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i3DSpeed, August 2010
Sep 02, 2010 · 3Digests
The i3DSpeed informs you about performance of popular graphics cards and the best price/performance deals in the market. This time we replaced GeForce GT 240 GDDR5 with GeForce GT 240 GDDR3, because the latter is much more widespread.
VIA Nano CPUID Tricks
Aug 26, 2010 · General Platform
Intel compiler and libraries often work suspiciously slow on processors from other vendors. The matter is that generated code has multiple versions of the most critical parts optimized for specific architectures and instruction sets. There's also a dispatcher that selects the needed code path. Thanks to Agner Fog, who has found out how to change the CPUID data of the VIA Nano processor, we now can conduct an independent "fairness" test and see what's going on.
AMD 890GX Motherboard Roundup
Aug 18, 2010 · Motherboards
The collective image of an AMD 890GX-based motherboard is quite attractive. It's a mid-end feature-rich full-size ATX model with two graphics slots, SATA 6Gbps support and an optional but nevertheless provided USB 3.0 controller. Besides, MSI demonstrated that the same functionality could be compacted into the mATX form factor as well.
i3DSpeed, July 2010
Aug 09, 2010 · 3Digests
The i3DSpeed informs you about performance of popular graphics cards and the best price/performance deals in the market. This time we added the test results of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 768MB/1024MB.
ASRock 890GX Extreme3 Motherboard
Aug 02, 2010 · Motherboards
Without a doubt, this is a worthy representative of the AMD 890GX family. It has everything you need for an all-round configuration. And it's actually quite hard to name a specific target audience that could be more interested in ASRock 890GX Extreme3, especially considering its attractive price.
ASUS Crosshair IV Formula Motherboard
Jul 30, 2010 · Motherboards
ASUS Crosshair IV Formula is undoubtedly an original and interesting product. Its features, like GameFirst and ROG Connect, are actually useful and may come in handy. The bundle includes everything you need, and then a bit more.
AMD 2010 Processor Series in Tests, Part 1
Jul 28, 2010 · Processors: AMD
Today we shall try to answer the following question. What's better: a triple-core CPU with 512KB L2 per core or a dual-core CPU with 1024KB L2 per core? On the one hand, the former has an additional core. On the other hand, each core of the latter has twice as much cache available. This isn't as obvious as it may seem.
Foxconn A9DA-S Motherboard
Jul 23, 2010 · Motherboards
Foxconn A9DA-S is a very good product for PC builders, because it 1) is up-to-date and 2) doesn't have any extras, so it should be affordable. But it will have a hard time competing with other retail solutions on the same chipset, many of which have better features. Under these conditions, price becomes the decisive factor.
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