ATI users told to skip Catalyst 7.7

TWEAK TOWN CAME UP with a performance comparison between Catalyst 7.6 and 7.7, and sadly for ATI, they discovered it would be smarter to stick with older revs. Some comments were not flattering at all, so we would advise you to take the read yourselves.

BCC Hardware came up with a hardware shoot-out of blast from the past. We would advise you to take a look at this one, since you may learn a bit about a very turbulent era of IT industry.

The Belgium Sshrimps teamed up and published a comparison between eight different GPU coolers. If you are on the lookout for an aftermarket cooler for your graphics card, you might want to check out this review.

Legion Hardware published a high-end PC buying guide, this time guiding themselves around $2500 price bracket.

Then again, if you're on a market for new and affordable graphics card, HardwareLogic brings you a review of 8600GTS-256 OC by Foxconn. This company raised the clocks for 675/2000 to 700/2200, which should yield decent performance.

Zalman ZM-MFC2 multi-function controller just got reviewed at PC Perspective. If you're in the market for a controller that can show multitude of temperatures, consider this one.

GameSlave decided to stick to the slave line when it comes to reviewing gaming peripherials. This time around, Razer's DeathAdder gaming mice came under fire. Is it good enough for gameslaves?

Phoronix posted a story about Ubuntu Live 2007 Day 1, first Ubuntu conference. If you like penguins, head over there.

Techgage published a review of OCZ's 4GB kit, PC2-6400 Platinum Edition. Author has posted a disclaimer about the necessity (or the lack of it) of 4GB system memory, but we'll see what tomorrow will bring.

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