Quad SLI motherboard appears at Gigabyte

WHAT'S CLAIMED as "world exclusive" images of the first Quad SLI card motherboard have emerged from Hong Kong website, HKEPC.

Gigabyte has sent them a sample of Gigabyte 8N-SLI-Quad Royal - AMD platform - which will potentially support four 7800GTX or eight monitors. It is not known whether Nvidia SLI support extends to four cards or more. Furthermore, this solution, as elegant as it might seem will probably require much more power from the PSU and four Geforce 6600 will probably cost more and perform worse than a 7800GTX.

AMD Zone tests two value memory modules, from Corsair and OCZ. The two are 512MB DDR400 CAS 2.5 samples. As value products, they do not come without heat spreaders or posh containers to cut on price. The Corsair model won the day as it was 20% cheaper and overclocked by a similar margin.

Overclock Intelligence Agency - a newcomer - tests the OCZ EL PC4000 Gold 2GB Kit memory. These modules are designed to run at higher voltages, 2.8v and come with gold layered copper heat spreaders as well as Extended Voltage Protection and Ultra Low noise technologies. With lifetime warranty and very good stability at maximum fequency, there's not much to add to this product.

Anandtech has the first real benchmark of the Nforce 6100. They get to test the Biostar TForce 6100-939 - strange thought that a Tier 2/Tier 3 is the first to send a board for review. Wesley Fink, the reviewer gets to test it against the RS480 integrated solution from ATI. The latter will soon get a very nasty surprise especially if the benchmarks are from a early sample and even with only two pixel pipelines. As for the board, it even includs an overclocking guard and more options in the BIOS that you would guess from a microATX board.

French website Presence PC has one of the first pictures of the new Asus EN7800GT Dual , which is the first dual GPU 7800GT solution available on the market. Onboard, we have 512Mb GDDR3 as well as two 7800GT GPUs. The card is powered by an external power supply. It is a dual DVI solution and comes with a single HSF solution. 2000 of those babies will be produced and sold at around $1000 each.

Barry's Rigs and reviews checks the Acer Ferrari 4000 4005WLMI notebook. It is certainly one of the most desirable notebooks out there. Turion ML37 CPU, carbon fiber lid, Ferrari Prancing horse logo, 100GB HDD, 1GB HDD, Integrated GbE, Bluetooth and Wifi connection and a slot in DVD writer. Even at its relatively high price, it is a bargain for those who look for a branded laptop with all the bells and whistles on the market and without compromise. µ