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Monday, February 23, 2009
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Hot on the trail of their very impressive new Xonar sound cards, ASUS have just sent me some wireless headphones. Up until this point I was not aware that ASUS were in the headphone business, but with so many users, particularly gamers, needing a personal audio solution and also taking into account the trend towards wireless devices, it makes sense to see an offering in this category by arguably one of the largest manufacturers in the game.
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
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Recently at Tech-Reviews, we have a reviewed a few budget coolers. So today we have gone to the other end of the spectrum, right in at the top, and we have ourselves a high end CPU cooler up for review. Let?s see whether this increase in cost leads to big benefits in the cooling department. Time to introduce the product itself; I give you the ASUS Silent Knight II, kindly sampled by QuietPC.
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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ASUS just recently added the S101 to its netbook lineup. The S101 is advertised as the "Fashion" netbook that is also the thinnest and lightest netbook on the market. We have an in-depth look at the S101 and show you why it is much more Fashion and much less Practical. Make sure you read our review before you go out to buy.
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Monday, February 16, 2009
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If you're looking for a workstation class board on the X58 chipset this is the board for you as it has all the bells and whistles that you expect from ASUS and the extra features you want. SLI works as advertised with the proper spacing for three GTX280 dual-slot cards. Crossfire also works out of the box. The X58 chipset in combination with the nForce 200 motherboard chipset makes for a powerful combination of true Tri-SLI or CrossfireX. The board earns a solid Editor's Choice award from me if you're looking for an X58 motherboard to go along with the new LGA-1366 CPUs. Overall this is the best X58 chipset motherboard we have seen and Doc is now using it in a review platform for NVIDIA's Quadro based VGA cards for a professional level review on workstation applications. Good job on this one Asus, this board exceeds the standard gaming motherboards and should do well in high-end systems designed for productivity.
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Using the same ASUS Triton 81 CPU Cooler that I used on the MSI DKA790GX Platinum motherboard the ASUS M4A79T Deluxe motherboard reached an HT clock frequency of 294MHz, which is 1MHz shy of our previous best for this specific AMD Phenom II X4 810 processor. This put the final clock frequency at 3.82GHz, which is an overclock of 1,222MHz. The ASUS M4A79T Deluxe was also able to run 8GB of Corsair DOMINATOR DDR3 memory at 1333MHz with CL9 timings like a champ. Even increasing the memory frequency up to 1600MHz the board would still run four 2GB DDR3 modules with no stability issues, which is a good sign that the BIOS is already pretty solid on this motherboard...
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Friday, February 13, 2009
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The notebook itself is small in size and beautiful to look at. The entire top lid is covered with a bamboo layer that not only looks good but feels quite nice as well. It has definitely made heads turn. The bamboo finish continues on the palmrest including the trackpad and this makes the feel of the trackpad with the wooden texture incredible to glide your finger upon. It beats the Glassy trackpad on the Unibody designed Macbooks which I felt were the best I had used.
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ASUS has given us everything enthusiasts ask for in a motherboard and then multiplied that by pixie dust and a kitchen sink factor with the Asus P5E3 Premium motherboard. Sure, other motherboards have dual gigabit lan ports, but how many have dual eSATA? Or dual firewire? In addition to a dual antenna wireless-N integrated network adapter?
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
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With support for the latest Intel chipset and Core i7 processors, along with the additional overclocking headroom afforded by ROG Extreme Engine, the sexy-looking (just check out the red, black and dark metallic grey cooling) Rampage II Extreme is that fastest and most customisable motherboard on the planet. The downside is that it costs almost the same as a whole computer. If you're not out to beat the overclocking world record, motherboards such as MSI's Eclipse (around £280) and ASUS' P6T Deluxe (Best Current Price: £249) are much better value for everyday use, plus they come with more expansion slots.
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But despite the poor economy and reduced numbers of computers shipped, not all is doom and gloom in the computer market. The netbook segment is producing significant levels of growth in the industry and at this point, most all PC makers are in the netbook market with machines of their own. The only notable holdout is Apple. Today we are going to look at a netbook from ASUS, the company that started the netbook revolution. Specifically, we are looking at the ASUS Eee 1002HA netbook that has a very slick design and some great features that shoppers looking for a netbook will want to take notice of. The 1002HA isn't a perfect netbook, but it comes dangerously close to being the best netbook in the land.
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As the first motherboard with Socket 1366 in our test lab, ASUS P6T Deluxe is bound to attract extra attention as it features so many new technologies. And our readers' interest to the new processor microarchitecture, new CPU family, new socket, new chipset, etc. inevitably touches the motherboard as well.
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Monday, February 9, 2009
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One thing I really can't stress enough about the TOP line-up of graphics cards from ASUS is that they are more than just a few extra MHz on the core and memory. Past experience has always shown that the clocks offered by a card carrying this marking are clearly above the norm. What's interesting, though, is that this time around ASUS has not only got a TOP card on offer but also an Extreme one for the GTX 285. The TOP is the lower clocked of the two and what we're hoping is that ASUS hasn't just decided to ease off the MHz simply to squeeze a few more dollars out of people wanting even more performance.
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Thursday, February 5, 2009
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Although the P5N7A-VM's stock performance would normally be more than enough for most home theater PC or basic home desktop tasks, overclocking could be beneficial. The P5N7A-VM offers very basic overclocking functionality, but it was more than enough to allow me to overclock the Q6600 to 3.0 GHz (9x333) with a stock Intel heatsink.
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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In the world of motherboard makers, they just don't get any bigger than ASUS. Over the past year the company has grown by leaps and bounds. They have always offered a value priced motherboard with a good selection of features and stability, and at the same time they build in overclocking must haves. The last couple of years we've seen a number of enthusiast motherboards, but none have offered more than ASUS. They keep building in more and more features to cater to overclockers. It's to this end that we have the ASUS P6T Deluxe OC Palm...
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Monday, February 2, 2009
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The positives of this card include an excellent cooling solution that doesn't quit and keeps the card running cool. Under load temperatures of 44C maximum at default clock speeds is just amazing. The card overclocked successfully to near the maximum allowed by the Overdrive utility or the ASUS iTracker utility. The card is very popular among enthusiasts as it offers high performance at a reasonable price. The only questions I have as to this card is what the next generation from both NVIDIA and ATI will bring later this year as its over 6 months since the launch of the HD 4870 cards. ATI tends to release new graphics cards every year and the next generation shouldn't be too far away. ASUS's design works well within the confines the HD 4850 set.
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We have with us an Asus special edition series video card that is equipped with a large heatsink for better performance and better overclocking capabilities. ASUS presents the 9800GTX+ Dark Knight TOP Edition ready to rumble on the PC.
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