Man reviews 105 power supplies

IN MY TIMES at a Croatian mag, I was known for benchmarking insane amount of motherboards, processors and graphics cards. With the numbers averaging 60-70 products, I was led to believe that this massive number is something special. However, Stephane from MatBe easily outclassed yours truly, with a mammoth review of no less that 105 power supplies.

PCStats.com tested Foxconn's video card based on G84-400 graphics chip. Yes, this is a review of yet another GeForce 8600 GTS board, lead by the company that had an interesting sampling policy - 2 boards for 18 countries and so on, 40 minute phone calls in odd times while yours truly was in USofA, making my roaming charges quite interesting and so on. Luckily, it seems that the times are changing.

Losing data is sadly, something that is almost the guaranteed future even for those that often do regular backups, and now Bjorn3D has come up with an editorial filled with sad experiences of those people that don't do backups. Read the soggy story here.

Ryan went dirty with the latest version of the nForce chipset for La Intella, the nForce 650 Ultra motherboard by EVGA.

Virtual-Hideout tested Sapphire's 690G HDMI motherboard. We will not dig into the cryptic name of the product, but we would advise you to take a very good look over there.

Microsoft has come up and admit that Xbox 360 can cause media to scratch, as Hardware.Info reveals.

Cooler Master realised that aftermarket VGA cooling is the latest trend, so the company caught the next train and launched CoolViva Pro, a cooler for the latest series of graphics cards. TechGage has the review.

However, the real deal is tje return of Canadian hardware folks, who have reviewed several high-end water-cooling CPU blocks. Is Swiftec still in a dominating position as it was in 90s and early years of 21st century or not? Read on.

Mushkin is making a big return in the world of highest-performing memory, as RBmods discovered during testing of its latest series of products, a two-gig kit XP2-8500.

Then again, the fight for either Best Buy or Grand Prix crown will not be easy, since even mighty Kingston now has embraced enthusiast models for a really good price. HardwareLogic tested the 9600 modules and brought following conclusion.

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