X800XT All in Wonder reviewed

DOMMED PC has published an article on how to build a TEC/Pump Dual PSU control box. DoomedPC do sell stuff on ebay as far as I remember. Now they allow you to build your own PSU control box to control your TEC cooler. Actually it is not rocket science, but you better have good knowledge in soldering and electrical stuffs.

Accelenation has a look at the Radeon X800XT PE GPU range from ATI. It is not a brand new product. It sure is a lot better than the R9800Pro it was compared with. It takes only one slot and hass a reasonable power consumption. But with competition coming very soon from the R520 value edition, life will be damn difficult.

The Sorell SF3000 MP3 player is reviewed at AMDZone. It is a 1GB flash based gadget which can also play MP4 movie files. I must admit, I have yet to see anyone watching movies on the tube or in the bus, at least in London. The unit has a resolution of 96x96 pixels, too small for watching movies comfortably. Very lightweight and with an autonomy of 10 hours, it is a good purchase.

AMDzone also has a review on how to overclock the Athlon X2 4800+ with high end air cooling. They use the DFI nForce 4 SLI, the thermalright XP90C and the Vantec Tornado. Got 2.8GHz, not bad not bad at all. More overclocking to come.

Motherboards.org reviews the Crucial Ballistix 1GB memory modules. Very good overclockers even if they do not match the Mushkin's Redline and the OCZ VX series while not being as cheap. The reviewer was impressed that the modules were kept the timing of 2-2-2-8 during overclocking. They also review the Chaintech VNF4 Ultra Zenith VE motherboard which we saw a couple of times over here. It might not present the same characteristics as the DFI or Asus motherboards bu it is the cheapest nForce 4 Ultra motherboard with support for SATA II, Dual core Athlon CPU and much more. $83 is not much to be paid for all this.

Bonafidereviews checks what is probably the most impressive video cards I've noticed in the last few months. The AIW Radeon 256MB X800XT is not much more expensive than an X800XL bnoard but packs so much more. It is manufactured on a 130nm process but should overclock well. Moreover, it has 256MB GDDR3 memory running a 500MHz. But it is in its features that it basts away competition. With the Theater 200, it will offers hardware compression, FM/TV receiver etc.

Josh at Pentarsys checks the silent but deadly Sapphire X800XL Ultimate video card which is a 16-pixel pipeline chips with 6 vertex shaders and 256Mb GDDR3 500Mhz memory. The product is first class and features a massive cooler and a slow spinning fan. A very good overclocker (465/587) and fantastic performance to go with it. µ