AMD 64 NUMA and IA 32 Xeon SMP go head to head

BJORN3D has a review of the Thermaltake Purepower TWV500W power supply. It has a modular cabling system as well as a 12cm adjustable case fan as well as a viewer power monitor and a fan speed controller. Connectors include two PCI express and four SATA power connectors. It is expensive but do include quite a few things that others might consider as optional.

Open Mag puts the AMD64 NUMA and the IA 32 Xeon SMP to test. Using systems from Appro and top of the range hardware plus their own Open Bench Labs benchmark, they compare a Dual 2.4GHz Xeon server to a quad Opteron 848 server, the former with half the amount of memory as the latter. Don't expect a blood bath. Very interesting stuff.

Madshrimps overclocks an Athlon 4000+ Clawhammer using dry ice. Many photos, some cans of beer, the MS reached the astronomical speed of 3523.75MHz, well above the A64 4000+ normal speeds - the DFI motherboard is used here as well. Madshrimps also reviews the G.Skill DDR 600 which has been manufacturing memory for 16 years. The DDR600 memory is a 3-4-4-8 PC4800 unit. The memory module gets top marks and happens to make huge impression on the o'clocking and enthusiast communities.

ATI battles nVidia in a budget graphics faceoff. Hypermemory and TurboCache collide. Techreport admits that both ATI and nVidia have done a good job with the PCI Express. Don't forget that 6x00 TC cards come with Shader Model 3.0 support.

Next Guru3D drools on A Bit or Abit. Wasn't funny to me either. Anyway, Abit's latest motherboard, the AA8XE is tested by Hilbert. He's rather impressed by the stuff and gave it an Editor's choice. With a list of features the length of one's arm, overclocking, tweaking and monitoring capabilities, there's nothing much that goes against it.

Hard OCP presents the new ATI Catalyst to us. The 5.6 drivers become more user friendly, shorter startup time for the Catalyst Control centre, more ATI mobility options, Linux finally getting its fair due and speed improvements coming up.

The NZXT Nemesis Elite casing is on test at Xtremeresources. The main attractions of the case are its looks and its features. It comes with a 1.0mm aluminium chassis - solid but light - topped by three 1.8KRpm blue LED fans, a magnetic closing door, a luxury thermal reader filled with features and quite a few IOs. µ