t was a busy end of the year with all the new product releases and announcements. We saw the release of the new AMD FX processor lineup which did not fair well overall, but still serves me well in my personal rig. However, a CPU is only as great as the motherboard to which you pair it. While many sites used the AMD issued ASUS Crossfire V 990FX boards for their initial reviews (a great board I might add) we were able to use something different for our tests. The GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD5 we found to be a very competent board, but let’s take a closer look to find out what else this motherboard brings to the table.
http://www.futurelooks.com/gigabyte-990fxa-ud5-am3-atx-motherboard-review/
Not everyone wants a giant tower CPU cooler. Some people want dual fans and monstrous fin real estate, but some prefer something a bit squatter
http://xsreviews.co.uk/reviews/coolers/cooler-master-geminii-m4/
Offering very good data transfer speeds, one of the most complete bundles I’ve ever seen and an exceptional price/capacity ratio the brand new V+200 120GB is a worthy addition to the SSDNow business line of solid state drives by Kingston.
"The Solo sits in the same Sonata-series of cases as the Sonata III and Sonata Elite we've reviewed before, and
the whole range is designed to be as quiet as possible. Let us see what the new Solo II brings to the table. "
http://metku.net/index.html?path=reviews/antec-solo-ii/index_eng