Intel is frit of AMD

OVER CLOCKERS has an editorial where the folks wonder why Intel is slashing prices so much. If Intel is. A dual core P D 805 can be had for only $132. Come on. That's more than cheap and for those who are still wondering, Dual Core is better than dual processors. The title of the editorial - panicking - shows that Ed Stroligo indicates clearly what he has in mind. I don't really think that Intel is panicking at the moment. AMD is very silent at the moment and Intel is offering great performance for the money plus the new generation Conroe looks great on paper and in benchmarks.

Techreport shows the image of an AMD processor covered with a slimmy substance. TR tests the Corsair Nautilus 500 and the Zalman Rserator 1 Plus. Water is better than Air, that's well known. But a water cooler is more expensive and requires more dexterity when installing it. At $150, the Corsair is cheaper and cools better. But it is aesthetically less attractive and is noisier than the Reserator. Plus Zalman's product - a two-foot radiator tower - comes with a flow indicator and a GPU block cooler.

BoxGods has a go at the Lian Li PC-S80 casing. Lian Li always had a very special appeal and was one of the first manufacturer to use aluminium all the way. The PC-S80 comes with a swing door with a lock and is massive and oozes quality. It has three 120mm fans and a single 80mm fan. Other interesting metrics are the nine available bays, couple of connectors as well as seven PCI slots. But that's not all. Each hard disk bay has an individual heat sink and there's an exhaust at the back.

Modthebox checks the Samsung SPP-2040 digital photo printer. A small dye-sublimation printer with a 2-inch LCD and a 7-in-1 memory card reader that allows you to bypass your computer completely. It is not that expensive but it is noisy and the kind of editing you can do without a PC is understandably limited. Surprisingly, the SPP-2040 is a small computer in itself with an ARM7 processor, 32MB DRAM and 4MB Flash memory. Quality is superb as one can expect from DS technology but the price to pay is all too expensive.

OCworkbench reviews the Opera Multimedia player. No, it is not the browser but rather a Portable Media Player from Vizo. It has been one of the better integration of technology that I've seen lately. Turning a dumb casing into a multimedia player. The Opera is a 2.5-inch HDD casing which can play MPEG 1 to 4 as well as MP3, AC3, WMA and OGG vobis - there's even a remote control. It is not compatible with Linux though. Outputs include VGA and RCA as well as Dolby digital. TYou can't record though and there's no Firewire ports. µ