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8800GT/GTS CARDS have been in the news more often than notfor the heat they generate (at stock speeds). BFG has taken the bold step offactory-watercooling their cards, calling them the OC2 Watercooled Edition.Guru3Dhas a goat them. These things pack a serious punch and have actual overclockingheadroom to work with, meaning they can reach 8800GTX levels. With the addedbonus of being single-slot, coupled with almost silent operation, you couldactually consider a SLI rig with a few of these bad boys. Oh, and did we mentionit’s only $429?
Following up on yesterday’s link to Tom’s Hardware Guide, we’ve beenreceiving input from readers either refuting or supporting the idea thatPhenoms are supported in older mobos. Thorsten fromPlanet3DNow.dehas been kind enough to direct us to its own page where there is a listing ofsupported mobos, by brand, as stated by the manufacturers. Let us know yourthoughts on this.
Hothardware has a sneak peek at Intel’s D5400XS mobo, aka Skulltrail. Forthose of you who lost track of Skulltrail since IDF, it’s the enthusiast-grademobo based on the Seaburg chipset plus dual MCP100 chips from NVIDIA. This wouldallow for dual-Xeon/Quad-SLI joy and a bleeding expensive computer/workstation!Gazehere.
We think budget gear doesn't get near enough coverage in the mainstreampress, and that's why we think you should be reading this particular articlehere.Techpowerup reviews an ECS A770M-A mobo. This uses an AMD 770 and SB600north/south chipsets and is AM2+ socketed. It also supports a massive 32GB ofRAM and Phenom CPUs, which, according to the author, makes it the cheapest AM2+mobo on the market... that'll be $70, thank you.
Zotac has released to reviewers their AMP! version of the 8800GT. Tweaktown’sgot itherefor your perusal. The vendor went to some lengths to cool the card but kept itsingle-slot which is quite an accomplishment for a GPU running at a +100MHzoverclock. The card even has a sort of "SB Header" to plug into your mobo orsoundcard so you can re-route sound to your phlat panel via HDMI. They thinkit’s good performance+value for $400 Australian, which is about $350 US.
If you own a GPRS/UMTS/HSDPA Windows Mobile smartphone, then try this littletrick here.Uneasy Silence gets some serious kudos for pointing towards WMWifiRouter, whichas you’ve likely guessed, is a tool to transform your smartphone into a WiFiRouter. Just remember you probably contracted a limited amount of traffic on thecell network, so don’t say we didn’t warn you!
Asrock is in the reviewer’s scope today, too. This time XBit Labs tests its4Core1333-eSata2motherboard, which runs on a P31 chipset from Intel. Although the P31 isn’trated for 1333MHz FSB, Asrock’s got it up and running. XBit aren’t thrilledabout the mobo, however, as it offers few features for enthusiasts. However, P31performs very much like the P35 mobos.
We’re just curious about the "Crossfire support" that Asrock lists under thefeatures - is that a combo PCI Express x16 plus the "AGI" x4? What say you,XBit?
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