BenchZone proudly presents to you the Asus Striker II Extreme review.
The Asus Striker II Extreme is Asus's newest R.O.G. series motherboard utilizing nVIDIA's latest nFORCE chipset, the nFORCE 790i Ultra SLI.
The nFORCE 790i Ultra SLI chipset features DDR3 memory support, 2-way, 3-way and Quad-SLI for Intel's LGA775 platform.
The Striker II Extreme features a fully fledged BIOS with a enormous amount of settings, very good DDR3 memory overclocking capabilities, decent FSB overclocking capabilities and very good performance ( clock per clock ).
Like every "Republic Of Gamers" motherboard comes with lots of "goodies", a external LCD Poster monitor to troubleshoot your system if you're having problems POSTing, a illuminated I/O Shield, a led lit R.O.G. logo on the NorthBridge heatsink, the Fusion Block System / NorthBridge WaterBlock, a EPU for "optimized" power regulation & saving, quick power on / reset / clear CMOS buttons on board.

As usual, we performed several tests and checked out every feature of the new board, and also set up 2 systems to compare this motherboard with the Asus P5K3 Deluxe motherboard, and the Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS4 motherboard.

Grab a cup of coffee or your favorite drink and read the review now!

A bit late ( or not ) to the party or not, the Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS4 is a decent budget LGA775 motherboard that deserves your attention if you're looking for a stable, user-friendly, and easily overclockable motherboard to play along with your new Core 2 Duo or Core 2 Quad processor.

We tested it in both stock & overclocked conditions and compared it with the brand new Asus Striker II Extreme 790i Ultra SLI motherboard, and our trusty Asus P5K3 Deluxe.

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BenchZone proudly presents to you the review/article about 3D Mark Vantage, FutureMark's newest addition to the 3D Mark Series benchmarks.

The new installment features several new tests and for the first time, their brand new engine, with native DirectX 10 support. To be precise it's a DirectX 10 only benchmark, so you need a DirectX 10 compliant graphics card to run it, and of course Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system.

We tested various graphics cards, and different processors to see what we could score in FutureMark's new "toy" ( for the overclockers & gamers ).

We also take it a step further and explored ( tested ) how the benchmark's scores change by adding more CPU Cores to our system or overclocking our CPU.

We've everything you could ask for inside, videos, screenshots, lots of scores, comparisons for gamers & extreme overclockers. RAM Timings influence tests, CPU Core Count tests and more!

So, go ahead and read the review now!

The embargo for FutureMark's new 3D Mark Series benchmark, 3D Mark Vantage has just ended.
We are currently finishing the review, which shall be online in 1 hour.

Before you get to read the review, feel free to watch a Benchmarking Run Video here

Yesterday FutureMark has published some information regarding their latest installment of the 3D Mark Series, the soon to be released "3D Mark Vantage".
There's a count-down at FutureMark's website for the public release date/time for 3D Mark Vantage, and the day & time of release is April 28th at 16:00 EET ( Finnish time ) [ 6AM PCT ].

We're currently running several tests with various configurations and 3D Mark Vantage, and we should have a article/review of 3D Mark Vantage right on time with it's release.

Stay tuned!

I've just got some newer information regarding the release date of GT200 based cards.
It seems that nVIDIA is going to release the GT200 high end part in mid-June.

That's not 100% confirmed folks, but that's how things look right now.
I will try to get a confirmation on this from a second source in the industry.

Do you want an insight regarding the reviews that we're working on ?
Well, here's what we have for you for this month:

- Asus Striker II Extreme - nVIDIA nFORCE 790i Ultra SLI motherboard
- Gigabyte EP35-DS4 - Intel P35 Express motherboard
- nVIDIA GeForce 9800GTX 512MB - a single nVIDIA G92 core based graphics card

We may publish some other reviews & articles as well. But that depends on the arrival dates of the rest parts, and our available time ( you know, motherboard reviews take a lot of time ;) )

If you're looking for a mid-range graphics card at a reasonable price, with high performance in todays' games, High Definition Video decoding capabilities, and a silent cooler, then you should check our latest review.

Today we're going to introduce to you the Twintech GeForce 8800GT 512MB Heat-Pipe Fan Edition graphics card.
It's a non-reference GeForce 8800GT 512MB graphics card with Twintech's custom heatsink ( cooler ) and a three phase GPU Core PWM circuit.

We've gathered some competition ( a ATi Radeon HD3870 512MB GDDR4, and a GeForce 8800GTS 512MB ) and set up a "dogfight" in some of the latest and most demanding computer games and synthetic benchmarks.
After measuring the cards performances, we overclocked them and run some overclocked benchmarks as well.
We also did some extreme overclocking with extreme cooling ( Liquid Nitrogen ) on our Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 and posted some photos and a video from the overclocking session for you to check out.

So, go ahead and read the review now!

nVIDIA's forthcoming ( not the 9900's ) high end GPU ( should be released in November, could also be earlier or later, depending on various things, including ATi's solutions appearance ):

Estimated Clocks: 600MHz GPU Core Clock - 1350MHz Stream Processors Clock - GDDR3-2200 Memory Clock
512BIT BUS Width
140.8Gbps Memory Bandwidth
240 SPs ( MADD + MUL more than likely )
120 TFUs
80 TMUs
32 ROPs
TSMC's 65nm Low-K manufacturing process

* Confirmed & not confirmed info mixed up *

Are you looking for a new CPU ? Or wanna have a look at the new 45nm Intel Core 2 CPUs from the "Penryn" family ? Want to find out how they perform at the same clocks against their 65nm predecessors ?
Wanna find out if there's any performance to gain from switching to a Quad-Core from a Dual-Core CPU ?
Want to see some extreme overclocking action with the new 45nm Dual-Core & Quad-Core processors from Intel ?

We have everything covered in this review

We take on the Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 and the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650, compare them with the Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 and the Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 at the same clock frequencies, and "fully" overclocked.
And then...we push them to their limits using air cooling, water cooling and extreme cooling ( Liquid Nitrogen ).

Go ahead and check out the review now!

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Your input is greatly appreciated.