ASUS HAS BEEN flashing its wares to some mags in the UK, roving around the newsrooms demoing their EAH3850 X3 Trinity. The aptly named Trinity consists of three GPUs in MXM packaging – soldered to both sides of the card, watercooled and drawing a massive 296W. These cards were built merely as demos of the technology, and won’t be seen in shops anytime soon, though. Anyhow, PC Pro had one plugged in long enough to crunch some numbers. Crappy efficiency overall, but it’s still a valid demo of how technology can be applied. Read it here.

IT Review has posted the third and final chapter in its small notebook shootout trial. MSI and Asus have been pushing pretty hard in this segment, and you can find here the Asus F9Dc, U6 and MSI PR200. Each one is a big hit in one department – the F9Dc for terminally bad battery life, the PR200 for its looks and the U6 for petiteness. You can find its bits here, here and here.

XBit has received a batch of Apack Zerotherm CPU coolers – five in all. The bigger the fan the better the cooling, it seems – but APACK hasn’t disregarded the HTPC market (or the night time surfers as Sergey says). Enthusiasts should have a field day with this review, as it also contains some overclocker goodies. End of the day, Sergey says there’s another contender in the CPUcooling market. Read on.

If you’re new to water cooling, you’ll be very interested in Playreaction’s part 1 of a DIY guide to cooling PCs. Well, not just cooling PCs in this case, but water cooling and still looking good. Lots of Pros and Cons listed, mostly Pros: better cooling, less noise, higher performance, higher overclocking, etc... Disclaimers and cooling content over here.

ZOL, a well-known hardware site in China has got its hands on the latest iteration of the G96 chip and thrown in an 8600GT for comparison. The 9500GT looks like a suped-up version of the 8600GT: faster clocks all round equals faster performance. Oh, did we mention they tested the 256MB version of both? Although we are pretty sure you don’t pwn Cantonese (or Mandarin, or... or... or...), we have Googlization to thank for this translation. µ