*****Five Amazin Weekend Deals*****

[GIBBO]

Hi there


Well I am back and already have some deals for you guys:-


Asus M3A79-T Deluxe AMD 790FX (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

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This motherboard supports AMD AMD Socket AM2+ multi-core processors with unique L3 cache and delivers better overclocking capabilities with less power consumption. It features dual-channel DDR2 1066 memory support and accelerates data transfer rate up to 5200MT/s via HyperTransport 3.0 based system bus.

This motherboard supports AMD Socket AM2 Athlon/Sempron processors. It features 2000/1600 MT/s HyperTransport-based system bus, dual-channel un-buffered DDR2 800 memory support, and AMD Cool ´n´ Quiet Technology

AMD 790FX Chipset is designed to support up to 5200MT/s HyperTransport 3.0 (HT 3.0) interface speed and quad PCI Express 2.0 x16 graphics. It is optimized with AMD latest AM2+ and multi-core CPUs to provide excellent system performance and overclocking capabilities.

Features
AMD 140W CPU Support
8+2 Phase Power Design
100% Japan-made Solid Capacitors! (5000hrs VRM)
AMD OverDrive (AOD)
Precision Tweaker 2
ATI CrossFireX? Technology Support
ASUS Express Gate


Price: £89.99 +VAT (£103.49 Inc. VAT)


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Samsung 64GB 2.5" SATA-II MLC Solid State Hard Drive

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Samsung's Solid State Drive (SSD) is an advanced NAND flash-based solution for traditional storage, leveraging the company's longtime leadership in memory technology. This next-generation solution offers several advantages over rotating magnetic media such as significantly lower power consumption, remarkable ruggedness, high reliability, less weight and outstanding performance.

The SSD system is currently selling as an alternative high-end storage device for notebooks by many major PC manufacturers. The SSD's weight is less than that of a conventional hard drive, thus further increasing easy system portability. The device also uses significantly less power. This gives users more battery life.

Samsung's Solid State Drive performance is greater than traditional storage. In addition, random search times are the faster on the SSD, which is not subject to fragmentation and maintains its performance over time.

As a non-volatile storage device, the SSD has no moving parts such as the motor, disks and heads of a hard drive. Thus it eliminates spin-up time, seek time and rotational latency while delivering sustained high-speed data transfers. The SSD's lack of moving parts makes it noise-free and its ultra-low power consumption virtually eliminates heat emissions.

The SSD is also highly rugged, standing up to shock and vibration. These performance features make it well suited to a broad range of users. These include "road warrior" business professionals, as well as those in demanding military and industrial areas. Samsung designed the SSD's footprint to be interchangeable with a hard disk drive. Furthermore, because the SSD is form-factor agnostic, the flash components can be arranged to meet virtually any size or shape configurations.

Features
- Read Speed of 90MB/s
- Write Speed of 70MB/s
- Onboard 64MB Cache
- Samsung Controller


Price: £75.99 +VAT (£87.39 Inc. VAT)


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http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?OCZ-VSSD30

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Offering your system the incredible performance of flash-based technology, the OCZ Vertex Series delivers the performance and reliability of SSDs at less price per gigabyte than other high speed offerings currently on the market. The OCZ Vertex Series is the result of all the latest breakthroughs in SSD technology, including new architecture and controller design, blazing 200MB/sec read and 160MB/sec write speeds and featuring 32MB onboard cache. The OCZ Vertex drives feature a durable yet lightweight alloy housing, and because OCZ SSDs have no moving parts, the drives are more rugged than traditional hard drives. Designed for ultimate reliability, Vertex Series SSDs have an excellent 1.5 million hour mean time before failure (MTBF) ensuring peace of mind over the long term.

- Read Speed Up to 200MB/sec
- Write Speed Up to 160MB/sec
- NAND Flash Multi-Level Cell (MLC)
- Interface SATA-II
- Cache: 32MB


Price: £99.99 +VAT (£114.99 Inc. VAT)


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OCZ Vertex Series 60GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive

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Offering your system the incredible performance of flash-based technology, the OCZ Vertex Series delivers the performance and reliability of SSDs at less price per gigabyte than other high speed offerings currently on the market. The OCZ Vertex Series is the result of all the latest breakthroughs in SSD technology, including new architecture and controller design, blazing 200MB/sec read and 160MB/sec write speeds and featuring 32MB onboard cache. The OCZ Vertex drives feature a durable yet lightweight alloy housing, and because OCZ SSDs have no moving parts, the drives are more rugged than traditional hard drives. Designed for ultimate reliability, Vertex Series SSDs have an excellent 1.5 million hour mean time before failure (MTBF) ensuring peace of mind over the long term.

