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Closer Look, Specifications, and Benchmark Testing Platform Finally we get to the actual board itself. As usual, Gigabytes box art is extremely colourful, and the features are well presented: The back: The accessories include no less than four SATA cables, one flexible SLI bridge, an I/O shield, as well as the installation manual and software disk: Once the anti-static bag …

Specifications, Overview, and Features Here is a quick stat-sheet of the different chipsets and what they offer. As you can see, the Z68 chipset is identical to the P67 except only in two areas: Core elements and enhancements the Z68 chipset brings: To start off the review, I would first like to thank Gigabyte for providing the Z68X-UD3H-B3 for testing. …

  Company: Gigabyte Technology Product: GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 Price: ~$170 CAD Availability: Global Warranty Period: Three Years Introduction The much riled and awaited Sandy Bridge platform and Cougar Point chipset were released at the beginning of January, signalling the start of a dominant new era for Intel. Indeed, with AMDs upcoming Bulldozer lineup still in the process of rolling out, Intel theoretically …

One of the most active displays we saw at Computex was that belonging to G.Skill and you just might see the reason why below.  We had a job to do though and were there to take a look at their Phoenix II Pro SSD which should be released in the very near future. The Phoenix II Pro is another of …

The SSD Review had the opportunity to meet with Robert Pearce, Sr Technical Marketing Specialist of Corsair, this week at Computex Taipei and he had some rather unexpected SSD news to pass on. It appears that Corsair will be releasing an enthusiast line of SSDs known as the Force 3 GT line right on the heals of their new ‘Sandforce …

Brace yourself for this SSD release because we cannot simply give you the meat without the gravy on this one.  While at CES, we were lucky enough to spend time with Kingston behind the scenes and at their “WOW” event for release of their new product line to include the HyperX SSD. Set in the Bellevita Taipei, this release party …

Having announced the only USB3 Flash Drive SSD at Computex Taipei, SuperTalent was no stranger to innovation and trust us when we tell you that this flash drive is pure SSD through and through. Although we brought the news to you first at CES in January,  the RC8 was initially believed to contain 3Xnm NAND flash memory, however, the release …

One of our particular highlights of coming to Computex was the opportunity to finally meet some long time friends, the first being Charles Chou of Memoright.  Our relationship with Memoright goes back almost to day one of SSDs as we know them. As great as it was to finally meet Charles, we were very impressed with, not only their product …

One would always expect big moves by big companies but today we happened to stumble upon something just a bit unexpected. You may remember some time ago we did a SSD review on the MX-DS ‘Sandforce Driven’ SSD which was introduced by a fairly new company called Mach Xtreme. We met with Tomasz Swatowski, Marketing Manager of Mach Xtreme, this …

I guess if you wanted to catch everyone’s attention at a place like Computex Taipei, displaying any product pushing in excess of 1 million IOPS would do it now wouldn’t it? Our official Computex visit started off with a meeting with Alex Mei, CMO, and Jessica Lucan, Global Marketing Director of OCZ Technology, and have we got some toys to …

Thats right!!! We are on our way to beautiful Taipei, Taiwan in a few short hours for Computex so if it seems a bit lonely here, don’t fret. Actually, we have several great things planned including a ‘first up’ meeting with OCZ where we will publish a summary of their new releases right from their suiteI OCZs Revo x3 and …

Our review today is going to concentrate on OCZs latest release of the OCZ Agility 3 SATA 3 240GB SSD and do somewhat of a comparison between this and other drives to include OCZs own Vertex 3 and Vertex 3 IOPS. The question fresh on everyone’s mind right now is definitely that of why would OCZ market another SSD with …

  TEST BENCH AND PROTOCOL This is The SSD Review Test Bench and a quick click on the photo will bring it up full size for closer inspection.   Our main goal in testing is to ensure that all test results are as accurate as they can be and no anomalies slip through. We conduct all tests three times and, …

ATTO DISK BENCHMARK VER. 2.46 ATTO Disk Benchmark is perhaps one of the oldest benchmarks going and is definitely the main staple for manufacturer performance specifications.  For our testing, we use a set length of 256mb and test both the read and write performance of various transfer sizes ranging from 0.5 to 8192kb.  Manufacturers prefer this method of testing as …

HDTUNE PRO VER. 4.60 BENCHMARK HDTune is a great software program which covers all areas of our testing and does a great job of showing how capable this drive truly is. HDTUNE PRO VER. 4.60 FILE BENCHMARK HDTUNE PRO VER. 4.60 RANDOM TESTS HDTUNE PRO VER. 4.60 EXTRAS Getting away from the comparison to the Vertex 3, HDTune Pro does …