New and Improved PhysX

SOMEONE DROPPED US AN EMAIL pointing out that Driver Heaven, too, has done a great job reviewing the Nvidia Physx
pack. Apparently, they’ve taken a 9800GTX+ and tested it with several combos, including on Ageia PhysX card and a 9600GT operating as PhysX. They’ve also included some before and after videos of the PhysX at work. Good work guys. You can catch it here.

Danish PCWorld did some thorough research into the “value for money” side of Quad Core processors. Taking a couple of AMDs and another couple of Intel processors, Kenneth squeezed all he could from the processors and came out with a pure “bang-for-kroner” ratio. Like Ken said, you might not be able to read Danish, but the benchmarks are fairly easy to follow. We Googled it anyway.

Extremetech is reviewing three larger than life keyboards, dubbed the Caesar, the Aurora Premium and the Aurora Micro. They all come from Enermax, which is sort of odd, but they all look good and are sure to impress users that are tired of their setups. The prices aren’t all that expensive either, especially the Micro that has the size and looks of a laptop keyboard (ie: low profile keys, no numeric keypad). Get it here.

PC Watch in Japan reviewed a somewhat MIA Chrome 430GT card. “Woot?!” You say. Yes, these things pop up every now and then and it’s our job to get it to you, no matter how good or bad they perform. In this case, users are looking at a very cheap card (6700 yen is about 60 buckaroos), with the performance of a GeForce 8400GS. It’s got pretty decent HD playback capabilities. Read the original here (yeah, right), or read the googlenglished version here.

PC Perps is looking into that very discrete launch of the AMD 740G chipset. Less of a bang and more of a whimper than its hulking 790GX brethren, the 740G corrects some imperfections of the 690G by adding the SB700 southbridge and is cheap as chips. Not the best at HD playback, at all, really. You can read PC Perps right here.

Lost Circuits has an interesting piece of literature for you today. They’ve rounded up a bunch of ATI cards in several different combos and from different generations. From the HD 3870X2 to an HD 4870 OC edition, they’ve got numbers galore. If you own an HD 3870X2 of GeForce 8800 Ultra (they threw that one in for flavour) you probably won’t be too happy to know they gets get their botties kicked by everyone else. Attack of the Killer Radeons, indeed. µ