AMD's London event was another Barcelona jaunt

ELITE BASTARDS GOT invited to fly over to London and get more details about the up and the perhaps coming Barcelona marchitecture.

All in all, more power pointery. For a product that is being released in 20 days time, rgw lack of any valid benchmarks eludes any logic.

The last time around, Intel was a happy camper, giving away sheets with benchmarks, showing to press how good Core 2 Duo is.

Then again, some websites were threatened with lawsuits from Intel about showing results from then upcoming Kentsfied quad-core processor… and it all ended with Intel's Paul Otellini stating that particular website is his favourite on IDF couple of weeks later. [Were we invited to this event AMD? Ed.]

ComputerShopper is looking into complete systems for Back-to-School shopping frenzy, and this time tables have turned on Gateway DX430S, mid-range 'puter that worked nice up till the point where something 3D was supposed to be turned on. You've guessed it - integrated crapics ruined all the fun.

Commodore XX Gaming PC got reviewed over at Bit-Tech. When it comes to this company, it has rose from the ashes several times, but this last one confused us a bit. After big talk about testing their system and everything, guys disappeared for couple of months, and now the review is out on Bit-Tech. Nevertheless, interesting to see…

HardwareLogic reviewed ECS G33-M2, motherboard that utilizes chipset that will sadly, find its way into many of the back-to-school computers, offering their owners abysmal 3D performance. This motherboard also found its way onto Hardware Secrets web-site, and their review can be read here.

SysOpt put Western Digital Caviar through its paces. This drive comes with hefty 750 GB in store - silence and cheap price are its best friends.

Keeping in lane with storage theme, Thomas from DVhardware just published a review of SanDisk Cruzer Contour, USB flash drive with a stylish glossy design. If you're into U3 sticks with sliding USB connector, this one is worth a read.

InsideHW showed up with a review of two Antec chassis, the P180 and Nine Hundred. It is a neat touch that a case carries a name "Nine Hundred" instead of computer-world terminology which dictates usage of as much numbers as possible.

Virtual-Hideout followed with a review of Silverstone SG03, redesigned micro-ATX case we reviewed earlier this year. This redesign spots some impressive changes, so if you're into designing a mini-PC, you should give it a look.

DriverHeaven showed up with a review of OCZ ModXstream 780W, a power supply from original OCZ, not the new and posh PC Power & Cooling ones. Therefore, this power supply targets price/performance segment.

To stay connected, Benchmark Reviews came out with a interesting review of D-Link's DIR-655 Xtreme N Gigabit Router. It seems odd to us that there aren't many WiFi-N+GbE routers on the market.

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