Yearly Archives: 2011

Hardware Reviews, Intel LGA1155, Intel Motherboards

ASRock Z68 Pro3 Intel LGA 1155 Motherboard Review

The ASRock Z68 Pro3 is the first Intel LGA1155 Sandy Bridge motherboard tested so far at ocinside.de. It is based on Intel’s Z68 chipset and offers a very inexpensive solution for current 1155-Pin processors like e.g. the unlocked Intel Core i7-2600K, unlocked Core i5-2500K with which we have tested the motherboard, Intel Core i3-2120, i3-2100 or Intel Pentium Q850, Q840, G620 and more LGA1155 processors. The equipment is relatively basic, but it offers some settings for overclocking and a lot … Continue reading ASRock Z68 Pro3 Intel LGA 1155 Motherboard Review →

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Hardware Reviews, HDD and SSD, SSDs

Crucial m4 256GB CT256M4SSD2 SATA3 SSD Review

The Crucial m4 SSD is currently the fastest SSD from Crucial with Micron NAND, Marvell Controller and a capacity of 64GB, 128GB and 256GB up to 512GB. We have tested the Crucial m4 256GB and/or Micron RealSSD C400 256GB extensively. In all benchmarks we made a direct comparison on SATA3 port in IDE and AHCI mode and the test report will show a few surprises. Let us take a look, if the newest m4 or C400 SSD is at least … Continue reading Crucial m4 256GB CT256M4SSD2 SATA3 SSD Review →

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Cases, Hardware Reviews

BitFenix Colossus Venom Review

This BitFenix Colossus Venom Big Tower is particularly noticeable by its unique design. The red LED lighting looks not bad, but especially the bright green of the Venom edition is a special highlight. Of course not only the design is important for the right choice of a computer chassis and therefore the BitFenix Colossus Venom case is tested at the ocinside.de online magazine. Thanks for the support … Many thanks for the support with the BitFenix Colossus Venom chassis by … Continue reading BitFenix Colossus Venom Review →

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

ASRock 890FX Deluxe5 Socket AM3+ Motherboard Review

This ASRock 890FX Deluxe5 is the first AMD Socket AM3+ motherboard tested so far here at ocinside.de. It is based on the AMD 890FX chipset with SB850 southbridge and is except a few points very similarly build, like the already tested ASRock 890FX Deluxe AM3 predecessor. The new ASRock 890FX Deluxe5 AM3+ motherboard has also five PCI Express slots, four USB3.0 ports, whereby two of them can be connected with the enclosed USB3.0 front panel/back panel, six SATA3 connectors provided … Continue reading ASRock 890FX Deluxe5 Socket AM3+ Motherboard Review →

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Hardware Reviews, HDD and SSD, SSDs

Mach Xtreme Technology MX-Nano 60GB 1.8-inch PATA 50-Pin SSD Review

How to make a notebook faster easily. Who is dissatisfied with the speed of the notebook or netbook, can increase the notebook performance easy and relatively inexpensive. When we like to get the notebook much faster, most of us immediately think about a RAM upgrade, buying a new CPU or overclocking the notebook CPU. Additionally, the installation of a fast SSD instead of the HDD increases the performance enormously. In this test report at www.ocinside.de we show that one can … Continue reading Mach Xtreme Technology MX-Nano 60GB 1.8-inch PATA 50-Pin SSD Review →

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AMD Motherboards, Hardware Reviews, Intel Motherboards

ASRock Motherboard Preview 2011

ASRock Motherboard Preview 2011 The latest ASRock Motherboards ASRock invited us to a Fatal1ty P67/H67 event in the Holiday Inn hotel Ratingen, Germany and presented some of their current motherboards. However, their motherboards were not only shown in this presentation, because the well-known gamer Johnathan aka Fatal1ty also visited this product presentation. ASRock has developed the ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional in cooperation with Fatal1ty, so it suggest itself, that Fatal1ty presented the product Live in this presentation. Quake was extremely … Continue reading ASRock Motherboard Preview 2011 →

Hardware Reviews, Intel LGA1155, Intel Motherboards

Gaming with Fatal1ty on an ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional

ASRock Motherboard Preview 2011 The latest ASRock Motherboards Gaming with Fatal1ty on an ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional … Of course, ASRock not only wanted to show the pure facts of their current Intel boards, but also to demonstrate the impressive performance of the newest ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional motherboard. Thus, without farther ado, ASRock build two PC systems with their Fatal1ty P67 Professional … Then Fatal1ty warmed up a few minutes and invited to a short Quake match. However, these … Continue reading Gaming with Fatal1ty on an ASRock Fatal1ty P67 Professional →

Computer Tradeshow Reports, Links and Downloads

CeBIT 2011 Coverage

The CeBIT 2011 computer fair in Hanover showed also in this year a lot of new products. On the following 11 pages of our CeBIT 2011 report you will see over 130 pictures with some new products of the IT-industry. This ocinside.de CeBIT 2011 report is hardware related and contains new mobile products, 3D products, motherboards, mediaplayer, chassis, cooler, PSUs, SSDs and memory modules. It is only available in German language, but it is worth watching the pictures or use … Continue reading CeBIT 2011 Coverage →

Misc Guides, Workshop

Interactive power consumption calculator – calculate current consumption and energy costs

Interactive electricity costs calculator – calculate power consumption Calculate the current consumption and cost of electricity … With this simple online tool one can calculate fast and easy the current consumption and electricity costs. No matter, if one would like to calculate the computer power consumption or other household equipment. Simply change the values in the lower range and watch the approximate costs for your inputs. The interactive power consumption calculator and the examples are an excerpt from our last … Continue reading Interactive power consumption calculator – calculate current consumption and energy costs →

Hardware Reviews, Power Supplies - PSU

Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 1000W Modular PSU Review

Cooler Master already showed in our previous reviews, that they manufacture excellent power supply units and their Silent Pro Gold 1000W power supply underlines this impressively. The results are so impressive, that the Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 1000W received the ocinside.de OverClocking Dream 02/2011 award. In the review we will examine, among other things, how high the current consumption is with this enormously high power of 1KW and if it is worth to buy such a PSU. Thanks for … Continue reading Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 1000W Modular PSU Review →

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