AMD FX60 overclocked to 3.6GHz

DIGIT LIFE reviews the Albatron PX915-2V motherboard which is based on the i915P chipset. It is one of the cheapest SLI card with an Intel chipset out there - no ULI/Nvidia. It is of a mATX format with four DIMM slots. The PC Chips M985G - certainly not the best in its category - outperforms the Albatron model by up to 10%. Not much worth in there as well when it comes to other specs like 5.1 audio and fast ethernet rather than GbE.

IT-Review tests the Crossfire vs. SLI in a Radeon Express 3200 flavoured article. ATI can match Nvidia as far as technology and performance are concerned but ATI still has to catch Nvidia when it comes to pricing. There are more than a few tweaks that must be done to the cards. IT review was unable to run two ordinary X1900XTX cards in Crossfire.

The Acer Ferrari 4500WLMi Notebook is under test at Xbitlabs. It has been tagged as a superior AMD Turion 64 laptop. It bears the colour of the Ferrari branding with the logo and the red blood colour. There's attention to details everywhere - down to the Ferrari branded wireless optical mouse. Other specs include a 128MB X700 card, 1GB memory and a 100GB HDD. But between you and me, nothing special, really.

Laptoplogic reviews the Seagate 100GB external USB 2.0 HDD and the 5GB 1-inch USB drive aka the ray manta. I wonder whether the photo of the USB drive is not larger than real size. The 5GB HDD spindles at 3600rpm and has a 2MB cache; performance wise, they both pack a lot of punch in a tiny form factor. The 100GB drive is particularly impressive since it uses USB power and is more powerful than my own little hard drive.

AMDzone overclocks the FX60 using stock air, high end air solutions, water and phase change cooling. A lot of hot information int here - used a DFI Lanparty NF4 SLI board with a Vantec Tornado Fan, a copper heatpipe fan and a Prometeia Mach II GT phase change unit at $899 a pop. You get 1GHz overclock on a FX60 should you invest in that technology.

Newcomer 59hardware website - from France, so ready your translator - has a roundup of lten heatsink fans - with heatpipes. The article includes model from Arctic Cooler, Scythe, Zalman, Vantec, Thermalright etc; there's also an introduction to how heatpipes work. The 16-pages article ends with the Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro being crowned king. µ