Conroe 6800, 6700 and 6600 benchmarked

TWEAKTOWN benchmarked the Intel Conroe Core 2 X6800, E6700 and E6600. The site partnered with Hardinfo.dk to provide a complete set of benchmarks. The Athlon FX62, 5000+ and a few more processors are pitted against Intel's wizardry. The E6600 is clocked at 2.4GHz, the 6700 at 2.66GHz and the X6800, at 2.95GHz respectively.

The Conroe performance is superior to contemporary architectures by as much as 180%, when compared to the P4 631 in one particular benchmark.

Hardwarezoom tests some technology from Bafo Technologies Messenger Callbox. It is a device that is able to route VoIP calls via the internet to any local phone number but you end up paying local phone charges rather than something more expensive. Reminds me of net2phone boxes that existed not so long ago, except that this one makes better use of broadband. A good alternative if you don't like Skype only handsets.

Sean from Planetx64.com reports on the DFI Lan Party UT CFX3200-DR motherboard. He actually got it back end of April so did a fairly thorough evaluation of it. As one can expect from DFI, this product is true to DFI's philosophy of quality sueprior products. It overclocks wonderfully, has Japanese capacitors and UV reactive slots and cables.

OCWorkbench tests the Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 motherboard, which is based on the NV 570 SLI chipset and comes with an AM2 socket. It does support Quad SLI, offers virtual Dual support BIOS. Peculiar layout for this motherboard. It has three PCIe X1 slots with a GbE port, Firewire, ALC883 audio codec and support for six SATA2 ports. It is compared to a number of ATI and ULI based motherboards. A fine board.

Adrian Rojak Pot presents a Mobile GPU comparison guide, the sixth version. The guide presents over 60 mobile GPUs with 16 different specifications. This goes from the Radeon 320M to the 7900GTX SLI from Nvidia. Even XGI and Intel are included in there. Quite exhaustive, if you want to get more details about your laptop's graphics.

Xbitlabs delivers a roundup of 14-inch widescreen laptops. Ten of them over 35 pages. From Asus to Toshiba, there are enough laptops to match most people's needs. Xbitlabs goes to length to deliver a comprehensive and well-written article. The writer also highlights a few problems that exist as far as business laptops are concerned. Low quality screens, short battery life. Overall Sony gets kudos here. µ