- Read Speed Up to 200MB/sec
- Write Speed Up to 160MB/sec
- NAND Flash Multi-Level Cell (MLC)
- Interface SATA-II
- Cache: 32MB


Price: £174.99 +VAT (£201.24 Inc. VAT)


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OCZ Vertex Series 120GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive

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Offering your system the incredible performance of flash-based technology, the OCZ Vertex Series delivers the performance and reliability of SSDs at less price per gigabyte than other high speed offerings currently on the market. The OCZ Vertex Series is the result of all the latest breakthroughs in SSD technology, including new architecture and controller design, blazing 200MB/sec read and 160MB/sec write speeds and featuring 64MB onboard cache. The OCZ Vertex drives feature a durable yet lightweight alloy housing, and because OCZ SSDs have no moving parts, the drives are more rugged than traditional hard drives. Designed for ultimate reliability, Vertex Series SSDs have an excellent 1.5 million hour mean time before failure (MTBF) ensuring peace of mind over the long term.

- Read Speed Up to 200MB/sec
- Write Speed Up to 160MB/sec
- NAND Flash Multi-Level Cell (MLC)
- Interface SATA-II
- Cache: 64MB


Price: £284.99 +VAT (£327.74 Inc. VAT)


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[Advanced]

Mate, some serious piece of kit there, at great prices, I am tempted, :D :) but constructive you missed out the 30GB bit on one of the SSD's. :p

[moppy89]

Whats better for gaming 790fx or 790gx?

[Helior]

Whats better for gaming 790fx or 790gx?

there essentially the same but gx has onboard graphics which you don't need if you use a graphics card.

[moppy89]

I see...So what are the differences between this board and the Biostar TA790GX which is about £20 cheaper with 128mb onboard memory?
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?BIO-TA790G
Apart from the fact that its made by ASUS.

[wuyanxu]

*drool* to buy or not to buy.

been thinking about the Samsung 64GB SSD all week.......

[system7]

I see...So what are the differences between this board and the Biostar TA790GX which is about £20 cheaper with 128mb onboard memory?
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?BIO-TA790G
Apart from the fact that its made by ASUS.

The Asus M3A79-T is an older full bandwidth crossfire Spider platform 790FX board. But for a mere £100, I would fancy it. It is built like a tank, and should overclock any AM2+ or AM3 really well.

Gibbo and I discussed it some time back for overclocking the then new Phenom II 940BE, which has a hefty power draw.


Hi m8

The Asus M3A79-T Deluxe is a **** good board and works with these chips, am sure there is others as well.

I had to agree, but the price of £140 at the time was a bit of a shock. For a mere £100, it's a steal. I've found a hugely positive response at newegg for it. :thumbs:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16813131339

[bob36]

Meh, I had to pay £120 for my ASUS M3A79-T about 3 weeks ago. Seeing that new price is just killing me! I wish I waited till you came back from holiday GIBBO! :D

I can testify to the awesome overclocking performance of that board. It took my old phenom 9600 to 2.7ghz at stock voltage with +2% ACC.

[Pixulated]

Woah I'm seriously thinking about buying that vertex!

[wuyanxu]

finally ordered the SSD :) by the end of Tuesday, my system will be flying :)

[wuyanxu]

my Samsung 64GB MLC drive arrived. amazing drive for anyone who hasn't jumped onto the SSD wagon.

moved my User and ProgramData onto a WD Black 1TB (may move them to Raptor for mooooor speed) and even then, Windows Vista 64bit starts up around 30s. sidebar appears instantly. overall Windows feels snappier, not to mention quieter than Raptor.

Firefox and other heavy profile based doesn't start as fast as i expect. it's probably due to the User profiles on a slower drive.

[I3R0K3N7FEET]

thats a great price on a great board. i really cannot recomomend the biostar790gx board with that board at barely over £100 anyone considering amd atm i cannot say enough how amazing the m3a79t is..


Whats better for gaming 790fx or 790gx?

790fx mobos are the highest end amd boards bar maybe the nvidia 780i. which both are gamer overclocker / enthusiast level

fx boards are made for multi gpu up to quad crossfire and runs dual crossfire in 16x 16x speeds where a gx board only does 8x 8x,

while this board is an 'older board' that means barely a year (9months sept 08) and is using the latest chipset which wont be updated till next year.. in fact many review sites say this is better than the am3 m4a79t deluxe and that many of the am3 boards arent worth the upgrade right now< so this is possibly one of the best amd mobos until the new chipsets... there we go

[Greenlizard0]

Hurray the Vertex's have dropped :D

Gibbo - is there an ETA of the WD Green 1.5tb drives at all? Also will you be stocking the Samsung 1.5TB eco drive?

[I3R0K3N7FEET]

price update mobo for 91.99 !"! anyone buying amd soon buy it!!

[Deanc]

i bought it at around 150quid (cant remember exact price) about a month ago :( but seriously any1 who is thinkin AMD get it u really wont regret it :)

the mobo that is :P