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Thursday, September 27, 2007
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We have had the pleasure of reviewing two of Gigabyte's top of the line enclosures in the last few months, those being the 3D Mercury and 3D Aurora. Today we are changing direction slightly as we take a look at the newest addition to Gigabyte's lower price-points enclosures. We will be examining the new Isolo 120; in our tests, we found this case to display outstanding cooling capabilities.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007
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Although it is not an unfamiliar manufacturer of numerous different computer components at all, Gigabyte's latest entering the market occurs in the field of loudspeakers. Similar to Logitech once, at this moment, Gigabyte probably considers itself sufficiently strong as a brand to afford to show up from nowhere with series of loudspeakers and handle already established crew.
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Monday, September 24, 2007
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The Intel X38 chipset has arrived featuring full speed PCIe x16 CrossFire support and introducing PCI Express 2.0. The Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 is the first retail-ready enthusiast class motherboard based on this new chipset to reach our labs and we've got the full scoop right here. Read on.
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Thursday, September 20, 2007
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Gigabyte has proven once again they are a fierce competitor in the case market with the iSolo 210. With its mesh side window and sleek, classy look, this case looks great sitting on a desk. The inside is spacious with enough room to install an internal liquid cooling system, and the option to mount an external system is there also with holes to run tubes already in place.
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
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P35 was built on the P965s already popular design, however its memory controller was tweaked for DDR2 as well as adding the first DDR3 memory controller for the desktop. The ICH9R was also given to the P35 chipset. While this was good, the enthusiasts still needed a higher grade chipset. Enter today's contender, the X38. The new X38 chipset is designed to take over where the aging 975X chipset leaves off. Its abilities have been tweaked as well as some extra goodies. So let's have a look at our first retail sample board, Gigabyte X38-DQ6.
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Monday, September 17, 2007
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Earlier this week David Lin reviewed the Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3S and on the review bench today we have the GA-P31-DS3L from Gigabyte. This P31 motherboard supports Intel's Core 2 45nm processors, DDR2-1066 memory, all-solid capacitors, and many of the other innovations found on the GA-P35-DS3S. Nevertheless, is the GA-P31-DS3L that currently sells for about $75 USD able to perform well under Linux like the GA-P35-DS3S?
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Thursday, September 13, 2007
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The GA-G31MX-S2 is absurdly cheap and it'll be absolutely fine if you're building a basic Core 2 Duo PC for your mum. However, gamers, home entertainment enthusiasts and overclockers should give it a wide berth.
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Gigabyte has been around since the mid-1980s, which makes them one of the founders of the modern custom PC industry. Starting with motherboards, Gigabyte now also makes video cards, cases, optical drives, storage solutions, most periphials, power supplies, air cooling, liquid cooling, notebooks and notebook cooling, and now home media PCs. Gigabyte is well known for their high quality products. They generally market their products to the enthusiast willing to pay a little more for that high quality, but desiring products a little less extreme, a little more on the conservative side. So, my expectations for the Triton 180 are that it will be a well made, high quality case, with attention paid to every detail, but but somewhat conservative. Let's see if it lives up to that.
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With Neverwinter Nights 2 headlining its latest Radeon HD 2600 XT 256MB GDDR3, Gigabyte has another attractive game bundled with its graphics cards. Read on as we check out this interesting silent package.
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007
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Gigabyte has long been a very big name in computer hardware. They manufacture almost any sort of hardware you can imagine. High quality computer cases, motherboards, video cards, laptops, CPU coolers, you name it they have it (they even have a cell phone!). Like ASUS, they are able to diversify and cover a massive segment of the industry, and they are able to do this without sacrificing quality and performance. An impressive feat indeed. Not so long ago, Gigabyte made a massive splash in the enthusiast/overclocking world with their release of the board known as the DS3. The 965P-DS3 was one of the best overclocking motherboards ever to be released on the market. Not only was it brilliantly designed, but very importantly, it was brilliantly priced. Everyone could afford it because it was not only better performing, but also cheaper than the competition. Overclocking was BY FAR the easiest we have ever encountered in all our years of experience. This is also partially because almost all of the Core 2 Duos are simply beasts. The P35-DS3P that we will be looking at today carries the same DS3 mark. This board is really the successor to the incredible 965P-DS3 and should be held to the same standards of quality and performance.
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
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Gigabyte's GA-X38T-DQ6 is a board we've found great favour in. We've found it very hard to fault the layout if you choose a heatsink that doesn't need to be bolted to the motherboard and even as an engineering sample it's worked flawlessly throughout our testing. There has been some niggles with the Ethernet adapters but the retail boards are working as expected and should be shipping very soon. It's been a fantastic board to work with even in this early stage, but from the looks of pre-orders, it will be expensive at around £190. Therefore only time will tell if the bundle, stability and extra features due from Intel make it worth the while. Nvidia could command a price premium on the nForce 680i SLI because it had EPP and SLI, but is CrossFire and Intel's Extreme Memory held in the same regard? At least the X38 chipset should provide a diverse range of motherboard options, unlike the nForce 680i SLI, and being an Intel chipset we'd expect it to be far more reliable as well.
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Monday, September 10, 2007
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You've already seen what Gigabyte has up their sleeves for the mainstream market with their Ultra Durable 2 line of motherboards, and now we give you an in depth look at their latest flagship board - the Gigabyte GA-P35-DQ6, complete with an ever more elaborate cooling design.
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Friday, September 7, 2007
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This board is one of those products that can either really be a beneficial item in your build or leave you wanting a bit more. I say this because if the motherboard is to be used in a Media Center or Home Theatre PC it is an outstanding product that is well worth looking into and is priced reasonably as well. It is small, has HDMI output for High-Def viewing, decent sound and embedded graphics for those who only game in a little way. As far as being a gamer oriented product the Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H is mildly in that category, but no CrossFire support puts it in the low spectrum and onboard DX9 only graphics are considered in the same fashion.
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Monday, September 3, 2007
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It's been a while since we have seen anything from GIGABYTE. The main reason for this isn't because they don't like us; rather the company tends to want to stand out from the pack when it comes to their products. Anyone can send us a graphics card with stock clocks and stock cooling but GIGABYTE always try to do something a bit different with their lineup of graphics cards. The latest card to get the makeover treatment is the GIGABYTE 8500GT Turbo Force Ultra. The name alone sounds cool and has us so very intrigued, just imagine what the card is going to look like.
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007
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When INTEL released the P35 chipset, many people were wondering what the big deal was. In all honesty, its a marginal upgrade form the immensely popular P965 chipset it replaced, at least in many instances. But for those who overclock, the P35 chipset provides a pretty significant upgrade over its predecessor. Those who had the pleasure of using one of Gigabyte's many P965, especially the P965-DQ6, will tell you that they are fantastic overclockers. So does that mean we can expect a similar performance boost from their P35 offering? With INTEL set to unleash the X38 catering to the extreme enthusiasts in less than a month, should users look to the Gigabyte P35-DQ6, or should they wait? Read on to find out...
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