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[Review] ASUS P7P55D-E PRO – A Step Above (UPDATE 8/11) 6 Comments By Archer on August 9, 2010 Introduction: A motherboard is probably the single most important component to the enthusiast. For a person in the know, this is pretty obvious, but for a newer user this may come as new information. Many forums as well as review sites fail to reveal the big picture, and there are a plethora of components used in the assembly of today’s motherboards that frankly most people don’t even understand. This hodgepodge of devices can range from cheap, make-shift components to high quality,...
TechREACTION.net – Blog & Win – ASUS August Giveaway! 5 Comments By EnJoY on August 1, 2010 All registered Bloggers have the chance to win free hardware at least once a month forever! That’s right! FREE HARDWARE! Just for being a registered and active blogger of TechREACTION.net. How do I sign up? Simple, first register at this page to become a TR blogger. Once you receive your account information, half the job is done. Second, go to the TechREACTION forums and register there as well. You must be registered in both places to be eligible. Bloggers are given s...
The ‘He Said, She Said’ Shootout: GTX480 vs. HD5870 12 Comments By The Duke on July 18, 2010 After seeing plenty of topics in various tech forums regarding the decision between the GTX480 or the HD5870, we figured it was time to chime in on the debate. With support from ASUS allowing us to review these two cards, the ENGTX480 and EAH5870, we have all of the information we need for this stand alone head-to-head. We hope that after seeing the comparisons we can help put to rest some of the debates and provide a clear cut answer to “which is the best for my money?”. The Break...
[Review] ASUS EAH5870 V2 1GB 3 Comments By The Duke on July 9, 2010 With the much anticipated release of the Radeon HD 5 series a success on many levels, the ATI crowd has much to celebrate. The new 5 series cards put ATI back on top of the video card market. They can now boast of the new DX11 capability and the Eyefinity technology introduced with the higher-end 5 series cards. The 5870 is almost at the top of the pack for the new generation of cards, with the 5970 in the lead and the 5450 bringing up the rear. All in all, ATI has to be loving the massive succe...
[Blog] Asus 5870 + XFX 5850 CrossFireX Mismatch 1 Comment By wez on June 30, 2010 ATI 5870+5850 CrossFireX I’ve been playing around with two mismatched GPU’s in CrossFireX. Namely a reference model HD5870 from Asus and a custom PCB HD5850 from XFX. Perhaps not the most common setup, as most would much rather go for two identical cards. But if you happen to stumble upon the odd card, then why not give it a try, right? Hardware & Software Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P AMD Phenom II x6 1090T BE Kingston HyperX LoVo 1866 MHz 2×2Gb Asus ATI Radeon HD5870 1G...
ASUS GeForce ENGTX480 w/ Voltage Tweak! 2 Comments By The Duke on June 28, 2010 The great people at ASUS have just sent us Nvidia’s latest. The ASUS ENGTX 480 is what we have in our hands today! With so much hype prior to launch and a few uncertainties floating around at the time of release, we will soon be able to provide more insight into what this card is capable of. A lot of people have been claiming that the GTX 480 will burn a house down with it’s heat output. Well, hopefully not for our sake, and we will be testing temperatures to give you some solid numb...
[Guide] Converting your VHS collection to digital and a little more! 0 Comments By Archer on May 26, 2010 A lot of people have an old VHS collection gathering dust, or content that was purchased on their gaming device that must be kept on that device. What does it really take to get this content on to a DVD? Not much. Using a hardware video trans-coder, such as the ADS DVD-ExpressDX2 (does not work with Vista or later without software issues), a DVD+/-RW Drive and an external HDD for portability, converting a video collection as fast as you can play them (even direct to DivX) is pretty simple. So wh...
DDR3 @ 2022MHz…pfft. CAS 6? Wow… AMD!?! No way! 1 Comment By EnJoY on May 20, 2010 Chew* does it again! There I am, waiting for my eyes to bleed as I sit in my cubicle, and suddenly my old pal Chew* delivers this little gem. Apparently Brian has been very busy tweaking his Corsair GTX2’s on Asus’s new Crosshair IV Formula. While playing around with timings and ganged mode, Chew* was able to get his Corsair GTX2 2250MHz C8 sticks all the way to 2022MHz at CAS 6 with just 1.725v! Additional important specs include an AMD Phenom II X6 1090T, air cooling on every...
Asus M4A89TD PRO – Short Review and Benchmarks 2 Comments By mav2000 on May 19, 2010 Recently our friends at Asus sent across their new 890FX board, the M4A89TD Pro. With this board, the total number of boards that Asus plans to have with the 890FX chipset are around four. The range topper will be the Crosshair IV Extreme, which is still to be released, followed by the Crosshair IV Formula which we reviewed earlier, the M4A89TD Pro USB3.0 and finally this one. The last two boards have a great ancestor in the M4A790 series and I hope they will live up to the name. They have hardl...
Asus Crosshair IV Formula 890FX – Performance Review 13 Comments By mav2000 on April 27, 2010 Introduction Welcome to the performance review of the new 890FX chipset and more specifically, the Asus Crosshair IV Formula motherboard. We have already done an extensive pictorial preview of the board and today we are going to concentrate more on the performance of this board. We are going to compare the board to the MSI GD 70 790FX board. As many of you know, the MSI GD70 was one of the best 790FX based boards and was regularly considered amongst the big boys. The main focus of this review i...
[Preview] Unboxing of the Asus Crosshair IV Formula 890FX 5 Comments By mav2000 on April 22, 2010 Introduction Asus launched the first of the Republic of Gamers (ROG) series for the AMD platform way back in 2007, calling it the Asus Crosshair for the AM2 platform, which was based on the Nvidia nForce 590 chipset. The second in the series was the Asus Crosshair II Formula, which was based on the Nvidia 780a chipset. The third in the series is the Crosshair III Formula and this time Asus did the smart thing and ditched the Nvidia chipsets. They went ahead with the brand new 790FX chipset and m...
[Blog] ASUS MAXIMUS III EXTREME 3 Comments By giorgioprimo on March 30, 2010 Since I saw it at CEBIT 2010 in Hannover i felt in love and finally got the chance to test it The most attractive thing was the Bluetooth IRog module The I/O section and the bundle are pretty stuffed The power sections for CPU and RAM are fully enforced Firstable started some test on air-cooling to check the capability of Bclock and Ram frequency ( different sets of timing) let’s see how far is possible to push the RAM 230 bclock and 2300 RAM 3D benchable on air ̷...
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...
Jaw’s updated and joys of buying used stuff! 0 Comments By KeZzZu on December 16, 2009 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 4×1gb 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 52 euros, not bad deal because it was Thermaltake ToughPower 750 watt. Few notes thought, it missed few modular cables… not big deal for me. So i started to put back tog...
Asus Crosshair III – Review 12 Comments By mav2000 on September 17, 2009 INTRODUCTION Hello and welcome to the review of the ASUS CROSSHAIR III FORMULA motherboard. I was thinking about doing a new review for a while, and it struck me that a number of us have picked up new AM3 CPU’s over the last couple of months with the 550 BE being one of the favorites. Today, there is barely any competition for the 550 BE at that price point (especially when unlocked) and it is quickly becoming one of the best VFM processors that one can buy. Keeping this in mind, and look...

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