New king of mid range card reviewed

checks the XFX Revo64 NC3000 Gamer's Edition. Now that product is a RAID card and I wonder whether a RAID card is useful for a gamer. Onboard hardware provides the necessary power to get RAID running faster but the Revo64 does support only RAID 0, 1, 3 and JBOD, no RAID 5 or RAID 1+0 it seems, tests were made using Raptors. While the product is actually good, I wonder whether onboard RAID - which is basically free - would not do a better and cheaper job.

Driverheaven has a test of the NorthQ 3310BL UFO cooler. Behind that weird name is a cooler fan that spindles with a blue light, is made up of pure cooper and carries some features that should have made even likable. But alas... This is not a perfect cooler, it was neither the most silent, nor the coolest one. Might be ideal for the HTPC according to Driverheaven.

For the first time ever, laptops are in a unique position of enjoying technical superiority when it comes to processors. The Core Duo processor is available only on laptops for the time being. OCworkbench reviews the Acer Aspire 5670 which is built around one of them. It is not only quick but also relatively cheap and most importantly does not cut corners. 1GB memory, a 100GB SATA disk, Radeon X1400, a webcam, a 15.4-inch screen. Performance is stellar and you're worth it.

Do not do that at home. VR-zone experiments with phase cooling on GPU memory. That's extreme cooling for graphics card memory. They show you everything in details when it come with overclocking that new 7900GTX card you just purchased - what about a 50% overclock to being with. 1GHz overclocking for the core only. When it comes to the memory, they use strong hand techniques.

Hardwarezone tests the MSI NX7600GS-T2D256EH which was in these colums yesterday. It is Nvidia's new cheap no frill mid range card which should give ATI a run for its money. The card is build for value. A heat sink fan, two DVI ports, a short PCB and 256MB memory. Core runs at 400MHz and DDR2 memory at 800MHz. It rings the end of the road with the 6600GT and an even better choice than the 7300GS and the X1600PRO.

Anand reviews the VIA PT880 PRO via the Biostar PT880 Pro A7 combo motherboard. Whether this is too little too late is something that we will see. The motherboard supports both AGP and PCI express as well as DDR and DDR2 memory - and it is very cheap. Even if it is not aiming at enthusiasts, you can bet that it will get some kudos for its versatility. µ