After just a few months of raking up, ASRock once again announces their new entry to the Fatal1ty motherboard lineup, Fatal1ty 990FX Professional. The new professional series motherboard from ASRock will carry the new FX CPU series which are greatly accounted on the Bulldozer architecture.

This Fatal1ty board will support the upcoming 8-core AM3+ socket, along with the AMD 990X chipset. Like its intel P67 counterpart, the new Fatal1ty 990FX Pro will have a lot of space for discrete graphic cards - three PCI-E x16 slots. It also has 2 PCI-E x1 slot, 6 SATA ports, amazingly six USB 3.0 ports, 2 Gigabit LAN sockets, 4 DDR3 memory sockets, and 7.1 Channel Realtek-based Audio. To top that up, this AMD-based board will support Fatal1ty XFast USB and LAN technologies, Graphical UEFI. Likewise, it also features Fatal1ty F-Stream On/Off Play Technology and the standard UCC modules. With its 100% High Quality polymer capacitors which are made in Japan, this motherboard will be rock solid as it is.

Although there are still no words on the pricing for this extreme class mobo, we're pretty sure that this will hit the high-end market prices with guaranteed extreme stability. So, for our gamers that want absolute performance coupled with stability and a grappling name, better watch out for this ironclad comes out in the local market.

FSP is certainly throwing away their guns on the market and it is hitting hard. They started off with the basic FSP Supersonic series and then comes the multi-awarded Gold certified FSP Aurum. Just recently, PC Express started to cater the new FSP HEXA power supply.

The HEXA comes in 2 models the 400 watts and the 500 watts. PC Express sells the 500 watts for a measely Php 1,850. That's actually not bad. It features a nice black case with a fairly good looking design on it. Let's look at the specifications. HEXA 500watts follows the ATX 12V 2.3 format and has a high efficiency of >80% which meets the 80 plus certification. This PSU is also armed with dual +12V output circuits, a video card 6-pin connector and features a quiet 120mm fan, just like all the other newly released FSP products. This power supply, as always, carries different protection like the OCP, OVP, SCP, OPP, OTP and UVP. Below is a rundown of its cables.

20+4 Main Connector
4-pin +12V Connector x1
4-pin Floppy Connector x1
SATA Connector x4
4pins Molex Connector x4
PCI-E Connector x2

So if you're looking for a good basic power supply, I think you will never go wrong in picking this product from FSP.

Contrary to what some entrepreneurs would say,.the internet cafe business is still a good way to garner money and earn some good profit. More than 10 years has passed, and the first internet cafe I've ever played on still exists commanding over a decent amount of computers.

For this month, we're going to look at a computer designed to be for internet cafe use. Most owners of these respective establishments would usually look at our PVP Principle to earn formidable sales to keep the business running.

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June 2011 Rig of the Month

PCExpress, one of the top computer retail chain in the Philippines, announced today its Gaming Gear Package promo! For limited stocks, gamers will be able to get awesome equipment from Thermaltake Esports Gaming Gear for a very low price of only Php 3,000.


The TTesports Gaming Package includes:
1 Shock One Gaming Headset
1 Challenger Gaming Keyboard
1 Conkor Gaming Mouse Pad
1 Azureus Gaming Mouse

Stocks are very limited on this package. And as of the moment of this post, only 30 package are available for reservation. There are only a few PCX branches that cater to this promo. However, you can make a reservation early and make PCX deliver it to your nearest branch. For reservations, please contact your nearest branch and enjoy this amazing deal for steal! All items will be available on June 15, 2011 but you can pre-order them right now!

With all the wrangling and good stuffs raining around the Taiwan based Computex 2011, we decided to tick off some of the highlights for this great exhibit. Today we're going to start off with one of the most looked at chipset, AMD's 9-Series Chipset which was launched in the event.

The 9-series chipset supports the current AM3 socket and the upcoming AM3+ CPUs (based on the Bulldozer architecture). Although, the new processor design is yet to be released in the market, AMD released the new chipset anyway. Some manufacturers already handed out their new motherboards which carry this new chipset such as ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI and ECS. The great thing about it is that you can still use your Phenom II, Athlon II or any AM3 processor on this motherboard and reserve it for upgrade options when the Bulldozer CPU comes out in the next couple of months.

