Overclocking integrated graphics brings results

But Hardware Logic is in the limelight for another reason. A hurricane recently levelled the city of Enterprise, AL and a reviewer for the site lost everything but managed to save himself and his son. Sadly, this is not the only challenge Tom had, since he suffered an injury in an explosion back in 2004. See here, while the remains of his home can be seen here and here.

VR-Zone reviewed a known product under unfamiliar brand, Zotac ¬- and checked how can GeForce 8800GTS 320MB reference design perform when an unknown player. With the way Nvidia is functioning lately, we could even expect a Wall-Mart GeForce 8600 to appear, which just might not be a bad idea.

Virtual-Hideout took a look at a Spire case designed by no other than Studio Pininfarina. While the studio mostly designs new cars such as Ferraris, their spare time was dedicated to creation of a case which offers innovation over copy& paste design. Only problem we can think of is that Spire pulled a "Taiwanese one" and said Pininfarina to make a case on a budget. Now, if we could only see such a design with aluminium for a base material... besides the case, guys also reviewed GigaByte's liquid-cooling solution, 3D Galaxy II. We're not sure what 3D has to do with cooling, but let's leave it at that.

If you want to finish the computer inside Pininfarina's case with something different, you might as well pick up ZEROTherm's Butterfly, reviewed over at BCCHardware. This is the first butterfly design I've seen since Titan had their butterfly-designed coolers three years ago.

IT-Review.Net went on to see how Graphzilla's sees mainstream chipset for Intel - ASUS P5N-E SLI spots nForce 650i SLi chipset. They also took a look how did AMD 690G performed against Intel's G965 using motherboards by Asus. Besides an odd result in memory read speed, it is interesting to see that AMD has a ticket to ride in integrated graphics arena.

If you think that integrated graphics could do more, Legit Reviews overclocked 690G graphics to see what results can be achieved. Default clock of 690 IGP is set at 400 MHz, but you can go higher than that. Legit managed all the way to the 523 MHz, when results turned even more interesting.

Phoronix went on to do some software-intensive work with a guide how to enable KVM virtualization on Fedora 7. In their software guide, they went on from installing virtual Mandriva Linux 9.2 to belegued Windows Vista. If you have a CPU that supports hardware virtualization, this just might be that ticket to install multitude of operating systems with no hassle.

Thomas from DVHardware.net ordered Dell 2407WFP monitor and his impressions are now posted on the site. Our take on this monitor can be found here.

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