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Sandy Bridge-E motherboards from Asus, Gigabyte, Intel, and MSI

By TechReport, published 14-11-2011

Intel is in a unique position in the market for ultra-high-end desktop PCs: it essentially has no competition. AMD hasn't priced a desktop processor far north of $300 in years, while Intel has been selling six-core Gulftown CPUs at up to a grand a pop. With no one nipping at its heels, Intel has had the luxury of updating its flagship platform at what could charitably be described as a conservative pace.When Gulftown made its debut with the Core i7-980X Extreme in early 2010, it breathed new life into an X58 Express platform that had been around since 2008. Only 133MHz has been added to Gulftown's top end ...Read more...

Tutorial: Beginner's guide to overclocking

By TechRadar, published 13-11-2011

Beginner's guide to overclockingBack in the days when the average desktop PC was barely capable of running anything more demanding than a word processor, overclocking your CPU to get £1,000 performance from a £300 chip was almost as big a necessity as switching off the 'turbo' button to underclock and run non speed-limited software. The world has changed. A modern multi-core CPU has a much longer shelf life than its ancestors, since performance today is as much a factor of the number of cores and microcode as it is raw clockspeed. An Intel Q6600 bought four years ago is unlikely to feel sluggish whatever the situation, and upgrading isn't expensive anyway. For the reasonable outlay of £150, you can pick up anything from the latest Sandy Bridge chips through to an excessively powerful si...

National Rice Pudding Day Shortbread

By TechReport, published 08-09-2011

Eight is Enough TechFlash reports volatile tech stocks hit hard after S&P downgrade Patently Apple reports Apple sued over fast booting in OS X with a patent linked to LG Electronics Donanim Haber: Intel's latest roadmap unveiled; faster Sandy Bridge-E CPUs will come in Q2 2012 and more than 20 Intel CPUs will be EOL by end of this year; official list unveiled (in Turkish) CPU World: Pre-order prices of upcoming Llano processors Ars Technica: What processor should I buy? Intel's crazy pricing makes my head hurt X-bit labs: Fusion-io teams up with Nvidia, others to showcase benefits of SSDs in multimedia applications Shacknews reports Red Orchestra 2 delayed into September QuakeCon 2011 - John Carmack keynote (in full) Read more...

L3p D3sk Case Mod: Not Your Average Computer Desk

By MaximumPC, published 21-05-2011

Remember the totally kick-ass, Light Cycle-inspired scratch PC mod by veteran modder Boddaker (aka Brian Carter) that was featured on our site recently? Called TRON Lightcycle PC, Boddaker’s entry for Cooler Master’s annual case mod competition (scratch build category) is currently the third most voted case mod in contention.  As of now, the top spot belongs to the L3p D3sk by a 30-year-old Dutch guy named Peter. The rig is housed inside a desk, effectively making it an “all-in-one desk”, as Peter likes to call it. Completely made of aluminium and glass, the water-cooled L3p D3sk boasts the following specs: Intel Core i7 980X @ 4.5 Ghz Corsair Dominator GT 6GB DDR3-2000 CL7 (Elpida) @ 2000 7-7-7-20-1T ASUS Rampage III Extreme ASUS GTX580 SLI ASUS Xense + Sennheiser Xense High...

Velocity Micro Raptor Signature Edition Review

By MaximumPC, published 29-04-2011

The last ride of the LGA1366 is still a fast one The bell may toll for LGA1366, but at least Intel’s premier performance socket isn’t going down without a fight. The fight, in this case, is the new hexa-core Core i7-990X, which is at the heart of Velocity Micro’s Raptor Signature Edition PC. The new CPU boasts a slight clock bump up from the 980X’s 3.33GHz to 3.46GHz. With Turbo Boost, the 990X will take the cores up to 3.73GHz. So why even build on LGA1366 at all when its sibling, the LGA1155-based Sandy Bridge, offers such kick-ass performance for an ass-kicking price? Despite its bland looks, the Raptor SE outpaces sexier boutique rigs. Well, if you haven’t heard, there was a bit of a screw up with the P67 chipset that made it nigh impossible to get an LGA1155 motherboard for...

