World's fastest laptop reviewed

GOGNET reviews the Akasa Paxpower 460 power supply which is a 460W rated PSU. Comes with a 120m silent blue led fan, a nickel anticorrosive coating, easy fit molex connectors and sports an active PFC circuitry. Very silent though.

Thetechzone and AMDZone check the ECS KN1Extreme motherboard which is an enthusiast motherboard based on the nForce 4 Ultra Chipset. In fact, it ressembles a DFI motherboard with its flashy colours. It includes all the goodies that you can expect from a high range nF4 mobo like two 802.11g connectors, four SATA2 ports and two SATA ports, PCI express and ten USB ports. With its ultra low price, $104 at newegg, it should appeal to shallow pockets. It comes with a good software bundle and extra board cooling. Expect an updated version with improved overclocking and better sound. Thetechzone is here while AMDzone is here.

Abbas from Tbreak has a review of the Asus A8N-SLI premium which is the board used for testing many of the X2 Dual core processors on the internet. It has a conservative no-frill design with a special heatpipe running all along the board. Its design is somewhat different from others - which is not bad at all and it has succeeded in getting rid of the SLI bridge. Also performance is quite good when compared to other SLI solution. But as you can guess, you'll probably be paying a premium for it.

The fastest Gaming laptop is on test at Hexus and Tarinder has the privilege of testing it. The Dell Inspiron XPS Gen2 would probably make many gamers salivate. For £2099, you get a laptop with a 2.13GHz Pentium M processor, 1GB memory, a 100GB HDD, a 17-inch Widescreen monitor, a DVD writer and most importantly for all gamers, a Geforce 6800 Ultra Go with 256MB memory. They compare it with a desktop Athlon rig with a 6800GT GPU.

There's an exclusive interview of Richard Huddy, a guy is known to have worked for some of the most best-known names in the graphic domain. From 3Dlabs, to nVidia and now ATI, Gamestar.de gets him to tell readers more about the forthcoming Xbox 360. That guy is no marketing guru but the details he give about Microsoft's next gen console gives you an idea where the Canadian giant is heading. Read between the lines.

To finish, two more reviews of Dual Core processors. First from GDhardware tests the AMD X2 4800+ Dual Core processor which should be more widely available now. it gets compared to a Pentium XE 840 and a Pentium D 820. The AMD horse performs better than Intel's ones. But at a price. It's clear also that benchmarks will have to change to adapt to the new processor structure. The other review comes from PC Perspective. They test the Pentium D 820 which is available for a quarter of the 4800+ price. Don't worry it doesn't perform four times worse. That said, Intel will have to decrease drastically the price of its compatible motherboard so that it can sell shedloads of the new CPU. µ