Auzentech brings X-Fi to another level

JUST AS EXPECTED, the world's first review of FireGL V5600 hit the web today. [Surely we did that sort of thing several weeks back Theo? Ed.] The efforts that AMD is now making in push for FireGL acceptance is evident in a review by 3D Professor, who obviously got his hands on ATI's secret treasure. Now, since my dearest PR lad from AMD has tied the knot, where in the world can I get a FireGL card for a review?

XSreviews came with a world's first review of Auzentech Prelude 7.1, first 3rd party board vendor to offer Creative X-Fi chip. This board packs some serious improvements, solid-state caps, and other enhancements to increase the quality of outputs.

Lads at Icrontic published a review of Asus F3SV-B1 laptop, product from a category that most users are buying right now. 15.4” wide-screen and solid computing components make one good combo.

ComputerShopper joined the laptop reviewing club with a look on Toshiba Portege R500-S5002, ultra-portable laptop with couple of issues.

If you're wondering how Italians create computers, is it like Ferrari or Fiat cars, PCtuner.net came up with Anteprima italiana The Powerful Alliance Charon. Or “che bella maccina”, in Italian. This is a regular ninja-PC, so you might want to check what is going on the boot.

Elite Bastards came with the review of Power Color Radeon HD 2900XT 512MB, a board that packs some improvements over the original reference design, but these changes are hidden behind the cooler, just like most of retail HD 2900XT boards of today. Yours truly owns two reference cards and a single retail one, and the difference is noticeable (more overclockability on the retail part). Our views disagree with those Bastards, so be warned.

Bit-tech news reviewed Gigabyte's 3D Rocket II. Gigabyte has obviously fallen in love with 3D, since they're even branding coolers with the “3D” word, lurking somewhere in the title.

Benchmark Reviews decided to review Xigmatek HDT-S1283 Exposed Copper Heatpipe cooler, just to go against Gigabyte 3D one. So, we have a “3D” and “Exposed Copper Heatpipe”. Which one will cool better?

PlanetX64 came out from the CPU world and published a three-way shootout, this time with gaming mice/keyboard in the foreground.

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