GTX 295 weakness revealed

IT SEEMS Xbit Labs found the Achilles' heel on the GTX 295 card... the frame buffer. With an Evga GeForce GTX 295+ review in the lab, the 2560x1600 FSAA 16x/AF 16x revealed the "weakness"... if you can call it that.

Tom's Hardware store did a two-part review on the Apple Macbook 2008 (Part 1, Part 2). Alan also benchmarked it against a hackintosh to justify the Apple Tax, as he calls it.

Small Net Builder has a Linksys Media Hub in the office. It's an affordable NAS  which, save for a few slight mishaps, does its job.

OCaholic in Switzerland is reviewing Samsung's Spinpoint F1 1TB HDD. Performance varies widely on this disk, depending on what you're doing with it.

If you're into exploring ATI's great adventure in penguin graphics, Phoronix is going over AMD's R700 2D performance in Linux.

Guru of 3D has setup up an HTPC in SunBeamtech's Acrylic HTPC case. It'll stand out in your living room, that's for sure...

Lenovo's attempt at a Netbook is on review at Thrashing Reviews. The IdeaPad S10e has a 10.1-inch screen and even has a Splashtop boot-time environment to get you up and running...

CoolIT's Domino ALC CPU cooler is again on review, this time at Think Computers. It's dead cheap and will cool your CPU in silence...

Overclockers Online has a Titan Cool Idol CPU cooler installed on their test system. The less than efficient fin design proves to be a downer, here.

A simple yet effective Akasa Nero AK-967 CPU Cooler is on display at PureOC. The cooler was built for the likes of Core i7 and the heat pipe design seems to work quite well.

The Hardware Canucks had a go at the Palit Revolution 700 2GB GDDR5 monster. Its 3-slot configuration it takes up a lot of real-estate and doesn't help in overclocking.

Digital Versus has a review of a couple of Archos multimedia players. Archos is pretty big in France, where the site hails from.

SunBeamtech's now-famous Core Contact Freezer CPU cooler is under scrutiny at Future Looks. The massive cooler won't install to an AM2 socket, though.

Anandticks got to visit Lian Li's HQ in Taipei. Give it a look if you like assembly lines and grouchy line workers. µ