Galaxy video card not so good these days

DIGITAL DAILY tests the Foxconn FoxOne 975x motherboard. It is based on the 975x chipset, meaning that it is compatible with all recent processors on the market. The card is well endowed. It has six SATA2 ports, two Firewire ports, eight USB ports, twin GbE ports and it is Crossfire compatible. The FoxOne chip is equivalent to MSI's Corecell and uGuru and extends the motherboard's capabilities. The overclocking capabilities of the motherboard are well above average thanks to Foxconn's expertise.

Pureoverclock reviews the Galaxy Geforce 7900GT video card. Galaxy video cards are well known for being overclock friendly and come with a few cards in their pocket. Plus the cards are not expensive. The card comes with a standard heat sink fan and dual DVI outputs. On some of their previous cards, they did use Zalman HSFs, not this time though. The card does not have any special accessories but no games. The card is compared to a X1800XT, a Connect3D X1900GT and a couple of other ones. Once overclocked, the card beats a 7800GT by more than 50% in some benchmarks.

Trustedreviews reports on the Creative Zen Aurvana in-Ear headphones. At £69.99, it is impressively priced, qualitywise though, it is not impressive at all, garnering a 4/10 marking. The earphone buds are specifically designed to fit in the ear and apparently block out noise. The cable which connects the whole thing is thin though and only 1m in length. They are overpriced and since the reviewer tested a similar Shure earphone set a while ago and well, the difference is too much to deal with.

Sysopt wrote a nice article on the Ultra X2 550W modular Power supply unit. Called Ultra Bling by the writer, it is compatible with SLI and Crossfire technology and includes UV ready cables - the box says 14 x-connect ones. The PSU has a huge 120mm fan, a side window - even on something like that as well as a glossy titanium finish and internal light bars. It comes with a relatively low price and a limited lifetime warranty. However, it was one of the first PSUs to be destabilised at 90% of its rated output.

Digit-life talks about the SPEC CPU2000 results of the Intel Core2 Duo E6700 using the Intel C++/Fortran 9.1 compiler. Interestingly, that's the 26th SPEC CPU2000 article from Digitlife. Very technical article though that will appeal only to those in the know. The processor is compared to a Pressler 3.73GHz processor. Mind you, the E6700 runs at 2.66GHz. The CPU2000 results show clearly that the Core2 architecture is clearly more powerful than the Netburst one. In some case, the Core2 is twice more powerful than the NB in some cases.

BIOSmagazine checks the Canon Powershot S3 IS camera. It does not support RAW and the images can be too soft. It is a top of the range camera though when it comes to image. As for most Canon cameras, it is well built and feels sturdy. It has a 12x optical zoom - going up to 48x using digital zoom as well - and has an image stabiliser built in. It is compatible with MMC/SD cards rather than CF cards, on top of the 16MB memory card that is provided with it. Canon's video capabilities compete easily with the entry level digital camcorders that you can find on the market. µ