Powercolor X1800 GTO and MSI 7600 GT Reviewed
Madshrimps :: Friday, August 18, 2006
“How high can you turn up the resolution and detail with these mid-range VGA cards? We evaluate their performance in six different games to give you the answer. Read on to find out how much *oomph* you can get for your money. The Powercolor X1800 GTO and MSI NX7600GT-T2D256EZ (the one with passive cooling) are tested.”
HP LP2465 24-inch LCD Review
Digital Trends :: Friday, August 18, 2006
“The HP LP2465 24-inch LCD monitor is the newer, bigger brother to the HP L2335 23-inch monitor we reviewed a couple years ago. This bad boy has a 6ms response rate!”
Intel Xeon 5150 Woodcrest
Phoronix :: Friday, August 18, 2006
“Last month Intel had announced the Woodcrest Xeon 5100 series processors for use on servers and workstations, while just days ago, Intel finally officially launched their Core 2 Duo selection. Today at Phoronix we have taken a performance look at Intel’s Xeon 5150 Woodcrest processor in both single and dual configurations as well as comparing its performance against the Intel Xeon 5000 Dempsey.”
MSI’s K9N SLI Platinum motherboard
The Tech Report :: Friday, August 18, 2006
NVIDIA’S NFORCE 590 SLI got all the attention when AMD launched its new AM2 platform, and for good reason. The chipset is packed to the gills with more PCI Express lanes, Serial ATA ports, integrated Gigabit Ethernet controllers, and fancy buzzwords than any other core logic solution for the Athlon 64. It’s not alone, though. Nvidia launched a full line of nForce 500 series chipsets to accompany Socket AM2, and although the nForce 590 SLI is the flagship, its little brother, the nForce 570 SLI, may ultimately be more appealing.
Scythe Infinity Cooler
Technic 3d :: Friday, August 18, 2006
“The Scythe Infinity CPU Cooling arrived the Technic3D Editorship. See you in the following Review how the new CPU Cooling for Dual-Core and AM2 Socket presents itself.”
All Xeon Models
Hardware Secrets :: Friday, August 18, 2006
“In 1998 Intel started including the name “Xeon” to label their processors targeted to the server and workstation market. These processors can access more RAM memory, can work on a multi-processing environment (i.e. motherboards with more than one CPU installed) and have a performance higher than their counterpart targeted to the end-user market. ”
Mushkin HP2 5300 (2x1GB) DDR2 667 Memory Review
Overclocker’s Club :: Friday, August 18, 2006
“A major component of all computers is the memory. Without it, today’s bigger, better, stronger, faster computers would be nonexistent. Computers utilize two types of memory, Main and RAM. You can think of main memory as a box that can hold a single byte of information. So if your computer has one megabyte of memory, it can hold one million bytes of information. Today, our focus will be on RAM (Random Access Memory), or read and write memory. RAM permits you to both read and write data to it. So basically, RAM needs a steady flow of electricity to contain its contents, meaning that once the power is turned off, all stored memory will be lost. So in order to work, RAM needs a steady flow of information or it will forget what it is holding.”
Vantec NexStar LX NAS HDD Enclosure Review
Virtual Hideout :: Friday, August 18, 2006
“Overall, the Vantec NexStar LX is a decent, feature-rich HDD enclosure that performs great, but has a few drawbacks. Firstly, the plastic top cover doesn’t feel all that sturdy, and I’m left to worry as to whether it’ll break if something heavy is placed on top of it, or if the tabs holding it in place will last. I’m also not that fond of having to pry it off to install a HDD. ”
OCZ GameXStream Multi-GPU PSU under the spotlight
Tweak Town :: Friday, August 18, 2006
“This brings us to today’s piece where we will take a look at the GameXStream 600-watt power supply. This unit is reportedly made with the gamer in mind. While a solid reputation is certainly a good thing, this won’t be a consideration when looking at a new product.”
Logisys Aluminum HDD Silencer Review
Techgage :: Friday, August 18, 2006
With the quiet computing push that’s becoming more and more popular today users are finding that the last hurdle in truly silent computing is the HDD. While there are many ways of quieting the noise generated by your drive some only help to decouple the vibrations generated by the drive from the PC chassis while others end up enclosing the drive so completely that it runs perilously hot. Today we take a look at one that offers decent cooling and quiet in one package.
