Gigabyte H55N-USB3 @ Funky Kit
“Mini-ITX motherboards have many uses, including the building of customised systems for users who have specific requirements. Things like surveillance systems, AV systems and even industrial equipment. It’s compact size is the key to its success. However, this is also its downfall.”
Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H @ KitGuru
“One of the main drawbacks of the H55M-UD2H is the close proximity of the RAM slots to the CPU socket which will inhibit the use of a large air cooler. This isn’t completely a direct result of the small form factor as removing the FDD and IDE connectors could have created more room.”
Gigabyte H67MA-UD2H Preview @ Funky Kit
“We take a quick look at the Gigabyte H67MA-UD2H Motherboard. It’s one of the first motherboards to feature the Intel H67 chipet, designed for the new Intel “Sandy Bridge” LGA 1155 CPUs from Intel. It’s primarily aimed at the mainstream and HTPC market, and comes with FULL Dolby Theatre, HDMI, DisplayPort, DVI, with 2 x PCIe slots and Crossfire support.”
Gigabyte P67A-UD7 Preview @ Xtreme Systems
“Black PCB design has really caught on in the past few years, now GIGABYTE is offering their design with smooth matte surface; it’s almost like an extra layer of PCB. I have a personal gripe with many black PCB motherboards because up close they look brown!!! It is because of the copper traces and PCB coming from underneath the black coating. On this board there is nothing on the sort.”
Gigabyte X58A-UD5 @ LANOC
“With X58 motherboards ranging in price from just over $150 to a crazy $600, it can be daunting to find a nice mix of features and quality without breaking the bank. Gigabyte has a range of X58 boards separated with the UDx moniker. The UD stands for Ultra Durable and the ‘x’ indicating the number of special features, making it easy to spot the more expensive and features filled boards.”
Palit GeForce GTX 570 Sonic Platinum @ Guru3D
“The extra’s can be found in the customized looks with that very dandy looking dual-fan GPU cooler. Next to that Palit pre-clocked the product at a nice 800 MHz for you on the core, 1600 MHz on the shader domain and even the memory got bumped up towards 4000 MHz (effective).”
Zotac GeForce GTX 580 1536MB @ Think Computers
“Just about a month ago NVIDIA announced the new Fermi GF110 GPU and the GeForce GTX 580 video card. This will be NVIDIA’s new flagship card replacing the older GTX 480. The GF100 GPU was never what NVIDIA meant it to be and they went back and revised it a little bit for this new line of cards. This means they were able to achieve higher clock speeds and all 512 CUDA cores are enabled.”
ECS A890GXM-A2 @ OCAholic
“ECS’ latest high-end AMD board belongs to their the Black Series. Based on the current high-end chipset from AMD, the 890GX. It differs from the 890FX in it’s integrated graphic part and a smaller manufacturing process (45nm instead of 55nm). This board supports all recent technological innovations such as CrossFire, Hybrid CrossFire High Definition Audio 7.1 and SATA3/USB3.”
Gigabyte EX58-UD3R @ OCAholic
“The EX58-UD3R definitely is Gigabytes entry level model into the X58 league. Overall it leaves a solid impression and it convinces with its simplicity. Furthermore it’s a handy thing for a well performing office PC or a file server, because of the eight SATA ports it’s been equipped with.”
ASUS Sabertooth 55i @ HardOCP
“We don’t expect the world of these first ASUS “TUF” (The Ultimate Force) Sabertooth products, but we surely like the way things look to be headed. We have learned over the years that first products out of the gate with new lines can sometimes be shaky. Surely ASUS thinks differently though as we see terms like “Military Grade Reliability” thrown around.”