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Hardware 10/5/2012 Daily Hardware Reviews
Richard Vertrees - October 5, 2012 1:43 PM
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Roccat Savu Mouse
DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Friday

Audio
Edifier Spinnaker Bluetooth Speakers @ Techgage
Rosewill RHTS-12002 Headphones @ Hi Tech Legion
Wavemaster Moody 2.1 Speaker @ Technic3D

Case
Cooler Master Elite 120 Case @ eTeknix
Cooler Master Storm Scout 2 @ Tweaktown

Cooler
Arctic Cooling Z2 Monitor Arm @ Rbmods
Deepcool Neptwin Cooler @ Hardware Secrets
Noctua NH-D14 SE2011 @ Vortez
Prolimatech MK-26 Cooler @ Tweaktown
SilverStone Heligon HE01 Cooler @ Tweaktown

CPU
AMD A10-5800K Vs Core i3-3220 @ Hardware Secrets
AMD A10-5800K APU @ TechReport
AMD A8-5600K APU @ Guru3D
AMD A8-5600K APU @ eTeknix
AMD A8-5600K APU @ Benchmark Reviews

Motherboard
Gigabyte F2A85X-UP4 Motherboard @ eTeknix

Networking
ASUS RT-N66U Router @ Legit Reviews

Peripherals
Roccat Savu Gaming Mouse @ ThinkComputers
SteelSeries World of Warcraft MMO Mouse @ Hardware Heaven

Portable
Samsung Galaxy Note Tablet @ Hardware Heaven

PSU
Enermax MAXREVO 1500W PSU @ TechPowerUp
Storage

Storage
ADATA Premier Pro SP900 256GB SSD @ TechwareLabs
Samsung 840 Series 250GB SSD @ PCPer

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Come on AMD.
By Mitch101 on 10/5/2012 3:34:07 PM , Rating: 2
Really disappointing AMD didn't get any more IPC out of their latest CPU's its all just an GPU upgrade if your into embedded graphics. Great for HTPC but bad for them competing on the high end. Price wise they will get it right. Just hope their next generation has the kick they hoped to have since Bulldozer. Kind of wish they would have taken the previous chip to a die shrink along for the ride since bull/pile kind of speaks for itself. I really would have taken 1100T on a die shrink but you cant find them easily.

Because of that I needed a cheap upgrade for an existing machine. The best bang for buck was X4 955 BE down to $80.00.

If it werent for the existing mobo and longevity of the AM3+ mobo I picked up a while back I would have built a Intel rig.




RE: Come on AMD.
By stmok on 10/5/2012 6:55:58 PM , Rating: 2
AMD's 2012 lines are nothing more than "delaying products". To be more specific, what they're doing is pushing out anything to buy their engineers time to do major tweaks to the Bulldozer architecture.

Piledriver is really a major revision of Bulldozer (Revision C ?) with minor tweaks, while the Steamroller is a re-built solution based on the lessons learned from Bulldozer experience.

...Its the same with their Brazos 2.0 nonsense.

The only relief is that Socket FM2 will support up to 2014 APU lines. ie: Excavator-based, 4th gen A-series APUs. (Subject to mobo company's support!)

I've also read rumours that Socket AM3+ will likely support Steamroller-based CPU because an AMD rep said Vishera (AM3+ Piledriver CPU) won't be the last for that platform. So you've got another year or so for AM3+.

Eventually, they want to transition their whole "mainstream to performance" desktop lines to APU; while leaving the top-end server-oriented, multi-socket processor solutions as CPUs.

Recently, my old (2006) AMD Sempron set-up died...Well, the mobo died. I was hoping to update it with a Steamroller-based Kaveri APU; 3rd gen A-series. That was the plan anyway. Unfortunately, (after a bit of research), I found out it won't be available until sometime next year. I then looked up AMD's Trinity APU lines. Stock is rather limited here in Australia, and its going to take time to trickle down to local computing shops.

Since I couldn't wait, I decided to go with a Core i5 3570K based set-up. (My computing uses involve needing much CPU grunt...As the software I use wasn't written to take advantage of GPU technology.)


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