ATI challenges Nvidia for mainstream dominance

THERE IS a massive number of reviews of HD2400 and 2600, and these are selected few, in alphabetical order, of course: Beyond3D, Boy Wonder, HardwareCanucks, Saviours or Sinners over at Hexus HotHardware and separate reviews of HD2400XT and HD2600XT over at TechPowerUp!. If you want to experiment a bit with a bit of German, our old friend Nico Ernst from Golem.de posted a review (don't worry, tables feature Arabic numbers, so all people can read them ;) of almost the complete line-up.

Phoronix stayed in its own tune and released a take on ATI Radeon HD 2400Pro/2600XT boards, or at least their attempt to review latest products from AMD. Even though AMD has been saying the company worked on Linux drivers since January, these guys were not able to review cards under their preferred testing environment.

To take a break from red-coloured web, XSReviews came up with a review of Galaxy 8600GT OC, factory overclocked value card from Green Team.

Hardspell decided to post an editorial what will DirectX 10 API bring to the consumers, and their conclusions voice out in the darkness of marketing promises about DX10. Surely a worth read, so head over there.

Putting things back in enthusiast world, a new watercooling block, Apogee GT from Swifttech got reviewed over at TechPowerUp!

Tagan's new value series, Silver Power 1000 Watt power supply got reviewed over at TechGage. Tagan belongs to one of rare companies that actually rate distributable power, not the maximum reachable one, so you can imagine how much power does this baby has in reserve. Not that you'll consume real-world 1KW anyway, regardless how much components you stuck in your computer.

BIOSmagazine posted a review of IBM Lenovo SthinkPad R61.

To ease up a bit, we recommend that you take a look at a very good logic game - DragonSteelMods posted a review of USB Chessgame from USBGeek.

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