Dellienware's water-cooled PC "is noisy"

ALIENWARE OR DELLIENWARE sent a machine over to PC Perspective, and Jonathan took it for a spin. Alienware Area 51 7500 proves that it packs the punch, since Kentsfield combined with dual-8800GTX boards and CoolIT water-cooling system, but sadly the reviewer complained about the noise - four case fans and dual 8800GTX means you're not searching for one silent system. Area 51 7500 will cost you around $4K, which is a nice car these days, but buying the system now means that you will receive a 20-inch LCD from Samsung (204B) for free.

BCCHardware reviewed AMD's last 90nm CPU to hit the street, Athlon 64 X2 with PR rating of 6000+. This 3.0 GHz clocked CPU is nothing less than FX-74 in Socket AM2 packaging, and a definite evidence AMD can have volume production of 3GHz K8 core, which is something we knew about ever since X2 4800+ came out.

6000+ also got reviewed by Chris Tom from AMDZone, who pitted it against new 65nm Brisbane CPUs. This review includes overclocking as well, and it's pretty interesting to see how did old 90nm core faired against 65nm beasties. To wrap up 6000+ launch day X-bitLabs wrote their detailed take, which you can read here.

While FedEx is still playing mind-games with our Eliminator sample, Bjorn3D reviewed its older brother, Freezone CPU Cooler. Their conclusion was similar to our take half a year ago. Legit Reviews reviewed ECS PN2 SLI2+ motherboard. As we said in our take on inno3D's 680i motherboard, it's good to see nV making reference designs, now everyone has access to high-quality design.

When it comes to gaming, not often happens that you know that actual solution for your gaming needs may not be the fastest one around, because you cannot use it in full. This issue is also known as scaling, and Legion Hardware took 8800GTX and 8800GTS on 11 different configurations and saw how can CPU scaling end up with "FSAA and Aniso filtering for free" marketing slogan turned into reality. Interesting stuff indeed.

On the other hand, Virtual-Hideout reviewed a solution how to transfer data from one computer to another, and to do it fast. Kingwin JET External 3.5" SATA HDD Enclosure, external enclosure for SATA drives, but enables you to connect the drive via USB 2.0 or e-SATA inferface.

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