Month: October 2009

Here are links to some prices for several of the top tier to budget end products available. I plan on adding some new sections to this soon as well. Thanks for your support all!

Intel Core i5 / i7 / 2 Duo Processors
Core i7 975 Extreme Edition
Core i7 965 Extreme Edition
Core i7 940
Core i7 920
Core 2 Duo E8600
Core 2 Duo E8500
Core 2 Duo E8400
Core i7 870
Core i5 750

AMD Phenom II / Athlon X4 Processors
Phenom II X4 955
Phenom II X4 945
Phenom II X4 940
Phenom II X3 720
Phenom II X3 710
Athlon II X4 620

Intel P55 Motherboards
ASUS Maximus III Formula
ASUS P7P55 Deluxe
ASUS P7P55D EVO
EVGA P55LE
Gigabyte GA-P55-UD6
Gigabyte GA-P55-UD5
Gigabyte GA-P55-UD4P
Intel DP55KG
MSI P55-GD65

Intel X58 Motherboards
ASUS Rampage II Extreme
ASUS P6T
ASUS P6T Deluxe V2
ASUS Rampage II GENE
EVGA X58 SLI
Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R
Intel DX58SO
MSI Eclipse SLI

Updated AMD Motherboards Coming Soon…

Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P – AMD 790FX @ PCStats

“Gigabyte’s GA-MA790FXT-UD5P motherboard is based on the AMD 790FX and SB750 chipsets and offers up much in the way of dual videocard gaming and generally fast socket AM3 AMD processor support. At its heart is AMDs 790FX chipset which supports HyperTransport 3.0 at 5200 MT/S. The Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P supports DDR3 memory at speeds of up to 1066/1333MHz, and 1666 MHz when overclocked.”

ASUS Maximus III Formula P55 @ Hardware Overclock

“Hardwareoverclock.com has posted another motherboard review. Last week we have take a look at the Asus Maximus III Formula board with P55 chipset. This board was made for gamers and overclockers. The Bios is very extensive, the layout nice and the performance great. Only the high price is very high again.”

ASUS P7P55D PRO @ FutureLooks

“Thankfully, the P55 Chipset has proven itself to be worthy supporter of Lynnfield and a worthy successor to the wildly popular P45 for LGA775 CPUs. Choosing a P55 motherboard will prove to be a challenge simply because so many do so well. In the end, it’s the motherboard’s features and appearance that seem to be the decision driver. We’d like to present you with another choice.”

ASUS Maximus III Gene Review @ Guru3D

“Today we’ll review the Maximus Gene III, for what I feel is one of the best tweaker / gamer P55 motherboards currently available in the market. The ROG addition motherboards lure the Guru3D.com audience, it’s a perfect match — it’s that simple. This is what you, me and everybody else would like to see in our PCs alright.”

MSI P55-GD65 Review @ Overclockers Club

“The price point on the P55-GD65 puts it squarely in the mid range for a socket 1156 motherboard. This board comes in a full 50 bucks cheaper than the Intel Kingsberg board, while there is a 90 dollar saving over the ASUS Maximus III Formula, so you have to wonder if the features and performance are worth the extra cash. The included utilities work and provide a good mix of functionality.”

AMD 785G Motherboard Roundup @ Neoseeker

“This release is more oriented toward the mainstream and HTPC market though, so this is a little bit different than the high-end video card reviews we often publish. In fact, none of these motherboards support CrossfireX setups, even though the ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO and the Gigabyte MA785G-UD3H have two PCI-E x16 slots.”

MSI Afterburner @ Bjorn3D

“Now MSI came out with another RivaTuner spin off, but this time we have even more flexibility than RivaTuner could ever have. What is that extra that RivaTuner does not have? What we do get is the ability to add voltages to our video cards, giving us even more overclocking head room to snuff out our opponents in all out overclocking endeavors.”

Introducing MSI Afterburner @ Guru3D

“Afterburner is powered by Guru3Ds own Rivatuner engine, but this software comes with a few extra’s. AfterBurner will support both ATI and NVIDIA graphics cards, Multi-GPU setups, Voltage regulation on the GPU, overclocking on core, shader and memory domains, GPU load levels (ATI), fan speed adjustment, device information .. and a really wicked graphical (configurable) monitor.”

Lynnfield Overclocking on ASUS P7P55D Deluxe  @ X-Bit Labs

“Using Core i5-750 and Core i7-860 processors we are going to find out how well they overclock with static and dynamic Turbo Boost implementation and will also discuss the features and functionality of Asus P7P55D Deluxe LGA1156 mainboard on Intel P55 Express chipset.”