4.02GHz Celeron benchmarked

COOLERMASTER has just introduced the Hyper 6+ Heatsink Fan and PCPerspective has it for review. It is bigger than the original one but weighs less because of the material used. It uses heat pipe technology which is finding its way into a number of new products. The fan is noisy and according to the reviewer should be replaced. Apart from that, it is a good value for money performing cooling solution.

The Abit Fatal1ty AN8 SLI motherboard gets a showing at Hexus.net. Based on the nForce 4 SLI, it comes with the micro Guru panel which goes into a spare bay. Built for overclocking and performance, it also offers some well chosen features like 8-channel sound, control over six fans and the SLIpstream technology for colling SLI cards.

Bjorn3D checks the Seagate 400GB Pushbutton Backup USB 2.0/Firewire HDD review. it is a stylish external hard disk drive based on a 8MB cache 400GB Seagate HDD spinning at 7200rpm. Backup is possible via the Bounceback express software. Heavy it is though at more than 1Kg and it is not cheap. But with a simple operation mode as well as being quiet, it deserves your attention.

Trustedreviews pays tribute to the Intel Edition of the MSI P4N Diamond board. One of the nifty features it introduces is the digital SLI switch which removes the need for a physical piece of PCB. Another feature that leave the competion gasping for air is the inclusion of the Creative Labs SB Live 7.1 channel sound with optical and coax SPDIF outputs. If money is not object and you trust Intel for gaming, then the P4N Diamond should be on top of your list.

Xtremeresources tests the Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 SATA hard disk drive which uses the new SATA II connection and rotates at 7200rpm. NCQ is a welcomed addition and it is quiet. Performance is average for the large HDD. RAIDing two of those drives might be a different history though. Why doesn't anyone come out with a 8.4K HDD combining both performance and coolness.

Supermicro, like Tyan, is not a motherboard brand that I would associate with Overclocking. Hence, my surprise at 3Dprofessor's test of the PDSLE 945 chipset motherboard from Supermicro. It comes with a PCIe GbE Lan with eight USB 2.0 ports and four SATA drive controller. It does support dual core, EM64T and 3Dprofessor put the Intel Pentium D to test on it. Supermicro has introduced the Superdoctor III to enable easy overclocking. The reviewr overclocks a Celeron 3.06GHz to 4.025GHz and a 3.2GHz P4 to 3.55GHz.

Yet another review of the FX57, this time from Driver heaven. The last of the mohicans gets a heavenly hardware gold award which speaks volumes about performance and value for money. They were able to air cool the CPU to 3.2GHz and got some good performnace increase. Most importantly, this is the first single core AMD CPU to be able to compete on some Intel-only benchmarks. A very attractive proposition for Overclockers ladden with money. µ