AMD Radeon thingy interrupts normal wibbling

FOR SOME UNFATHOMABLE reason, the Interweb has been engulfed in a tide of reviews of graphics cards named Radeon.

Do the Radeon HD 3850 and 3870 enable AMD to catch up with Nvidia's just-introduced and "dauntingly formidable" Geforce 8800 GT, wonder the Tech Reporters. Over here.

Denizens of the Overclockersclub have a fiddle with Sapphire's HD 3870 implementation, finding its performance "fluctuated quite a bit", here.

Some elitebastards got all steamed up over a PowerColor Radeon HD 3850 Xtreme 512MB while PCPer reckons the Radeon HD 3800 series of graphics cards "ushers in new life for AMD GPUs that is desperately needed".

HardOCP reckons it's the first time it's been able to recommend ATI cards for gaming in, ooh, ages.

Chilehardware compared the new Radeons with Nvidia's 8800GT and the HD 2900 XT 1GB, here.

Away from the kerfuffle, cdrinfo.com enjoys the company of Pioneer's BDC-S02BK combo DVD writer and BD-ROM reader. Perfect for High Definition users, it reckons.

Hillbillyhardware runs a review of the AZiO BTD603-132 USB Bluetooth dongle

Xigmatek's XP-S964, a cooler with 4-piece staggered heat-pipes makes the BleedinEdge, here. Where Coolink's Silenator also walks the tightrope between performance and noise

Thermaltake's Max 4 Active Cooling Enclosure gets the once-over at techpowerup.

Down in Tweaktown, the interesting Thecus N5200 Pro NAS device gets a-fiddled with, here. µ