X300 Hyper memory card benchs appear on the interweb

DESIGN TECHNICA posted a review of the breath-takingly beautiful 30-inch Gateway LCD TV monitor. While they are not that much cheap, their prices are bound to fall. After all, who would have believed that a 20-in LCD TV would cost less than £300. The Gateway model comes with a 750:1 contrast ratio, a DVI input, HDTV capabilities, TV Tuner, loads of inputs and a remote control.

From Firingsquad comes the second part of the article covering 3D Performance with Chroniclles of Riddick the game. This time, the reviewer focus on mainstream cards rather than top of the range ones. This begs for one question. Shouldn't card purchases be done at the end of the day with respect to the game purchased? FiringSquad has also tested five nForce 4 SLI motherboards in a round up. Of particular interest to us is the Dual Solution from Tyan, the K8WE which proves to be extremely capable at Windows Media Encoding. Now with the forthcoming dual cores' we might witness some real quantum leaps.

Zdnet UK has yet anther review of the Intel's 64-bit Pentium 4 660 featuring EIST and memory overflow production. The latest processor from intel is particularly good at video encoding and multi tasking, AMD only real weaknesses.

Chinese website HKEPC posted a duel opposing the HIS X300HM to the Grandmars X300HM. Both cards powered by the X300 and featuring Hyper Memory. Surprisingly they are faster than the X300SE although both of them are 64bit.

Biosmagazine visits the EMC Dantz Retrospect 7.0 backup and recovery software. It is a fully featured application which will make backing up your information on almost any media available easy and secure. It also includes some nice features like 128-bit encryption and multiple platform support.

Netoseeker writes an informative article about a study of voltage readings where it tries to see whether motherboard voltage sensors are accurate or not. The answer is quite intriguing as most posted wrong readings. What can that mean?

And finally, Hothardware reviews the latest ATI Theater 550 Pro from Hothardware, the ATI TV Wonder Elite and seizes the occasion to present us with an introduction to the world of TV tuners and signal processing. The product is quite good but a tad expensive. Expect it to change though.