Taipei, Taiwan, February 26, 2008 -Catering to users who need a powerful motherboard with high speeds and great expansion slot interface support, ASUS, worldwide leader in motherboard design and production, has today released the Z7S WS workstation motherboard. This innovative motherboard is equipped with dual socket 771 and utilizes the latest Intel 5400 chipset for vigorous performance. It also supports fully buffered DDR2 800MHz dual-channel memory, dual PCI Express 2.0 x16 lanes; and comes in the compact CEB form factor. With this innovative motherboard, users will enjoy convenient slot expansion and enjoy fast and efficient work efficiency.

When we reported about the Inquirers review of the Asus Z7S we were quite skeptical. ASUS contacts could not confirm existence and even doubted the news themselves due to various reasons. (naming scheme, FB-DIMM's on enthusiast board, etc)
Besides a small review the Z7S was not heard of. Though we are happy to be able to tell you it isn't a hoax, a contact at Asus confirmed existence of the board and it is indeed aimed at previous PC-DL/NCCH-DL users.
Unfortunately nothing new is known, but seeing how the aforementioned boards were priced odds are it will not cost you an arm and a leg. Which is, of course, relative.
Strategically it would make sense to release this around the release of Skulltrail, the only board with similar features. So let's hope for some more news next month.

We all know the Inquirer isn't always right. However this story seems solid. The Inq is reporting of a new Asus s771 board. Of course nothing special, though next to Skulltrail this would be the only board with overclocking options in the BIOS.

Xfire, the program that basically acts like a free Xbox Live for the PC, has a tracking feature that lets you log how many hours you spend on a particular game. This lets you brag to people just how little time you spend outside how good you are at a particular game. Xfire took all the voluntarily sent data, collected it over a 15 month period, and wrote it down in a pretty log. The result? We now know exactly which games are played the most. Are you ready for the list?

1- World Of Warcraft (big surprise)
2- Counter-Strike Source
3- Call of Duty 2 Multiplayer
4- Battlefield 2
5- Guild Wars

If you want the rest of the list, please click here. Over-all, an impressive 92,000 years of time was spent on games over this 15 month period.