DEMOED AT CES at the beginning of the year, Zalman’s Trimon 3D display has finally been tested by someone – John at TweakTown managed to get hold of one of these and fooled around with it for a while. Although you’re probably thinking you’re gonna play all the shooters on this thing, let it be known that gaming really isn’t its strongest suit; It’s movies.

The display is pretty standard in specs, but the 3D effect, coupled with the polarized eyeglasses give a whole new dimension to things. Mind you, if you don’t wear the glasses, it works as a standard 2D screen. Apparently 3D technology hasn’t come a long way at all... now where did we put that blister o’ aspirins? Get your head done-in here.

Les Numeriques in France has a three-way shootout between an HD3870 X2, 9800 GX2 and a 9800GTX. They have a pretty unique way of presenting their numbers so you can browse through the results without constantly needing to load new pages. No surprises in the performance chapter, though. GX2 is still the top performer in any real-world game. See the numbers ici, or for the franco-impaired, here.

It takes quite a bit to shock and awe Fudo, but Patriot managed to do it with their Xporter 32GB memory stick. In a rubberised water-proof enclosure, you get a whopping 32GB of high-speed flash.

Fudo points out that what really limits performance on this thing is the USB host controller on your PC/laptop, as well as Vista’s own handicapped handling of file transfers when calculating “time remaining” (we hear this nonsense has been solved in Vista SP1). Fudo was impressed.

Much to the surprise of many computer buffs, it seems that S3 is making a sort of comeback with a new card – the S3 Chrome 430GT – targeting the low power/HTPC users. PC Games Hardware in Germany has the skinny on this little performer. The 430GT fits in somewhere above both an HD 3450 and a GeForce 8500. Now, this S3 card only has a 64-bit memory interface, which means it’s pretty much castrated, but the performance is pretty high for such a part.

Those who know S3 also know that drivers have always been an issue, especially when it comes to displaying textures and a whole bunch of higher-end features. HD video is also an issue right now, but they’re working on it. PCGH also added that S3 is promising a high-end card, which they’re presuming to be on a 128-bit memory interface and 512MB o’GDDR3, down the line. Here for the non-German speakers. Here if you have some German skills.

Crucial is also moving up memory food chain with their Ballistix Tracer (Red) PC2-6400 at OCInside. This comes in a 2x2GB flavour, which is becoming more and more the standard of new PCs... no need to hold back when DDR2 is cheap as the proverbial chip. It comes rated at 4-4-4-12 @2.2V. It did deliver some pretty good performance at 435MHz with 4-4-4-10 timings, considering it’s “only” DDR2. Enthusiasts should find some more overclocking headroom as voltages go up, thinks OCInside.

OCC has a review on Gigabyte’s newest 780G mobo, the Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-SH2. Hybrid graphics included, this mobo has three different types of graphic output plugs integrated (D-SUB, DVI, HDMI) meaning: no adapters, no dongles to lose. The number of USB ports are also a big “Pro”, according to Alan, as HTPC mobos go, the GA-MA78GM-SH2 is USB-rich and this is really worthwhile, as HTPC cases usually leave little room for upgrading. Graphics performance is what you’d expect, both Hybrid and IGP-based. Read the review here.