Intel Woodcrest crowned king of Server CPUs

It has two cores, runs at 3GHz, has 4MB L2 cache and a 1.33GHz FSB. Anandtech says that Intel has produced the best two socket server processor on the market today with a Quad Core - effectively providing an eight core server, coming very soon. On a performance per watt basis, the new Woodcrest is up to 58% faster than the Opteron 285 and up to 108% faster than the Dempsey 3.73GHz processor. Intel came back in the performance arena with a vengeance.

Meanwhile Chris Tom from AMDzone sends us a few benchmarks of the low power Socket AM2 based Athlon 64 X2 3800+ and 4600+ rated at 35w and 65w respectively. Both CPU have two 512Kb L2 cache and are successfully overclocked to 2.45GHz and 2.82GHz respectively. Even Chris is disappointed by these results. Maybe, a little bit more voltage and better heatsinks could help here.

Another Acer Digital Camera is reviewed at Trusted Reviews. The CP-8660 is a 8MP digital camera with a 6x optical zoom and a nice design. The zoom is impressive and so is the big 2.8-inch LCD monitor. You could eventually use it to play movies if it had inbuilt audio. The reviewer questions the audacity of the camera, especially since its specs put it squarely in the high end segment. Can it walk the walk and what about the images? See the test for some answers.

NGOHQ reports on some issues that the Geforce 7800GS AGP cards. Many users are apparently complaining that the card generates black screens and that EVGA and XFX cards are the most affected cards on the market. NGOHQ listed six threads on several manufacturers' and enthusiasts website where you can find more about it.

How to write four pages on a USB mini vacuum? Go to the newcomer PCfastlane.com. The Connectland vacuum comes with a lead, a turbo mode and the ability to clean that dirty keyboard pretty effectively. It is cheap and weighs only 67g. The cleaner is even put to the test with pictures of how it works and there's even a video to show how quickly it cleans crackers crumbs.

PC Modding Malaysia informs us that they have been able to overclock the Inno3D Geforce 7300GT 256MB DDR3 video card to some absurdly high speeds through a minor pencil based Vmod. You have all the details in their forums. Using this mod and a decent GPU cooler, the core reached 820MHz, a 50% increase. The card was able to beat both a 6800Ultra and a X850XT. Next on the agenda the SLI version of this little baby. µ