PS3 has the upper hand in video quality

DUANE FROM BOOT DAILY interviewed Roy Taylor of Nvidia. Roy's current gig is VP of Content Relations, a short title for a ton of responsibilities in regard to Nvidia's The Way It's Meant To Be Played program for game developers. If you wonder what Nvidia does to get all those TWIMTBP stickers on numerous gaming titles, read this bit.

Alan from FiringSquad informed us that his site just published another iteration of its Video Shootout, a series of articles that focus on the video quality of graphics cards of today. This time around, Blu-ray was the topic of interest, and the lads placed the PlayStation 3 console in the mix as well. Results were rather surprising, and in any case, this is a very interesting read.

Third big thing of today's wibble is the appearance of Intel's X38 chipset. Gigabyte X38-DQ6 motherboard got reviewed on TweakTown, and other sites are also working hard on reviewing this baby. However, TT has the accolade of being first.

Driver Heaven took a break from seeing all those drivers coming to their eternal rest and published a review of computer case, GMC's X-22. GMC is a company from South Korea that specialises in high-quality components, X-22 being one of them - but is this case worth being a home to your next HTPC rig or not? You'll have to read on. If HTPC is not your thing, OCC reviewed the Sigma Atlantis - a case with a hard drive cooling feature (similar to one we saw on Coolermaster's Stacker some time ago).

The Elite Bastards tested Asus Triton 75, a rather light CPU cooler that sports four heatpipes.

IT-Review.net compares ATI's 2600 and Nvidia's 8600 series of mainstream boards.

HardOCP looks at MSI's 8800 Ultra in its overclocked version. This product comes with a hefty price tag, but sports the highest-clocked GPU and memory of all air-cooled 8800 Ultra boards.

Hardware Canucks took their time and reviewed a 2GB memory kit from Mushkin, with markings PC2-8500. It does not react well to higher voltages, but you can gain a lot on non-extreme settings.

We leave you with Ryan and his article on whether DDR3 is ready to overtake DDR2 as the memory standard of choice. Memory he used to try and solve this dilemma were Corsair and Super Talent modules, both rated at over 1.8GHz. Personally, so far I have not seen a DDR3 stick that would make me say ooh and aah, but this is mostly due to the fact that we need a bit faster memory controller and fewer bottlenecks in order to see the real potential of DDR3 standard.

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