel kit for Intel Core I7 CPU’s, through some tests the past few days. Before I go into all the results I want to touch on the market for these kits. If you do a search on Newegg you come up with 36 listings which range in price from $145.99 to $283.99 with kits in 6-7-6-18 to 9-9-9-27 timings, and 1.5v to 1.65v. So as you can see, this range of memory has a pretty wide selection of kits for what ever you are loo...
Clarkdale 661 on phase test 0 Comments By 0Ro! on February 13, 2010 Few days ago arrived a new clocking toy. An Intel Core i5 661 CPU with Clarkdale cores. Haven´t tested it on air or water, I moved straight to single stage phase change cooling. Insulated the mobo with kneeded rubber, mounted the cooling and started to play. (more…)
My thoughts on the EVGA X58 SLI LE. 3 Comments By Lu523 on February 10, 2010 Let me start by saying that I have never done a hardware review. So I may ramble a bit. The box that it came in is on the plain side. Not many accessories are included. When I first held the board in my hands I was like “That is a sexy mobo.” The gray and black color scheme looks very good. The componet layout seems very good also. For the purpose that I bought it it seemed a perfect choice. In seeing that I am useing it as a cruncher it has everything that I need. The onboard hea...
ASUS Rampage II Gene: Part 1 2 Comments By The Duke on January 25, 2010 This is just a nice teaser of the Asus Rampage II Gene. From all the good things I have heard about this board I figured, what the hell, lets give it a shot! It showed up over the weekend and for now you all can make due with these pictures of the motherboard. Still waiting on a few other parts to get here, before we see this board in action. Without further ado, here are the pics: Thoughts so far: Overall the placement of everything on the motherboard seems to flow well. With this M-ATX desig...
EXCLUSIVE! New EVGA Classified Dual-Proc Board – 270-GT-W555! 18 Comments By EnJoY on January 7, 2010 I just came out of my meeting at the EVGA suite here in Las Vegas and I have some great pictures and new specs to report on this hot board! I was able to have some one on one time with EVGA’s Jacob Freeman and Peter Tan (aka Shamino) and was able to see this new board hands-on (a world first). EVGA Classified Dual Processor Motherboard First of all, most of you are probably aware of the primary specs that have already been released for the board. These include three phase PWM for each ...
E8400 and Qx9650 Battle Windows 7, Windows XP, and Eachother : Who or What Will Reign Supreme? Part 2 2 Comments By The Duke on December 31, 2009 What will we cover in this installment of our adventure into figuring out all this ‘he said, she said’ mumbo jumbo? I will be exploring the STOCK e8400 and how it handles windows XP and windows 7. Do you lose a lot of performance by upgrading? We will find out later on. Is there a huge difference in anything the 2 operating systems do or is everything negligible? Hopefully we will find out later on. This segment could prove very informative for the average computer user who does no...
Apevia X-Qpack & Gigabyte P55M-UD4 uATX build 0 Comments By Buckeye on December 26, 2009 Allways in the upgrade cycle it seems. A popular case that my friends like to use is the Apevia X-QPack uATX line and we have built many of these. So I will be working with this case and upgrading a prebuilt system that was completed months ago. Apevia makes three lines of the uATX series, the X-Qpack, X-Qpack2 and X-Qboii which is a uATX tower. You can see that they come in a wide range of colors too pick from. www.apevia.com/Products_Level3.asp?CID=1&CID2=2&CID3=0 www.apevia.com/Produc...
E8400 and Qx9650 Battle Windows 7, Windows XP, and Eachother : Who or What Will Reign Supreme? Part 1 3 Comments By The Duke on December 25, 2009 My goal with this multi allotment bloodbath of tests, benches, overclocks, and all out mayhem is to explore an assortment of questions and myths and all around shenanigans accompanied with all the above. Now you may be sitting there thinking, “Well Duke no one cares about old 775 socket CPUs and for sure don’t care about reviews they have seen on other sites.” For you I say people do care, my fan club cares, and I care. This review will cover many questions and one being is it ...
PCI POST Code Reader: Is it dead or can I revive it? 4 Comments By Archer on December 23, 2009 It really helps to know when it is time to give it up and with one of these little toys it is a little easier. A piece of hardware with a purpose from Budget Gadgets. The USB PCI PC Analyzer Diagnoses Card Tester seems to be just the thing to use before scrapping anything, or should I say save headaches before scrapping. I have tested this on many assumed dead boards and it worked well as it let me know I was correct and they were dead with a 00 code (int 19 error). You would think that I coul...
Intel E8400 Going for Super PI 1M World Record! … Maybe? 2 Comments By The Duke on December 21, 2009 Well boredom has set in so to keep me occupied and out of trouble I have decided to go for Super PI world record with only a water cooling setup. Now you may say ‘Duke you are crazy it is only water cooled while the big boys are using LN2 and Cascades which makes you extremely outmatched.’ To you is say, buy me that stuff and you will see what I can do with the best. Plus, I will give you a shout out in my blog and be glad to link your site/blog/forum posts or hell, I will even link ...
Piecemeal Upgrades Pt 4 Data Protection 0 Comments By Neuromancer on December 21, 2009 The Piecemeal Upgrade pt4 Data Protection: Redundancy, backups, offline and online storage. With limited funds in a single PC household it is important to have a PC that is never down for too long. One of the key problems associated with piecemeal upgrades however is the need to occasionally reinstall the operating system. This can be a nightmare trying to back up documents, photos, settings, applications as well as operating system tweaks one may prefer. Learning how to properly maintain y...

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