Rydermark makes its debut

ONE OF THE TESTS that raised a controvery long before reaching the market has finally broken cover, and the location could not have been put more appropriate: "down under".

The guys from TweakTown managed to get their hands on Beta 2 version of the benchmark, and they found what yours truly saw from the screenshots. There is a possibility for Rydermark to arrive and even succeed in the market. But, it needs to look better than scene from F1 CS 2000. (See also - Whackypedia and Rydermark.)

David Kanter once again struck a gold vein for hard-core enthusiasts and engineers, by posting an article that goes in-depth with AMD K10. While Phil Hester claims that AMD never called Barcelona/Agena/Griffin processor line K10 (nor K8L, which was invented Charlie and then "confirmed" by another AMD executive), their own software guide calls for 10h family of processors. You do the math, and while you're doing it - head over to RealWorldTech and enjoy.

DDR3 is slowly breaking cover, and guys from LegitReviews and OCWorkBench took some time to explain what is going on with this memory standard. According to AMD, DDR3 should not take off until 2008, and judging by these latencies, they just might be right on target.

LegionHardware decided to pit Radeon HD2900XT and 8800GTS, all built by ASUS. Head over for this interesting, apple-to-apple clash.

Ryan tested Ultra's 1000W power supply. For a company that we have not heard much just a year ago, Ultra is making great strides forward. XSReviews tested FSP's 700 Watt power supply.

Phoronix tested OCZ's premium module that mixes air and water-cooling, Flex XLC DDR2-1150 memory.

Techgage ran the review of Microsoft Reclusa gaming keyboard, and to us, it seems that Microsoft could end up eating up guys'n'gals from Razer.

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