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NVIDIA’S MAMMOTH GX2 cards are arriving right now. You’vebeen waiting on this beast for some time now, and we’ve found the numbers foryou to gaze at. Tweak Town has benched, overclocked and sentenced... the GX2 isoffering a decent performance as-is, out of the box, but you have someoverclocking headroom as well as a near 20k 3DMark score running on a Q6600Kentsfield. We can imagine a Wolfdale will provide way better numbers. TT isputting a little faith on Nvidia driver development to raise that bar even more– and we know Nvidia usually saves some performance headroom for driverupgrades... Get your GX2 monstrosityhere.
When’s an E8400 not an E8400? CircuitREMIX found out: when it's a Xeon E3110,of course. These are in essence Xeon-branded E8400s and are even packaged thesame way (LGA775). For all intents and purposes these are the same CPUs – so ifyou can’t find one on the market, find the other. The test shows OC performanceis massive, which is great. Circuit got the Xeon E3110/E8400 running at4.3GHz@1.443v on air... which says a lot about this generation of CPUs. Read allaboutit.
Benchmark Reviews has published an Overclocking 101 guide. Meant to enlightenthe poor masses of users who question whether overclocking is safe, effective orat all recommendable, the guide is broken down into Intel and AMD overclockingtheory, memory overclocking, voltage increases, software, tools, etc... Noexotic stuff here, but the necessary to get the extra mileage out of your PC.Catch ithere.
The X48 chipset has been on the table since November last year with everyother reviewer nagging someone they know for a sample of the product. However,it was only at CeBIT that the boards started popping up. Now BenchZone managedto review Gigabyte’s X48 offspring. The GA-X48T-DQ6 seems to be the first timeGigabyte is going for their competitor’s throat. Lots of number crunching goingonhere.
Ginjfo is a French site dedicated to hardware and the environment (not verycommon, is it?). As such, they are mighty interested in finding out just how AMDcan save the environment with the 780G chipset+4850e Athlon X2. Their rig wasopen and the HD 3450 they used for Hybrid CrossFire almost reached 100celsius... apart from that, they think there’s some serious business to be donewith this combo. Read itherein French, orherein English.
We aren’t big fans of tablet PCs. We’re clumsy, we drink, we don’t like tocarry around expensive hardware in our hands the way you’d carry a notepad andpencil. However, the chaps at Trusted Reviews do... ‘cos they think there is apoint to tablet PCs, after testing Tosh’s Portégé M700. It’s damn heavy... 2kg,which isn’t really a pro in this type of computer. Speaking of pros, this alsohas VPro certification. It’s also sub-£1,100 which is a testament to Tosh’seffort in getting these to be adopted. Tablet PCs are known for being obscenelyhigh-priced and this one is an exception. Grab ithere.
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At CES 2008, iriver unveiled a panoply of new digital media playersit planned to release in various regions throughout the year. First outof the gate in select countries and scheduled for a U.S. debut by earlyApril is the iriver E100. In addition to being the company's firstdevice to natively supportFLAC, the E100 has built-in stereo speakers, line-in recordingcapabilities, and a microSD card slot.
Read my full review below to decide if you'll be first in line topick up an E100. And if you can't wait for the official release, Warehouse123.com is standing by with 2GB, 4GB, and 8GB models in stock and ready to be shipped to you today.
This review is based on the E100 running firmware version 1.03.
We don’t usually dilly-dally on multimedia players, but Pocketables has areview on the upcoming iRiver E100. It plays just about everything, includingDRM-infested media. Video is pumped out at a smooth 30fps and it even has it’sown set of built-in speakers, it also offers a MicroSD slot for added storage,meaning you can potentially double up on storage through a cheap-o upgrade. Youcan find it in 2-, 4- and 8GB versions soon in the States. Read thereview.
We’ve been following the Atom development pretty closely – and so has UMPCPortal. They’ve actually bothered to write up a two-part analysis of theplatform for their readers. You can catch Part Onehere,and Part Twohere.The juicy bits are in part two, including an interview, btw.
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