Asrock Super Computer mobo tested

ASROCK'S FAMED Super Computer X58 motherboard is on test at OCaholic. It's a performance monster for the extreme enthusiast, sporting four PCIe x16 Gen 2.0 slots and just about any graphics combo possible.

According to Legion Hardware, there's a serious new candidate for the CPU cooling crown, and that's the Prolimatech Megahalem. Intel-only, though.

PC Perps has a review on the Intel Atom 330 Dual-core nettop processor. It's a sharp contrast to the Ion platform Ryan tested a few days ago.

Benchmark Reviews has posted an article on the AMD Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition. In fact its a feature covering the latest AM3 processors, too, but without the DDR3 goodness.

3D is back, it seems, at least it is in Thrusting Reviews' lab. Stuart is looking at a lot of new-old 3D technologies that are making a comeback.

There's some triple-X action over at Elite Bastards. Yes, it's the XFX Radeon HD 4850 XXX 512MB card, lightly overclocked and slightly more expensive than a stock card.

Driver Heaven, on the other hand, is testing the XFX Radeon HD 4650 1GB, which is like the eunuch brother to the one above. Still, it sings a pretty tune thanks to the 1GB of RAM.

Noctua's NH-U12P CPU cooler is doing the air conditioning on a high-overclocking Core i7 920, over at Think Computers. It kept the CPU at a chilly 72ºF / 22ºC... brrrrrrrrrrr.

The Tech Lounge has the new Zalman GS1000 full tower case on the bench. Just go there and appreciate the kit, it's worth it.

HT4U, a German site, has measured the individual power consumption of most current mid-to-top-range graphics cards. Quite an eye-opener if you're running up a big electricity bill.

TweakToon has upped a nice little video on Nvidia's Ion Windows 7 multi-tasking presentation. Intel might be losing some share to the HD-friendly Ion.

Phoronix is testing a Sapphire HD 4670 with that rare GDDR4 beast. Phoronix only deals with Linux, but tests show it performs better than its GDDR3 counterpart.

Guru of 3D tells people how to improve their HD video playback, with Hilbert's handy accelerate x.264 1080p movies over the GPU guide.

Les Numériques has a review of five new 24~28-inch LCDs. The article isn't available on their English site yet, so you'll have to make do with Googlenglish.

OCIA has an OCZ Throttle eSATA pendrive wotsit on review. The $30 8GB drive kicks every USB kit in the shins. Well worth the money, it seems.

Liliputing has a look at the brand spanking new Archos 10 Netbook. Archos isn't known for its computers, just for its media players. This should be interesting.

Finally, Hardware Secrets has a review of the (drum roll please...) Zune 4. For some reason sites stray away from testing this type of kit, so we're giving the Voleplayer a chance. µ