Intel confirms INQ's Larrabee specs

IN A RAMP-UP to Larrabee, Intel will need a lot of smart heads and Chipzilla's best people are touring universities in order to get as many brilliant minds as possible. The second step is to send a presentation to a web-site that also has a lot of smart folk around and recruit some people.

So it came to pass that, Beyond3D leaked slides that Intel has been showing off in universities and those slides speak of Larrabee, even though the product is not specifically mentioned. Go to the site and check the slides, and then read the real, non-tuned-down specs of Larrabee in Charlie's story from yesteryear. You can now see what monster is being prepared in Intel dungeons around the world, from prisoners of Folsom, brainwits at MIT to amateurs in Braunschweig.

IT-Review.Net touched several after-CeBIT reviews, hitting hard with a world premiere of OCZ Flex XLC PC2-10000, hybrid air/water-cooled modules achieving the highest DDR2 spec to date. Only two manufacturers launched PC2-10000 memory so far, Corsair Dominator and OCZ Flex XLC. The second review in line was overclocking of Point of View and Galaxy 8800GTX cards. This review contains useful tables of Nv internal clocks achieved when overclocking, and since Nvidia locks clocks in their own steps, you should go and check it out, if you plan on to overclock the 8800GTX.

We will start a salvo of external hard drive reviews with Softpedia's look on Western Digital Passport.

While Softpedia went for a compact product, Techgage fired on all cylinders and reviewed FreeAgent Pro from Seagate. With a capacity of 750GB, this mammoth amongst hard drives has room for thousands and thousands of your documents, so you just might give it a look.

Bjorn3D tested the SteelSeries SteelSound 4H, a pair of price-conscious headphones for gaming. We have seen a ton of things oriented towards gamers, which fail to deliver what gamers actually demand and require. How did this plastic piece of Steel perform? Check it out here.

Virtual-Hideout dug into the world of water cooling with a review of CPU-330 and CHC-120-V10 water-blocks from Koolance. I spent whole of last night to configure EVGA's water-cooled setup and a man can learn to appreciate if the setup is simple to connect. But in the end, all that it matters is that system performs better and more silently than is is the case with air-cooling.

PlanetX64 continued with water-cooling experiments by reviewing a water-cooling ready case, the Thermaltake Mozart TX. Our old friend Sean was amazed by the quality of case. At the time of writing, the site had some trouble loading, but check it if it works.

Killer NIC continued to do the rounds on websites, with Legit Reviews testing both the premium *bling* cooled card and downclocked and more affordable K1 network card.

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