AGEIA PhysX board snapped

THE Astek Vapochill Micro gets a small article at hothardware. This Ultra Low noise Cooler with a fan controller has a very peculiar design which owes much of it to the technology used. In this case, a vapor chamber design which uses a trapped refrigerant. Installation was literally a breeze, achieving something very difficult. Effective cooling without the noise.

Meanwhile Xtremeresources gets us the review of the Evercool Ultra Water Cooler W202 which plays in another category. It cools both the CPU and the graphic cards and is apparently 30% more effective than any existing coolers in the market. And guess what, you even get a controller that sits nicely in a 5.25-inch bay with a fan speed potentiometer and a nice LCD.

Pixelview's name is not often associated with cutting edge technology. But they've got Hexus to review their latest Geforce 7800GTX and you can bet your coat that it is probably one of the cheapest such card in the UK. You won't buy it for its bundle but rather for its performance; stellar and still impressive.

Don't smile at Firingsquad attempt to build a $600 gaming PC. We did it ourselves some time back. $600 usually buy you either one top end CPU or GPU and that's it. Now to build a PC with that kind of money. The article though should have been renamed $700 gaming PC as the reviewer found it impossible not to reach $730. A good try but happening just as some of the components are going to get drastic makeover.

Hardspell.com - Chinese website, has some details of the new Asus Ageia PhysX board which will use 128MB GDDR3 memory, an additional power supply as well as a heat sink fan. It has the same look as an entry level graphics card but the price - $249 - should definitely get some heads turning around.

Bjorn checks the Biostar I945P-A7 motherboard, which features an additional PCI express slot called the PCI Extreme. As Bjorn3D puts it, it is a SLI feature on an Intel Chipset for non gamer. But then, why didn't they include the bridge? An awkward miss which dampens the qualities of the board itself; stability, good overclocking and a cheap price. µ