Bit-tech best hardware of 2010

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I used MKV too. The CPU is a Core i3 2100.

I started a new thread for the results to be place in:

http://forums.hexus.net/hexus-hardwa...ded-power.html

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Wait until the socket 1155 Pentium processors are released!! Bit-tech will be all over them saying how great they are and how overclocking is now pointless due to their greatness!

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/buy...de-july-2011/2



Great motherboard recommendation too!!

Great graphics card recommendation!!

An aftermarket cooler for a non-overclockable CPU!!

Another stellar and stupendous effort!!

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WOW!! That's so unreal it's laughable! xD

Not one AMD recommendation, GPU or CPU, in the whole article! Can't say I expected that! You'd think they'd at least have one to give us less to laugh at. And a £130 GPU for a budget build. What a complete pile of...

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An £80 motherboard with two RAM slots!!

Then adding insult to injury they add an aftermarket cooler to a CPU and motherboard which cannot be used for overclocking.

They also missed the £135 HD6870 cards too.

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They've overlooked a fair bit TBH. Utterly ridiculous, deserves an investigation IMO - a big, respected, influential company like CustomPC consistently recommending products from a specific brand despite clearly superior products from competition. Either that or they need to grow up some...

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I think xbitslab is also starting to do a Bit-tech. They did find the GTX590 faster than an HD6990 and did have an article basically saying that EyeFinity was worse value than Nvidia Surrround(or something along those lines).

This part of a review made me chuckle:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu...0_7.html#sect0

It seems the review used the Gigabyte E350N-USB3 which has probably the highest power consumption for any E350 based motherboard.

Even xbitlabs said it had very high power consumption:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/a...re-i3-2100t_11.html#sect0

"The thing is that we used Gigabyte E350N-USB3 mainboard to measure the performance of Brazos platform in our today’s test session. And this mainboard wasn’t designed with power-efficiency in mind, and its power consumption is significantly higher than it could have been, had the developers really paid special attention to this aspect. One of the good examples could be the recently reviewed MSI E350IS-E45 mainboard, which power consumption in idle mode was only 7.3 W. It means that good AMD Brazos mainboards can in fact beat Core i3-2100T in idle mode when it comes to energy-efficiency."

Do they mention it in the new article?? No!!

However,the much cheaper MSI E350IS-E45 in this article consumes far less power:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/a...y/amd-e-350_12.html#sect0

It consumes 7.3W at idle,15.8W during a CPU load and 17.5W during a GPU load and 14.9W during 1080p playback.

The Celeron G440 consumes 15.5W at idle,21.7W during CPU load,26.8W during GPU load and 21.9W during 1080p playback.

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I think it's just down to the individual authors.

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I think it's just down to the individual authors.

The problem is that it is the two main authors though.