Basically, the AMD 9-Series chipset is similar to its previous model (the 8-series) except for the fact that it supports the upcoming AM3+ processors. So, if you look at it from AMD's point of view...the new 9 series is to easily tell if the specific motherboard supports the newer AM3+ processors.

The AMD 9-series comes in different models and these are: AMD 990FX, AMD 990X and AMD 970. The demand for the motherboard which carry these chipsets will probably increase when the Bulldozer processors come into play in the following two months.

With the hectic schedule on going, I am saddened to tell you guys that there will be no Rig of the Month for May 2011. However, we will compensate this one with a much better issue for the upcoming June 2011 Rig of the Month. In anticipation for the upcoming release of the new AMD Llano Processor, this will also give us a good opportunity to explore the new CPU features. Thank you.

Over the past few weeks since the release of FSP's Aurum Series, there has been a good feedback around the Enthusiasts' community. The FSP Aurum Power Supplies offers solid high efficiency performance with a very affordable price tag. And its not just any ordinary efficiency, the Aurum power supplies were able to deliver 80plus Gold ratings which makes it stand out against its competitors. However, this amazing PSU series doesn't come without a flaw. The major disadvantage of its high efficiency performance comes at cable management. The previously released Aurum Series are non-modular and you have to clean up all the cables if you're going to install it in your rig. This is a minor cons if you looked at what the Aurum Series can give you.

Just recently to address this issue, FSP released their new Aurum Cable Management Series. These new models comes at 550w, 650w and 750w. The previous Aurum Series only comes at 400w, 500w, 600w and 700w...so be sure not to mistake the old ones with the newly released ones (and vice versa). The one distinct feature of the FSP Aurum Cable Management Series is that it comes with a modular feature, which was not present on the old series. Likewise, the new FSP Aurum, comes with the 80 Plus Gold Certifications, Active PFC, 120mm fan, four +12V rails and other standard protections against short circuit (SCP), over current (OCP), and over voltage (OVP).

The new Aurum Series would certainly address the issues of what enthusiasts pointed out in cable management. Although pricing on the new series has not been announced yet, I'm guessing this would only be limited to a slight increase once compared to previous series. No matter what the price would be, FSP would definitely try to fit this into the budget category (offering good performance for a very awesome price).

If you can remember a few weeks back, Nvidia released the GTX 560 Ti version. This time around Nvidia announced the launch of the normal GTX 560 version, which is another DirectX 11 based card.

The GTX 560 runs at 1GB of GDDR5 memory and graphic clocks internally at around 810 up to 950 MHz. Meanwhile, 336 CUDA processors are contained in this new card which are clocked at 1,620 up to 1,900 MHz. The memory interface width is stocked at 256-bit and memory bandwidth (GB/sec) is pegged at 128. Memory clock reaches at around 2,002 to 2,200 MHz.

Like most of the new cards, the Nvidia GTX 560 also supports new technologies such as 3D Vision, CUDA, PhysX and SLI (2-way). This brand new card is currently placed in between the GTX 460 and GTX 560 Ti, in terms of price introduced at USD 199. It may take time before such card reaches the Philippines. When it does, it will probably throw another hole in our enthusiasts' pockets.

With the release of the 2nd generation Intel icore processors, the road for AMD is certainly getting tougher and tougher each day. Until the planned Llano based AMD CPUs are released, Advanced Micro Devices will have to settle with leveling their competition with what they have currently and that is their AM3 socket products.

AMD unveiled their newest AM3 socket desktop processor, the Phenom II x4 980 Black Edition. It is based on a standard 4-core CPU with a clock speed of 3.7 GHz, 2MB of L2 cache. And it has a 6MB of L3 cache and has DDR2/DD3 integrated dual-channel controllers. Consequently, this black edition processor has a Thermal Design Power (TDP) of 125W. Like all previously black edition CPUs, the Phenom II x4 980 has its clock multiplier unlocked. This gives the overclocker a lot of headroom through increasing their clock multiplier.

For now, the Phenom IIx4 980 Black Edition is based on 45-nm process and is currently introduced in the US market at USD 185. In a few weeks, this should reach our local markets.

Okay, I know we've been delayed and it's almost a few more days before April 2011 ends. Yeah, we got tied up on our holidays. Anyway, we've finally published our long sought rig of the month for April. And it features Intel's outstanding 2nd Generation i5 processor. Do check it out!

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April 2011 Rig of the Month