Yearly Archives: 2011

Hardware Reviews, Intel LGA1155, Intel Motherboards

ASRock Z68 Pro3 Gen3 Intel LGA 1155 Motherboard Review

Today, the ASRock Z68 Pro3 Gen3 Intel LGA1155 Sandy Bridge motherboard is tested at ocinside.de. A few months ago, we reviewed the ASRock Z68 Pro3 motherboard and its result was excellent, but ASRock was able to top it once again. The ASRock Z68 Pro3 Gen3 is based on Intel’s Z68 chipset and offers an inexpensive solution for current LGA1155 processors like e.g. the Intel Core i7-2600K, or the very popular Intel Core i5-2500K processor which we have used to test … Continue reading ASRock Z68 Pro3 Gen3 Intel LGA 1155 Motherboard Review →

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AMD Motherboards, AMD Socket AM3 and AM3+, Hardware Reviews

ASRock 970 Extreme4 AMD Socket AM3+ Motherboard Review

Today we are looking at the new ASRock 970 Extreme4 motherboard. The AM3+ board is based on the AMD 970 chipset with SB950 southbridge and offers five PCI Express slots, up to four USB3.0 ports, five SATA3 ports, one eSATA3 port, one Gigabit LAN port and 7.1 sound over six analog sound connectors or digital sound over optical SPDIF and coaxial SPDIF output connectors. The current AMD 970 motherboard supports the new AMD FX 4-, 6-, or 8-Core Bulldozer processors … Continue reading ASRock 970 Extreme4 AMD Socket AM3+ Motherboard Review →

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Cases, Hardware Reviews

Cooler Master Silencio 550 Review

A noiseless PC or at least a very silent PC is a dream for many users. For this reason Cooler Master developed the Silencio 550 Mid-Tower PC enclosure with sound adsorption, which has a polished front panel surface and offers an integrated SD-Card reader in addition to many more useful features. In our current review we test in detail the sound insulated Cooler Master Silencio 550. Thanks for the support … Many thanks for the support with the Cooler Master … Continue reading Cooler Master Silencio 550 Review →

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Cases, Hardware Reviews

Cooler Master Elite 430 Black Review

After the recently tested computer case in the upper price segment, the inexpensive Cooler Master Elite 430 black Mid Tower PC enclosure is tested. Cooler Master integrated a transparent side window and a 120mm front blue LED fan, so the design looks great. Let us take a look at the other criteria in our current review of the Cooler Master Elite 430 chassis. Thanks for the support … Many thanks for the support with the Cooler Master Elite 430 Black … Continue reading Cooler Master Elite 430 Black Review →

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IR Receiver Serial, IR Receiver USB, Modding

PC remote control in Linux guide

How to remotely control PC in Linux with LIRC Step by step instructions on setting up an infrared remote control in Linux … Anyone who has dealt with the topic of a living-room PC or HTPC, will have already done some thinking about the media player software and operating system. It should load quickly, be easy to use and also be cheap or even free. Well, everything you create with a Linux based media player software such as MythTV on … Continue reading PC remote control in Linux guide →

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Hardware Reviews, HDD and SSD, SSDs

Samsung 470 Series 128GB MZ-5PA128 SSD Review

In this review at ocinside.de the Samsung 470 Series 128GB SSD is compared against some SSDs of ADATA, Crucial, Mach Extreme Technology and OCZ. Since it is a SATA II SSD, it surely will not be able to keep up with the top 6 Gb/s drives, but let us take a look at some benchmark results, to see what Samsung can get out of the 30nm memory in combination with their Samsung controller. Thanks for the support … Many thanks … Continue reading Samsung 470 Series 128GB MZ-5PA128 SSD Review →

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AMD Motherboards, AMD Socket AM3 and AM3+, Hardware Reviews

ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Professional AMD Socket AM3+ Motherboard Review

The new ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Professional AM3+ motherboard is based on the AMD 990FX chipset with SB950 southbridge and offers five PCI Express slots, up to six USB3.0 ports, whereby two of them can be connected with the enclosed USB3.0 front panel/back panel, six SATA3 ports, two eSATA3 ports, two teaming capable Gigabit LAN ports, six analog sound connectors, digital optical SPDIF and coaxial SPDIF sound output. In this review we examine the features of this motherboard and test how … Continue reading ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Professional AMD Socket AM3+ Motherboard Review →

