AMD Barcelona FP scores outed

OUR OWN SISTER SITE, VNUnet.com came up with a video showing AMD Barcelona floating point scores when compared to Intel quad-core Clowertown at sub-90W Thermal envelope. In case of Intel, processor worked at 2.33 GHz (Xeon 5345), while Barcelona worked at 2.0 GHz (Opteron 2350).

While chatting to Andrea from PCtuner.net, we learned that guys managed to get DDR2 memory that showed some serious overclocking potential. Team Group Xtreem 1200 MHz memory worked happily at 1.396 MHz, or nearly 1.4 GHz. This is highest clock we have seen from a DDR2 memory. Owners of Intel Core 2 rigs and more notably, AMD Athlon 64 X2 and upcoming Phenom FX/X4/X2 should seriously consider this memory.

It seems that after quite some time, Creative is getting some serious competition, coming from a company they would not dreamed off. Asus Xonar D2 is showing to have quite a potential to aspire to the throne, and a big bonus is the fact that driver pack is relatively light.

BCChardware reviewed Ideazon's Fragmat BF2142 Limited Edition. As it happens with Ideazon products, this one is geared towards players of EA's Battlefield 2142.

OCW benchmarked GeCube HD240XTL2-D3 , a graphics card based on ATI's RV610 GPU.

Unlike entry-level hardware, IT-Review came up with a review of mainstream graphics card, from the higher-end of mainstream spectrum. MSI recently launched an overclocked version of its 320MB card with G80 GPU chip, the NX8800GTS-T2D320E-HD-OC. This board received a nice GPU clock upgrade, from 500/1600 of stock cards to 575/1700.

Thomas from DVhardware.net contacted us to state that he reviewed the 120mm fan from Silverstone. Not exactly earth shattering, but it is components like this that we usually change or need the most. If getting an silent fan is something your case needs, check out FM123.

And in order to have a case to put the fan in, Bjorn3D reviewed ThermalTake Tai-Chi M+. If Thermaltake is not your thing, you can always take a look at Logisys Area 51, black ATX case with side window. This case got reviewed over at Benchmark Reviews.

Drivers are not exactly hardware, but without them we could not work with hardware - Phoronix came up with Q&A session with developers from Nouveau project - Open Sauced driver for Nvidia hardware.

Send your news'n'reviews directly to this address. µ