Two 512MB SLIed 6800 Ultra benchmarked

INTEL HIGH Definition Audio is the subject of Hardware.fr's review. They have a quick look at the AC97 format before tackling Intel's new audio format, AKA Azalia. Solutions from Realtek and CMI are compared and analysed with the Creative Audigy LS. Finally, they say that marketing is going to take over technology and jacksensing might after all be what we're all after.

Sudhian's review of AMD's Geode GX vs VIA C3 embedded performance sparked some fiery feedbacks, notably from some Anandtech's readers. The AMD Geode GX is loosely based on Cyrix's MediaGX - Black Compaq P233 Anyone? - and is compared to VIA's C3 embedded and the review comes a few days after an editorial called From clarity to confusion - AMD Model system needs to go.

Lately, Asus has been diversifying quite a bit, going to casings and overclocking components. Matbe takes a look at the Asus Vento 3600 which is one of the Asus cases on sale for gamers and they find out that the price is hardly justified the long list of cons and the lack of features.

Extremetech has a quick look at a new cylindrical SFF from FIC. The Piston features a pico BTX motherboard featuring the i915G but can accommodate a PCIe x16 card while supporting 7.1 audio and loads more. And what's more, it have two satellite speakers and one subwoofer which makes it the first SFF boombox as well.

German outfit Computer Base has some more information and three more photos regarding the Dual GPUed Asus Geforce 6800 Ultra which is bound to come to market quite soon. Leadtek, Gigabyte and Asus are the three manufacturers which have already produced dual GPU cards. More are on their way though.

Bit-Tech has some exclusive pictures of the forthcoming 512Mb Geforce 6800 Ultra with 512MB memory each, giving you up to 1GB of memory in addition to your onboard memory. Now if your PC could take some memory from your video card. Bit Tech even has benchmarked the Geforce 6800 Ultra on NFS Underground 2.

AMD gamer gives you a taster of what is awaiting us with two eVGA Geforce 6800 Ultra cards running in SLI mode. Photos, benchmarks but no overclocking. The duo shatters all benchmarks and registers some pretty massive scores, approaching 10000 points in 3Dmark 05.

Hardwarezone reviews the MSI NX6600 Diamond in AGP and PCIe version. Both come with Chronicles of Riddick game. On 16 pages, the Singaporeans test every bit of it including DOT overclocking as well as the various software coming with it. Very informative if you're looking for a mid range card.