Give your PC some PSU muscle

LENOVO HAS PUT some changes into the businessman's favourite tool, the Thinkpad notebook, with a more consumer-friendly face and more. However, LaptopLogic reviewed ThinkPad T60 Widescreen, which features the traditional IBM design. Still, looks aren't everything. After a month with MacBook Pro, this author went for a Samsung Q30Plus. The MacBook looks nice, but was too often scratched.

XSreviews checked out the performance from an original manufacturer of 8800 cards, Foxconn 8800GTX. The full name of the card is FV-8800XMAD2-OD. Meanwhile, Bjorn3D overclocked Foxconn's cheaper model, the 8800GTS (640MB version).

BCCHardware has been busy with reviews of EnzoTech Ultra-X CPU cooler, which looks a dead ringer for a certain Silverstone CPU cooler, and Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro.

If you plan owning more than one graphics card, especially in the heavyweight category of G80 or the again-delayed R600, you need a good PSU to handle the load. PC Perspective reviewed BFG Tech 1000W PSU, which gives 90% of its power to 12V rails, while at the same time there is an interesting design choice between some rails (-12V and +5VSB).

If you want to practice your Turkish language skills, you can go on DarkHardware and check the review of Palit X1950GT card. For those unaware, Palit owns Gainward, which is a long-time Nvidia partner.

LegionHardware did a great article on what kind of machine you need to run the full version of Supreme Commander. Love it or hate it, Supreme Commander is one of those games that makes gamers drool, and our experience from the demo is that gamedevs really did their homework and produced an excellent real-time strategy. But this game will also take its toll on hardware, making a dual-core CPU and the fastest graphics sweating like pigs in summer.

We ran news about Catalyst 7.2 being released here, while Phoronix posted a review of the 8.34.8 driver, which is also known as Catalyst 7.2 for Linux operating system. It was a interesting to see a Linux site getting into details about the number of lines of code added, a good read anyway.

Red & Blackness treated themselves with Silverstone SST-GD1 case, an HTPC monster case which found its place between Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii.

Virtual-Hideout checked the capabilities of Aten 1762 USB/DVI KVM switch, which is especially interesting given the fact that finally somebody made a KVM switch that does not rely on PS/2 ports and analogue D-SUB connectors. This USB/DVI baby serves every DVI monitor out there, but there could be some issues with 3007WFP, which eats up dual-link DVI bandwidth.

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