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Thursday, September 27, 2007
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Asus Blitz Formula revealed itself as a great motherboard, showing all the capabilities of the Intel P35 chipset, mature and without bugs. We didn't recognize the problems with some dividers that someone talked about, maybe thanks to the up to date BIOS. Using this board we noticed cure in all particulars, great performances and good personalization, but also some imperfections in the layout and the low efficiency of the cooling system, if used passively.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007
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I?m not going to lie to you - I'm a complete and utter Blu-ray fan boy, "down with HD DVD!!"; so when word came that the ASUS BC-1205PT Blu-ray ROM samples were ready to be shipped out it pretty much had the two thumbs up approval from me. What we're going to look at today is if the BC-1205PT is not only able to replace that DVD ROM of yours but also be welcomed with open arms into your home.
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P35 using DDR3 has already shown us that it can be a big player, it's able to run the memory clocks at 2000MHz without any problems; and now Intel has built further on this by bringing an enthusiast version to the desktop market, the X38. We have already looked at the X38 in detail with our GIGABYTE X38-DQ6 board, however this board was only running DDR2 memory. Today we have been given our first DDR3 supporting X38 from ASUS, the P5E3. How does it fair compared to GIGABYTE's X38 and P35T? Let's have a look see.
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Our model under review is a light notebook equipped with a widescreen 12" display. Such machines are designed for use "on the go" and mostly have two requirements: small dimensions and low weight for ease of carrying it with you all the time. Still, our ASUS F9F has a built-in optical drive, which significantly expands its feature list.
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Friday, September 21, 2007
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Models based on VIA chipsets have always occupied a small but permanent place among ASUS system boards. Even at times when for some reason boards on VIA chipsets were scarce, those wishing to get one had a good chance of finding something suitable among ASUS series. In case of Socket AM2, though, there is no problem finding system boards based on VIA chipsets. And lowering the price is most likely out of the question in this case, because it is already moderate for a discrete chipset with good functionality.
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Thursday, September 20, 2007
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ASUS plays the role of manufacturer and enthusiast modder with their new Blitz Formula Special Edition motherboard, featuring a hybrid water-cooled Northbridge and proper CrossFire support on an Intel P35 chipset. Throw in great overclocking and performance and you've got this year's best P35 motherboard.
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The object of our attention today is the ASUS M2A-VM motherboard. Despite the summer heat and 3-hour long game testing its heat sinks didn't warm up enough to demonstrate overheating. Therefore let's assume that we were fortunate and the chipset of our particular board was actually well within the declared TDP.
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
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The Asus P526 ticks plenty of smartphone boxes. It runs on the latest version of Microsoft's Windows Mobile platform, it's slim, and the design - while not iPhone sexy - is smart with some intelligent touches. You also get a decent GPS receiver for your money. However, no 3G, Wi-Fi and a less-than-impressive processor put it out of contention for a place in our list of favourite smartphones.
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Thursday, September 6, 2007
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With a current internet price of $1,548.00 plus tax and shipping, this system is not priced at entry level, but this system's specs are far from entry level. A comparable system from Dell and HP both cost $300 more and lack the same warranty offered by ASUS unless you want to pay an additional $249.
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Tuesday, September 4, 2007
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At Computex 2007, ASUS wowed us with their new Xonar range of audio products, aiming to take a chunk of Creative's market share in the high end PC audio category. Now we've got our hands on the ASUS Xonar D2, and we're putting it to the test. Does the newcomer Xonar D2 have what it takes to challenge the X-Fi?
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Monday, September 3, 2007
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Over recent years, ASUS has left a firm mark on the consumer pc market with a strong and ever growing list of reputable and reliable products, these including some of the best notebooks and graphics cards out there. Now they are extending their portfolio even further by throwing the gauntlet down to Creative and attempting to challenge them at their own favourite event; maybe even leaving with a gold medal too. All this remains to be seen but top marks right off the bat for having a crack at Creative who in my opinion have had far too much leg room in the sound card arena.
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Thursday, August 30, 2007
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Intel's newest P35 Express chipset brought along support for both DDR2 and DDR3 memory modules. As DDR3 modules are still not widely interesting because of their high price, ASUS decided to celebrate its 18th birthday in a specific manner by introducing P5K3 Premium/WiFi AP motherboard which has 2 GB of DDR3 memory - integrated!
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007
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The performance in 2D testing favours slightly better in the way of the Premium, and even at 1,500MHz it doesn't really extend the lead that much. Also, it's not like you can't just buy some 1,500MHz memory and drop it in a Deluxe, however it seems to be tailored more to preferring lower latency memory like the 1,066MHz DDR3 at 6-6-6-15 instead of 1,333MHz at 7-7-7-20.
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Monday, August 27, 2007
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ASUS has been one of the leading manufacturers of motherboards for a number of years, and is the preferred board of the VH staff. The motherboard under the scope this time around is the P5N32-E SLI Plus, which uses the 650i chipset - a lesser version of the 680i which means a lower retail price. Although this is a newer motherboard using a less powerful chipset, they did make some changes to it and got dual x16 PCI-E SLI support. Another cool feature is the Stack Cool design which helps pull heat away from the components around the CPU. Another heat reducing feature are the heatpipes that cover each of the chipset chips separately. With so many features let's get on with the review and see how things work out.
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Friday, August 24, 2007
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Asus makes a good looking, well made product with a great layout that's an evolution of the P5K series we've seen before. But the thing is, is that it's just like the P5K series. The features might as well be identical and even though the concept is very innovative and screams "buy me because I'm cool" but would you drop £550 on 2GB of memory and a motherboard?
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