Weird 8800 boards appear

PC PERSPECTIVE TESTED a new Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus motherboard, which is one unique product. Performance-wise, it's in the same bracket as eVGA's nForce 680i or that pricey Asus Striker mobo, yet it is an odd combination of 650i serving as Northbridge chip and nForce 570SLI (for AMD) serving as Southbridge chip. You've gotta hand one thing to AMD's tech though - HyperTransport is an incredibly flexible and versatile bus, which enables weird combinations with no sacrifice in stability or performance.

HardOCP reviewed Asus Commando motherboard, and found out quite a lot about this product which relies on Intel's P965+ICH8R chipset combination.

XSReviews tested Crucial Ballistix PC2-8000 in the form of two 1GB sticks.

Legit Reviews tested Corsair TWIN2X2048-10000C5SDF 2GB kit and found out the very same thing we did some time ago. Running CAS3 latency at 853 MHz or CAS4 at 1135 MHz only goes to prove that Corsair did a good job. Also, max clock of 1314 MHz yields a mark PC2-10512, 5% more than company declared those modules.

Virtual-Hideout continued the Corsair's coverage with a review of Nautilus water-cooling solution for dual graphics cards. Sadly, these waterblocks are for 7xx0 series of Nvidia cards, but G80 and R600 stuff cannot be that far away.

BCCHardware joined the list of sites who are reviewing 65nm Athlon CPUs, which are turning to be quite decent overclocking parts. Site reviewed Athlon 64 X2 4800+, which differs from original 4800+ by the clock speed and the amount of cache. Unlike 130nm and 90nm 4800+ of yesteryear (2.4 GHz, 1MB of L2 cache per core), Brisbane core comes clocked at 2.5GHz and 1MB L2 cache in total (512KB per core).

Benchzone overcame its problems with mail servers and posted a review of Twintech GeForce 8800GTX 768MB 384BIT graphics card. Interesting name, though.

Razer released headphones for the gamers, and these babies prove to give a good value for money in terms of size and quality. Techpowerup has the story.

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