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News archives from March, 2006
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Arctic Cooling Accelero X1 Review |
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March 29th, 2006 - Arctic Cooling has done it again with the Accelero and raised = the standard in VGA cooling. Integrating heatpipes into the VGA cooler = seems to be the right move for Arctic Cooling and the Accelero series = proved them right. Powered by 6 heatpipes, the Arctic Cooling was not = only able to improve performance, but also minimize the overall weight = of the cooler. The rubberized fan design is also first of its kind and = the PWM deflector helps to keep power regulators cool and making it = quieter than their previous VGA coolers.
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Detailed Platform Analysis in RightMark Memory Analyzer. Part 11: Dual Core Intel Pentium EE 955 |
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March 22nd, 2006 - On January 5, 2006 Intel presented new dual core processors Pentium D 900, followed by Pentium Extreme Edition 955 a few days later (January 16). These processors are based on the new Presler core, which is the first processor core manufactured by the new 65-nm process technology. The history repeats itself =97 as in case with the transition from 130 nm to 90 nm process technology, the first solutions are desktop processors with NetBurst microarchitecture. Mobile platforms are announced only a tad later, based on processors manufactured by the new process technology. At the same time, there was a much longer period of time between the first 90 nm Prescott and Dothan than between the 65-nm Presler and Yonah (we have already reviewed them) =97 it''s quite possible that the new 65 nm process technology will be easier to master. But let''s not go into details and focus on the main objective of this article =97 low level analysis of the new 65 nm Presler core in comparison with its closest counterparts =97 Xtreme modifications of processors based on 90 nm Smithfield core and the latest revision of Prescott N0 core, which we reviewed earlier.
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Digit-Life Review: ATI CrossFire: Various Modes, Various Chipsets |
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March 20th, 2006 - We thought it would be interesting to check if there existed the difference in real applications between various chipsets and various organizations of SLI/CrossFire at least in current solutions. The fact is even video card manufacturers themselves do not promise noticeable gains from upgrading to x16+x16. They carefully mention 10% for top models under heaviest conditions. This article will be devoted to this very issue. We shall use two video cards based on ATI Radeon X850 XT.
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Thermaltake's Big Typhoon Heatsink |
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March 20th, 2006 - Some people say bigger is better, and when it comes to heat sinks Thermaltake seems to think so. Today we take a look at Thermaltakes''s Big Typhoon heat sink. This monster of a heat sink/fan combo boasts a quiet 120mm fan rated 16dBA and six heatpipes. To top it off the Big Typhoon will fit Intel P4 LGA 775, AMD K7, and K8 processors.
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Samsung SyncMaster 970P LCD Monitor |
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March 18th, 2006 - In the past we have looked at a rather large number of LCD displays from Samsung. All have proven to show that Samsung really has a strong grasp on the LCD market. They have a large lineup of LCD displays, all of which have great technology behind them and perform flawlessly. To keep with their usual trend of staying slightly ahead of the game, today we''ll be looking at the latest LCD from Samsung, the 970P.
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Digit-Life Review: Creative X-Fi: Interview with Darragh O'Toole |
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March 18th, 2006 - Darragh O''Toole works at Creative''s office in Dublin. He is responsible for marketing, sales, and technical support of company''s products in European countries. Darragh came to Creative in 1997 and filled various posts in technical support, testing and development, as well as project management. He graduated from Dublin Institute of Technology, European languages and business. Before Creative, Darragh was a professional musician and took part in making several films and albums. When he has spare time, he indulges in music, studies foreign languages, takes part in amateur concerts, watches movies, and reads books.
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Gigabyte Radeon X1600 Pro Review |
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March 10th, 2006 - Overall, the Gigabyte GV-RX16P256D-RH should be one of the = entry level mid-range graphic cards to buy. There are few great features = that really interesting for Radeon X1600Pro are the SM3.0, HDR, Avivo = and others. The Silent-Pipe technology is used on the GV-RX16P256D-RH = which is definitely good for those are hunting for silent PC operation. = It was said that Radeon X1600 and X1300 series cards will not need a = master card to run CrossFire but we have yet to confirm on that matter. = The retail price for the Gigabyte GV-RX16P256D-RH is 160USD/ RM599, = which is about the price of a NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT...
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0.09 Calibre, a Volley from California: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX/GT (G71), GeForce 7600 GT |
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March 9th, 2006 - 48 and 16 pipelines of X1900/1800 XT/XTX or 24 and 24 pipelines of GeForce 7900 GTX/GT? What''s better? Our article will help you understand this opposition. We have already examined RADEON X1900/1800 XT/XTX. And now we''ll examine the NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX/GT that was launched today. The novelty promises to have interesting features and break some records.
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Samsung SyncMaster 940T LCD Monitor |
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March 8th, 2006 - Today we take a look at Samsung''s new SyncMaster 940T LCD monitor. The SyncMaster 940T is a sleek looking unit that not only has a 19 screen, it features a screen that can be rotated 178'' degrees.
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Thermaltake Silent Boost RX K8 |
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March 8th, 2006 - Thermaltake is a well known manufacturer of cooling accessories and computer cases. Today, we are evaluating their Silent Boost RX K8 Heatsink/Fan, a copper CPU cooler for AMD s Athlon 64 line designed for silent operation. How well will it keep your Athlon 64 cool? That s what we re going to figure out.
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EVGA e-GeForce 7800 GTX KO ACS3 Edition 256MB PCI-E Based on NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX |
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March 3rd, 2006 - EVGA e-GeForce 7800 GTX KO ACS3 Edition 256MB PCI-E is a very good modification of the overclocked 7800 GTX 256MB. We have seen such cases before. But in this case the frequencies are high and the card promises to be affordable (relative to its competitors, of course). Pros and cons of the cooling system have been already mentioned above. Noise can be controlled, so you shouldn''t worry about it.
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Thermalright V1-Ultra Review |
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March 2nd, 2006 - Overall the V1 Ultra brings a few improvements over the = original V1 and it worked as advertised. The packaging is nothing fancy = but it offers maximum protection to the heatsink, which should survive = even the toughest shippers. The package comes with a lot of accessories = including eight pieces of aluminium heatsinks and some thermal pads. The = installation guide is good but it could be better. We were also very = impressed with the overall build quality of the heatsink and the V1 = Ultra is one of the sexiest looking GPU coolers out there...
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HDD Diet 2: Power Consumption and Heat Dissipation of Enterprise Hard Disk Drives |
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March 2nd, 2006 - We have already analyzed power consumption and heat dissipation issues of 3-inch desktop and 2-inch high-performance notebook hard disk drives. Today it''s time to speak of the most expensive and failure-critical (including overheating and power-shortage problems) Enterprise hard disk drives, which include 3.5 and 2.5 10K and 15K hard disk drives with Ultra320 SCSI and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interfaces...
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ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe |
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March 1st, 2006 - Today ATI lifts a ban to publish reviews of its new product =97 ATI CrossFire Xpress 3200 core logic (codenamed RD580). Since today you can officially examine this chipset, run tests of the first samples of motherboards on the new Xpress chipset, and even publish your impressions without risking to infringe Top Secret with all the ensuing consequences=85 In fact, ATI was going to present its new product a month ago, but as it usually happens, the date was postponed and the audience had to wait. Our objective here is to find out capacities of the first motherboard on ATI Xpress 3200. This motherboard is ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe.
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