PACKAGE AND MEMORY OVERVIEW G.Skill has packaged the F3-14900CL9D-8GBXL in a standard plastic clam shell with cardboard insert which is a far cry from the dreaded blister pack. Clam shell cases are typically the norm and while some can be too loose to hold the stick in place, there was no such issue here. Everything came securely in place, and …
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G.SKILL RipjawsX Kit Review – Testing Methodology and Overclocking
TESTING METHODOLOGY AND OVERCLOCKING I decided to use only two clock-speeds to test the modules, as the stock speed is already at a relatively high 1866MHz: In order to present an unbiased review, I decided to test the G.SKILL RipjawsX Series kit on both an AMD and Intel platform. The memory benchmarks and overclocking results are recorded from both architectures, …
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The P67 chipset continues to be very present on the market; it shows by the fact that we looked at the Maximus IV Extreme from ASUS just the other week, and if you head on over to Newegg, there’s a load of P67 based motherboards not only listed, but also in stock. Today we’re looking at another P67 based board …
Read More »OCZ RevoDrive 3 x2 480 GB PCIe SSD Review – Physical Characteristics And VCA Technology
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS The Revo 3 x2 consists of two printed circuit boards, known as the mother and daughter board, each containing two SF-2281 processors and 16 modules of Micron 25nm 29F64G08CBAAA asynchronous NAND on each side of both boards for a total of 64 NAND pieces. Each module is 8GB storage for a grand total of 512GB RAW capacity to …
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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 …
Read More »Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3: Z68 Done Right
BIOS and Overclocking Of the two things that worried me about the Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3, the main one was the BIOS. As manufacturers such as MSI, ASUS, and ASROCK have started promoting their UEFI-only BIOS, I wondered if Gigabyte had done the same, and if they had done it right. As we can see, Gigabyte has done a terrific job with their UEFI …
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