Samsung Blu Ray burner tested

HOT HARDWARE checks the Sapphire Radeon X800GTO2 Limited Edition, probably one of the most sought after X8XX generation card. It can be modded to an X850XT Platinum Edition and is offered with vouchers of free versions of several top games. The R480 GPU at the heart of it gives it the kind of firepower that even ATI's and NVidia's mid range are devoid of. Add in VIVO, Dual DVI and 256MB GDDR3 and you have some serious gaming gard. Of course, it overclocks fantastically well but be well advised to change the cooler to something better.

French Website Matbe reviews the Asus A6Vm laptop which comes with a Pentium M 2.13GHz, 1GB DDR2 memory and a 120GB HDD. Plus of course, you have that Geforce Go 7300 onboard. Well the laptop performs average given that the screen is not top notch, the hard disk drive is slow and the memory management is so so. As for the 7300, it is slightly better a 6200 and it also uses Turbo cache.

Colleagues at PC Welt tested a Blu Ray Disc - BD - burner from Samsung. The B022 is the first of a very long list of BD burners to hit the retail market. This one comes with an ATAPI interface and 8MB of cache. Burning 25GB of data took 45 minutes. The translation says that this is already a full production hardware with no flaws at all and excellent burning speed. It is obviously, for now, a toy for the rich with prices likely to hover above the £100 with priecs of media several times that of 16x DVDs.

Another German Website, http://www.allround-pc.com/index.php?reviews/05154/bericht.htmAllround-pc, reviewed probably one of the best selling value socket 939 motherboards out there. The Asrock 939Dual SATA2 is powered by the M1695, the predecessor of the ground breaking M1697 chipset from ULI. Loads of photos and details about this product which should be available for cheap at most good hardware shops.

Clubic puts http://www.clubic.com/article-31614-1-linux-et-windows-la-cohabitation-facile.htmlWindows in bed with Linux in a Guide to article. Over 11 pages, tools and tips as wella s full images, are provided so that you will be able to get Linux running side by side with Windows XP. If you are not ready for this one, then you might as well use some Live linux distros around.

TT-hardware website tests the Pentium D9xx series - 920 to 950 - against the Athlon 64/X2. 11processors in all it seems. The review tests the PEE 955 and the D 9xx series primarily. The new chips are cheaper to produce and they do not dissipate as much heat as the previous generation. The change of chipset as well is, as the reviewer mentions, a small step - 955x to 975x. Not the best that Intel has produced. µ