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

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

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

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

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

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

Sapphire IPC-AM3DD785G Socket AM3 DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard Review

The Sapphire IPC-AM3DD785G is the first Mini ITX motherboard for AMD Socket AM3 processors tested at ocinside.de. Thanks to the small form factor, Mini ITX motherboards are excellently suitable for mediaplayer, NetTop PCs, or industrial PCs. The AMD 785G chipset is already recommended in some ocinside.de reviews and offers with its onBoard graphics unit a good basis to build such a system. However, on these systems overclocking is less important than a low current consumption. So the current review of … Continue reading Sapphire IPC-AM3DD785G Socket AM3 DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard Review

Sapphire PC-AM3RS890G AMD Socket AM3 DDR3 Motherboard Review

Sapphire offers a high-quality AMD Socket AM3 DDR3 motherboard with their PC-AM3RS890G, which is based on the current AMD 890GX chipset and the SB850 Southbridge. We already know the AMD 890GX chipset with the fast onBoard HD4290 graphics unit and 128MB sideport memory from previous ocinside.de reviews. This review will show if the Sapphire PC-AM3RS890G motherboard is an amazing board with a fast performance and high overclocking values.

Sapphire PI-AM3RS785G AMD Socket AM3 DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard Review

Some Socket AM3 motherboards with AMD 7xx chipset were already tested at ocinside.de and today the Sapphire PI-AM3RS785G is overclocked and tested. The micro ATX motherboard is based on the AMD 785G chipset with SB710 southbridge and it has a HD4200 onBoard graphics unit with 128MB sideport memory. This combination was already very powerful in previously tested AMD 785G standard ATX boards. In the current review we will see if the Sapphire micro ATX motherboard performance is also impressive and … Continue reading Sapphire PI-AM3RS785G AMD Socket AM3 DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard Review

ASRock 890FX Deluxe4 Socket AM3 DDR3 Motherboard Review

ASRock 890FX Deluxe4 is really a Deluxe Socket AM3 motherboard based on the AMD 890FX chipset with SB850 southbridge. Five PCI Express slots, four USB3.0 ports, whereby two of them are connected with the enclosed USB3.0 front panel, six SATA3 connectors provided by SB850, two additional SATA3 ports provided by a Marvel SE9120 chip, one eSATA3 connector, one conventional IDE port, Gigabit LAN, optical and coaxial SPDIF sound output in addition to the six analog sound connectors of the ALC892 … Continue reading ASRock 890FX Deluxe4 Socket AM3 DDR3 Motherboard Review