35 USB sticks get the French treatment

FRENCH SITE INFORMANEWS published a review of no less than 35 USB sticks, featuring all the usual suspects. This is a big-ass number of sticks, so your next portable data carrier could be one of these. If you want to translate this review in tuti puti Frenglish, point your browsers here.

How does your notebook mouse compare to alleged Revolution from Logitech? Virtual-Hideout tested VX Revolution and came up with an interesting conclusion.

Phoronix published part one of testing session with three distributions of Linux from South Africa. Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Xubuntu got tested on two interestingly different machines.

Legit Reviews posted its take on Athlon 64 X2 6000+ CPU. They managed to overclock it by 10% using nothing but air cooling, and power saving features are pretty impressive, consuming less power than Conroe based systems. Then again, when 100% load appears, AMD shows who's the higher clocked one... by consuming more power, of course. Bit-Tech also took 6000+ for a spin here.

techPowerUp! reviewed an interesting concept: Xigmatek AIO S80DP is a CPU cooler which combines water and air cooling in one pack. I remember that several years ago, Intel contemplated on using this solution to cool its leaking Prescott core, but all interested companies were unable to get volume production units up to Intel level of demand.

PC Perspective reviewed OCZ's water-cooled brainchild, Flex XLC memory in its fast DDR-1200 configuration (9200). Ryan managed to get a maximum of 1.28 GHz, like our own Fudo did some time ago.

Sound card reviews are rare as hen's teeth these days, but PCApex came up with Razer's latest try to revive the add-in sound market. Razer Barracuda AC-1 proved to be an interesting product, giving gamers alternative to driver-plagued X-Fi from Creative. Conclusion proved to be quite an interesting one...

Morry from HardOCP reviewed ASUS P5N32-E SLI Plus, motherboard that features "missing-in-action" nForce 650i chipset. 650i is actually a combination of 650i Northbridge and 570 Southbridge chips. It is pretty interesting to see Southbridges on Intel motherboards that serve as complete AMD chipsets. Anyway, proof of concept that HyperTransport is extremely flexible and enables cross-platform glue-in of components.

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