Happy weekend all. Starting our
day out at Sidewinder Computers we find that more and more Radeon HD4870
aftermarket coolers are coming out and are available. Take this
Swiftech MCW60-4870 - ATI HD4870 GPU Waterblock for instance.
Also check out this
MOSFET Waterblock that could be at the heart of a number of
projects. They also have a ton of
Intel air coolers on sale.
Let's check in with the news.
The pros over at
Overclocker's
Club show off what looks like a fairly solid board; the
ASUS P6T Deluxe OC Edition.
Where the
Asus separated itself from the Intel offering was on the overclocking
front. This really was the expected result. The Intel offering was able
to gain about the same overclock but did so with a much lower baseclock
frequency that results in less memory bandwidth and performance in real
tasks and games. When the limits are pushed, the Asus P6T was able to
recover from every failed overclocking attempt I tried with a simple
shut down and reboot.
Does the extra RAM make it all
worthwhile?
Gigabyte Radeon HD 4850 1GB action up at
bit-tech.
There are some
clear benefits to the additional 512MB of graphics memory present on
Gigabyte's Radeon HD 4850 1GB graphics card in some titles, but they're
not there in others. Over time, the industry trend is definitely moving
towards more graphics memory - that trend has existed for years now and
it's not going to change any time soon - but the improvements on the
Radeon HD 4850 1GB aren't quite as profound as they are on the Radeon HD
4870 1GB.
Free Stuff! (OCZ DDR3 Triple
Channel Memory Kit)
Very nice.
Tweaktown has new
gen RAM on deck with their review of the
Corsair Dominator 1600MHz 6GB Triple Channel DDR3 Memory Kit.
Core i7 is here and its performance is
undeniable. One thing that has come from all this new technology is that
finally Intel has gotten the message; kill the FSB and move the memory
controller onto the CPU. With that happening we finally have the ability
to take full advantage of DDR3’s increased bandwidth.
Now if you momma needs a card...
The
ASUS Radeon HD 4830 could be good for that or a HTPC.
Benchmark Reviews
has one up on deck.
The HD 4830 is
built around the same RV770 GPU used in the rest of the HD 4800 series,
but with only 640 stream processors activated instead of the full 800.
In this review we'll look at just how much difference those extra 160
stream processors can make by testing it against our reference HD 4850.
We'll also be comparing it to the HD 4670, which ATI considers to be one
step below the 4830 in both price and performance.
You have to love the venting and the
built in card reader on the
GlacialTech Altair A380 Home Theatre PC Case that
PC Stats has a look
at today.
At first glance
the all-aluminum GlacialTech Altair A380 HTPC case reminds us of the IBM
desktop-style cases of yesteryear, except it's silver in colour. The
styling of the case will fit in just fine with the rest of your home
entertainment hardware, and on its own the Altair A380 blends into the
background quite nicely.
NZXT Alpha Case review translated from its original German on
Technic3D.
The
Cooler Master ATCS 840 Case has shown up what seems like everywhere
in the past few days. Nice to see the familiar ATCS case line
back. Driver
Heaven has it this time.
Today were going
to take a look at the ATCS 840, a full tower case that Coolermaster
hopes will break into the high end market when it is released next
month. With many components growing in size and the demand for water
cooling support increasing, they have constructed a huge full tower case
designed to accommodate the modern demands of enthusiasts.
HEXUS has a new piece posted titled
appropriately enough:
MSI Eclipse SLI - SLI or CrossFireX the choice is yours.
You've already seen how it performs in 3-way SLI,
now find out how MSI's latest and greatest fares in our 2D and 3-way
CrossFire test-suite.
The finisher.
Nova Slider X600 Gamer Mouse at XS Reviews.
ATV Flash at Dragon Steel Mods.
KeyScan KS810 Keyboard-Scanner at Hardware Secrets.
Thermaltake MaxOrb EX CPU Cooler at
Think Computers.
Intel
80GB SSD at Bjorn3D.