Onboard audio solutions, an essential yet long-overlooked part of computing, especially in this era of rich multimedia contents. In the past, the quality of these onboard audio solutions has been loathed by music lovers, while countless audiophiles mourned over bleeding ears caused by distortion. Woe no more! Everyone can dry their eyes now, because ASRock is here with music to your ears. ASRock’s 8 Series motherboards will be packed with a set of various new features with the code name A-Style, which includes Purity SoundTM, a revolutionary audio solution for people who take audio seriously.
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ASRock Z87 Extreme4 – World’s First Windows® 8-Certified Intel 8 Series Motherboard
Even though nothing much about ASRock’s next generation Intel 8 Series motherboards can be revealed yet, we simply can’t restrain ourselves from spilling out the good news that ASRock’s Z87 Extreme4 is the world’s first Intel 8 Series motherboard to pass Windows® 8 hardware certification. So, yeah, users may be ensured that ASRock’s Z87 Extreme4 will support the latest operating system from Microsoft without any problems, and bear in mind that it’s coming to you real soon!
Review: ASRock 990FX Extreme9
Recently, we received the ASRock 990FX Extreme 9 from ASRock which is one of the higher end AMD 990FX motherboard in the market today. This motherboard is equipped with a power phase design that is higher than any Z77 motherboard made available by ASRock, with the exception of Fatal1ty Z77 Professional. By having that kind power phase design, we believe it would provides better performance, overclocking and stability potential and that would be the core of this review. Apart of that, the ASRock 990FX Extreme 9 sports a pretty extravaganza packaging, being the highest end AMD 990FX motherboard offered. It is packed with various of in-house features as well. In this review, we make use of watercooling as the cooling system with the likes of Supremacy – Acetal + Nickel and EK-CoolStream RAD XTX(240) with NB-BlackSilentFan 120MM x4.
Review: MSI GTX650-Ti Hawk
The launch of GTX650-Ti on early October 2012 has florished the pool of mid-end graphics card choices which some may see it as a positive scenario. As of March 2013, NVIDIA lauched another GTX650-Ti series card, the GTX650-Ti Boost in the battle of RM600-ish price point card. However, today we at OCDrift.com is looking at the MSI GTX650-Ti Hawk (Limited District), thanks to MSI Malaysia.
MSI Z77 Gaming now available
MSI, industry leader in motherboard and graphics card technology is happy to announce the availability of its complete Gaming motherboard lineup. At CeBIT 2013 the world got a first hands-on experience with the new models and the completely new look and feel of the motherboards and thanks to that we’ve received overwhelming positive reviews from gamers and media. As part of the 2013 series of motherboards, the new Z77 Gaming models will be available far into 2014. Together with the recently introduced Gaming Graphics Cards from MSI, they allow awe-inspiring PC builds from PC Gamers and Enthusiasts.
Review: ASUS HD7790 DirectCU II OC
Instead of introducing new 8000 series graphics card in 2013, AMD recently introduced the Radeon HD7790 extending it’s 7000 series line-up. The Radeon HD7790 is a completely new architecture codenamed Bonaire packed with the new clock boosting via PowerTune, which is an improved version of Cape Verde and Pitcairn power routing design. The introduction of Radeon HD7790 is to compete against NVIDIA’s GTX650 Ti and GTX660 offerings. It stands in between AMD’s Radeon HD7770 and HD7800 products. However, NVIDIA is quick to respond by introducing the already “massive” GeForce GTX650 SKU, the GeForce GTX650 Ti Boost Edition.
Product Link: http://my.asus.com/Graphics_Cards/AMD_Series/HD7790DC2OC1GD5/
Product Codename: ASUS HD7790-DC2OC-1GD5
Suggested Retail Price: We contacted ASUS Malaysia and were told it would be set around RM550
MSI’s new AMD HD7790 Graphics Card Cooled with Extra Large 10 cm Fan
MSI, the leading international graphics card and motherboard maker, released its new HD 7790 (MKT Name: R7790-1GD5/OC for Malaysia Market) graphics card based on AMD’s latest GCN core architecture with support for the PCI Express Gen 3 standard. The MSI HD7790 graphics card supports GPU and Memory frequency adjustments and can use the exclusive Afterburner graphics card overclocking utility from MSI to for even better performance! The HD 7790 uses a large 10 cm fan with Propeller Blade technology. The increased airflow not only reduces the core temperature but also lowers the operating noise as well for a more comfortable gaming experience. The card comes with DisplayPort 1.2 and HDMI 1.4a outputs that supports 3D video output and high-quality audio. The inclusion of AMD’s proprietary Eyefinity multi-display output technology makes the HD 7790 the best choice for gamers.
Product Link: http://www.msi.com/product/vga/R7790-1GD5-OC.html
Product Codename: MSI R7790-1GD5/OC
Suggested Retail Price: We contacted MSI Malaysia and were told it would be set around RM550