Category Archives: NT IT Reviews

ASUS TUF B450-Plus Motherboard Review

December 9, 2020Motherboard reviewsWes

This motherboard is a very good starting motherboard, and is really easy to build off of. I personally do not have many bad things to say about this motherboard, it has good aesthetic, and is a really good motherboard for the price it is listed at ($109.99) on Newegg.

Some of the specs include: AM4 Socket

4 RAM Slots

6 SATA Connectors

LAN: 10/100/1000 MBPS

List of all specs here

Everything about the motherboard aesthetically works just fine, the RGB looks nice, the motherboard itself looks clean, really nothing to complain about there.

One thing I will say about the motherboard, it is pretty old, so newer CPU’s will not be compatible with it. If you are looking for a computer to play games on, I would go with a newer motherboard. However, if you are looking for a motherboard to start out at, this one works great!

Note: This review is part of a classroom project.

https://www.newegg.com/

ASRock TRX40 Taichi Motherboard Review

December 7, 2020Motherboard reviewsCody

This motherboard is nearly perfect if you’re looking for a top-tier gaming spec motherboard. Boasting a maximum of 256GB of quad-channel memory, easily handling AMD’s Ryzen threadripper series. While only being an easy $500 USD, you definitely get the “bang for your buck” with this motherboard.

ASRock is a reasonably experienced company, producing various computer parts, ranging from motherboards to wifi antennas. Based in Taipei, Taiwan, they have various other branches in the Netherlands and the United States.

Accepted memory ranges anywhere from DDR4 3200 (non overclocked) to DDR4 4666 (overclocked). This motherboard specifically is built for overclocking. Along with multiple fans, and plenty of room for a custom watercooling loop.

” No compromise board for anyone using an AIO cooler. Only reason to pay more is if you are doing a custom cooling loop needing water channels in the motherboard.”

-Paul M.

Works Cited:
“ASRock TRX40 TAICHI sTRX4 AMD TRX40 SATA 6Gb/s ATX AMD Motherboard.” Newegg.com – Computer Parts, Laptops, Electronics, HDTVs, Digital Cameras and More!, www.newegg.com/asrock-trx40-taichi/p/N82E16813157903.

Note: This review is part of a classroom project.

ASUS ROG STRIX Z490-E GAMING LGA 1200

December 7, 2020Motherboard reviewsRion

ASUS GAMING MOTHERBOARD VIEW FROM TOP — A GAMING MOTHERBOARD MANUFACTURED BY ASUS THAT USES AN INTEL CPU.

This ASUS motherboard is the perfect motherboard for your gaming needs.

This board features an Intel LGA 1200 socket for 10th Gen intel core processors.

Also, it features 4 288 pin slots for ram with standards ranging from2133 to 2666 on standard and 2800 to 4600 while overclocked.

This board also has 6 SATA slots that support 6 Gb/s and 2 m.2 slots with both supporting 2211 to 2242.

The integrated components have 2 wifi antenna ports, 8 USB 3.1 Gen 1 ports, 2 RJ-45 LAN Ports, 2 USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports, 2 USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C ports, 1 Optical S/Pdif out, and 5 Analog audio ports.

The expansion slots on the motherboard have 2 PCIe 3.0 x16, 1 PCI Express x4, and 3 PCI Express x1.

This motherboard costs $291.00 and is rated 4 eggs on Newegg.com at the time of this post.

Works Cited:

ASUS PRIME Z490M-PLUS LGA 1200 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard – Newegg.com.” Www.Newegg.com, www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813119273?Description=asus%20prime%20z490m&cm_re=asus_prime%20z490m-_-13-119-273-_-Product. Accessed 19 Nov. 2020.

ASRock B460 STEEL LEGEND

December 7, 2020Motherboard reviewsEmily

The B460 Steel Legend is a good working and business motherboard. If you are looking for a motherboard to get the job done and is not too expensive then you want this motherboard. This business motherboard can be more than for work it could be a good everyday use as well. This is a good quality motherboard that has a 3-year warranty with it; made by ASRock. It is also an Intel Core which will only support Intel CPUs.

This motherboard CPU Socket Type is an LGA 1200 and supports a 10th Gen Intel Core Processors. More information on this Motherboard

This motherboard holds 128GB of maximum memory. The motherboards memory slots hold DDR4 with 4 slots for it.

