ATI adds another AIW to product line

IWILL HASs made some positive impact in the SFF segment with its dual Opteron rig. AMDzone tests its newest offering, the ZPC64. Oddly enough, this one uses the old nForce 3 150 and socket 754. Only AGP and PATA are offered. On top of that you get a 5.1 channel audio and the usual assortment of IOs. Also expect it to be much slimmer than usual SFFs.

3Dvelocity tests the Gigabyte GV-3D-6GT card which is the latest dual GPU graphic cards to hit the stores. The card has 512MB GDDR3 memory and supports four displays. GPU and memory speeds are also higher. Whether it makes financial and logical sense to purchase it is something else. You need a Gigabyte board to make it work and it should be SLI as well.

Techwarelabs has a write-up on the AMD 3800+ X2 processor. Nothing new that we don't know already. T reviewer did not overclock the CPU which is a slight deception and there's no benchmark which we haven't seem. Still it doesn't make the X2 a worse buy. Defnitely worth a look if you're into multitasking stuff.

Sysopt sent us an article featuring the hot new ATI All in Wonder X800XL graphic card, a PCIe Multimedia powerhouse aimed at those looking for functionality and performance. The card is clocked at 400/980MHz, offers FM and TV tuners as well as a comprehensive array of accessories. It nicely occupies the midrange slot and should cater for most needs. Should be clocked higher though.

Half a tera of storage is a hell lot of space. That's the amount offered by the new Hitachi HDD, the 7K500. Techreport reviews it and finds a lot to love from it. It has 16MB cache, a spin speed of 7200rpm and supports NCQ. You won't buy this HDD for its speed or its price. Rather a piece of history as it allows the owner of a pair of it to have 1TB of storage available.

Gamepc says goodbye to the Audigy range with a test of the new Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Xtreme music. Presented as the first major chance in the Sound blaster line up in five years, the X-FI comes in four flavours, including three with remote controls and two with onboard RAM. Still there are quite some shortcomings to the card. No firewire, no onboard Optical and Coaxial SPDIF, no real time Dolby Digital Encoding and still no PCIe format. But this is only the first X-Fi, a name which should last at least five years. µ