High-Performance Sandy Bridge E To Replace Core i7 990X

By Bjorn3D, published 21-02-2011

Intel's Core i7 990X, the Extreme processor based  on the Gulftown (Westmere-EP) architecture, is scheduled to be replaced by the Sandy Bridge E. The Core i7 990X, which will be released soon, is one step up from the Core i7 980X, also based on Gulftown. The 990X will be replaced by the LGA 2011 socket based Sandy Bridge E in Q4 2011, w

Updated: 15 best PC upgrades for gamers

By TechRadar, published 17-02-2011

What are the best gaming upgrades for your PC today? How do you turn a whimpering little PC into the gaming goliath you want, nay, deserve?Well, stick around because no matter what you can afford to spend, we've got a the best PC upgrade for you.Obviously the key components we'll be looking at are the graphics card, CPU, motherboard, memory and your storage devices. Upgrading any of these will always help, and we're here to tell you which ones are right for you.To get the most out of your machine you need to know first what you're mostly going to be using it for and secondly which components will deliver the best performance increase for the things you're going to do with it.After all, there's little point in forking out £500 on a dual-GPU graphics card when all you're using it for is pla...

New 3DMark Vantage World record

By Bjorn3D, published 14-02-2011

A new World Record in 3DMark Vantage for single graphics cards was set this weekend by the Swedish overclockers Elmor and Kinc. They used the ASUS Geforce GTX 580 DirectCU II but opted to remove the big massive heatsink and use liquid nitrogen instead to cool the GPU. The system they used were: Processor: Intel Core i7 980X @ 5,7 GH

HP EliteBook 8740w Review

By MaximumPC, published 28-01-2011

A sturdy, high-end mobile workstation with a professional-grade display It’s difficult to pick just one standout feature of the HP EliteBook 8740w mobile workstation. Certainly a bright, 17-inch, 10-bit LCD panel that’s capable of displaying more than 1 billion colors and remains visible at up to about a 170-degree offset without any color degradation is worth noting. But so is the notebook’s durable design, with its spill-resistant keyboard, magnesium-alloy chassis, and magnesium-aluminum display enclosure. Then there’s also the 8740w’s impressive performance that runs circles around our zero-point configuration. It’s not indestructible, but it would take a lot of force to damage this notebook. With features squarely aimed at businesses that require a color-accurate display, ...

Maximum PC Video Showdown: iBuypower vs Falcon Northwest

By MaximumPC, published 26-01-2011

AMD vs. Intel? Feh. For power users, it’s all about quad-core Sandy Bridge vs. hexa-core Gulftown (or if you’re not up with the brevity thing Core i7-2600K versus Core i7-980X). Maximum PC’s Gordon Mah Ung highlights the kinds of sacrifices you might have to make if you decide to go with the hexa-core when configuring your next machine. And, surprisingly, a high-clocked Sandy Bridge system will give its older sibling a shockingly good competition. You can find Gordon's official reviews of both machines here and here.     Image Gallery

iBuypower Paladin XLC Review

By MaximumPC, published 26-01-2011

Hexa-core’s white knight? Ever since the appearance of Intel’s smoking-fast second-gen Core i7 processor in January, we’ve been wondering if Intel’s hexa-cores still have a purpose. When iBuypower’s Paladin XLC strode into town with a hearty Intel six-core inside its shining white armor, we expected an epic battle. And we got one. Outfitted with Intel’s priciest hexa-core, the 3.33GHz Core i7-980X, the Paladin XLC seemed destined to take on Falcon Northwest’s black-clad Mach V system that we reviewed in February. Using NZXT’s excellent Phantom case, the Paladin XLC certainly strikes an impressive pose. Along with 12GB of DDR3/1600, a 128GB A-Data SSD, a 2TB hard drive, and a 10x Blu-ray burner, the Paladin XLC fields an imposing collection of hardware, and at a decent pric...

Falcon Northwest Mach V Review

By MaximumPC, published 20-01-2011

Sandy Bridge and GeForce GTX 580 appear Who came up with the concept of a vertically oriented motherboard that positions the graphics cards upright so the tremendous heat they generate vents straight up? It’s hard to say who first had the idea—we’ve seen cases that feature this design, and the Main-Gear Shift PC that we reviewed in June 2010 took the same approach. But Falcon Northwest claims it had a stake in the original idea and has even provided time-stamped images of its prototypes of the inverted design from 2002. That certainly predates the aforementioned examples, as well as Voodoo’s luxurious but elusive Omen. Falcon Northwest’s new Mach V case gets vertical. So, why the delay in finally getting a vertical design out? Falcon says exorbitant tooling costs prevented its ...