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Hardware Reviews, HDD and SSD, SSDs

Mach Xtreme Technology MX-DS Turbo 120GB MXSSD3MDST-120G SSD Review

Mach Xtreme Technology shows with this MX-DS Turbo 120GB SATA III SSD, what SSDs can reach with the SF-2281 Controller. The brand-new SandForce SSD is tested with some benchmark tools in AHCI and Legacy IDE mode at SATA3 port and all values are compared to all SSDs tested at ocinside.de so far. We will see the strengths and the weaknesses of this SSD, which even received the Redaktion ocinside.de Overclocking Dream Award 09/2011 in this review. Thanks for the support … Continue reading Mach Xtreme Technology MX-DS Turbo 120GB MXSSD3MDST-120G SSD Review →

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More AMD Guides, Workshop

Interactive AMD Phenom product ID guide v1.2

Interactive AMD product ID guide now also with AMD Bulldozer processors ! A so called product ID or OPN description is on each AMD Phenom, Phenom II and Athlon II CPU, but the product ID is not really easy to understand without studying several datasheets. On the new AMD Phenom product ID guide v1.2 simply select the description of your processor over the drop-down fields or type it directly into the new OPN field. Then you will see the technical … Continue reading Interactive AMD Phenom product ID guide v1.2 →

Hardware Reviews, Power Supplies - PSU

Cooler Master GX-650 Bronze PSU Review

Cooler Master already enthused the ocinside.de online magazine with some Silent Pro Gold Series power supply units, which can be found in the upper price segment. Today we look at the much more inexpensive Cooler Master GX-650 Bronze power supply, which should have a good energy efficiency in spite of the low price. Let us compare the results of this non-modular power supply with the previous PSUs. Thanks for the support … Many thanks for the support with the GX-650 … Continue reading Cooler Master GX-650 Bronze PSU Review →

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Hardware Reviews, HDD and SSD, SSDs

ADATA S511 120GB AS511S3-120GM-C SATA3 SSD Review

ocinside.de tested a new SSD with SandForce SF-2281 controller, which should provide a very high performance. The brand-new ADATA S511 SATA3 SSD is available in capacities from 64GB to 480GB, whereby the capacity of 120GB is tested in this review. Thanks for the support … Many thanks to Caseking.de for the support with the ADATA S511 120GB 2.5″ SSD. The ADATA S511 120GB SATA3 2.5″ SSD AS511S3-120GM-C has at present a price of approx. 210 Euro (08/2011). The ADATA RealSSD … Continue reading ADATA S511 120GB AS511S3-120GM-C SATA3 SSD Review →

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Computer Tradeshow Reports, Links and Downloads

gamescom 2011 Coverage

The gamescom 2011 is one of the most important gaming fairs in Europe and took place again in Cologne, Germany. The ocinside.de online magazine visited gamescom and shows on 7 pages with more than 80 pictures new games, game consoles, hardware and casemods. It is only available in German language, but it is worth watching the pictures or use a translation tool to discover the latest gaming trends. Continue reading the gamescom 2011 Coverage …

AMD Misc, AMD Motherboards, Hardware Reviews

Sapphire IPC-E350M1 AMD E350 Mini ITX Motherboard Review

The Sapphire IPC-E350M1 Pure Fusion Mini E350 Mini-ITX motherboard with AMD E350 APU and HD6310 GPU offers on smallest space useful features to build a HTPC or NetTop PC. The small motherboard offers an integrated graphics unit, PCI Express x16 slot, Gigabit LAN, USB3.0, 8-channel sound and much more features, which can not be found on all full-grown boards. In the current review of the Sapphire IPC-E350M1 motherboard we examine also again the overclocking, but the main focus of this … Continue reading Sapphire IPC-E350M1 AMD E350 Mini ITX Motherboard Review →

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Links and Downloads, OC Meetings

OCinside.de OC Event 2011

This year again a great OC event is organized by our overclocker community of OCinside.de. The OCinside.de OC meeting 2011 was held from the 15.07. to 17.07.11 in Herford. With bright sunshine we grilled not only lots of original Thuringian grilled sausage, but also CPUs and accidentally also different. For the contests this time the participants had to estimate the CPU temperature, fan speed and the maximum possible overclocking results with different voltages. The winner could received ASRock motherboards, gaming … Continue reading OCinside.de OC Event 2011 →