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Monday, February 18, 2008
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The Asus Z7S WS features dual LGA771 sockets that support Intel Xeon 5000, 5100, and 5300 series processors of both the dual and quad-core varieties. The Z7S WS is built around the Intel 5400 and ESB2E chipset and supports 1600MHz / 1333MHz / 1066MHz / 800MHz front side bus speeds, it has six Fully-Buffered DDR2 DIMM slots, and a pair of Marvell 88E8056 Gigabit LAN jacks with teaming functionality. The Asus Z7S WS' expansion slot configuration consists of two PCIe 2.0 x16 slots, one PCIe x16 slot with an x8 electrical connection, and single PCIe x1, PCI-X, and PCI 2.2 slots. The dual x16 PEG slots are a differentiating factor for the Z7S WS because Intel's D5400XS only supports PCI Express 1.1.
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Asustek needs no introduction when it comes to the field of high end hardware; they've been delivering the good stuff before some of us even knew what a CPU was. With a massive market catering to nearly every inch of the enthusiast sprawl, if there's a niche where Asus hasn't proven their mettle, you can bet they're thinking up a product for it as we speak.
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Thursday, February 14, 2008
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We want to let you all know that we've just posted a new article at HotHardware featuring ASUS' slick U6S notebook. If you're unfamiliar with it, the ASUS U6S is best described as a full-featured ultraportable laptop. Except for the relatively small 12.1" LED backlit screen, the U6S offers many of the same features of a standard full-size notebook, but in a compact ultraportable body. Built on Intel's fourth-generation Centrino platform, also known as Santa Rosa, the U6S manages to cram the same level of performance as a full-sized notebook into a diminutive 3.5lb package. Head on over to the site and check it out, this is one good looking machine...
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Asus has put yet another sexy, quiet CPU cooler on the street. Once you have this monstrous heatsink sitting in your rig, invite your friends over to gawk at its size and seductive design. The blue LED light emitting from the center makes it look like an alien power generator of some kind. Installation went smoother then expected and it will be difficult to find a quieter air cooler out there (unless you go fanless).
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
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The ASUS Triton 77 heatsink is one of the latest processor thermal solutions to come from motherboard manufacturing giant ASUS. The heatsink is equipped with a Sunon MagLev 92mm vapo-bearing PWM fan which runs at a very quiet 2300RPM. Standing a moderate 125mm tall, the Triton 77 heatsink has five copper heatpipes spread across its curved array of nickel-plated aluminum fins, and weighs 505 grams. The bulk of this heatsink is elevated 55mm above the CPU socket for good component clearance.
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Xonar D2 is the first sound card from ASUS designed mostly for Home Entertainment. Nevertheless, the card has software EAX2.0 support and full-size MIDI connectors on an additional bracket, as well as Ableton Live and SONAR LE in the bundle.
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ASUS ultra-portable Eee PC has certainly been making a lot of noise and after playing with it for a few days, we can tell why. Although it will be officially launched in the region during the April time frame, ASUS was kind enough to send us a review sample.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
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Just as there are two basic types of people, the enthusiast peripheral market is made up of leaders and followers. Not content to mingle among the latter, Asus often leads the pack with innovative designs, and this week we're focusing exclusively on three very different CPU coolers from Asus. Today we get medieval with the Silent Knight II. Will the Silent Knight II prove but deadly against two modern day foes (heat and noise), or simply be found wanting? Pull up a spectator's chair as we get set to joust from within HL's cooling lab.
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Monday, February 11, 2008
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If you know what a motherboard is, chances are pretty good that you have heard of Asus. Between their enthusiast and OEM motherboards, they have built a significant number of the motherboards in PCs throughout the world. They also build nearly every other component found in a PC...video cards, sound cards, power supplies, LAN and WLAN products, chassis, optical drives, and whatever else. The Maximus Formula is among the latest Asus Intel X38 boards utilizing DDR2 memory. Will it prove to be the excellent board that Asus' P35 boards are? Stay tuned to see!
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This time, we are reviewing the new nForce 780i chipset, provided by ASUS, based on the newest Nvidia motherboard solution which should provide quite some novelties for gamers. With this chipset, Nvidia officially supported Penryn processors and, most of all, promoted the 3-way SLI.
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The AMD(ATI) Radeon 3870 X2 - codename R680 - has been spoken off on websites for a long time and said to be the return of AMD/ATI to the high-end arena and capable of challenging the GeForce 8800 series. ASUS is once again one of the first manufactures to introduce the latest products from ATI and we at HARDiNFO we will be testing this new contender for the performance crown. Join us as we square up the Radeon HD 3870 X2 against the GeForce 8800 competition and see what this new-comer has to offer.
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Friday, February 8, 2008
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Intel has done an excellent job with their P35 chipset and it supports virtually every feature on the market with the exception of 1600MHz FSB CPUs and PCI Express 2.0 bandwidth, both of which are new to the market with the X38 chipset from Intel. The P5K Deluxe Wi-Fi AP Edition board is an excellent example of the P35 chipset with enough features to suit the enthusiast and enough expansion room to grow for even the hardest core enthusiast.
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The fangs at each corner of the Triton 75 bring a smile to our intrepid engineers' face; pointy strips of aluminum dangle like a canines teeth over each Intel retention clip and lie in wait for unsuspecting fingers! Should we really expect anything different from the Asus Triton 75 heatsink though? With errant design elements that hamper the user experience and do nothing to improve thermal performance, the Asus Triton 75 is an example of what not to do. On top of that, the Triton 75 fails as a heatsink for processors with a 150W power rating. And yet, the Triton 75 is not a complete write off...
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Thursday, February 7, 2008
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It is a fact that modern notebook computers cope with the average user's needs most easily. All those GHz and dual-core processors sound great, but but surfing the Internet, writing in Word watching films and listening to music are not tasks that require such power. Many are willing to renounce the extra performance in order to save money. Such people value small and portable PCs much more. This is the exact group ASUS Eee PC is targeting.
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Wednesday, February 6, 2008
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The Asus Maximus Extreme motherboard PCSTATS is testing today is based around Intel's X38 Express and ICH9R chipsets. It comes absolutely loaded with features, almost too much in fact. The Maximus Extreme motherboard supports Socket 775 Intel processors running on an 800/1066/1333/1600 MHz FSB, which means and is compatible with Intel Celeron D, Pentium 4/D/XE and Core 2 Duo/Quad processors, including the new 45nm Penryn.
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