http://www.digit-life.com/ Digit-Life.com: Technology Reviews http://www.digit-life.com/pic/button1.gif http://www.digit-life.com/ http://www.digit-life.com/articles3/mainboard/gigabyte-ma78g-ds3h-780g-p1.html http://www.digit-life.com/articles3/mainboard/gigabyte-ma78g-ds3h-780g-p1.html Today's motherboard is a full-size solution (which already makes it attractive for universal PC builders) featuring two graphics slots as well as an integrated graphics core that supports CrossFire and Hybrid CrossFire modes. http://www.digit-life.com/articles3/mainboard/ecs-gf8200a-geforce8200-p1.html http://www.digit-life.com/articles3/mainboard/ecs-gf8200a-geforce8200-p1.html The idea of building an inexpensive PC on a full-size integrated motherboard with a digital monitor output is getting increasingly popular. ECS is well aware of requirements of budget PC buyers. At least, judging by the abundance of motherboards with this very market positioning. Let's see what the company has to offer this time. http://www.digit-life.com/articles3/video/gt200-3-p1.html http://www.digit-life.com/articles3/video/gt200-3-p1.html We've already examined a lot of products from this company. And today we shall test two more overclocked AMP! cards. http://www.digit-life.com/articles3/cpu/asus-sknightII-cooler-july2k8-p1.html http://www.digit-life.com/articles3/cpu/asus-sknightII-cooler-july2k8-p1.html We've reviewed quite a few Mid-End coolers from ASUS, which almost always had decent technical properties. But the company also has a thoroughly developed High-End series. And the first such product to be reviewed now is Silent Knight II -- a promising premium cooler that offers an interesting combination of advanced design and attractive exterior. http://www.digit-life.com/articles3/mainboard/nvidia-nforce-700a-chipsets-p1.html http://www.digit-life.com/articles3/mainboard/nvidia-nforce-700a-chipsets-p1.html The idea to integrate a graphics core into all chipsets looks quite natural for NVIDIA, which strategical task has always been to promote its own graphics solutions in its chipsets. On the other hand, users start to pay attention to performance of these graphics cores even when they wouldn't have cared in other cases. http://www.digit-life.com/articles3/video/rv770-3-part1-p1.html http://www.digit-life.com/articles3/video/rv770-3-part1-p1.html First of all, it was planned to oppose GeForce GTX 280 with CrossFire configurations based on two separate HD 4850 or HD 4870 cards. Then the company presented a dual-GPU solution on a single PCB, the RADEON HD 4870 X2. We've already published its preview with several tests. Now it's time for a sterling article with theoretical data, synthetic tests, and an expanded set of games. http://www.digit-life.com/articles3/video/video-cpu-power-game-2-p1.html http://www.digit-life.com/articles3/video/video-cpu-power-game-2-p1.html We have already researched into the most balanced PC configuration, but it seems this problem has no ends. Today our objective is to increase game resolutions to 1680x1050 and add the most resource-consuming modern games. http://www.digit-life.com/articles3/cpu/amd-sempron-le-1100-p1.html http://www.digit-life.com/articles3/cpu/amd-sempron-le-1100-p1.html Today's article will be a complete antipode to the previous: now we are interested in Low-End processors instead of top products. These processors are manufactured for a reason, aren't they? So, we'll find out what they can do and how fast. http://www.digit-life.com/articles3/cpu/amd-athlon-64-x2-6400-p1.html http://www.digit-life.com/articles3/cpu/amd-athlon-64-x2-6400-p1.html It was not difficult to come up with a topic for our today's article, because many readers demanded this very analysis: comparison of top processors from Intel and AMD. Even though we state repeatedly that these products differ very much, and their comparison makes little sense, our readers still want to know the truth, no matter how bitter it is. Well, here you are. http://www.digit-life.com/articles3/cpu/intel-c2d-e6550-e6850-e8200-e8500-p1.html http://www.digit-life.com/articles3/cpu/intel-c2d-e6550-e6850-e8200-e8500-p1.html We shall examine two interesting families of Intel processors with 333 MHz (1333 MHz Quad Pumped) FSB, based on the relatively old (Conroe) and relatively new (Wolfdale) cores. We selected the slowest and the fastest CPU from each series. So, even if you are not interested in core comparison, you still get useful information about performance ranges of these CPU families.