How AMD can improve its K8 Core

ANANDTECH gives a few hints to AMD on how to beat Intel's core. It is actually Johan de Gelas, the revered ex-top man from Aceshardware. Be prepared for some serious stuff, in terms of words and ideas as well. Two conclusions - AMD K8 versus Intel P8 and The Free lunch is back. At Anandtech, they are pretty skeptical that threading is the only saviour, that there is life beyond the nth core - which is true as the wall multiplicity has a more tangible limit than going smaller.

Xbitlabs had a roundup of high performance coolers for AMD and Intel processors from Coolermaster, Scythe and Spire. P4 and x2 platforms have been used. The processors have both been overclocked dramatically - by up to 40%. They also put in the Tuniq Tower 120 super cooler. Modern midrange coolers are not so far behind super coolers and the best ones appear to be from Scythe and Spire. Donkey's hats to another Spire cooler fan and Coolermaster's Hyper L3.

Trusted Reviews will be reviewing forty televisions in the next forty days. Forty televisions? Very techie. The Pioneer PDP-436XDE is a huge television, a £2800 monster with three SCART ports, component video jacks, multi format card slots, subwoofer line output and much more; including a a tuner complete with 7-day electronic programme guide. A real winner if Trustedviewers reviewers are to be believed. The best 42-inch screen that money can buy. Superlative quality that costs thrice the price of the cheaper 42-inch available on the market.

Tomshardware reviews Quad SLI gaming as Darren dissects the technology behind Nvidia's latest attempt to grab and retain the performance crown. Guys, this card is huge, really huge. Performance is stunning and it is a real pleasure as you can crank up games to the maximum, with all the candy lights and the candies and play very smoothly. Of course, all this comes at a price, approximately £4500 and there is even an option where you can stick the Matrox Triple Head2Go to play with three separate 19-inch panels.

Tweaktown plays with the DFI LANParty UT CFX3200-DR which is another Xpress 3200 motherboard. DFI makes quality motherboards and they've got a special something that others have tried but failed to reach. It offers the best overclocking options that TT has seen in the Xpress 3200 so far. It is more expensive yes, but quality has a price. You get better HDD performance, it is UV reactive and you have dual GbE LAN. Want more, what about a full set of SATA ports as well as voltage options that Intel branded motherboards can only dream of.

The Techreport has a roundup of a few mobile ATA hard drives. The suspects in the line up come from Seagate - three of them, one from Scorpio, two from Hitachi and one from Fujitsu - a smallish cheapish one and certainly the slowest one. The reviewer eliminates one hard disk drive after the other so that you're only best with the best of the bunch. The Momentus 7200.1 goes away with the gold medal in a photo finish. They are both very fast but the Seagate drive wins on the warranty. µ