PC Zenith v4

When it comes to add-in board vendors, EVGA is probably the most faithful company in the business. Ever since the company launched, Nvidia was the only name EVGA wanted to hear about. But, things are about to change. Here are the facts:
1)    EVGA does not want to miss the Core i7 train
2)    Nvidia is not making a chipset for Intel Core i7
3)    EVGA poached excellent engineering team from now-defunct EPoX and does not want that team to do nothing until MCP8-series show up
Well, those facts end with a really simple result. EVGA is preparing to launch its first non-Nvidia based motherboard, but it will still have Nvidia chips on it. You’ve guessed it right – X58+nForce 200 bridges for full Triple-SLI capability. Read more @ TheoValich blog.

Believe it or not Gigabyte lists 18 models of motherboard that are built around the Intel P45 chipset. Add the G45, P43, G43 and X48 chipsets into the equation and the total number of current Core 2 models rises to 29 which is confusing to say the least, so it’s worth taking a moment to see exactly where the GA-EP45-DS3P fits into Gigabyte’s product range. Every P45 model has a model code that starts GA-EP45 so it’s the suffix that we’re interested in, which in this case is DS3P. This is an Ultra Durable 2 motherboard so the area around the CPU socket is typically neat and tidy and that won’t change with the transition to Ultra Durable 3 as the chokes, capacitors and MOSFETs look the same. The cooling system is slightly more extensive than we would expect for a DS3 model with a heatpipe linking the passive cooler on the power regulation hardware behind the IO panel and the cooler on the Northbridge. The tiny cooler on the hardware at the top of the board and the similarly small Southbridge cooler aren’t connected and have to rely on the airflow inside the case to keep them cool. Read more @ TrustedReviews.

The Gigabyte EP45-T Extreme is an excellent board, even with its DDR3 timing shortcomings.It has great I/O expandability, and an excellent feature set; it was quite stable during testing – and I never had to remove the CMOS battery no matter how I tried to overclock it! I liked all the copper heatsinks and heatpipes too, and the debug LED and on-board switches are great when tweaking. Don’t put too much weight on the good, but less than stellar DDR3 performance – the performance is “good enough” that you can only tell the shortcomings of the P45 on some benchmarks, and it does not greatly affect benchmarks; frankly the easy overclockability and feature set outweigh the slight performance loss on the memory side of things. Read more @ Neoseeker.

Jako dobra grafička kartica, koja će zadovoljiti sve one koje hoće igrati svoje najdražje igre u novom vizualnom nivou, bez trzanja i igranja na medium postavkama. Preporučam Gigabyte 8800GTS 320Mb svima onima koji imaju ekran 19” ili veći, a ako se igrate na većim rezolucijama, onda 8800GTS 640mb će biti savršena investicija za budućnost, a oni koji žele više postoji još jača verzija od ove gore navedene, tj. 8800GTX sa čak 768Mb radne memorije, te Ultra verzija koja je zapravo GTX tvornički overclockan.

Link na recenziju