3DMark 05 dissected

BELGIAN WEBSITE TT-hardware compares three ultra laptops - the Aopen 1551, tha Asus M5 and the IBM X31, all three being very different from one another. A long article with many photos and useful details. They even include an old Pentium III in their benchamarks.

Over at Xbitlabs, there's a review of a budget laptop from Asus, the A3500L. Galina, the reviewer, asks herself whether this is really a budget laptop given the wealth of technology that it includes. See it for yourself here

. Digit-life ponders on the ins and outs of 3DMark 2005, which together with Sandra is slowly pushing away the Winstone Brothers. DL articles are generally, very documented; and so is this one. Read it and you will find why it considers it as a success.

Tweaktown celebrated Christmas with HIS. The site tested the X700Pro, which comes with a huge blue heat sink fan. The X700 Pro ICEQ Turbo VIVO would be particularly attractive to modders as it includes blue LEDs. Tweaktown were so impressed that they gave it a Must have Editors choice... Will you be as much impressed. Be Your own judge

If you're looking to cool your fan in a silent way - even if those two do not mix well together, then have a look at the SilenX Ixtremawith its 120mm diameter. Made of copper, it does its beast to stay cool and treat your CPU well. Nearly 800g of pure coolness.

Madshrimps also indulges in fan reviews and this time gets its nose closer to Athlon XP heatsinks, reminding us that the socket-462 models would still be around for some tinme. Three models are reviewed, the Thermalright SI97, Spire Verticool and Scythe Kamakiri. Who's the winner? Don't guess it.

Hardwarecentral gets mobile with a Maxtor One touch II review. Mobile because it is an external transportable large capacity hard disk, very useful to carry around the equivalent of 70 DVD's around as well as the ability to automatically boot from it in case of system failure. Another winner from maxtor. Read more here.

XYScomputing plays with one of the most stylish keyboard around, the Eluminx keyboard. It shares many features with a laptop keyboard which might put off some and it is completely white with transparent keys. If you want to see an altogether different beast. Point your mouse over there. µ

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