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 [...]
Read more →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, [...]
Read more →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 [...]
Read more →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 [...]
Read more →Hello again! Sorry about few days delay here, but what you can do about it. Nothing really… So i bough used PSU & Cellshock Black Edition C7-12800 4x1gb sticks. Okay, well first ill introduce my pc: Phenom II x2 550BE , True Black, Radeon HD3850 512mb, Asus M4A78T-E. Let’s start with PSU, bought it for [...]
Read more →There seems to be some misunderstanding about what Hyper-Transport (HT-AMD), Quick Path Interconnect (QPI-Intel) and Front Side Bus (FSB-Intel and pre-A64 AMD) really are and their differences. First we need to clear the air: Socket 775 is dying (FSB is DEAD)! The FSB can no longer adequately support the information flow. In the diagram below [...]
Read more →With the P55 Core I5 mother boards that seem to be very popular these days Gigabyte has released its first uATX version of this platform, this motherboard takes off of the same lines as the P55-UD4P which is a very solid platform and I expect the uATX version will be also. So here is a [...]
Read more →Received this board a few days back but only had time to test it yesterday. msi 785GM-E65 …o0oh…140W cpu ready… hehe… This micro ATX board uses an AMD 785G w/SB710 chipset. I remembered SB710s support ACC by default. Feeling hopeful… The last AM3 board I had was the 790FX-GD70, and a stellar one by far. Hope this little one [...]
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