Professional video cards plus 6800 Ultra PCIe reviewed

OVER AT P3D Professor three professional graphic cards are reviewed. The ATI FireGL-X3, the Wildcat Realizm 200 and the PNY Quadro FX 4000 are all sliced and diced. Hope we see SLI applied to those cards soon.

Reviews concerning the 5GB UFO or Manta-Fish Seagate drive are slowly trickling in. This 5GB hard disk is not a yoyo although they both are of the same size. Here's one more about the new gizmo in town at Bjorn3D.

Has anyone heard of a dead silent cooler? If not, then head to Insanetek where Randy tested the Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 and slaps it with a Must have award as it is silent, effective and cheap.

It's not often that a piece of component is given a girl's name. One motherboard manufacturer, I remember. used the name Christina but that's all. Titan, a CPU manufacture, has the Vanessa CPU cooler. Is as cool as its name. See for yourself.

At OC workbench, there is a review of the Foxconn Winfast NF4-4UK8AA-8EKRS which is a nForce 4 Ultra motherboard. Why do they have to carry such long names? Anyway, Foxconn is quickly becoming a player to reckon with thanks to cheap prices, wide availability and honest performance. The Winfast NF4 Ultra is a perfect example of it.

Mini Mac vs DIY PC. This is not the title of a new film but rather a comparison carried out by osviews.com between the new Mac and a DIY PC which goes head to head. This has unfortunately made this site become slightly unpopular with many hardware ones. At least people are talking about it now.

Techreport presents us with what it calls the Pentium IV overclocker's dream, the Abit Fatal1ty AA8XE motherboard which comes with the i925XE chipset. This is a premium board but so is its performance.

Gamepc has a rare find, a Geforce 6800 Ultra PCI-e card from Asus, the Extreme N6800. As usual, GamePC provides us with loads of information including overclocking and SLI configuration. Hmmmm. They also remind us that the 6800 family is already nine months old. µ

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