Bjorn3D.com Bjorn3d.com – Satisfying Your Daily Tech Cravings Since 1996

Our last MSI board gave us the essentials and a few more toys. Their enthusiast board offers everything a hardcore enthusiast would want and a whole lot more.

Just when you thought that the older socket 775 CPU motherboards came to an end ASUS, breeds new life into this CPU socket type.

  With new cards just on the horizon, you will need evermore powerful PSU’s to run them. SilverStone is no new kid on the block. You can trust them for a reliable PSU such as the Element 850w.

The Athlon 2 X2 250 and Phenom 2 X2 550 BE are great price/performance CPU’s that offer a good punch for a great price. See what we achieved with them on an $85 motherboard.

Our first impressions of mid range video cards is bottom of the barrel performance. Let’s look at the Sapphire HD4770 that uses ATI’s new 40nm process and GDDr5 memory.

Famous for their non-reference video card designs, Gigabyte announces their Nvidia GTS 250, with Zalman cooling and native HDMI support.

Needing a large, comfortable, smooth mouse surface. The GP-MP8000 mouse pad from GigaByte., might be right up your alley.

With the introduction of the Phenom 2 X4 series DDR3 Dual channel is back in the limelight. We have a 4 GB kit of Kingston HyperX 1600 MHz DDR3 to put through its paces.

Spire has come up with a card reader that is simple enough for us to use, small enough to carry around from place to place. Lets take a peek at the CombiPod from Spire.

Eagle Tech ET-CS2XMESU2-BK is a 2.5 hard drive enclosure that comes with USB and eSATA ports that is also designed to be install completely tool-less. It may just be the perfect enclosure for those who need portability and performance. Check it out.

The Asus EAH4770 is a mainstream video card that has enough power for everyday computing and runs video games respectably for a GPU in the Sub $100 (USD) price range.

We have all been staggered by the raw power of Nvidia’s 295GTX video card. Now, let’s heat things up when we at Bjorn3D stick a water block on this video card.

Asus ENGTX 260 Matrix is Asus’s own design of the highly regarded GTX 260 card. It incorporates a dual cooling solution, a revamped iTracker software, and the ability to overclock the video card’s voltage. Find out if this card can live up to its promise in terms of cooling and …

Super Talent fielded the new UltraDrive ME SSD lineup with the new Indilinx Barefoot controller many of the initial SSD problems go away and what remains, is blazing speed.

Today, we got the HornetTek’s X2-JBOD dual 3.5” SATA to USB enclosure. If you are in the market for a dual bay enclosure to store your data, be sure to check out our review.