It looks like the first motherboard to feature Intel's latest generation X58 chipset has officially been introduced by Taiwanese manufacturer ASUS. The company's new P6T DELUXE mobo is touted as featuring Intel's latest desktop platform, although there's no direct specification of that being the X58 chipset from the leading chipmaker, the Santa Clara, California-based Intel. Aside from a rather small photo of the product, ASUS has also detailed the board’s tech specs. It is claimed to deliver impressive overclocking capabilities and energy efficiency, with the help of the Super Hybrid Engine, a technology... [read more >>] Advanced Micro Devices, better known just as AMD, has officially launched its latest and highly anticipated mainstream chipset. Based on one of the company's earlier products, the 780G, the 790GX comes in a better and improved package. Now that the official release took place, this can only mean that the next couple of days will most likely bring announcements from a number of motherboard manufacturers that will be introducing their own 790GX-based motherboards.If you have been paying attention to what's been going on in the hardware industry, you might have noticed a significant change of strategy at AMD as far as its chip busine... [read more >>] Intel's currently unreleased P45 chipset is rumored to be a hard kill for those who want to squeeze all the best from their rig. According to a news report published by tech magazine BitTech, (quoting Tony Leach from OCZ Technology), the chipset is extremely picky to the minor BIOS tweaks.According to Leach The P45 chipset borrows many features already present in the high-end X48 chipset and there are plenty of settings that must be precisely aligned for a worth mentioning speed gain. He also claims that a successful overclocking procedure involves tampering with GTL reference voltages, CPU VTT, Clock Skews and CPU PLL voltages.Leach c... [read more >>] Intel's upcoming generation of processors, called the Nehalem, will be introduced later this year, and all the signals point to a Q4 release. As previously stated by the chip manufacturer during this spring's Intel Developer Forum, the first Nehalem units to hit the market will be built on the 45-nanometer process technology (Bloomfield silicon) and will sport four processing cores.It is widely known that the 4-core behemoth will come with an integrated DDR3-1333 memory controller, SMT (Simultaneous Multi-Threading) technology and 8 MB of L2 cache. The SMT implementation will allow each of the CPU cores to simultaneously process t... [read more >>] AMD seems to have gone wrong again, despite the fact that it started to deliver the promised Barcelona chips, after seven months of delays. Rest assured, there is no problem with the silicon, as you would have expected. In fact, the problem occurs in Barcelona's neighborhood, the Phenom family.Although the Phenom X4 9850 running at 2.5 GHz packs quite a punch, it seems that its early adopters might have a problem in convincing it to work with the existing motherboards based on the company's 770 and 780G high-end chipsets. This is quite odd, given the fact that the Phenom X4 9850 is a high-end chip and the 780G chipset is one of th... [read more >>] Although Phenoms are still at least three months away, motherboard manufacturers are already starting to produce AM2 solutions which will be natively compatible with the new Phenom series. And since Biostar has always been an innovation specialist, it seems that they are the first to roll out an AM2 MoBo, namely the TF560 A2 .Actually if you look at the single chip solution included in the TF560 you will notice that the Nforce 560 series is a cut down version of its older brother, the Nforce 570. Aside from the complete lack of SLI support, Nvidia's new single chip supports lots of different power-related technologies that enable the... [read more >>] AMD's Barcelona and Agena CPUs are almost here, but don't expect out-of-the box compatibility with the current AM2 motherboards. Before the emergence of AM3 sockets, AMD will release AM2 designs to support the new quad-cores. There are also a couple of new chipsets to be integrated in the AM2 motherboards. These chipsets will only be DDR2-compatible. However, this shouldn't mean that Intel will claim supremacy with their DDR3-ready Bearlake family. This is due to latency specifications that remain high and thus, AMD's dual-channel DDR2-1066 support should still prove faster than sub-DDR3-1600 memories. AMD further cla... [read more >>] Intel's latest series of processors, the Penryn-based models, are going to bring some new light into the world of desktop and server computing, being the first processor models in the world to be manufactured on the 45nm manufacturing process. But these processors aren't yet available for the masses as Intel is scrambling to make deadlines and bring them on the market by the second half of the year.But for these processors, some modifications on the existing motherboards are necessary, as the Voltage Regulator Modules (VRM) need to supply another voltage, apparently much lower than the one needed by the processors from the Core ar... [read more >>] | 
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