It has integrated graphics audio and LAN.

References:

Newegg

ASRock B460 Steel Legend

Note: This review is for a classroom project

Gigabyte H310M S2H

December 3, 2020Motherboard reviewsMadelyn

look of motherboard — Gigabyte H310M S2H motherboard.

The Gigabyte H310M S2H is a good motherboard. It depends on what you are looking to use it for though. You are not going to want to use this as a gaming PC. It might not be the best choice for a gaming PC. However it would make a great motherboard for your computer at home if that’s not what you are looking for. This is a high quality motherboard made by Gigabyte and they have a 3 year warrantee. This Gigabyte motherboard is an intel motherboard, it will only except intel CPU’s.

This motherboards CPU socket is an LGA 1151. Meaning it will only except some CPU’s not just any.

This motherboard contains 32GB of maximum memory. This motherboards memory slots hold DDR4 and there are 2 slots. For the storage, there is both M.2 and SATA connectors.

It has integrated graphics audio and LAN. There are 10 USB, 6 on the back panel and 4 are on the internal USB header.

There are also a few expansion slots. Only 1 PCIe x16 and 2 PCIe x1. This is one of the reasons it would not make a good gaming PC.

I would review this motherboard as a 5 star motherboard. On newegg.com this motherboards reviews are very good. The motherboard was able to fulfill what I needed with no problems at all . I used this motherboard for at home purposes, such as google, shopping, and maybe some work I needed to do at home.

Works Cited

Note: This review is for a classroom project.

Western Digital 500 GB Blue SSD

April 11, 2020Hard Drive ReviewsSeth

The WD SSD 500 Gb blue edition was the top solid-state hard drive during 2017. this extraordinary SSD is still great for booting your os and your games a lot faster than an original Hard drive “Spinny Drive”. not only will this SSD load your programs a lot faster but it will last you a lifetime before it goes bad “dies”.

knowing that this SSD has many great qualities it does not just stop there it also has benefits. benefits such as a 5-year warranty that was provided by NewEgg. another benefit is if you decide that you don’t, believe me, then you can buy it and try it for 30 days whether or not you like it or not you can get a full refund at no cost to you.

Specs

Max Sequential Read Up to 560 MBps

Max Sequential Write Up to 530 MBps

4KB Random Read Up to 95,000 IOPS

4KB Random Write Up to 84,000 IOPS

the lifetime in hours Up to 1.75M hours

or 199 years

2.5’’ hard drive

AMD Ryzen 3800x Review

February 10, 2020CPU reviewsKhyler

By my Boss, I was asked to review the AMD Ryzen 3800x. I honestly had to do a decent amount of research because I am not down pat on what a CPU does. He is wanting me to determine whether or not this CPU would be a good gamer CPU. I know the simple stuff like what the CPU is which is the Central Processing Unit, and the clock speed which for this CPU it has a Base Clock speed of 3,900,000,000 GHz which means it processing at 3.9 billion cycles a second.

This CPU is an 8 core processor, or Octo core processor. The processor core receives instructions from a single computing task, and works with the clock speed to quickly process the information and temporarily store in the Random Access Memory which the acronym to this term would be RAM. Im glad I finally cleared this up.

So this CPU has 512 KB of L1 Cache, 4 MB of L2 Cache, and 32 MB of L3 Cache. Cache is a small part of the memory which is apart of the CPU, actually it is closer to the CPU than RAM. It is used to temporarily hold instructions and data that the CPU is likely to reuse. So as you can tell this CPU has plenty of storage on the CPU for you being able to download files or play games on. This is all new to me honestly.

So this CPU has 16 threads. By the research I have done a thread is directly related to a CPU core and is basically just a virtual version of it. Although many AMD CPU’s use SMT (Surface Mount Technology) related to their threads, many Intel CPU’s use hyperthreading.

Ultimately, this CPU would be a good match for ideally a Business CPU or a Home CPU. I mean if you want to, you could run this as a low end Gaming CPU but if you dont have to you definitely do not want to.

All in All, I would definitely recommend this CPU for your Business or Home purposes. It makes a quality CPU for surfing the web or playing small games like coolmath games for example. If you had to, you could run this as a low end Gaming CPU, but I would not recommend it.

