Getting mad with the Phenom II

THE PHENOM II has been making a successful run with the overclocking community. Today it's seemingly tweaked Madshrimps' interest with promises of overclocking glory. Madshrimps took the Phenom II for a spin and ended up with a lot of Phenom II testing and tuning numbers.

MSI's EX620 budget entertainment 16-inch notebook delivers a lorry-load of features in not too bright a shell. It does come with 32-bit Vista sporting 4GB of RAM... Thrusting Reviews has the story.

Epson's been a great photo printer outfit for a while now, and their Artisan 800 All-in-One just got the guys at The Gadgeteer all excited.

Think Computers has a VIA ARTigo A2000 storage computer to do a bit of media serving on their network. A savvy user will stick a light, media-friendly OS on the CF slot and use an SATA drive as pure storage capacity.

Not a review, per se, but a way to get your Mac OS X machine hooked up to your gaming console and stream forth the vids.

No matter what you think of Nvidia's chip making, they're out and about. Silent PC Review is testing the Asus EN9400GT Silent in their HTPC rig. Beware, it does occupy two brackets.

Tom's Hardware Store is giving you a trip down memory lane with a slideshow of Intel's bravest and baddest motherboards.

One way of buying a cheap LCD is to go for a debranded one. OCIA is testing an HP 24-incher, which is a debranded w2408h, just like the one we have sitting in our office. Makes us wonder why we paid $600 for it.

Legit Reviews is testing the Sandisk Imagemate Multi-card USB 2.0 Reader. You can actually get this puppy to churn out 30MB/s of data, which is similar to an old ATA HDD.

Seagate's FreeAgent Xtreme (1TB edition) external HDD offers a full complement of interfaces: USB, Firewire and eSATA, at least that's what Laptop Magazine is telling us about.

The Hardware Canucks are testing some advanced OCZ tri-channel kit, the 3x2GB PC3-12800. Considering it retails at CAD$150, it is actually very cheap for the performance it harnesses.

Guru of 3D is also looking at some Core i7-related kit, the G.Skill DDR3 PC3-16000 Tri-channel memory. The absolute brute of a RAM can go straight to DDR-2133 speeds without breaking so much as a sweat.

Extremetech has an extreme LCD in the lab, the NEC LCD3090WUXi, 30-inch LCD. This panel offers a precious tool when it comes to colour fidelity in photo and video editing. Expect to pay through both nostrils, though.

Anandtech has upped its System Buyer's Guide: PCs under $800 edition. You can now buy a tremendous amount of computing power for very little dosh. Just as we like it.

Maxtor's Central Axis Business Edition NAS Server, targets SMBs, SOHOs and home server setups, but it comes out as an expensive proposition. Still, Hot Hardware recommends it. µ