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Howdy Siv, not a problem! Any Intel 6Gb/s socket will give you full performance, most P67 and Z68 boards have them. For the ASUS P8Z68, the white SATA ports are Intel 6Gb/s.... dark blue is the Marvell 6Gb/s, and light blue are the Intel 3Gb/s ports. Just be sure to attach the SSD to the...

Hm, yeah ran into a VGA driver issue with VMware player as well.

Hey Rob, ol buddy, ol' pal... I can get one of those kits as a review sample, right? :D That is an insane amount of RAM, I wonder many many workstations will jump on it. And how much power it takes to even run it!

Actually, I would like to add that I had read they used LN2... but only just found out halfway into the overclocking they pulled out casks of liquid helium to actually achieve this result. I find it much easier to believe knowing they used liquid helium, there isn't a colder substance known to...

If you are referring to any 240GB drive in general, I'm not sure I agree the 240GB drives are priced well for the consumer market, but I will say that most SandForce 240GB drives will perform much better than the 120GB counterparts. So I would recommend them if they were within the budget of the...

Totally awesome... http://code.google.com/p/synergy-plus/ Just looking at the screenshot, a single Synergy+ install now works across Windows+Linux+OSX OSs. Microsoft's solution will never do that... ;)

That's exactly it. I wouldn't even pay attention to this except that it WAS an eight core... Just think about it. Intel has always held an advantage in processor fabrication, yet despite the better overclockability of Core 2 Duo chips only cut down Netburst Celerons ever came anywhere close...

I'm 99% sure they utilize the same controller. As Rob's own testing shows 99FX offers good SATA 6Gb/s performance, so there isn't a need for a major change. It's possible they may of tweaked it, but 990FX was already decent, and doesn't share any of the issues afflicting Marvell controllers.

Very, very impressive. But still... I can't help but remember what chips were the best extreme overclockers before this... Netburst chips. Until now Netburst based Celerons had held the all-time overclock record, and all the top 5 spots.... the longer the pipeline, the better the clockspeed...

That's just it though... those posts are so BAD, how can you be sure someone didn't make it for laughs? If that was a genuine post though... is all I'll say. :D

Second. :D Synergy was a perfect way to use my regular keyboard/mouse on both my desktop and my laptop... later I used Synergy as a quick dual-monitor setup when using full-screen apps on my desktop. Synergy is an amazing bit of software way ahead of its time. :)

Actually, I had this happen with 280.26. Not even Safe Mode worked.... Removed my SSD and put in an old SSD review sample, installed a clean Windows 7 install, installed the 280.26 drivers.... boom. Same exact problem, no display (would have sound) or I had a display, but the system would lock...

Ditto. Time to see what breaks. :D

It still can be beneficial for systems with 2GB of RAM or less (or especially a laptop with a slow 5400RPM hard drive), and USB 3 would certainly enable even better performance if the flash drives are capable of it. But simply using an SSD is a better option. ReadyBoost is basically a...

I don't even drink but I'd have to agree. From what I've seen and heard, micro-breweries are taking off. Both as independents, local brands, and even as just an in-house brand for restaurants. Any classy restaurant that wants a reputation with its clientele has already gone the same route and...

Still an excellent price there... the 980X alone sells for $800 on ebay last I'd looked, prices for Extreme branded CPUs doesn't decline as sharply as non-Extreme parts. Sandy Bridge isn't a whole lot faster, the difference is pretty minimal and the additional memory bandwidth the 980X has...

Howdy Parsec! I am not the one that conducted the review (just to clarify), but Rob indicates he tested with the 9172 controller, not the 9182. From what I can see the 9182 controller is the only one of the lot designed to connect to the chipset via a 2x PCIe 2.0 interface. The interface...

Well, no waterpump is truly silent either, so at least from my view I don't see how it's any worse (or better) than some low-noise fans. Noctua specializes in inaudible fans, and although they ship the fans with LNA and ULNA volt controllers I find them to be "silent" to my ears at the default...

CDM is more than fine, I was just curious to check. :) Keep in mind how the chipset diagram is layed out. Everything in the southbridge AND the northbridge talks to the CPU through the QPI bus... and the QPI bus is affected when you change the bus multiplier. So it definitely has the...

If PCIe was a parallel bus like PCI that would be true, but it's not. PCIe is a serial bus, by definition it is "point A to point B". GPU in slot 1 connects directly to the PCIe controller, and nothing else will share those 16 lanes of bandwidth. Just like with SATA ports... an SSD in port 1...