On Newegg.com 83% of users on this site give it 5 eggs which is the highest amount of eggs you can give.

You can find other positive reviews on TheAngryHoneyBadger’s youtube review, and at hexus.net

NOTE: part of a classroom project

Sources:

www.youtube.com

www.newegg.com

hexus.net

AMD 1st Gen RYZEN Threadripper 1920X

The AMD 1st Gen RYZEN Threadripper 1920X is the fastest more productive CPU out there today. This CPU is the main brain also known as (Central Processing Unit) where all the processing of your computer happens. The AMD 1st Gen RYZEN Threadripper 1920X has exactly 24 threads that all run at a speed of 3.5 Hz and 4.0 Hz if you overclock.

The AMD 1st Gen RYZEN Threadripper 1920X is one of the best CPUs for its price also known as (bank for Buck). This wonderful CPU Has been bought hundreds of times and still has a good five-star rating as shown below.

the AMD 1st Gen RYZEN Threadripper 1920X has been tested and proven to be one of the best banks for the buck after building and testing for a month.

Intel Celeron G1820 Review

February 7, 2020CPU reviewsZachary

I was asked to review the Intel Celeron G1820. I had to do a good amount of research for this review, because I don’t know anything about CPU’s. The only thing I knew about CPU’s before this blog was the clock speed of them. For instance this CPU’s clock speed is 2.7 GHz. This means that CPU is processing at 2.7 billion cycles per sec.

This CPU is a dual core processor. A core, or CPU core, receives instructions, and perform operations, to fulfill those instructions. This CPU is not hyper threaded which would mean that it would have two threads for every core, but since it is not hyper threaded it only has two threads. One thread per core. As I said before the cores let you perform different operations on them like running an anti-virus in the back ground the threads allow you to split up those cores to be able to run more programs at once.

This CPU has 2MB of L3 cache. From the research I have conducted 2MB is not very good if you are trying to use this for anything more that surfing the internet or watching YouTube videos. Cache is memory on the CPU. Cache located on the CPU it is way faster than RAM since the CPU just talks to itself instead of transferring info between the CPU and the RAM.

As for reviews of this CPU I would say it is about 85% positive 15% negative. I personally would recommend this CPU to you if you are just trying to buy a cheap CPU and only use it for browsing the internet. You definitely wont be using this CPU for any sort of gaming. Unless you trying to play some Cool Math games.

Review list:

Amazon

BenchMarks

Note: This is for a class project

Intel i7 8700

February 7, 2020CPU reviewsTyler

So a few days ago, my son said that I could never build a PC (Personal Computer). Well, I told him that I could. I went to the library and got a copy of “PCs For Dummies”, and I learned a lot. So I got my motherboard and case from Newegg.com. All I need to do now is get my CPU. Well, I found one and it is called the Intel i7 8700. This CPU is great and has everything I need.

https://static.lwn.net/images/cpumemory/cpumemory.1.png

So this CPU is apparently a gaming CPU and better than the average home motherboard CPU. It has all the cache on a computer that the person needs. Cache is the memory of the CPU. It has only L3 cache and 12MB (MegaBytes) on it. L3 cache is shared memory with the CPU and the motherboard. What this means is that its memory speed is 12 million cycles per second. This is a great speed for a good quality computer.

Also, This CPU has a socket type of an LGA (Land Grid Array) slot. The socket is for and LGA 1151 (300 series). This is a newer type of socket. That book that I got from the library said that. Aren’t you impressed?

Cores are on this CPU as well. The cores in a CPU are like the “brains” of the CPU. This CPU has 6 cores and 12 threads as well as “Hyperthreading.” This CPU is very amazing.

I looked at the speed of this CPU and its speed is 3.2 GHz (GigaHertz). What that means is that it’s going at 3.2 billion cycles per second. I tell you what, that is fast buddy.

Well, buddy, I hope you understand why I did this. My son doesn’t know what he’s talking about when he says I can’t build computers. What an idiot, but hey, he’s my son so I gotta love him.

https://www.newegg.com/core-i7-8th-gen-intel-core-i7-8700/p/N82E16819117826

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-8700+%40+3.20GHz&id=3099

Note: This is for a class project