Is the X1900GT, a 7900GT Killer?

PCINPACT CHECKS out the Radeon X1900GT which is presented as the 7900GT killer. The review's in French. The X1900GT is relatively cheap yet is capable of grand things. Between the 7900GT and the X1900GT though, PCInpact chose to go Nvidia's way as far as the roundup is concerned. The 7900GT is a much better overclocker and is less power hungry. But the best buy at this price might just be the X1800XT which is being heavily discounted.

Techgage reviews the OCZ 1GB MiniKart USB Thumb Drive. OK, floppy disk drives are out, replaced by sturdier and much smaller USB drives. The mini Kart is only 2.8mm thick making it ideal if you want to put it in your purse. Just make sure that you don't lose the later. The drive is backed by a three year warranty. Mind OCZ's customer service though as OCZ seems to have some difficulties there.

Hothardware checks the MSI K8N Diamond Plus nForce 4 SLI x16 motherboard, a superb yet almost end of life product supporting the s939 socket. Comes with SB Audigy, Dual GbE, SLI support, Firewire and much more. The BIOS is excellent with SATA RAID from Silicon and Nvidia. You also have a passive cooler for the southbridge. It is expensive but you get what you pay for, in this case, an almost perfect motherboard.

Supertalent might not be a well known brand, it is probably why we have rounded it up only once in the past few months. The DDR2-1066 1GB LC5 Dual channel memory kit from ST is tested at Thinkcomputers.org. It comes with heatspreaders on only one side of the module as the RAM is situated there. I am sure that most of us will love it as it overclocks well, it is cool with that grey shiny heatsink and provides with an excellent performance at a reasonable price.

Hardware.fr reviews six SATA hard disk drives. Some of those have up to five platters and they come from Western Digital, Maxtor, Seagate and Hitachi. The conclusion is divided between those who want to use it on a single workstation or on a server, the IBM and WD model being more appropriate in these cases. Maxtor's disk is the cheapest 500GB on test and the one to go for if you're looking for a JBOD.

PC-impact pays tribute to the Palit 7900GT Sonic, which it compares to a supercharged card. Palit works for companies like Gainward and aims at companies like XFX and eVGA; the core/mem speeds are 550/1400MHz. It is compared to a X1800XT and to a reference 7900GT on a number of games and benchmarks. The black spot is that the card is not readily available for sale. It is performing, comes with a relatively silent cooling system and is cheap when you can find it for sale. µ