Motherboards & Chipsets

[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...
TechREACTION March Blogger Giveaway! 0 Comments By EnJoY on March 2, 2010 March is a big month! In addition to our Twitter giveaway, we also have our monthly Blogger giveaway! Again, EVGA has been kind enough to sponsor a prize for our Bloggers for March. The rules are the same as always, and you can only win by being a registered Blogger. The prize will be an EVGA P55 132-LF-E655-KR. Get all of the detail in the forums. Happy blogging!
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...
Review: Thermalright HR-05 IFX 1 Comment By The Duke on March 1, 2010 Our friends over at Thermalright shipped us a very appealing chipset heatsink. The HR-05 IFX is one of four in the series of chipset heatsinks Thermalright offers, at the moment. With all of the accomplishments of Thermalright’s CPU heatsinks, it is very easy to overlook the rest of their solid catalog. Today we get to find out if the HR-05 IFX will live up to the great reputation of top quality products that Thermalright produces. Introduction: Features: Wild Fire design with incre...
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...
Overclocking The MSI 785GM-E65 Integrated ATI HD4200 GPU 0 Comments By The Duke on February 14, 2010 Now that you have read my first blog (*cough* HERE *cough*) about the HD4200 IGP (Integrated Graphics Processor). We will be moving on to overclocking the HD4200 in this article and seeing what all it has! Hopefully, this is satisfy all the advanced users curiosities, if you have any, about this IGP. This was a new experience for me, because I am an avid gamer and have always had a stand alone GPU. IGP is not in my vocabulary when it comes to building gaming systems. Needless to say, I was pre...
MSI 785GM-E65 Integrated ATI HD4200 GPU 8 Comments By The Duke on February 12, 2010 With my I7 system sitting around and only needing a video card, I decided to take it out of my AMD rig and use the IGP (Integrated Graphics Processor) the board offers. If you all are like me, it has probably been at least 10 years since you even thought about integrated graphics. With the new games that are available in today’s market these IGP’s, however much improved, will still be slaughtered. The real question however, is just how bad will these games eat up this ATI Radeon HD...
USB3 and Gigabyte GA-790FXTA-UD5 – Get Ready for Speed ! 0 Comments By Buckeye on February 4, 2010 Many new motherboards these days are coming out with new features that are very exciting and change the way we will be using our computers for everyday use, including gaming, video camera use and mass storage. New features are being added to new motherboards that will make these tasks mush easier and faster for us, these include USB3 and SATA3. Gigabyte has taken its great performing GA-790FXT-UD5P for the AMD platform and added USB3 & SATA3 ports in the GA-790FXTA-UD5 line. Even though...
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...
CES 2010: Asus & MSI Motherboards, Eee Keyboard! 1 Comment By EnJoY on January 8, 2010 MSI and Asus were both kind enough to give us some time yesterday. First, we headed to the MSI suite at the Wynn hotel. MSI had many of their products on display, but the real meat was the demonstration of the new P55 Big Bang Fuzion board based off of the Lucid Hydra chip. Big Bang Fuzion The Big Bang Fuzion and Trinergy are essentially identical boards with the only difference being their choice of logic. Both are P55 boards with top of the line PWM and capacitors, however the Trinerg...
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 ...
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...
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...

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