Ageia Physx gets a reason to live

TODAY WAS MARKED by the arrival of CellFactor: Revolution. This free game is distributed on-line in order to promote Ageia's Physx PPU, and several sites reviewed the game in order to see did this Ageia-supported title showed its worth. TechGage and PC Perspective bring their own respective verdicts.

Computer Shopper tested Alienware's Area-51 ALX system, the best that Alienware can offer. Its performance is staggering, but so is the price. And no, the price will not go up as the car grows older, so in a way premium computers can be treated as less-popular Ferraris.

Hardware Logic tested its logic by pre-reviewing two software products of greatest importance to hardware users - guys staged a fight between Windows MeII (which some like to call Vista) and upcoming Mac OS X, known as Leopard.

Real World Benchmarks tested Zerotherm GX-815 and BTF-90 coolers. But while GX-815 is your typical "we can do better than Zalman" round-heatpipe product, BTF-90 is a copper CPU cooler in a shape of butterfly. Unlike some aluminium ones , this one is pure copper. Cooling performance was also top notch, but we would refrain from commenting author's 99.5/100 conclusion. This butterfly cooler also got reviewed at BootDaily.

Crazy Shrimps from Belgium proved their insanity after taking some extreme modding to Scythe's Infinity CPU cooler, and creating one very powerful cooler.

P35 motherboards continued to do rounds and dodge Intel's NDA's for this product. Sadly, we're not all too much interested in DDR2-based P35 boards, and we will be bringing you our own view with DDR3 memory soon. Fudzilla brought the review of MSI's Bearlake DDR2+DDR3 motherboard, but they had tested with DDR2 memory only. OCWorkBench continued to explore Gigabyte board, and discovered interesting performance of DDR2 memory when running in sync with the vastly overclocked FSB.

TweakTown tested XFX's 8800 Ultra in its XXX Edition. This board differs from nV's own retail clocks, so head over Down Under and check what XFX has in store for this round of 3D Titan Wars.

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