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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Hardware Reviews, Power Supplies - PSU

Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 600W Modular PSU Review

After the recently tested Cooler Master Silent Pro M500 power supply we have reviewed the modular Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 600W PSU. In this review we like to test not only the power supply under real conditions, but also the difference between that 80Plus Gold power supply unit and previously tested 80Plus PSUs. No one like to spend money for too high power consumption, so we want to achieve the best energy efficiency, also for our overclocked PCs. Let … Continue reading Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 600W Modular PSU Review →

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Hardware Reviews, HDD and SSD, SSDs

Crucial RealSSD C300 64GB 1.8-inch SATA3 CTFDDAA064MAG-1G1 SSD Review

The Crucial RealSSD C300 64GB SSD is the first SSD in 1.8-inch size, tested at Redaktion ocinside.de. With this tiny, 5mm thin SATA3 SSD it is possible to upgrade a netbook, notebook, MP3 player, media player or also a conventional PC and Mac in order to reach an undreamed-of SSD performance. In today’s test report one can see several benchmarks compared with other 3.5-inch hard disk drives and 2.5-inch SSDs installed on the SATA2 and SATA3 port. Furthermore on visitor … Continue reading Crucial RealSSD C300 64GB 1.8-inch SATA3 CTFDDAA064MAG-1G1 SSD Review →

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

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 →

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