Alienware puts solid state drives in RAID 0

LEGIT REVIEWS CAME up with a review of Super Talent 2GB Exelerator, a Ready Boost device that fits an internal 9-pin connector on a motherboard. This gives full access to two USB connectors and yield best possible performance for a flash drive. Or at least that's what SuperTalent is hoping for.

Bit-Tech continued with its guide how to build your own Linux server. Here's the second part of their guide.

Alienware recently entered the SSD arena with no less than support for RAID0 and RAID1 for its notebooks containing Solid-State drives, as Sean from ComputerShopper reports.

TweakTown came up with a review of Gigabyte Digital TV Gsmart t600 Mobile, TV tuner device that supports DVB-T, DVB-H and T-DMB for TV signalling, and DVB-T and DAB for the radio. All in all, impressive and globally working device.

Phoronix came up with a take on Intel's Threading Building Blocks 2.0, released under GPLv2 open-sauce licence. As it happens, company started a competition for a best app, award being a multi-core laptop.

TechGage reviews the Edifier MP300 Portable Speaker system. This set is one of the smallest systems you can find, but is it actually worth something? That remains to be seen.

OCW delivers a review of 8500GT, currently only available 8500 on the market. This time around, ECS delivered an $80 card with 256MB of video memory. Of course, expect performance levels of GeForce4-MX with a DX10 sticker.

If an 8500GT can't cut it, but you don't have the budget to go into the world of 2900/8800 cards, OverClockersClub posted a review of Foxconn's 8600GTS, a plain vanilla card with a promising price.

For the end of the day, BootDaily posted a review of VisionTek's Radeon 2900XT. All in all, Duane brought some interesting benchmarks, yielding some fascinating results.

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