Core i7 x58 Intel Chip Set Motherboard

Posted by Simon Whiston in Motherboards on 12. Sep, 2008 | No Comments

JUST CHECK IT OUT! U’LL LOVE IT!
Now that I have your attention lets have a closer look at the video! You can see that the socket has now enlarged to compensate for the inbuilt memory controller which AMD thought of when they first started creating processors! What advantage Intel will have I’m not sure but [...]

Nvidia SLI enabled on Intel x58 Chipset Motherboards

Posted by Simon Whiston in Graphics, Motherboards on 29. Aug, 2008 | No Comments

x5 Now nvidias move to the Intel chipset has allowed the multi GPU support.
AMD can already run their version of SLI called Crossfire on competitors boards. Now Nvidia have joint suite Intel mainboards offer the best of both worlds. In my opinion allowing this multi GPU support by the two top graphics company’s is a [...]

Crysis -Do We Need Full Detail?

Posted by Simon Whiston in General News, Graphics, Microprocessors, Motherboards on 18. Aug, 2008 | No Comments

As we all know Crysis is the second version of the Crytek engine. The game was originally called Far Cry if I remember correctly which was back then a brilliant graphics engine for out door environments. I know Crysis (Crytek Engine 2) has been out a couple of months now but I think this game [...]

AM2 Phenom Overclocking

Posted by Simon Whiston in Microprocessors, Motherboards on 11. Jun, 2008 | No Comments

Most of you enthusiast are probably aware of AMD secret weapon, well if your not then here’s the low down. AMD are well behind the processor race against Intel. Lets slightly changes the subject here, AMD were going to release a dual core Phenom back in May. This never occurred due to the aggressive pricing [...]

Intel Nehalem Motherboards

Posted by Simon Whiston in Microprocessors, Motherboards on 05. Jun, 2008 | No Comments

Computex is here again another year of fantastic goodies waiting for the enthusiast to indulge on. I might consider taking some time off work for next years show, why not, treat yourself! This is the best time of year for computer hardware followers. Computex will be answering all my un-answered questions relating to Intel’s [...]

Intel P45 Motherboard

Posted by Simon Whiston in Motherboards on 30. May, 2008 | No Comments

Intel will shortly be releasing their latest Motherboard chipset the P45 the descendant of the P35 chipset. The release will be announced along with the boards full specification at the Computex convention later this month.
The Motherboard comes with DDR2 memory controller, for a start this isn’t promising. We must understand the current processors and motherboards [...]