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AMD Motherboards, AMD Socket AM3 and AM3+, Hardware Reviews

Sapphire PC-AM3RS890G AMD Socket AM3 DDR3 Motherboard Review

Sapphire offers a high-quality AMD Socket AM3 DDR3 motherboard with their PC-AM3RS890G, which is based on the current AMD 890GX chipset and the SB850 Southbridge. We already know the AMD 890GX chipset with the fast onBoard HD4290 graphics unit and 128MB sideport memory from previous ocinside.de reviews. This review will show if the Sapphire PC-AM3RS890G motherboard is an amazing board with a fast performance and high overclocking values.

AMD Motherboards, AMD Socket AM3 and AM3+, Hardware Reviews

ASRock 890GX Extreme4 AMD Socket AM3 DDR3 Motherboard Review

ASRock tops their own excellent 890GX Extreme3 with the brandnew ASRock 890GX Extreme4 motherboard. With this board overclocking is fun and makes overclockers hearts beating faster. The overclocking result became once again better, there are more voltage adjustments and also the equipment was extended. Thanks to the enclosed front USB3.0 panel it is now possible to insert USB 3.0 devices like for example USB3.0 memory sticks finally into the PC front. In this review, the new 890GX motherboard with onBoard … Continue reading ASRock 890GX Extreme4 AMD Socket AM3 DDR3 Motherboard Review →

Hardware Reviews, HDD and SSD, SSDs

Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB SATA3 CTFDDAC256MAG-1G1 SSD Review

With the 256GB RealSSD C300 Crucial developed an enormously fast SATA3 SSD, which can clearly eclipse usual SATA2 Solid State Drives. In this test report, the Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB SATA3 SSD was practically tested and benchmarked on a SATA3 interface and on a SATA2 controller. The Redaktion ocinside.de review will show, if the at present largest and fastest 256GB RealSSD from Crucial is a great choice. Thanks for the support … Many thanks for the support with the Crucial … Continue reading Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB SATA3 CTFDDAC256MAG-1G1 SSD Review →

AMD Motherboards, AMD Socket AM3 and AM3+, Hardware Reviews

ASRock 890GM Pro3 AMD Socket AM3 DDR3 Motherboard Review

A few weeks ago, the ASRock 890GX Extreme3 motherboard was tested at ocinside.de and the result was excellent with the updated BIOS version. In this review, an equivalent Micro ATX board with 890GX chipset is overclocked to the limit. This mATX motherboard has also integrated USB3.0, SATA3 and eSATA3, as well as the fast onBoard HD4290 GPU with sideport memory. Let us see, if this small 890GM Pro3 mATX motherboard can keep up with the large 890GX Extreme3 ATX board.

Intel Overclocking, Intel Unlock Overclock Guides, Overclocking Results, Workshop

Intel Unlock Overclock – Intel Core i7 Overclocking Guide

Intel Unlock Overclock – Intel Core i7 Overclocking Guide Intel Unlock Overclock Phase 3 – Overclocking the Intel Core i7 PC … Who did not already read the beginning of the guide, find here the first page of the Intel Unlock Overclock article. Well, then we power on the PC and look if everything is working. This Gigabyte full screen boot logo looks very nice, but we should deactivate it in the BIOS. BIOS Update … Before we change any … Continue reading Intel Unlock Overclock – Intel Core i7 Overclocking Guide →

Intel Overclocking, Intel Unlock Overclock Guides, Workshop

Intel Unlock Overclock Guide

Intel Unlock Overclock Mission Last week the Redaktion ocinside.de got a request, if we are interested in an unique Intel Unlock Overclock Mission. Intel Unlock Overclock Mission? That sounds a bit unreliable, but after a few mails it was almost clear what we are talking about and of course ocinside.de like to participate in any Unlock or Overclock topic. Thus we agreed without further ado and a few days later came a large package from the United States. The Intel … Continue reading Intel Unlock Overclock Guide →

DDR3 RAM, Hardware Reviews, Memory

Crucial 8GB Kit DDR3-1333/PC3-10600 CT2KIT51264BA1339 Memory Review

These new Crucial 4GB UDIMM DDR3 modules were announced recently and each module has 4GB per module instead of the so far usual 2GB per module. This capacity makes an enormously high memory upgrade possible for current High-End systems, because with e.g. 4x 4 GB modules it is possible to reach gigantic 16GB DDR3 RAM. This is fantastic for developer of 3D animations and graphic designer, but also for all other power users with a 64 bit operating system. Two … Continue reading Crucial 8GB Kit DDR3-1333/PC3-10600 CT2KIT51264BA1339 Memory Review →

Cases, Hardware Reviews

Silverstone La Scala SST LC02B black HTPC Case Review

A beautiful HiFi PC in the living room was unthinkable a few years ago, because there were no beautiful PC enclosures available for this matter. Thus it was necessary to completely build these PC cases for the living room, like the first www.ocinside.de J-Box HowTo from the year 2000 shows. The times have changed and in the meanwhile there are dozens Home Theater PC enclosures – briefly HTPC – in all sorts of colors, styles and price ranges. But one … Continue reading Silverstone La Scala SST LC02B black HTPC Case Review →

HTPC Guides, Modding

HTPC Howto guide to build a home cinema computer

HTPC Howto – Beginners guide how to build a home cinema computer. Step by step HTPC guide to build a Home Theater PC … For the recently published Silverstone La Scala SST LC02B HTPC enclosure review, it is now time for a HTPC guide, which explains step by step how to build a living room PC. This beginners guide shows how easy it can be to build a PC for the living room. If you have a few hardware components, … Continue reading HTPC Howto guide to build a home cinema computer →

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 939, AMD Socket AM2 and AM2+, Hardware Reviews

AMD Athlon 64 Socket AM2 CPU in a Socket 939 Motherboard

An AMD Socket AM2 CPU in an AMD Socket 939 motherboard won’t work ? It works 😉 As already mentioned in the previous Review, the ASRock 939SLI32-eSATA2 motherboard offers beside the AMD 939 pin CPU socket also a so-called ASRock Future CPU Port. Who already own this board and would like to buy now one of the inexpensive AMD AM2 CPUs, is able upgrade the board for Socket AM2 within a few minutes This Review contains the final result, the … Continue reading AMD Athlon 64 Socket AM2 CPU in a Socket 939 Motherboard →

Display Solder Guides, Modding

Build your own LC-Display older

This LCD display self mounting instruction has not so much to do with overclocking but it made fun to me to install and set up the display so that I don?t want to withhold it from you. (LC display would be the right expression as it is called already Liquid Crystal Display, but it sounds strange to me) What is finally shown on the display and if you mount the display in a 5 ¼ ” front blind of the … Continue reading Build your own LC-Display older →