AMD Motherboards, AMD Socket AM2 and AM2+, Hardware Reviews

ASRock ALiveNF5-eSATA2+ AMD Socket AM2 Motherboard Review

The ASRock ALiveNF5-eSATA2+ Socket AM2 motherboard is based on the nForce 520 chipset and offers many overclocking options for a very good price. It is not only easy to overclock with this board, it is also easy to underclock. For some users with 24/7 PCs it became a sport to underclock processors in order to lower the temperature and to lower the power consumption enormously. It was possible to run an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Socket AM2 CPU instead of … Continue reading ASRock ALiveNF5-eSATA2+ AMD Socket AM2 Motherboard Review →

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AMD Motherboards, AMD Socket AM2 and AM2+, Hardware Reviews

Foxconn A690GM2MA-8KRS2H AMD Socket AM2 Motherboard Review

The Foxconn A690GM2MA 8KRS2H MicroATX motherboard offers with the new AMD 690G chipset an onboard graphics solution with DVI and Sub-D VGA ouput, as well as internal TV-Out connection. The ATI Radeon 1200 series is by far not comparable with current PCIe video cards, however it offers sufficient performance for office applications and thanks to the provided Microsoft Windows Vista drivers it’s possible to build an inexpensive Vista based PC platform. There’re some deficits regarding overclocking, but this shouldn’t be … Continue reading Foxconn A690GM2MA-8KRS2H AMD Socket AM2 Motherboard Review →

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AMD Overclocking, AMD Socket A OC, Workshop

Interactive Pin-Mod guide for AMD Athlon XP, T-Bred and Barton CPUs – the wire trick

Who doesn’t know the problem that it’s not possible to increase the FSB in the BIOS, or the increasement doesn’t change the pci/AGP divider correct so that the PC isn’t able to run stable. For these reasons I’ve build the new enhancements of the interactive Pin-Mod guide at OverClocked inside, where it’s now possible to fool the mainboard a 166 MHz or a 200 MHz FSB CPU to allow these FSBs also on mainboards which doesn’t have such FSB selections. … Continue reading Interactive Pin-Mod guide for AMD Athlon XP, T-Bred and Barton CPUs – the wire trick →

AMD Motherboards, AMD Socket AM2 and AM2+, Hardware Reviews

ASRock AM2NF3-VSTA AMD Athlon 64 Socket AM2 Mainboard with AGP Review

No, there’s no failure in the product description or headline, because the AM2NF3-VSTA from ASRock is really an AMD Socket AM2 motherboard with AGP 8x Slot Surely, some will be surprised about this combination and the nForce3 250 chipset, but it is nevertheless an interesting and an enormously inexpensive combination. Because this motherboard is useful for those, who bought a fast AGP video card for the previous system and would like to update the PC to a current AMD Socket … Continue reading ASRock AM2NF3-VSTA AMD Athlon 64 Socket AM2 Mainboard with AGP Review →

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AMD Overclocking, Motherboard Soldering, Workshop

Also with the Vcore solder guides one cannot go infinitely high

Even with the Vcore solder guides you can not go on indefinitely high! Those who have followed my Lötanleitungen recently will have noticed, I CPU Vcore voltage short (up to the little mistake with the MSI board to 2.97 volts) did not set up too far. It is not only difficult to cool the processor good enough it also comes sometime shortly OVP to the limit of so-called over-voltage protection. I have now figured out ways to deal with the … Continue reading Also with the Vcore solder guides one cannot go infinitely high →

AMD Motherboards, AMD Socket AM2 and AM2+, Hardware Reviews

Foxconn N5M2AA-EKRS2H AMD Socket AM2 Motherboard Review

The new Foxconn N5M2AA-EKRS2H is an inexpensive solution for overclocker and all-rounder. Although the nVidia nForce 4 chipset is meanwhile somewhat outdated, Foxconn developed a good alternative to the latest Socket AM2 chipsets with this relaunch. Because beside a good basic equipment the board offers several overclocking options and was overclocked up to 300 MHz reference clock during the test. All strengths and weaknesses of the Foxconn WinFast motherboard will be shown in the review and can be compared in … Continue reading Foxconn N5M2AA-EKRS2H AMD Socket AM2 Motherboard Review →

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AMD Motherboards, AMD Socket AM2 and AM2+, Hardware Reviews

Foxconn N570SM2AA-8EKRS2H nForce 570 SLI AMD Socket AM2 Motherboard Review

The brand-new N570SM2AA-8EKRS2H motherboard from the company Foxconn reminds on the recently awarded C51XEM2AA-8EKRS2H motherboard. However, the current pendant with a nForce 570 SLI chipset is more inexpensive and offers a better equipment. Unfortunately this board is not as well overclockable, but the results are still very nice compared to the 25 previously tested AMD Athlon 64 motherboards

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Computer Tradeshow Reports, Links and Downloads

CeBIT 2007 Coverage

The CeBIT Hannover is also in this year 2007 one of the most important computer exhibitions and on ocinside.de is once again a report with dozens of pictures, which you should not miss. The main focus of this 7 pages long CeBIT coverage is on current PC hardware like e.g. new motherboards, chassis and monitors. In addition there are some interesting multimedia products, innovative Gaming accessories and much more. From hell machines up to a PC, which can read your … Continue reading CeBIT 2007 Coverage →

AMD Motherboards, AMD Socket 939, Hardware Reviews

ASRock 939SLI-eSATA2 PCIe SLI AMD Athlon 64 Socket 939 Motherboard Review

After the recently published ASRock 939SLI32-eSATA2 Motherboard test there’s today the 939SLI-eSATA2 motherboard reviewed on ocinside.de Who would like to save 10 Euro compared to the SLI32 pendant, shouldn’t miss this Review. In addition the current test report of the inexpensive ASRock 939SLI-eSATA2 Motherboard shows if there’s much difference between PCIe 16x compared to PCIe 8x and what we can expect regarding the overclocking.

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AMD Athlon 64 OC, AMD Overclocking, AMD Phenom, AMD Phenom II and AMD Athlon II OC, Workshop

Help and handling of the AMD Socket 939 and Socket 754 CPU Pinmod guide

Assistance to the interactive AMD Socket AM2, Socket 939 and S 754 CPU Pinmod guides The introduction … In order to obtain a good CPU overclock result, usually an increase of the Vcore (CPU voltage) is necessary. One should naturally always watch the CPU temperature and improve the cooling if necessary. Since the Vcore cannot be changed however with all Motherboards, or often only very slightly, there’s now the new Pinmod guide for current AMD Socket 939 and Socket 754 … Continue reading Help and handling of the AMD Socket 939 and Socket 754 CPU Pinmod guide →