Gigabyte's GA-890FXA-UD7 ships with an interchangeable water block and large passive cooler for the north bridge.

The board pairs the SB850 south bridge with several extra chips to extend its feature set. Besides the six SATA 6Gbps ports there are two SATA 3Gbps ports and two eSATA ones.

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PC component maker Antec comes into the studio and cracks open its new PSU for our viewing pleasure.

ASRock Inc., the leading motherboard manufacturer demonstrated their future-driven leadership today with official cooperation of Aibelive Co., Ltd that introducing AIWI utility that enables playing motion controlled games by connecting your iPhone/iPod Touch with ASRock PC system. ASRock AIWI brings a revolution of interactive gaming to PC users and it will be applied on full range of ASRock motherboards to enrich your PC gaming experience.

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QUOTE: GIGABYTE has put quite a bit of work into its UD7 series of motherboards (and there is a UD9 on the way, too). These boards are their upper-end (the cream of the crop) for their enthusiast offerings. They come with a 24 phase power design, USB 3.0, powered USB, SATA 3.0 and Tri-SLI/Crossfire.

GIGABYTE also provides an advanced cooling system for this line of boards. To be honest, the list of features is impressive when looked at on paper. But how does all this work when you drop one of these into a case and turn the power on? That is what we aim to find out.

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The Sandforce SF-1200 controller has been getting a lot of attention lately and there are no shortages of SSD's featuring this high-performance controller although there has been quite a bit of confusion surrounding firmware versions as we have written about; much to the chagrin of Sandforce I might add. Many of the early Sandforce based drives also had significant portions of the available storage provisioned for drive maintenance and performance preservation which left the cost per usable GB a little high for the tastes of most consumers. As of this writing, we could only find pricing for the F120 online at Amazon for $350 which comes out to $2.91 per usable GB but is far below the $4 - $5 per usable GB we saw with the F100 & F200 drives. Definitely moving in the right direction.

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Gone are the days where you needed a separate modem, router, firewall, wireless access point and VoIP device. Today's home or small office can take advantage of multitasking devices that can handle all these features and more, minimising the bewildering array of electronic devices we need, cutting down greatly on the spaghetti-like mess of cables, reducing cost, power consumption, wasted space... and confusion!

Below are the top 10 router or modem/router products we've reviewed recently. Looking at reader comments, it seems everyone has a horror story about the router they've purchased, so perhaps there's still some way to go for the devices to become the one-click set-up they need to be. If you've had a good or bad experience, jump in and leave your comments under each review.

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To mark its appointment as an official Apple Authorised Reseller, Mwave invited the general public last Saturday to attend the launch of its new Apple Showroom facility at its Lidcombe premises. The day started off with a line out the door with those in attendance keen to test drive a variety of exciting products from Apple, along with the latest Apple related products from such brands as Canon, Belkin, Sennheiser, Western Digital, Native Union, Luxa2 and LaCie. Everyone throughout the day received a showbag to mark the occasion and fifteen lucky attendees won a range of prizes including Bluetooth headsets, hands-free kits, laptop coolers and hard disk drives totalling $2,500. The event was well attended by the general public and the friendly Apple and Mwave staff were kept very busy throughout the day. The Apple section is now a permanent feature of the Mwave showroom, so come in and have a look there’s something here for everyone.

Mwave Apple Saturday Sale - Photos can be found here on our Facebook page.

Mwave is extremely proud to announce its official appointment as an Apple Authorised Reseller, effective immediately.

Since its beginning in late 2006, Mwave has rapidly established itself as one of the most popular IT shopping destinations in Australia, specialising in the IT & Consumer Electronics category. Mwave has achieved this by successfully bringing a new and exciting shopping experience to both consumers and businesses looking for REAL value.

This appointment represents a major achievement for Mwave by filling the only gap from its existing technology range with Apple branded products, including the popular MacBook and iPod range. The addition of Apple means Mwave is a truly genuine ONE-STOP technology store for Australian consumers to access the most comprehensive range of latest IT and consumer electronics – 24/7! To date, Mwave has experienced remarkable growth and popularity by providing a value-orientated, convenient and fun way to shop.

The Director of Mwave, Victor Lee commented, ‘‘this is a well deserved acknowledgement of Mwave’s ability to reach consumers, and represents an exciting opportunity to make in-roads into the PC market with such a world-class vendor as Apple’‘. He also said, ‘‘Apple is a great fit for Mwave as we share a number of core values such as customer focus and providing current innovative products to consumers. We feel this association with Apple will strengthen our value proposition through Mwave’s advanced retail platform’‘.

Mwave now has more than 100,000 registered users. In 2009, Mwave was ranked 16th in CRN’s Fast50, and awarded the prestigious ‘Highly Commended Online Retailer’ by PC Authority in 2008 and 2009.

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