Socket AM2 motherboards prove there's still life in AMD world

BIOS MAGAZINE TESTED an NAS setup from Netgear, the ReadyNAS NV+. This product was originally manufactured by Infrant Technologies, a company that Netgear bought earlier this year. Product itself is based on proprietary storage setup combined between Infrant's network storage processor, RAIDiator operating system (Linux-based) and X-RAID technology. Added bonus is the looks of this product, since if features Power Mac G5 front grill.

Logisys T-Coupe mouse got reviewed over at Techgage. This mice certainly is not your everyday mainstream product like Logitech or Microsoft. How would you feel to drive your mouse, instead of riding in on the mousepad?

PC Perspective showed up with a review of a motherboard spotting nForce 590, a chipset that is over a year old - positioned on ECS KN3-SLI2 motherboard. This is also a witness of the whole Intel vs. AMD situation: while Intel got both nForce 500 and 600 series, and one complete new generation of chipsets from Intel themselves (i965/975X got replaced by Q33/P35 and now X38), AMD is still living the nForce 590 and AMD RD580 life. This situation is about to change, however.

Overclockers' Club also placed a review of Socket AM2 based product, the AN-M2HD. This board is manufactured by Universal Abit, and targets HTPC market for the DIY enthusiast crowd.

Continuing today's day of AMD motherboard reviews, bit-tech tuned in with a review of Biostar TF7050-M2. This motherboard is based on Nvidia's mixed GeForce/nForce chipset (GeForce 7050 combined with nForce 630a), for one interesting and very cheap computer.

XSReviews showed up with a review of Revoltec Rhodium case, follow up to Zirconium case.

Sapphire's take on low end GPU by ATi just got reviewed over at Legion Hardware. 2400XT is a product intended for HTPC use, rather than high-level gaming, but then again, price is set in very affordable range.

HardwareSecrets published an article that combine bits'n'pieces about one of Intel's most successful marchitecture to date, Centrino. This combination of processor, chipset and WiFi chip together was a key factor in today's notebook market uptake.

Third site of the day that has "hardware" in it came up with a review of 2GB of OCZ's PC2-6400 Platinum memory. Second review of OCZ memory happened over at Guru of 3D, where OCZ Reaper 1150 MHz got an expected award. We have yet to see how SPD-Z flashing utility is going to differentiate OCZ from another memory makers, but so far, these kits in combination with software support will leave a lasting mark.

To us, it seems that OCZ is most active company this whole summer, since not a day goes by without a review of at least one OCZ product somewhere in the world of hardware review sites. LegionHardware showed up with a review of PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 CrossFire Edition, yet another power supply from the long OCZ pipeline of products.

Also, a review of ModXstream 780W was published over at BenchmarkReviews.

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