9600GT SLI benchies pop up

YESTERDAY we missed out on a couple of HD 3870X2 reviews, namely [H]ardOCP, Hardware Canucks, OC Café and Tech Report. These are joined by Joel from Ars Technica. In the meantime, everyone’s waiting for those new Crossfire X drivers, you know? So during the course of this week/early next week the web will be a-buzz with re-reviews.

Cheeky geekers at HardSpell have come up with quite the review of Nvidia’s 9600GT. They got hold of not one but two 9600GTs, so they were able to do both single and SLI benchmarks. The G94 core is cooled in single slot much like the G92 reference design. There’s pretty standard stuff (like the memory) mixed in with some G8x features like the Quantum Effect Physics engine. If you’re a benchmark addict, here’s the clincher: the SLI benchmarks put it on par with the 8800 Ultra.

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The Nutty 3D Professor has come up with a thesis on “Green Power” computing – or more to the point, on WD’s Caviar GP 1TB drive. Faced-off with the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 performance in real-world applications isn’t what you’d think – WD takes the lead. So much for the vaunted Barracuda. Later down the line, the Prof will update the article with RAID benchmarks, as soon as he gets his drives, visit him soon.

Zipang (another wrong name for Nippon) is also the name of a new heatpipe/fan combo from Scythe, under review at VR-Zone. This universal CPU cooler is as silent as they come, thanks to a low rpm and oversize fan (140mm), it competes with the best systems on the market. However, you can always slap on a faster fan and get a better overclocking cooler. They liked it that way.

OCIA.net has another fan/heatpipe CPU cooler on test, the Kingwin Revolution Direct Touch RVT-12025. This is quite similar to that Zipang-thingie we mentioned above, with heatpipes combining with densely packed fins under a 120mm fan. It’s smaller and lighter than the massive Scythe Zipang, but in the end performs quite well. For $33 it seems quite the bargain. Get it here.

ASUS continues its trek to conquer the hearts’n’minds of enthusiasts with the ASUS Blitz Extreme (P35), right over there at PCStats. Those chums have gone head over heels with this board and squeezed every MHz they could out of it. It’s got enthusiast written all over it, especially when you get down to the price of things: 300 buckaroos can make even the hardest veteran of the mobo wars shudder. µ