Zalman Super Thermal Grease
Think Computers :: Friday, August 18, 2006
“Today for review I have something from our friends at Zalman. Now we know Zalman makes some great CPU coolers, but most people avoid using the thermal grease that comes with after market coolers if favor of some of the other name brands out there. For quite a while now Arctic Silver has been the reigning champion in this area, but the item I received for review is Zalman’s own Thermal Grease and from what I can tell it’s just as good if not slightly better than the reigning champion.”
Corsair TwinX2048-4400Pro
TechFEAR :: Friday, August 18, 2006
Corsair’s premium DDR memory does its best to prove that there is still life in what is quickly becoming a legacy product. This kit is fast and will be at home on any Socket 939 system.”
OpenSuSE 10.2 Alpha 3
Phoronix :: Friday, August 18, 2006
“Hitting the burner this week is OpenSuSE 10.2 Alpha 3. This latest SuSE development release delivers the 2.6.18-RC4 kernel, KDE 3.5.4, GNOME 2.16 Beta, and new OpenSuSE branding in most areas. X.Org has also been updated to 7.1 in this latest release. Overall, this development copy for OpenSUSE 10.2 (due out later this year) is shaping up quite well.”
Thermaltake Kandalf VA9000B Review
Techgage :: Friday, August 18, 2006
The Kandalf is virtually an Armor with some additions, but are these additions worth the extra cash? We are also taking a look at the new A2400 with 250mm fan to see if it improves on the original.
Windows Vista vs. OS X: The Copycat Olympics
OS Weekly :: Friday, August 18, 2006
“Now that we know more about Mac OS X Leopard, the battle lines are clearly being drawn between Apple’s offering and the one that’s sitting in Redmond somewhere. Even though some of us may have been mostly unimpressed with the keynote presentation at this year’s WWDC, that hasn’t stopped Apple from being proud of what they’ve been hard at work on.”
Zalman ZM-RF1 Reserator Fan Kit Review
TweakNews :: Friday, August 18, 2006
“Zalman has never shied away from making products that target small niche markets. With the ZM-RF1, they seem to have a product that is desperately seeking a purpose. Zalman’s Reserator series of liquid cooling systems fit into a target market by virtue of their silence. By adding the ZM-RF1, the user turns a silent system into a quiet one with lackluster performance. In my opinion, a 2-3C drop in temps is a poor trade-off for the added noise.”
ASRock AM2V890-VSTA VIA K8T890 Socket AM2 Motherboard Review
PC Stats :: Friday, August 18, 2006
” In this review of the ASrock AM2V890-VSTA motherboard we’ll be looking at how the VIA K8T890 handles itself around the socket AM2 Athlon64 FX-62 processor. The ASRock AM2V890-VSTA Socket AM2 motherboard is the first motherboard to cross PCSTATS’ test bench based on the VIA K8T890 chipset. This compact ATX motherboard has four 240 pin DDR2 memory slots which accommodate up to 8GB of DDR-2 memory. The AM2V890-VSTA motherboard easily accommodates a PCI Express x16 videocard, although a second can be inserted into the adjacent PCI Express x4 slot for multiple monitor outputs – SLI is not supported.”
Undervolting the AMD A64 X2 4200+ AM2 Processor
Legit Reviews :: Friday, August 18, 2006
“Undervolting proved susscessful as we were able to reduced temperatures and lower the total power consumption on our test platform. Our testing showed that we were able to shave off 28W at full load, so by undervolting we can expect to save up to $34 a year by reducing the utility bill. It almost makes you wonder why more people aren’t doing this!…”
Intel Core 2 Extreme E6800 / Core 2 Duo E6700
Driver Heaven :: Friday, August 18, 2006
The first major example of this was back in May when we were invited to Intel Headquarters in Germany and were able to get hands on with a pre configured Core 2 system, a full two months before retail availability. Initial impressions were very positive however there is only so much faith you can have in pre-configured systems with limited testing, many sites published “their” results which basically were nothing more than glorified Intel PDF’s, we choose to wait until we could build our own systems and do our own indepth testing.
