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Foxconn A7DA-S 790GX Review

Keeping up with the recent explosion of new technology releases AMD has again brought out a new and interesting technology to test benchmarks which are made to increase performance and make our mouth water. Between AMD/ATI and NVIDIA there have been a flood of new motherboard chipsets that have stormed the market now more than ever before. Previously, we took a look at the 780G chipset from AMD, which gave us faster speeds and Hybrid Graphics support to boost performance and save power. Back then, I thought how could they top that? Well, once again AMD has taken it a step further with the release of the 790GX/SB750 chipset. So what exactly is the 790GX chipset? Basically, it is a refresh of the 780G chipset we saw earlier this year with a few new tricks up its sleeve.

The 790GX has the same features of the 780G with some upgrades and some new technology. The 790GX integrated GPU (HD 3300) has the same core architecture and stream processors as the 780G (HD 3200) as well as DX10 and Shader Model 4.0 support, however the clock speed has been increased from 500MHz to 700MHz. What's that, you say? A core speed increase is nothing to get all giddy about? Well that is not the true secret. The true performance increase lies within a small chip embedded on the motherboard called Sideport Memory, a dedicated memory buffer for the integrated GPU, which gives the 790GX a trump card as the fastest integrated graphics solution on the market to date. That is not all that the 790GX boards have to offer; to get into the specifics, we are going to be reviewing the Foxconn A7DA-S motherboard to see how well this new chipset design performs.

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Sapphire HD4850 Review

From the first look at the Sapphire HD4850 package, you are going to begin to want this card, this is because of the sheer design of the package. There are a ton of badges on the front of the Sapphire HD4850's package, including ATI Radeon Maximum Graphics badge, ATI CrossFire X, and Microsoft Windows Vista. There is also a large picture of Ruby, ATI's mascot, however she is in a different position, she looks to be praying; maybe praying to the ATI Gods? There are a list of some of the main features to the Sapphire HD4850 at the bottom edge of the package as well as a large oval badge letting you know that there is 512MB of GDDR3 installed on the card.

There is also a new slogan in the middle of the package, saying "Prepare to Dominate…." implying that the HD4850 is going to perform extremely well. When you take a look at the back, you are able to see nice long list of the main features of the Sapphire HD4850. Ruby is also on the back of the package, however this time she has a sword, like she is about to go into battle. On the right hand side, there is a Product Highlights paragraph describing the HD4850. One one of the ends, you are going to find a System Requirements list, which says "…you need one ATI CrossFireX Bridge Interconnect cable per board are required" meaning there needs to be two CrossFireX bridges installed.

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Kingston Technology recently announced it is the first to release high performance, ultra low-latency 800MHz notebook memory. Shipping immediately in 4GB memory kits, the HyperX PC2-6400 CL4 SO-DIMMs offer the additional benefit of Serial Presence Detect (SPD) capabilities to provide performance benefits to a wider array of notebooks. When it comes to pricing the MSRP on the 800MHz and 667MHz 4GB kits will be $257.00.

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I usually don't talk about routers and switches here on Legit Reviews, but I'm going to make an exception this time around. I purchased a Linksys SD2008 Gigabit switch from Best Buy late last year that was actually used to link together my personal computers to the Home Theater Personal Computer (HTPC) and the beloved Network-Attached Storage (NAS) box. Just a few weeks ago my LAN connection would just drop and I'd have to physically power down the Linksys SD2008 switch in order to get the LAN back up and running. While doing this over the next few weeks I noticed just how hot the Linksys SD2008 8-port Gigabit switch got (even in my cool basement). It got so hot that the rubber feet on the bottom of the router would actually slide off! With the connection dropping daily and super hot case issue I headed to the internet to see what others were saying about this drive after I bought it.

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Storage is cheap these days and if you are like me, you have several SATA hard drives lying around not being used and don’t have an eSATA port on your motherboard. Ok, maybe you aren’t like me but you need extra storage and you are squeamish about opening your case and adding additional hard drives or just don’t have the room. The solution? A hard drive docking station that plugs conveniently into a USB 2.0 port making it easy to expand your storage.

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