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Tuesday, June 5, 2007
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All in all, we highly recommend the Asus P5B Premium VISTA Edition to anyone who is looking to build a rock stable rig with massive ovreclocking in mind and digital home cinema capability to boot. We believe Asus has struck gold with this board, offering the perfect mix of performance and usability.
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Thursday, May 31, 2007
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AMD's DX10 powerhouse, the Radeon HD 2900 XT, has given NVIDIA something to think about, but we reckon the GeForce 8800 GTS 320 remains the best buy under £200. ASUS has a particularly attractive bundle with its effort.
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The latest ASUS P5K Deluxe motherboard combines everything that made the P5B Deluxe a classic with updated design elements and a new chipset that is set to take the Intel platform into the future. Read the full review right here and see why we love the P5K Deluxe so much.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007
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After months of delays and much anticipation, ATI has finally come up with the Radeon HD 2900 XT, a DirectX 10 capable GPU meant to compete with Nvidia's GeForce 8 series, and the first big introduction in the PC enthusiast market since AMD acquired the company. Today we have in our hands a Radeon HD 2900XT board, which is of course based on the R600 core using an 80nm design process. This version features just 512MB of onboard GDDR3 memory clocked at 1656MHz using a 512-bit wide memory bus. Combined with a core clock of 757MHz, the Radeon HD 2900XT can theoretically produce a memory bandwidth of 102.4GB/s, which is greater than that of the GeForce 8800 GTX.
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Friday, May 25, 2007
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Let's give you our take on the ASUS P5K Deluxe motherboard - and explain how it's moved the game onwards from the forerunners, the P965 chipset and excellent P5B Deluxe.
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Thursday, May 24, 2007
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The ASUS P5N-E SLI motherboard rings in at about $130 USD, which makes it substantially cheaper than many of the NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI motherboards on the market and even some of the nForce 650i motherboards. While this motherboard may be affordable, does it deliver upon the ASUS quality and innovations that enthusiasts have come to expect from their cutting edge products? Well, some of its many features include Intel Quad-Core support, NVIDIA SLI, and HD Azalia Audio.
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Apart from the ton of features and excellent stability, the board doesn't offer any spectacular performance and is far more expensive than the competition, or even other Asus boards. You'd be far better off investing in anything DDR2, rather than forcing yourself down and extremely expensive upgrade path. It will allow some future proofing, but by that time in 12-18 months, you might as well upgrade the motherboard with a newer chipset which will undoubtedly support faster DDR3 modules and newer features as well. It's a really weird situation because it's genuinely a really good board, but there's absolutely no reason to buy it.
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Sunday, May 20, 2007
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If you take a look at Asus' website, you may notice one very interesting observation: They make, like, everything. Right off my head, I can already check off motherboards, graphics cards, cases, PDAs, laptops, optical drives, networking products... what's next, a sound card (Oh wait, remember the Xonar D2 and D2X at CeBIT earlier this year)? Anyway, when it comes to thermal solutions and component cooling, Asus probably isn't the first thing that comes to mind. Roughly two weeks ago, Asus contacted me and asked me if I wanted to take a look at their latest CPU cooling solution -- the Asus Arctic Square. I am always enthusiastic to try new things, but I must confess, right at that moment... I vaguely remember thinking that, in straightforward terms -- it'll probably be a disappointment (Sorry, I was just being honest!). But after going through some testing, I discovered that my initial thoughts regarding Asus' Arctic Square is quite far from the truth. And let me tell you why.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
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In this review PCSTATS tests the awesome Asus EN8800GTS/HTDP/320M PCI Express videocard. This Geforce 8800GTS-320 lives up to the hype, and comes with one of the best software packages available for its class. In the box is a full copy of Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, which just happens to be one of the hottest shooter titles of 2006. The game looks particularly splendid when played over the Asus EN8800GTS/HTDP/320M videocard too. Take my advice, turn up the resolution to 1600x1200 and kick in AA and AF to get the full affect.
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Monday, May 14, 2007
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So, the question is, can the R600 take on the huge success story that is the Nvidia 8800? Today our UK Editor and graphics card specialist Stuart "Veridian3" Davidson is going to answer all your questions with real world gaming performance on multiple operating systems against 8800 counterparts, as well as delving into Image Quality concerns and Video Acceleration. We are sure by the end of this review you will know if it is money worth spending...
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Wednesday, May 9, 2007
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So after much hype and noise, Santa Rosa notebooks have finally arrived and we have two examples here in the office to look at. Riyad is casting his gaze over a Samsung, while I have in front of me a large beastie from Asus - the A7S - a large desktop replacement entertainment machine.
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The success of one product is highly dependent on the coordination of engineering and marketing teams. While the effectiveness of approaching a target group cannot be defined as difficult, the category this task resides in is definitely not in the 'easy category' either. By theory, creating an ideal product must reside within a certain criteria -- in general, sometimes it is hard being a reviewer in this regard in terms of rating a product based on how well it addresses the target group, as well as striking a balance between price, performance, features, design, and quality. After reviewing Asus' i975X based top end workstation class desktop motherboard roughly half a year back, the Asus P5W64-WS Professional, Asus is back again with the latest in its prosumer division. Known as the Asus P5NT-WS and nicknamed the "Hollywood Trio", it incorporates NVIDIA's 650i northbridge, but with a NF570MCP southbridge instead. A hybrid board? Yep! Let's examine various aspects of this board today.
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In this review PCSTATS tests the awesome Asus EN8800GTS/HTDP/320M PCI Express videocard. This Geforce 8800GTS-320 lives up to the hype, and comes with one of the best software packages available for its class. In the box is a full copy of Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, which just happens to be one of the hottest shooter titles of 2006. The game looks particularly splendid when played over the Asus EN8800GTS/HTDP/320M videocard too. Take my advice, turn up the resolution to 1600x1200 and kick in AA and AF to get the full affect.
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Monday, May 7, 2007
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The advent of the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra actually makes GeForce 8800 GTX cards more attractive to hardcore gamers. Today, we examine why that is the case by taking a look at one of the premium GeForce 8800 GTX graphics cards in the market - the ASUS EN8800GTX. While it has been and still is a very expensive graphics card, the ASUS EN8800GTX has many things going for it. Join us as we pit it against the new GeForce 8800 Ultra, the GeForce 7900 GTX and the GeForce 7950 GT. Then you will see why it's worth considering, if you have the money to spare.
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Friday, May 4, 2007
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Ultimately, the FrontLinker is a solid enough product but it just doesn't bring anything new to a market already saturated with cheap card readers and iPod docks. What little it does have going for it is let down by a lack of headphone support and a breakable front panel.
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