news 28 Posted October 5, 2009 Hello Webmasters and News Posters, NEW CONTENT (Motherboards) - ASRock M3A770DE Motherboard - AMD's Discrete Value Chipset QUOTE: "In the past ASRock has also been overlooked by the enthusiasts, especially when they were OEM only. However, this has changed over the last two years. ASRock has changed its business model, hoping to attract the overclockers and enthusiasts out there and so far it seems to be working. ASRock boards are actually amongst some of the best overclocking out there and with additional features sometimes packed in such as the first boards to enable four cores on the Phenom tri-core CPU, it’s no wonder we are sitting up and taking notice." Today we have been sent a board aimed more at the mainstream/budget conscious users who don't really want to go hardcore gaming, but for more of a balanced setup. On show today we have the M3A770DE motherboard based around the AMD 770 chipset with SB710 Southbridge." For more information, please visit - http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/2952/asrock_m3a770de_motherboard_amd_s_discrete_value_chipset/index.html --- NEW CONTENT (Storage) - Transcend Ultra Series 120GB 2.5-inch Solid State Drive QUOTE: "Transcend has their hands in several consumer markets these days. The company is known mainly for their memory products like compact flash and thumb drives. The company has been branching out into different market segments and now has a line of consumer electronics like digital photo frames and MP3 players. Transcend has also ventured into solid state drives and has an impressive lineup started. The latest SSD in Transcend’s portfolio is the Ultra. The Ultra is actually a series name but there are currently only two models available, the 60GB and 120GB capacity drives. The Ultra Series uses an Indilinx Barefoot controller, the same version with 64MB cache that we have tested here numerous times and have fallen in love with." For more information, please visit - http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/2951/transcend_ultra_series_120gb_2_5_inch_solid_state_drive/index.html --- NEW CONTENT (Laptops) - Gateway NV5214u Multimedia Notebook QUOTE: "I am glad to say that this review is not of a netbook. It's become common recently for many of the new systems that hit the market to be netbooks. An actual new notebook can be hard to come by thanks to the netbook revolution, at least in the lower end of the price range. The Gateway machine I will be looking at today carries a price that is not too out of line with many netbooks on the market." The big difference is that the Gateway NC5214u has a full size notebook screen and keyboard plus it crams real notebook hardware of the AMD variety under the hood. Gateway always goes out of its way to make its machines look as good as they perform and the NV52 I am looking at today is no different." http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/2950/gateway_nv5214u_multimedia_notebook/index.html --- NEW CONTENT (Storage) - Thecus N5500 Five-Bay NAS Server QUOTE: "Thecus has been on a roll in 2009 launching one product after another. Some of the new products are just updates of previously released ones like the N7700 SAS and N8800 SAS, while others are redesigned from the ground up. The Thecus N5200 Pro was an amazing product but its time has now come to pass. The successor to the N5200 Pro is the N5500, another 5 SATA bay NAS server. The N5500 is powered by an Intel Core2Duo processor and 1GB of DDR2 memory. The N5500 as you may have guessed from the model name is a 5 drive NAS server, just like the model it’s replacing. New from Thecus this year is the AJAX software interface that makes setup and configuration changes much easier. The updated hardware should make backup operations go faster, an area that the N5200 could have used a boost in." For more information, please visit - http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/2949/thecus_n5500_five_bay_nas_server/index.html --- NEW CONTENT (Storage) - Patriot Torqx M28 128GB Solid State Drive QUOTE: "Patriot has been on the charge with their SSD line-up. It started out when they entered the market with the Warp Series and now we are on the second version of the Torqx drive. Patriot has even launched their first Apple specific model, the KOI. The Torqx M28 is a different breed from the Torqx we tested back in June. The first Torqx product used the Indilinx Barefoot controller with 64MB of cache. The latest version, the M28 has 128MB of cache and uses a Samsung controller. This isn’t the first time we have tested a drive with the Samsung chip, the Kingston V+ Series, Corsair P256 and P64 drives that we tested in RAID also use the same controller." For more information, please visit - http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/2946/patriot_torqx_m28_128gb_solid_state_drive/index.html Best Regards, The TweakTown Team http://www.tweaktown.com Share this post Link to post
