The sun is out!

Seems like the thunderstorm moved up north already. The sun is out and the crows are crowing. I can now go home safely and pick up some more memory that just arrived.

Asus P5LD2-Deluxe WiFi-TV Edition @ Viperlair

“Now the performance of this motherboard. For the most part in our ‘Office’ benchmarks and our video encoding tests the two motherboards performed fairly close, within 1-2%. Only three programs showed a marked difference between the two motherboards, TMPGEnc, UT2004 and Half Life 2. In TMPGEnc the Asus board was slower in real time then the ECS board, while CPU time was more or less equal.”

The price difference between the P5WD2 and the P5LD2 is not all that much, but for those who really need to stinge, this may just be your board. I’ve seen some overclocking results on the P5LD2 and I must say that they’re impressive.

AMD64 Overclocking Guide @ overclockers online

You can check out our guide HERE.

AMD64 3700+ San Diego S939 2.2GHz @ Techgage

The 3700+ SD is the best bang for your buck when it comes to Socket 939 CPUs dedicated towards gaming. The extra cache over the Venice cores does help. It overclocks great too. I have one sitting here that does 2.8GHz easily on air.

Dual Core Computer Processors: Luxury or Necessity? @ BonaFideReviews

Of course it’s a luxury. The majority of computer parts are considered to be luxury. A lot of gamers are running lowly 6600GT in their gaming systems. Who really needs a 7800? The rich consumers do.

ATI Catalyst 5.9 with CCC @ NGOHQ
ATIS AVIVO @ DH
Razer Diamondback Plasma LE Review @ PC Modding Malaysia
Asus Extreme N7800GT Review @ NGOHQ
NVIDIA 1.0-8XXX Series Preview @ Phoronix
Steel Sound 5H @ Bytesector

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