Radeon HD 2900Pro gets reviewed

ATI MAY HAVE silently launched the Radeon HD 2900Pro and 2900GT, but secrets don't stay secrets for long. Even though no partner is actually sampling these for product reviews, two sneaky guys managed to review the 2900Pro and show up in our inbox. First guy out was Pawel Pilarcyzk from PClab.pl, a site that was first to break the name of next-gen processor from AMD (Phenom). Bear in mind that this review is in Polish, so for all those non-polish speakers out there (6.3 billion minus 150 million polish-speakers), enjoy in graphs. Second in line was Cameron TweakTown. Both reviews featured graphics boards manufactured by HIS.

Hardware.Info came up with a clash of titans, comparing AMD's Barcelona to Intel Harpertown. If you're server or workstation enthusiast, or just looking what monster to assemble next, take a good read over this one.

YouGamers showed up with a technology Q&A with guys from Flaghship Studios, detailing how gamers will see the difference between DirectX 9 and 10 variants. This preview sported 10 new screenshots from the game as well.

Second interview of the day was set at John Beekley from Corsair. This very interesting interview went out to satisfy all those memory and power supply junkies out there, so if any of those is your thing, don't miss out on this one.

Hardware Logic published a review of Cooler Master CM690 case, while Fudzilla and Guru3D posted a review of just launched cooler from Coolermaster, the Hyper 212 quad-heatpipe monster. This cooler follows the same guidelines as original design that many other vendors like to copy, and now Coolermaster is back with another take. All in all, interesting how one design makes industry running in circles.

A day of Coolermaster continued with OverClocker's Club publishing a review of a Coolermaster CMedia 282 case. Coolermaster is certainly going on a PR offensive, if nothing else.

TweakTown also published a review of Asus P5E3, a motherboard based on Intel's latest enthusiast chipset, the X38.

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