Petite Asus thing reviewed

ASUS HAS A LONG tradition in fashionably small laptops and their U6Sg is no different. Compounded with its petite-ness, it’s also the bomb if you want to be the ultimate roadwarrior with 3G access and discrete graphics to boot! OK, OK, discrete graphics is probably an overstatement; performance on the graphics is pretty limited. Still, it comes with two batteries, one three-cell for show, the other six-cell a bit more useful, and includes an HSDPA module so you can stick a SIM in it and browse away on your mobile network. Read what Alexander thought of it, here.

Tweaky Town is testing ThermalTake’s RAMOrb memory cooler, not your usual heatspreader+cooling fin combo. The RAMOrb brings some special cooling to your already warm RAM, and you’ll find it’s quite useful if you’re overclocking or operating beyond stock voltages. In Chris’ test, the RAMOrb brought temps down quite well… just remember to research how to remove the stock heatspreader on your RAM before buying this.

PC Perps has a pretty thorough overview of the 790GX. Sure it’s been around for a bit now, but it’s the most comprehensive review of the chipset we’ve seen so far. It puts a bit of context to the chipset’s capabilities and how you’d fit it into your choice of PC. Interesting stuff.

Dave at Hot Hardware has posted the complete video spotlight on the Dell Studio Hybrid. The little PC that can, is chock-full of features as well as being very stylish. Sure, if you want it loaded to bear, you’ll drop a pretty penny on this one, but it does feel like it’s achieving a bit more than the usual tiny PC. Watch the video spotlight, here.

Razer’s Piranha is on test at MikhailTech. With the rise of co-op FPS (a genre that saw its birth with Quake 2 but was quickly put down), headsets became a necessary evil in the fashion accessory department, but you really can’t avoid them. Apart from the exceptional sound quality, Wayne thought the cabling was well though-out and the bling was every bit a Razer product. Read it here.

Benchmark Reviews is reviewing Antec’s Mini P180, a microATX that says “simple is good”. It’s one of those cases that will suit a family member in need of a case for their PC. It’s got pretty good features for a microATX case and the build quality is second to none. The cable system lets you cable through the sections behind the mobo, which is really good to tidy stuff up. Bit pricey, says Bruce.

Guru3D has the current champion of all things 3D, the HD 4870 1GB. The RV770 has delivered level of performance people only thought possible from the competition, at a cost they just couldn’t believe. That performance would take you to resolutions of 2560x1600 and keep games playable. However, there are cases where the 1GB framebuffer will perform better than the standard 512MB. Find out which. µ