New Quad Xeon MP gives Opteron a hard time

AMD'S MOBILE soup Tureen is slowly gaining ground in UK. Trusted Reviews checks the Evesham Quest Roma MT37 laptop. While the CPU itself is quite a performer and the Radeon X700 a potent candidate, the rest of the system lets it down. A smallish screen and not enough memory means that it might not be the perfect catch. But at this price, it's worth a second look.

If you're looking to get into serious 3D modelling, chances are that you'll need a render farm sooner or later. Extremetech guides you though the process of building your own personal render farm using second hand Mac and PC. From Operating system to Queue Management system, you will be guided through the whole process. See how performance is better than sum of the parts.

The performance of Nvidia Quadro boards appears pretty stunning, according to this web page.

Cooltechzone has a first look preview at the Archos G Mini XS100 MP3 Player which is kinda competitor to the iPod Mini. It comes with a 3GB HDD, support for MP3, WMA, WAV. It is cheap but it doesn't have a FM tuner or voice/inline recording. Battery life is impressive but stopping the iPod mini is an immense task even for an expert as Archos.

BIOSmagazine checks the Miglia Technology Mediabank HS-Ri which allows your PC to be upgraded to RAID 1. You still have to open your PC and it does not offer SATA support plus one can ask for the pertinence of such a product when most modern motherboard now come with some form of RAID solution embedded. Also as weird as it may be, Western Digital Drives are not supported.

MVKtech just released their latest NiBiTor guide which goes into detail showing you how to use the Nvidia BIOS Editor. This tool is essential is you are looking to push your video card to its absolute limit. At your own risk and perils.

X86-secret tests the new Quad Xeon MP 8M and E8500. It is the first Intel chipset in years to support quad processors and the processors, now equipped with EIST and 64-bit enabled come with 8MB L3 cache. The whole platform is compared to a Dual Dual Core Opteron 275. And as X86 puts it, business people buy solutions (chipset and CPU) rather than CPU only. At this game, Intel is still a master champion. µ