SilverStone NT04 CPU Cooler
Think Computers :: Friday, August 18, 2006
“Today’s CPU coolers features exciting new technologies like micro fins, and copper heat pipes, but do you remember the old fashioned aluminum fin types that most CPU’s came with stock? Is there still a place for them in today’s high temperature CPU’s? Well today for review I have a CPU cooler from SilverStone that reminded me of something I would have seen on an older type of CPU, all aluminum with a fan on top of it. It is the NT04 CPU cooler, is it any good? Can it do the job? Let’s find out…”
Cooler Master Centurion 534 Give Away
Overclockers Online :: Friday, August 18, 2006
This is a case that many websites have reviewed. While we haven’t had the chance of reviewing it, there have been many great words said about this box. For one thing, having this for your next AM2 or Conroe rig wouldn’t be a bad thing, especially when it’s free!
Corsair CMPSU-620HX 620 Watt Power Supply
Bjorn 3d :: Thursday, August 17, 2006
Today we have the rare opportunity of reviewing a product before its actual release date. Corsair, a company well known to the entire enthusiast market for making some of the finest memory currently available has joined a few of its memory manufacturing brethren in moving into the manufacture and sales of power supplies. Corsair’s first two offerings consist of both a 520W and 620W watt PSU that offer most if not all of the bells and whistles currently available. Please join us while we review the Corsair’s CMPSU-620HX 620 watt power supply to see if this product fully warrants your consideration as a viable alternative to its considerably more expensive counterparts in the PSU arena.
World First : Be-Quiet StraightPower series review
Driver Heaven :: Thursay, August 17, 2006
“Be-Quiet have impressed us in the past with their high quality power supply units. Their DarkPower series have always been a very good choice for power users, enthusiasts and those of us addicted to silence. It would be fair to say that Be-Quiet have not been able to compete in the mid range sector because their power supply units, although very reliable and powerful, tend to cost too much for the “average” user. Be-Quiet have decided to address this situation by releasing the StraightPower series, which retain many of the features of the DarkPower series with extremely competitive pricing.”
Is Your OS Spying On You?
OS Weekly :: Tuesday, August 15, 2006
“Paranoia is becoming more common these days, and if you let yourself be engulfed by it, there’s definitely not a shortage of things to be concerned about. We know that the governments have the technology to monitor our lives (wiretapping, satellites, other stuff we have no earthly idea about), but regular users are also using certain tools to invade our privacy. Most people just don’t like the idea that Big Brother is watching them wherever they go, and that Big Brother can be anything from one or all of the multiple levels of government, a next door neighbor, or even your actual big brother.”
Conroe Motherboard Shootout
Maxit Mag :: Tuesday, August 15, 2006
At present, you’re faced with 2 main chipset options to use with your brand new Core 2 Duo CPU. Either Intel’s flagship Crossfire enabled 975X aimed at enthusiasts or the cheaper 965P chiipset which caters for the mainstream market.
Silverstone Cooler: Nitrogen NT03
OC3D :: Thursday, August 17, 2006
“With a Heatpipe solution that is packed into a small stylish package, Silverstone are onto a winner for people wishing to create a Media PC or an HTPC in a smaller case”
Intel Core 2 Duo Family review
TechSpot :: Tuesday, August 15, 2006
After much hype and anticipation, the new Intel Core 2 Duo processors are now available in stores with prices starting at $180 all through $530. But it’s not for nothing that such tremendous hype surrounded Intel’s new CPUs release. As our test results will show later on, even the slowest Intel Core 2 Duo processor is significantly faster than more expensive Pentium D processors. Take the Pentium D 950 for example, this is a $250 processor whereas the newer Core 2 Duo E6300 will initially cost just $180. The question is however, which of the four Intel Core 2 Duo processors deliver the best performance vs. price ratio?
Intel Core 2: Is high speed memory worth its price?
Madshrimps :: Thursday, August 17, 2006
“Does the Intel Core 2 need fast DDR2 memory to perform at its best? In this article we compare different memory speed and timings to provide you with the answer. Read on to find if cheap memory is enough to feed the Conroe.”
EVGA 7600GS 512MB Video Card Review
Motherboards.org :: Tuesday, August 15, 2006
With the announcement of the AMD-ATI merger, the video card market is in a state of flux. The 7600GS is a good mainstream card, available on Newegg for $129.99 after a $20 mail-in rebate. For this price, you get 512MB of memory; double that of other cards on the mainstream market. This will help with anti-aliasing enabled and in applications like Maya that requires more memory.
