Monthly Archives: May 2011

ASRock Z68 Extreme4 (Intel Z68) Motherboard Review

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Having already previewed three boards that use the Z68 chipset, we already have a good idea of what’s going on with the new chipset launched by Intel today. If you haven’t already looked at our previews, I’d recommend checking out the ASRock Z68 Pro3 and Extreme4 Preview along with the MSI Z68A-GD80 Preview to get a better idea of what …

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ASUS P8Z68V PRO Intel Motherboard @ Benchmark Reviews

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Intel’s Sandy Bridge CPUs and their accompanying Cougar Point chipsets brought a new level of price/performance to the enthusiast market. There was just one problem: you had to choose between a motherboard with the H67 chipset, which enabled the on-CPU graphics and Intel’s new Quick Sync transcoding engine, or a motherboard based on the P67 chipset, which enabled the amazing overclocking ability …

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ASUS P8Z68-V Pro Motherboard Review @Hi Tech Legion

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That package would be the ASUS P8Z68-V Pro Motherboard. The ASUS P8Z68-V Pro Motherboard takes the multimedia of the H67 and harmoniously combines it with the high performance and features of the P67. The CPU Turbo Ratio and BCLK were only overclockable on the P67 and the iGPU was only overclockable on the H67. This can all now be done …

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AMD Catalyst 11.5 Windows 7 Driver Analysis

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This came as a bit of a surprise! AMD decided to release the 11.5 driver set which followed the massive 11.4 in the first half of this month. Normally we see the Catalyst driver come out towards the end of the month; this is more so seen after such a massive release. It seems that AMD wanted to just improve …

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GIGABYTE Z68X UD4 Review @ Vortez

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So what do we get from GIGABYTE if the video outputs arent present? Well with the Z68 chipset we have the new Touch BIOS, SSD caching and we have been told “ better overclocking. So today we will be putting the Z68-UD4 on our test bench and putting it through its paces within synthetic and gaming benchmarks in order to reveal …

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Brink Review (Xbox 360) @ Kitguru gaming

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Brink is no ordinary, everyday shooter, the whole concept of this action game revolves around some rather dramatic and inventive ideas. The fluid, Mirrors Edge style parkour movement is combined with a unusual player objective mechanic. Full story at Kitguru.

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Interview with Gabriel Torres of HardwareSecrets @ Benchmark Rev

In this article, Benchmark Reviews interviews long-time hardware enthusiast and power supply guru Gabriel Torres, who is the founder Clube do Hardware and Hardware Secrets. Despite the demands of two popular technology websites, Gabriel has found time to write and publish twenty text books relating to computers and technology subjects. With over fifteen years of experience overclocking computer hardware and …

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