December 2011
 | Today, the ASRock Z68 Pro3 Gen3 Intel LGA1155 Sandy Bridge motherboard is tested at ocinside.de. A few months ago, we reviewed the ASRock Z68 Pro3 motherboard and its result was excellent, but ASRock was able to top it once again. The ASRock Z68 Pro3 Gen3 is based on Intel's Z68 chipset and offers an inexpensive solution for current LGA1155 processors like e.g. the Intel Core i7-2600K, or the very popular Intel Core i5-2500K processor which we have used to test the motherboard. Not only the board layout is changed, but above all in comparison to the Z68 Pro3 the ASRock Z68 Pro3 Gen3 supports PCI-Express 3.0 video cards with an Ivy Bridge CPU and some additional features, which we will test in this review.
ASRock Z68 Pro3 Gen3 Intel LGA 1155 Motherboard Review |
 | The ocinside.de overclocking software page got an extensive update with dozens of small tools to tune, benchmark and test the PC hardware. If you like to overclock, backup, or monitor your PC or if you just like to check your components, this is the right place for you. There are useful older Shareware and Freeware tools, as well as the latest tweakting tools to change the CPU multiplier or FSB and to overclock current nVidia or AMD/ATI video cards. Additionally, the latest SiSoftware Sandra, Futuremark 3DMark and PCMark benchmark programs got an update and are hosted in the most current version on the ocinside.de Servers. The overview contains direct downloads, links to the developers, a small description and the size of the respective software.
New Overclock, Backup, Benchmark, Diagnostic Software and Tools Roundup |
 | Today we are looking at the new ASRock 970 Extreme4 motherboard. The AM3+ board is based on the AMD 970 chipset with SB950 southbridge and offers five PCI Express slots, up to four USB3.0 ports, five SATA3 ports, one eSATA3 port, one Gigabit LAN port and 7.1 sound over six analog sound connectors or digital sound over optical SPDIF and coaxial SPDIF output connectors. The current AMD 970 motherboard supports the new AMD FX 4-, 6-, or 8-Core Bulldozer processors as well as the AMD Athlon II or AMD Phenom II CPU. Let us take a look at the ASRock 970 Extreme4 motherboard.
ASRock 970 Extreme4 AMD Socket AM3+ Motherboard Review |
I don't hold any responsibility for any damage caused by overclocking.
There is always a risk of damaging your hardware.
And your warranty becomes void if you overclock something.
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