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Monday, October 16, 2006
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With the release of the new BIOS that fixes the issues with the P5B Deluxe motherboard and Crossfire on the Prescott CPUs, there isn't a reason not to recommend this board for the included features, as it scores over 40 on our Features chart with integrated Wi-Fi, Crossfire (though limited by the 4X lanes on the second PCI Express x16 slot), 8 SATA ports, and the other features that makes this board outstanding. The overclock I was able to achieve on the CPU we use for testing was excellent as well.
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The fastest GeForce 7900 GS ever made finally reached our labs and it's none other than the ASUS EN7900GS TOP. Standing apart from the competition with its dangerously high clocks, it promises a whole level of performance for a GeForce 7900 GS. Read on to find out how it performed.
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Thursday, October 12, 2006
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Asus continues their CPU cooler product series with this high end, 5 heat pipe compact tower cooler, a blue LED gives it *bling* and with a rating of up to 130W we find out if it gives you *bang* for the buck.
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Monday, October 2, 2006
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The ASUS F3JM is a no-frills gaming notebook that delivers with a strong mix of gaming oriented components, but at heart, it is also a powerful notebook for the corporate road warrior.
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Asus has brought a great performing board to the market for the AM2 socket in the form of the M2N32-SLI. The bundle itself makes this board stand out, as it comes with the wireless kit, and a few other goodies that are normally purchased after the fact. AS far as performance goes, the M2N32-SLI was right on par with the other two chipsets that we looked at. It led the way in quite a few of the benchmarks that we used, and when it did not score higher, it was very close to the same.
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Friday, September 22, 2006
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ASUS today have provided us with a new motherboard designed to be the ultimate gamer's motherboard for the AM2 platform; it is part of the new "Republic of Gamers" series from the Taiwan company. Designed with hardcore gamers and overclockers in mind, this board looks more like an amusement park than a board with tubes, pipes and lovely colours.
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Thursday, September 14, 2006
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f you are looking for an affordable SLI motherboard to go with your new Intel Core 2 Duo processor, the new ASUS P5NSLI motherboard might just be the thing for you.
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006
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The P5W64 WS Professional from Asus can be thought of as an extremely high-end solution for the workstation professional, enthusiast or power user. The key feature this board offers over all other 975X chipset-based boards on the market currently, is its integration of the IDT 24 lane PCI Express chip in the design. This switch offers an additional 8 lanes of connectivity in a full length X16 slot, beyond the 22 lanes offered in the 975X chipset. Asus also populated these connections with four full-length X16 style slot connectors, so the potential for running up to four graphics cards is there. However, we'd offer that there is a better use for this extra available bandwidth and connectivity.
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Sunday, September 10, 2006
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Giant heatsinks and coolers are part and parcel of the enthusiast' arsenal. Now, they can add ASUS' latest cooler, the Silent Square to their list.
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Thursday, September 7, 2006
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Evolving the ASUS P5W series of mainboards to what we presume is its pinnacle, the P5W64 WS Pro seems to be almost the perfect mainboard for the power-hungry high-end PC user that wants to run Core 2 Duo or upcoming quad-core 'Kentsfield' processors.
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We really like the P5NSLI for what it represents. It may be a pain in the butt to set up with the current BIOS, but everything seems to have a learning curve these days. Since the nForce 570 SLI Intel Edition chipset uses the same northbridge (and memory controller) as the older nForce4 SLI Intel Edition chipset, we're expecting a new BIOS to fix the memory-related issues we've had. Once you've found the sweet spot, the P5NSLI will run all day, every day without issue. With all things considered, it's a great board for the price, even with the current DDR2-667 issues we've encountered.
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Monday, September 4, 2006
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Both the ASUS CROSSHAIR and M2N32-SLI Deluxe Wireless Edition have feature sets that are beyond large. They're one step short of making you breakfast in bed. However, with that territory comes a lot to go wrong, and so some of it did. The sound drivers need work, some of the utilities we know and love don't work properly and while the boards support AMD Live!, we see no mention of it in the boards' manuals, not to mention the mystery, seemingly useless extra device we discovered when enabling the feature.
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Friday, September 1, 2006
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The nForce 570 SLI powered Asus P5NSLI's performance was just as good as much more expensive motherboards in every test we ran, regardless of which core logic chipset it was compared against. This motherboard has a relatively complete feature set that includes RAID, HD audio, Gigabit LAN, and of course SLI support, and its layout is generally good overall. The P5NSLI was also rock-solid stable throughout our tests and didn't exhibit any instability until overclocked well out of spec. Its BIOS and overclocking capabilities, however, left something to be desired.
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Thursday, August 31, 2006
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ASUS's intention here was to bring a Radeon Xpress 3200 product into its AM2 lineup. They've done that, and they've made a functional, pretty well laid out board that performs overall how we'd like it to. However, in a number of areas the board appears to be less appealing than its Socket 939 predecessor. It's not got any real VRM cooling and it doesn't have as much internal hard disk connectivity. Further, its BIOS isn't (at the moment) as tweakable, making it slip behind the Sturgeon reference board. Cool 'n' Quiet problems continue to plague ASUS's AM2 boards too, it seems.
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Monday, August 28, 2006
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The birth of Intel?s new Conroe processor architecture has been creating quite a buzz throughout the computer world. The new P5W DH Deluxe is the third ASUS motherboard designed using the Intel 975x chipset and it is easily their best version yet, and given how good past versions have been, this is quite the claim. This latest version is also very different from previous 975x motherboards as it seems to be designed to accommodate everyone's needs. And when I say everyone, I actually mean everyone that is willing to splurge $250 on a motherboard. So for those that can manage the price tag, they will certainly enjoy all that this motherboard has to offer. Designed for the new Intel Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme processors, the P5W DH Deluxe has a number of features that make it suitable as a workstation, a gaming platform, a small office/home office computer or the hub of a home theater system.
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