The bit-tech Hardware Awards 2007

1. Not ALL micron D9 chips are good. That's like saying ALL mercedes benz's are super reliable and can do 400,000 miles without an oil change. Not true. D9GCT (wide-body), GMH, and GKX are the ones to look for.

2. P5N32-E Plus does not use a 680i southbridge. It uses a 570i.

:)

Originally Posted by Bbq.of.DooM
2. P5N32-E Plus does not use a 680i southbridge. It uses a 570i.

It's semantics... the 680i SLI MCP is the nForce 570i MCP... they're the same thing.

1) We're talking general rule of thumb here. If you were scouting for performance memory you would look for D9s, end of :P

2) The 570MCP is the southbridge on the 680i SLI and 780i SLI. It just reads easier and everyone knows what we mean when we say NB from 650i and SB from 680i.

EDIT: Damn you Tim and your ninja typing! :(

Good summary of the year. It might have been worth mentioning the stock availability problems for the 8800GT, the only tarnishing factor. :)

Nice! And I agree with most of bit-tech's findings. The most part would be the CPU cooler. I think the best is the Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme CPU Cooler.

would have to agree with everything on that list tbh

Originally Posted by [USRF
Obiwan]Nice! And I agree with most of bit-tech's findings. The most part would be the CPU cooler. I think the best is the Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme CPU Cooler.

ditto! but the rest is awesome. couldnt agree more.

Page 5:
The whole design is geared towards being as quite as possible

Quiet?

Q6600 latest revision is my fav as well.

Ditto on Micron D9 in Kingston products...

Originally Posted by [USRF]Obiwan
Nice! And I agree with most of bit-tech's findings. The most part would be the CPU cooler. I think the best is the Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme CPU Cooler.

It might be on the cards for next year since I have one but haven't got around to reviewing it yet (Jan sometime). It entirely depends on what fan you put on it though because none is supplied but, tbh, to me it just looks like yet another heatpipe + fins job which I can't see working any better than any number I've seen in the last year. It all depends on your tolerance to noise.

What about Corsair's Nautilus for cooling? (or was that last year)

Good read tho!

Originally Posted by Mankz.
What about Corsair's Nautilus for cooling? (or was that last year)

Good read tho!

last year :)

well, in general i can agree with the list, but, the thermalright ultima 120 extreme deserves the top spot for cooling and the mx revolution the top spot if it comes to mouse... (or was mx revolution like last year?)

Originally Posted by naokaji
well, in general i can agree with the list, but, the thermalright ultima 120 extreme deserves the top spot for cooling

Sadly, we didn't get around to reviewing it this year, but as Rich has said, it will be reviewed very soon. We can't really pick things that haven't been looked at before we decide on our 'best' products of the year. :)

Tim

I'm ordering a q6600 this weekend (Christmas present to myself)
It's good to see that you recognized the first affordable quadcore as the best of the year, as opposed to the most expensive a la QX6___. I'll take affordable really good performance over overpriced slightly better performance.

And kudos for recognizing Asus, they've been good for years, but I also noticed that over the last year they have continually been in the headlines for pushing the limits with each new product.

Originally Posted by Tim S

Quote:

Originally Posted by naokaji
well, in general i can agree with the list, but, the thermalright ultima 120 extreme deserves the top spot for cooling

Sadly, we didn't get around to reviewing it this year, but as Rich has said, it will be reviewed very soon. We can't really pick things that haven't been looked at before we decide on our 'best' products of the year. :)

Tim

Never mind reviewing it. All the 'others' allready did and with all the 'others' it won. So no point unless you do a review cooler roundup with all "brandnew" 2008 coolertypes.

mostly agree, just look at my system:
Processor: Q6600, your best processor
Graphics: 8800GTX, one of your Notable Mentions, besides i got it for £190 before 8800GT came out :D
Chipset: P35, your best chipset
Mobo: Abit iP35 Pro, your best motherboard
Memory....... don't think it's D9 chips, but still, similar performance at 4-4-4-12 800Mhz
CPU Cooler: Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme, hope to see the review of it :D
Chassis: Antec p182, your best PC chassis :)
how quite there with everything else yet, a value Logitech mouse, a Logitech media keyboard and a super cheap 2.1 speaker (fiver for one)....... but im working on the mouse part :)

Originally Posted by article
Ever since the launch of Intel’s Core 2 Duo processors almost eighteen months ago, the mindshare in the CPU has almost been a rush of one way traffic moving in the direction of Big Blue.

Umm, it has? Since when did IBM take a very large share in the CPU market? Bit-tech seems to have gotten this wrong on several occasions now. Big blue = IBM, not Intel.

Really...y'all should know better :|

Originally Posted by specofdust
Umm, it has? Since when did IBM take a very large share in the CPU market? Bit-tech seems to have gotten this wrong on several occasions now. Big blue = IBM, not Intel.

Really...y'all should know better :|

Apologies - that's my bad this time, I've fixed it.

Great list, it is nice to have a year end round up like this. I especially liked the "Asus category" it seems well deserved. Any word on a review of the Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe? It looks pretty sweet.

Any chance of a Bit-Tech Christmas competition with all the winners up for grabs? :P

Good list. Although you forgot to give a psu category. I guess the corsair would win that anyways.

As for the heatsink. Isn't the thermalright really loud when you put a fan on it? I realise it's the best cooling wise. But I would prefer something better on the cooling to noise ratio scale. Like the Noctua.

i wish i owned more of those products....noteably the quad core intel as sup com could use it.....:(

and a merry christmas to all you bouys and girls at the bit-tech offices,

peace

fatman

The last two articles have been fantastic.

It's a great reminder and really help us appreciate the advances, after a couple of months I often take purchases for granted. I have to say that my favorite purchase has been my 8800GTX, OK I have had 4 of them due to RMA but I think thats down to the Striker/EVGA 680i (Think they fried my 4 sets of OCZ Reaper 9200 too).

Great stuff again Bit-Tech, you guys do a stellar job and I'm looking forward to 2008 with you all!

Originally Posted by Demon Cleaner
Good list. Although you forgot to give a psu category. I guess the corsair would win that anyways.

As for the heatsink. Isn't the thermalright really loud when you put a fan on it? I realise it's the best cooling wise. But I would prefer something better on the cooling to noise ratio scale. Like the Noctua.

lol, yeah Corsair Hx620w or the new Tx series.

the beauty of Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme is that you can have ANY fan with it, so you can go cheap like me and buy an Antec Pro fan, which pushes reasonable amount of air and is not so loud under 1500rpm, or you can go expensive and buy a £20 pound fan, which, i am 100% sure, will be both quiet and cool.

I'm surprised that Novint Falcon or whatever it was called wasn't even mentioned for an innovative idea. I mean, I thought it was really cool. Not quite implemented that well yet, but still, neat idea.

I wish I had some of this hardware. :(