New Linux kernel benchmarked
THE LINUX COMMUNITY has been dying to get some real meat on the new Linux kernel, and penguin lovers over at Phoronix came up with a set of benchmarks comparing the new 2.6.23 kernel with the previous release. This is a rather extensive article, so you might want to give it a good look.
For those that want a capacity beyond all, Boot Daily brought a review of Seagate Barracuda ES.2. This hard drive has no less that 1GB of capacity (sadly, in SI system, since HDD manufacturers like to pretend that 1000 bits is one kilobyte. Actually, it's 1024, but who cares, right?). Nevertheless, this unit has 32MB cache, which is a hefty increase over industry standard (16MB). However, our ideal drive has 8GB of flash memory (for system partition) and 1TB of capacity...
ComputerShopper.com released a review of Coolermaster Cosmos 1000. Overall, quite interesting case, as we have already mentioned.
HardwareLogic published a review of Schyte Katana 2. I remember the original Katana as a cooler that one of my ex-colleagues cried about, claiming the cooler has broke his motherboard. While unmounting the previous Schyte coolers has been somewhat a majestic adventure, it seems that Japanese engineers finally caught up with the Koreans as far as mounting goes. And when it comes to heavy-weights, it is good to see that this one sits in the middle, being just over half a kilo (535g).
Sennheiser has always been one of top audio equipment manufacturers, and Bjorn3D brings the low-down on HD-280 Pro, headphones for those running on a tight budget, but still want to get quality.
Since the heavens would open if there were a hardware roundup without a review of OCZ or PC Power & Cooling power supply, today we bring you an all-mighty L'INQ to a review of Silencer 750W Quad Rail CrossFire Edition.
Elite Bastards came up with a review of Asus P5E3 DeLuxe WiFi-AP motherboard. This motherboard sports PCIe 2.0 standard, so there is plenty of bandwidth for upcoming graphics cards.
If you're in the market for a new graphics card or considering a major upgrade, you might want to check out a review of Half Life 2: Episode 2 (Two), over at TechGage.
TechGage also brought up a review of Gigabyte's vision how an X38 motherboard should look like, here.
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There are two errors in the above post.
1) the first time you list the capacity of the Barracuda ES drive it is "GB" instead of "TB".
2) the link to the Scythe Katana 2 review has a space in it between hardware and logic which generates the following URL:
http://www.hardwarelogic%20.com/R%20eviews/Cooling/287.html
remove the space and the problem is resolved.
Seagate release a 1GB drive model that has 250GB platters? I can only assume that they tried to limit it to a single data track so it would always have a seek time of 0ms.
There is a small error where you say hard drive manufacturers pretend 1000 bits is a kilobyte. 1000 bits IS a kilobyte as it follows the standard SI units. However 1024 bits IS NOT a kilobyte, but instead is called a kibibyte.
1GB should probably read 1TB in regards to the seagate drive..
For those that want a capacity beyond all, Boot Daily brought a review of Seagate Barracuda ES.2. This hard drive has no less that 1GB of capacity (sadly, in SI system, since HDD manufacturers like to pretend that 1000 bits is one kilobyte. Actually, it's 1024, but who cares, right?). Nevertheless, this unit has 32MB cache, which is a hefty increase over industry standard (16MB). However, our ideal drive has 8GB of flash memory (for system partition) and 1TB of capacity...
--> 1 GB HDD? Even the SSD have 32 GB at least. I Think you mean 1 TB ?
...This hard drive has no less that 1GB of capacity...

Wow. I remember when I bought a 100MB HD just few years ago for 300€.

Shirley shome mishtake...
Another error: 1 byte is made of 8 bits, 1 kilobyte is 8000 bits or 1000 bytes and 1 kibibyte is 8192 bits or 1024 bytes.
1024 bits is 0.128 of an SI kilobyte, since an SI kilobyte has 1000 bytes of 8 bits each = 8000 bits. Alternatively, its 0.125 of a proper kilobyte (i.e. 1024 bytes or 8 bits each, as god intended...)