The motherboard company with the unfortunate name, ASRock, has just announced their newest entry into the INTEL P55 race. Their newest board supports supports SATA3, USB 3.0 and eSATA3 Technologies, hence “333″. The “True” part comes from the fact that unlike some of the boards on the market that utilizes a PCI-E x1 channel to support the SATA3 and USB 3.0 connectivity, the P55 Deluxe3 actually uses its own separate PCI-E x16 lane through a special bridge that provides full bandwidth, even when utilizing CrossFireX or SLI.

Some boards will turn that x16 into an x8 slot when loaded up with GPUs for multi-card configurations, when utilizing USB 3.0 and SATA 3. This board doesn’t thanks to this special bridge hence “True 333″.

Full press release posted verbatim (as in not my spelling mistakes) from ASRock along with extra pictures and illustrations after the jump.

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Remember the secret government office Sector 7 in Transformers? If not, it’s probably because you got Megan Fox on the brain hovering over the engine bay of a Camaro. Well, we can confirm that Sector 7 is indeed a figment of someone’s imagination. However, we have confirmed that Sector 5 is real!

Futurelooks recently brought you some news from the forefront about Intel and GIGABYTE preparing for the upcoming Lynnfield and P55 motherboard launch. Since the new platform returns to using very capable Dual Channel memory, many a memory vendor have also been preparing to launch Lynnfield compatible DDR3 memory modules. This includes the good people at Patriot Memory who are said to be on schedule for the Sept 8th launch with their new Sector 5 series which plays off the Core i5 moniker.

Sector 5 isn’t a memory kit that transforms into anything itself, but it is designed to transform your P55 system in to a new machine. With the new series boasting 2000 MHz stock frequencies, we can expect excellent memory bandwidth as well as better overclocking. The Sector 5 2000 MHz DDR3 Dual Channel Memory (pictured above) sports some low 8-8-8-24 memory timings requiring only 1.65 Volts to power available 2GB and 4GB kits. Though the actual existence of these modules was known since the middle of the month, these specs weren’t available until now.

The news doesn’t stop there. An industry official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that memory frequencies of 2133 MHz are easily within reach with advanced research topping 2400 MHz. Could this all be a prelude of things to come? We believe so. Stay tuned as we work to track down some live photos and footage.

If this doesn’t stop soon, I’m going to stop reading reviews of cooling units and start looking into getting an even bigger CPU so I don’t have to turn on the furnace so early. At least there are a lot of new products to drool over to take my mind off the weather.

To start us off, Guru3D lets us know what’s up with the eVGA GeForce GTX 280 HC16 Hydro Copper

t-break takes a look at the Intel Atom/ECS 945GCT-D Motherboard

Elite Bastards gets chilly with the Vizo Ninja HS notebook cooler

Bjorn3D goes in-depth with SAS Performance at SATA Pricing: Cost-Effective SAS RAID Controller and the BFG GTX-260 OCX MaxCore Core 216

Legion Hardware takes some of the mystery out of the Gigabyte MA790GP-DS4H

Legit Reviews scores with F@H – 4,500+ Points a Day with a $49 GeForce 9600 GSO

OCModShop lets you know how to Protect Your Site from a Google PageRank Drop

X-bit Labs plays a quadruple-header with The Battle of Low-Power Processors: Best Choice for a Nettop, “Dark” Mainboard: DFI LANPARTY DK X48-T2RS, Zalman Trimon ZM-M220W Stereo Monitor, and Trendnet TEW-672GR Dual Band Wireless N Gigabit Router

Digital Trends compares Gphone vs. iPhone vs. Windows Mobile

Rage3D takes a peek at the ATi Radeon HD 4870 X2

Hardware Canucks dives into the Palit Radeon HD 4870 512MB Sonic Dual Edition Video Card

InsideHW brings us their Integrated Sound Cards Roundup and declares a winner in ATi Radeon HD 4670 vs. nVIDIA GeForce 9500GT

HotHardware sheds some light in their Dell Studio Hybrid Video Spotlight

Pro-Clockers checks out the NZXT Rogue SFF Case

TTGamer plays around with Spore PC

BCCHardware breaks down the NZXT Guardian 921 Crafted Gaming Chassis

Overclocker Cafe gets into the HIS HD4850 IceQ4 TurboX

Icrontic tells us The hows and whys of SSDs

And rounding out this installment is APH Networks’ with a Acronis True Image Echo Workstation report

INTEL Processors

HCW - Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 “Wolfdale”

Club Overclocker - Intel E8400 E0 Stepping

Hot Hardware - IDF In Pictures, A Video Slide Show

MadShrimps - Intel 45nm Overclocking: How to reach a high OC

Motherboards.org - Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 Review

OCIA - Intel Core 2 Overclocking Basics Article

Phoronix - Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Linux Performance

Legion Hardware - Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 Overclocking Performance

TechARP - Intel Core 2 Processors Performance Comparison Guide and Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 Dual-Core Processor Review 

Xbit Labs - New Wolfdale Processor Stepping: Core 2 Duo E8600

AMD Processors

Bit-Tech - AMD’s Phenom X4 9350e

Club Overclocker - AMD Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition Review

Hardware Canucks - AMD Phenom X4 9750 Quad Core CPU Review

Motherboards.org - AMD Spider Platform 9950 Black CPU Review

San Francisco, California – August 20th, 2008 - CoolIT Systems is proud to announce its latest advancement in computer cooling technology in the MTEC Docking Station.  Collaborating with Intel, CoolIT has developed the ultimate cooling solution for Intel® Core^TM2 Extreme mobile processor based laptops including the first mobile quad core processor  – the Intel® Core®2 Extreme mobile processor QX9300.  CoolIT Systems’ new MTEC docking station effectively enables safe, yet powerful overclocking capabilities, and boasts the following breakthrough features.

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