X-Fi on PCIe to arrive in October

THE LADS FROM DRIVER Heaven published two articles today, a review of PCP&C Silencer 750W power supply was on the cards. Second one of the day was a review of Gainward Bliss 8600GT card with 1GB of video memory. Our sample finally arrived, after being held at Croatian Customs for two weeks. But this will be thing of the past as soon as yours truly moves to USA, this coming winter. When it comes to pairing 1GB of real video memory with a mainstream chip, something else than gaming comes into play.

Madshrimps published a review of CoolerMaster's CM690 ATX case, quite a feature rich case for a very good price, of course - 110 dollars in Europe and 80 bucks in a land of president with expert knowledge in those "histories".

Second case from Cooler Master in today's wibble is Cosmos 1000. This case just got launched, and it spots an interesting set of features that keep the inside of the computer nice and cool.

Cameron from TweakTown came to yours truly to inform that they've just reviewed the G33-chipset based SFF PC from Shuttle. SG33G5 Pro got the accolades there, while yours truly was pleasantly surprised with capabilities of Shuttle X200.

Elite Bastards reviewed Auzentech X-Fi based card, while playREACTION interviewed Darragh O'Toole, Creative's Brand Manager. Lads touched base about X-Fi Extreme, retail card for PCIe slot. Card is coming in October, so expect quite a lot of activities going in the newly developing "Battle for PCIe".

Staying in line with interviews, YouGamers published an interview inside "Kings of Overclockers" series. This time, ViperJohn gave an interview and shared insights in the world of overclocking, his modifications, but also technical perspective on current and future trends in the industry. Parts that touch the future of DAAMIT are ones that AMD folk should pay special attention to. Expand or die and doubt in future of discrete graphics sound rather gloomy for AMD, since Hector stated numerous times that the company will develop R700, R800 and future architectures.

For training some German language skills, PCtreiber.net came up with the report from ASrock Live-Demo 2007, event held in Dutch town of Cuijk. English translation is here.

And it seems that we just can't go throughout a hardware roundup without a review of a product from OCZ. This time, PCtuner.net published a review of a 600W power supply, this time from StealthXStream. These power supplies are intended to have as silent work as possible, but they're still not passive - thus producing decent amount of juice.

Virtual-Hideout came with the review of Antec racey power supply, the Tru-Power Quattro 850W.

IT-Review.net published a low-end shootout of 3D cards, with 8400GS, 8500GT, 2400 Pro and XT taking the lead role. This boards really belong in that category, but with boards coming in November, GeForce 8600GTS could be low-end by year's end.

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