Radeon overload

ATI HAS CONFUSED MATTERS with a bunch of new Raedons. Some are 'Pro', some aren't. Some use DirectX 9 even though it doesn't yet exist. Some don't. Some cost an arm and a leg and some just a few fingers.

Anyhow over at HardOCP they've been fiddling with a new Radeon 9500 Pro. How does that fit into the general scheme of things? Wibble over here to find out.

Anandtech throws in its two penn'orth on the subject over here. And so, too, does Bjorn3d over here.

X-bit labs has reviewed two new-generation IDE hard disk drives, putting Seagate's Barracuda ATA V up against . Maxtor's DiamondMax Plus 9". Dig out the winner over here.

OCWorkbench wants to highlight its best bits from the past month. They reckon they include this look at Shuttle's SB51G i845GE SFF Box; this review of EPoX's 8K9A2+ VIA KT400 mainboard. And this look at ECS' L4S8A SiS648 mainboard.

They also have a fiddle with NOKIA's 7210 mobile phone here.

Monster Hardware builds a full 8" subwoofer, that may just get you evicted over here.

Hard Tecs 4U have posted nigh on 50 pages of excellent German all about silent computing. Ok, there's a translation of a bunch of coolers here. And the next part -- 29 pages of cases -- is translated over here.

HotHardware seeks to cool down a 2.8GHz P4 with Asetek's Vapochill Cooling System over here.

OverclockersClubCanada review the Antec Hard Disk (!) Drive Cooler, here.

And XtremeSystems.org has a review of a TTGI's 520 watt monster PSU, over here.

You can nail the Wibbler here.