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Silicon Power 64GB SSD doesn't pass muster
THE CHAPS AT Benchmark Reviews are testing an SSD drive from a (relative) newcomer to the rat race: Silicon Power. Olin has a 64GB unit in store for us, based on Samsung SLC ICs, with a pretty heavy price tag. Performance isn’t much to write home and the few pluses about the kit could easily be applied to any SSD out there. Still, it’s a learning curve for Silicon Power. Read it right here.
Ultraportables are the shiznit these days. Everyone wants them; everyone’s tired of lugging around 5+ lbs of notebook and running out of gas a couple of hours later. Sure it’s great to have a 15.4-incher with a mobile GPU and neat movie display format, but when push comes to shove, you’d rather have the ultraportable. Well PCWorld has posted their Top 10 ultraportable laptops in the US - none of which are Dell or HP, mind you. Read the article here.
Zotac has been elbowing in to the crowded motherboard market with some new designs – one of which is here. The pompously-named “Zotac nForce 790i Ultra Supreme SLI” mobo is here, and Ze Germans are having a go at it. It’s a reference 790i Ultra SLI with all the bells and whistles, and does precisely what it is intended to do. Pricing might be of interest to most of you (‘ere in €uroland), as it costs “just” 250 €urobucks. Michael says it’s the damndest thing to find one of these in retail, tho’. Thank the heavens for Googlenglish.
Digit Life nabbed a couple of 790i Ultra SLI mobos – that there same Zotac one, plus the XFX version. Tri-SLI, Intel CPU support, tricked-out chipset cooling and lots of other stuff. However, Sergey isn’t too pleased with Nvidia marketing as it is intentionally ignoring the competition (to their loss) as the X48 chipset is offering performance on par with these for $100 less. Still, get his view on the matter, right here.
Rob at TechGage is doing a small X48 roundup with Asus, ECS and Intel mobos. There’s a bit of everything in these 3 builds – but all are targeted at the gamer/enthusiast market. However, the only board that offers a BIOS and overclocking/tweaking features on that level is the Asus mobo, as you’d expect… ECS and Intel fall miserably behind in that department. However, is you are on a budget or aren’t inclined to perform overclocking, bear in mind that performance is almost identical throughout the whole test, on all 3 boards. Read the article…
Super Talent joins the SSD fray with their MasterDrive MX 60GB SSD, on review at TweakTown. The drive is very reasonably priced (compared to current SSD price levels) and offers performance to Samsung’s SATA-II SSD drive at a fraction of the price. Write performance takes a hit, though, as the Super Talent unit uses MLC technology instead of SLC (used on the Samsung) – but Chris says the difference between MLC and SLC is getting hazier. Get his view on the matter, here.
Our fave hillbilly George, at Hillbilly Hardware, has finally got his hands on an HD4850 and put it through its paces. You can see, once again, ATI has really optimized the performance at hi-res settings, but power consumption and heat output are the real question marks behind the RV770 generation. µ
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yup well spotted the above posters, the WOWZERS post was in fact refering to the Super Talent SSD benches article and not the Silicon Power SSD review :O)

your prizes are in the post smartasses, your prizes will be in a plain brown paper rapping tied with course string, about the size of a hardback book, before opening, make sure your alone as the prizes are of a personal nature, enjoy, :O)

nice to include the raptor for a 'real world' perspective on the Silicon Power/Samsung SSD's benches, im stunned by the way these two SSD's absofurkinlootely blow the Raptor out of the water, ive been thinking about getting a couple of Raptors for a while, scrub round that, as soon as these drives drop some more in price (which shouldnt be long ??) gimme gimme gimme, I WAAAAAAAAAAAN !!!!!!

60 Gig S.P. SSD.........................
operating shock :- 1500 G !!
50GB write-erase per day = 32.88 years. !!
Access Time = 0.1 ms. !!
its a no brainer O_O

what was it that guy that USED to be the Vice President of Fujitsu saying earlier in the week lol :O)
The heatoutput issues of the 4850/4870 isn't a generational thing of the chipset but more a problem with the BIOS/driver of the graphics card, 3rd party coolers do wonders for these cards and people have found that the fan in the default cooler is set to run too slow if you prefer cool.
However people that try to tweak their BIOS themselves found that it's a bit tricky since if you use a flash utility that's too old, or use the one that runs on windows, the update doesn't go well with disastrous results and it's advised to wait a bit for 'official' releases of fixes. (many companies are afraid to have customers update their graphics BIOS so they tend to hide such updates on their sites, hence my use of ')