Celery E1200 a-reviewed

WE’RE SURE ALL of you would enjoy owning a QX9770 rig, but let’s face it, it’s infinitely more satisfying squeezing road-rage performance out of a budget CPU than strutting along in your extremely expensive edition kit. Well, Ilya from XBit has the skinny on Intel’s latest low-end, budget CPU – the Celeron E1200. It’s an Allendale core at 1.6GHz with a stripped-down cache of just 512KB. Although it overclocks wonderfully, it still takes a beating whenever cache matters. The ‘Labs took it all the way to 3.4GHz, mind you – it just tickles our inner geek. Here it is...

Mutation strikes the PSU as the Hiper HPU-5K880 and HPU-5B680 MK-II’s reach the market. Benchmark Reviews has uhm... a review on these PSU’s-turned-USB-hubs. The idea seems solid – a USB hub integrated into the back of your powerful PSU. 9 ports altogether (although one is strictly power and no data). These units are also beyond 80Plus, claiming over 85% efficiency. They seemed to like it, so why not you?

Stealthy Germans at SecretDesign.de have tested Mushkin’s HP2-6400 2GB kit. They think it’s a great budget solution for your DDR2 mobo with proven performance due to tight memory timings. Their benchies show it all right here (English over here). Price is around €90 in Deutschland.

Hardware Logic gives the Sigma Luna Type-W case a once over. Black on the outside, black on the inside, Sigma’s case might be aesthetically pleasing, but a headache to Daniel, the reviewer. If you don’t mind puzzles, the case might be made just for you.

Phoronix, the virtual land of penguins, tests a P35-based mobo from Asrock, the 4Core1600P35-WiFi+. It’s cheap, it performs well, and it includes WiFi. Their tests show no issues with the P35 chipset from Intel and as things on Phoronix are viewed from the Linux camp, check out their benchmarks over here.

Still haven’t had enough of Apple? Well, here comes another review telling you to trade in your old laptop for a brand spanking new fruity MacBook black. The Santa Rosa refresh brought some good things to laptops, including better battery life, now timing-in at 4H19mins. Actually the benchmarks look like they were all done under Windows, rather than Leopard... but who cares? You might end up dual-booting anyway... Get your pommes here.

CDRinfo has a roundup of (count ‘em!) 20 CPU coolers for your entertainment. They cover the full price range from $20 spinners to $110 vacuum cleaners that just suck the heat right out of your OC’d CPU. It’s massive, it’s long, it’ll keep you entertained until we plug another edition of the hardware roundup. Oh, get your cooling frenzy her e.

Oh, and by the way, yesterday we said Power over Ethernet when we actually meant Powerline Communications. Sorry about that, we were enthralled by the Power Over eSata announcement and couldn't think straight. Damn sexy technology... µ