MP3 player has some balls

GEIL, which is one of the better memory module maufacturers out there, is selling a cute little thing known as the Ball MPV player. It is a multifunction audio/video player which plays video, audio and allows you to read ebooks, all via an OLED display. At $209 for a 1GB version, it's not too bad. 3DVelocity has also reviewed Toshiba's 100GB 2.5-inch hard disk, the MK1031GAS. It performs well, although not superbly but is neither noisy nor does it dissipate much heat.

A rather interesting point of view submitted by Alex Powell in line with Anand's article on the PhysX PPU. This piece of text is called Physical Accelerators and Gamer's PCs and is worth its weight of salt.

BIOS Magazine looks at the Dell Inspiron 6000, which is a mid-range widescreen laptop. It comes with the i915GM obile chipset and sports the Intel Centrino Sonoma technology. Various options are available and at the end of the day, the Inspiron 6000 makes a good business machine but not a gamer's one.

3DProfessor reviwes what they call the mother of all cards from hell, the Gainward Powerpack 2600 GS6800 Ultra PCIe card. Clocked at 430Ghz/1.2Ghz respectively, it has a huge red cooler fan and 3dprofessor chose nothing more than a Dual Xeon rig to be tested. And interestingly the benches included many professional software like 3D Studio max and Cinebench.

PC Perspective explores the intricacies of natural sub-zero overclocking by playing with snow which of course if valid only where there is snow. Hotter countries need not apply. Pretty simple to run but don't do it in your fridge.

AMDgamer has tested the new Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 400GB SATA hard drive. Finally someone else other than Hitachi is offering huge capacity hard disk. Seems to be an interesting article except that I cannot access pages other than the first page.

Finally, British outfit Hexus still has another test of the Pentium M 735 coupled with the i855GME motherboard, this time from DFI. Whether the i855GME now makes sense is another thing since Asus has already launched a converter card for s478 boards. µ