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Overclocking the 9800GTX+ made easy
WHILE ALL THIS HOCUS-POCUS with Nvidia chippery is going on, TechARP has released an overclocking guide for the 9800GTX+. Adrian’s been impressed with the 55nm chip and how the 9800GTX+ operated well within thermal specs right out of the box, so he’s decided to crank up the core on this card and see just where he could take it. Well, 815MHz core and 1320MHz memory seems to be a healthy jolt in the ol’ card (and enough to stand up to the competition). Considering the original 65nm 9800GTX was released at 675MHz, that’s quite a jump. Read the guide, right here.
Joanna at LaptopMag is reviewing Gigabyte’s M912V mini-notebook with swiveling touchscreen. Although the lap warmer has some finer design points, it still fails at some of the basics, she thinks. The cramped keyboard and hot operating temps seem to be big no-nos but if you just want a mini-notebook there’s plenty of cheaper offers out there. Read it, here.
The Asus Triton 78 is one of the company’s latest and greatest in CPU cooling. OCC sees how it measures up today. The Triton 78 uses that new design from Asus (like the Lion Square) where the fan sits in the middle of the cooling fin towers, to good effect – and with little noise. It’s a bit pricey tho’ and we still don’t like push-pin designs. Read all about it, here.
SharkyExtreme also did a review on the 790GX (yeah, yeah, we didn’t catch it on the day) – so we popped it in the roundup today. Right now it seems like the best excuse to buy an AMD Phenom… cheap and powerful enough to play. You can play a mean UT3 on this mobo and you won’t be the worse for wear. Offices beware; this little chipset will prove very counter-productive in working environments. We have to agree with Vince on this one: DAAMIT needs to work on the Hybrid CrossFire to get some more cards running… read it here.
Logitech has been very discrete as of late. It hasn’t come up with any earth-shattering gaming technologies for their products, nor has it taken anyone by storm with any innovative features. But what it does have is solid. Hardware Logic has a go at the MX518 Gaming Mouse, a 1800dpi right-hander (southpaws stay away). That melted plasticky look is actually ergonomics at work, and Ryan thinks it’s one of the most comfortable mice he’s played with. Read about it. µ
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It's nice that you blokes at the Inq encourage people to send in links to their hardware reviews, but perhaps you should be a little more selective? The MX518 has been out now for several years, even if it is a good mouse compared with more recent offerings from Logitech. I have a lovely Pentium II 350MHz knocking around somewhere. It's the first CPU to support a 100MHz bus, but I don't suppose anyone would want to see a review of that.
Actually I not too long ago bought a mx518, and before I did I did look up some info on it.
And the current MX518 is incidentally a 'new' incarnation introduced in 2007 with a new sensor.
As for my view: I like it although I must say I myself never used the DPI switches in any game, and the rubber covering is too thin to last long, already it's worn away on the side, but that doesn't matter much for me really, although aesthetically it obviously doesn't do it favours.