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AMD vs. Intel: Chipsets battles go head to head.

For years, Intel and AMD have been battling to gain supremacy in the chipset market. The latest plan from AMD is the introduction of slightly slower but much cheaper and high performance chipsets, than equivalent Intel products. These budget chipsets are targeted at Windows 7 and Intel is not back even.

The battle begins with AMDs launch of 785G chipset to compete with Intel’s G41 chipset. But Intel quickly came back with another chipset P55. The basic criterion of comparison between AMDs’ 785G, Intel’s G41 and P55 is the cost factor.

For this purpose AMD 785G was chosen with AMD Athlon II X2 Dual Core processor and for Intel’s chipsets Intel Core i5-750 was used.

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ASRock X58 Extreme

We enjoy opening new boxes that come from ASRock. They're one of our fave motherboard providers when it comes to delivering high worth performance solutions.

We were talking with them just two weeks back about their BIOS updates for the X58 Supercomputer X58 motherboard that permits 2000+ memory clocking now with general enhancements when running all 4 x16 (x8 electrical) slots populated with the GTX295 boards. They discussed a new X58 motherboard design and questioned if we would have liked to look at it.

We naturally required and thought nothing else of it till the package arrived 1 or 2 days back.

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Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2

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Hitachi 2 TB Hardisk

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