AT FUDZILLA, Sanjin got a chance to test exactly how far he could take an already factory-OC’d card like the eVGA SSC. That’d be Super-SuperClocked - laugh all you want but it’s bleedin’ fast, considering the card runs at 675MHz (x2 that is) – it is definitely one of the speediest GX2 on the market right now. The only card that put up a fight was Gainward’s 9800GX2 which also comes factory OC’d to 675MHz – the rest of the competition was left in their dust trail. Read on.

BFG has recently introduced the “OCX” suffix to some of their new cards. The “X” stands for “eXtreme”, OC you can guess on your own. Well, Guru3D has their latest 9800 GTX in OCX format on the bench. The card comes with an 81MHz/215MHz overclock – components cherry picked from the G92 batch it was born from – and the BFG warranty. Hilbert guesses it’ll give you about a 10% performance boost over standard GTXs. Well, 10% over the fastest single GPU card on the market today. Not bad. On to Hilbert’s den of iniquity.

Benchmark Reviews has a roundup of the biggest baddest CPU coolers around. Olin gathered the top 13 and pushed up the heat on the CPU... he also did the test on the horizontal and on the vertical (uhm... not what you think). OCZ’s Vendetta 2 breezed through the test in case you’re curious, the others didn’t fare badly either but what’d you expect from the crème de la crème. No fried eggs here.

Chile’s best is going through the paces on MSI’s P7N SLI Platinum which makes use of the nForce 750i SLI chipset. The mobo itself managed to go all the way up to 500MHz FSB effectively throwing the “aging” X6800 to 3GHz on a 6x multipl ier. 750i also offers triple-SLI capability amongst other goodies. You won’t be able to stick in PCIe 1x cards though unless you’d sacrifice one of the big-boy slots. Read it here in Spanish, here in English.

XBit is still mulling over the GX2 – or in this case, the Zotac 9800GX2. In a comparison with DAAMIT’s own 3-way CrossFire X you can get a real feel for both system’s performance. This does raise a couple of questions: Firstly, if Graphzilla is a generation “behind” (grain of salt advisory) in manufacturing, just how powerful will be the goblin’s 55nm chips? (they will be cheaper, that’s for sure). Secondly, why does ATI beat Nvidia every time in 3DMark? Well, the numbers reveal the current status quo as you’ll see in the article.

You’ve probably heard of Honeywell before, but not in this area of business: LCDs. Honeywell has teamed up with a ton of partners and has started churning out own-brand products like this one here. It’s a Soyo panel, as far as we can figure. It’s a 22-incher with integrated speakers and webcam – a trend that’s made it to laptops but not that many desktop screens bear the conference-friendly webcam. This screen is more of an all-in-one solution, than anything else. At $400 it isn’t very cheap, but it isn’t expensive either.

Anandtech has made some good points about the 780G chipset-based mobos that are floating around in geekspace. These boards are not suitable for high-end CPUs such as the 9900 and 9850 series from AMD, which exceed the mobo’s specced TDP. It’s a sort of (no, really, it is..) rant on the state of affairs with several chip implementations targeted for termination. Read Gary’s rant here.