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Inquirer reports on cooling with a VW car rad and performance of the £500 Ultra G80 card:
YOURS TRULY FOUND himself with a bombed inbox from sites that originate in the Balkan area of the world after Fudzilla posted a review of EVGA's e-GeForce 8800 Ultra. It scored just a bit over 12.200 points. SLI testing resulted in 13,660 3DMarks, proving clearly that these beasts are CPU limited. Not bad at all, but our EVGA 8800GTX ACS3 scored 13,343 in our first HD2900XT review. A couple of guys from Bosnia and Serbia got together to launch a new hardware webzine, dubbed InsideHW. They kicked off with a review of Gigabyte's P35-based motherboards and a roundup of widescreen monitors. They tested two 24-inchers and a single 30-inch monitor. Oddly enough, these models are not your usual suspects.
A third Balkan attack comes from Croats at IT-review.net, who ended up with watery eyes. The guys tested Coolit's Freezone CPU cooler, a mixed-Peltier/water-cooling combination that cools beyond belief.
A second watery-review is EVGA's Black Pearl 680i motherboard, which solves all those nasty hotspots on the motherboard. The guys overclocked the front side bus to 495 MHz QDR, just a tad below 2GHz (1.98 GHz), and got extremely good scores. Third and last wet review comes from character with the name Amepshi. This guy (or a gal?) wrote a piece about reusing old water-blocks on newer cards, but most notably, he replaced Sapphire's Toxic water-cooling combo with a radiator from a Volkswagen Golf II and retested the board.
Behardware continued to follow debacle over the different panels ending up in Samsung LCD monitors. Basically, this is a typcal case of manfuacturer caught selling displays intended for USA/Asia/Australia - inside the EU. Behardware continues the watch with another article here. All that your dear European guy can conclude here is - if we are forced to pay a price premium for a product, it better be higher quality. The Dell 2407WFP in US costs exactly half what it does in Europe, and there should be a quality difference. Samsung needs to learn a lesson here.
From Europe, electrons are flying all the way down to TweakTown, located "Down Under", to Shane's review of PowerColor Radeon X1950Pro SCS. This passively-cooled card shows some serious bang for buck and easily swallows 8600GTS performance for breakfast. It seems that for mainstream, 256-bit memory controller is a winner any way you look at it.
Bjorn3D reviewed Super Talent T800UX4GC5 DDR2 memory. This kit packs 2GB of memory per stick, making this second 4GB review at Bjorn3D this week.
Niko from RBmods tested Thermaltake V1 CPU cooler, another one with a unique design. Head over here and check it out.
Techgage tested LTB's MG51 headset, a 5.1-emulating USB headphones. Personally, I like USB headphones due to the fact that they do not rely on soundcards and crackling sound is non-existant - thanks to one analogue-digital conversion less. But then again, that sound decode will eat a little of the CPU, so if you have a dual-core CPU, you will not feel it at all. But if you are still running on a single-core one, you could loose 5-15% of CPU utilization.
The Mageek was once called the Solution to Balkan Problem by hiring a Croat (yours truly), a Bosnian (R520 Fudo) and a Singaporean Serb (Nova). He has also banned the word solution from these pages, thus I am using my "kvisko" ticket to write it one more time - solution.
As usual, send your hardware news to this address. µ
YOURS TRULY FOUND himself with a bombed inbox from sites that originate in the Balkan area of the world after Fudzilla posted a review of EVGA's e-GeForce 8800 Ultra. It scored just a bit over 12.200 points. SLI testing resulted in 13,660 3DMarks, proving clearly that these beasts are CPU limited. Not bad at all, but our EVGA 8800GTX ACS3 scored 13,343 in our first HD2900XT review. A couple of guys from Bosnia and Serbia got together to launch a new hardware webzine, dubbed InsideHW. They kicked off with a review of Gigabyte's P35-based motherboards and a roundup of widescreen monitors. They tested two 24-inchers and a single 30-inch monitor. Oddly enough, these models are not your usual suspects.
A third Balkan attack comes from Croats at IT-review.net, who ended up with watery eyes. The guys tested Coolit's Freezone CPU cooler, a mixed-Peltier/water-cooling combination that cools beyond belief.
A second watery-review is EVGA's Black Pearl 680i motherboard, which solves all those nasty hotspots on the motherboard. The guys overclocked the front side bus to 495 MHz QDR, just a tad below 2GHz (1.98 GHz), and got extremely good scores. Third and last wet review comes from character with the name Amepshi. This guy (or a gal?) wrote a piece about reusing old water-blocks on newer cards, but most notably, he replaced Sapphire's Toxic water-cooling combo with a radiator from a Volkswagen Golf II and retested the board.
Behardware continued to follow debacle over the different panels ending up in Samsung LCD monitors. Basically, this is a typcal case of manfuacturer caught selling displays intended for USA/Asia/Australia - inside the EU. Behardware continues the watch with another article here. All that your dear European guy can conclude here is - if we are forced to pay a price premium for a product, it better be higher quality. The Dell 2407WFP in US costs exactly half what it does in Europe, and there should be a quality difference. Samsung needs to learn a lesson here.
From Europe, electrons are flying all the way down to TweakTown, located "Down Under", to Shane's review of PowerColor Radeon X1950Pro SCS. This passively-cooled card shows some serious bang for buck and easily swallows 8600GTS performance for breakfast. It seems that for mainstream, 256-bit memory controller is a winner any way you look at it.
Bjorn3D reviewed Super Talent T800UX4GC5 DDR2 memory. This kit packs 2GB of memory per stick, making this second 4GB review at Bjorn3D this week.
Niko from RBmods tested Thermaltake V1 CPU cooler, another one with a unique design. Head over here and check it out.
Techgage tested LTB's MG51 headset, a 5.1-emulating USB headphones. Personally, I like USB headphones due to the fact that they do not rely on soundcards and crackling sound is non-existant - thanks to one analogue-digital conversion less. But then again, that sound decode will eat a little of the CPU, so if you have a dual-core CPU, you will not feel it at all. But if you are still running on a single-core one, you could loose 5-15% of CPU utilization.
The Mageek was once called the Solution to Balkan Problem by hiring a Croat (yours truly), a Bosnian (R520 Fudo) and a Singaporean Serb (Nova). He has also banned the word solution from these pages, thus I am using my "kvisko" ticket to write it one more time - solution.
As usual, send your hardware news to this address. µ
