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Core i7 975XE tested
SOME EARLY benchmarks of the soon-to-be-released Core i7 975XE processor have shown up at Xbit Labs. This CPU replaces the i7 965 as performance king and breaks in a new – D0 – stepping. With it, Intel lowered power consumption and improved the OC’ing potential, it seems. So far so good....
Despite having a launch date for early May, Cool PC in Taiwan has come forward with a very present-time benchmark of DAAMIT's Radeon HD 4770.
Tweaknews is testing a Vizo Master Panel II. It's a 5,25-inch unit that provides an array of connectors from memory cards to USB, Firewire and eSATA. They've even thrown in a fan controller.
Seagate's Momentus 7200.4 500GB 2.5-inch SATA HDD is on test at Future Looks. Instead of the usual PC tests, Stephen did everything under Mac OS X. Great performance gains but a hit to battery life....
Asus' Geforce GTS 250 Dark Knight series graphics card brings with it a new, more silent, cooler and some extra software. On the other hand there's also the Asus tax, you know....
OCaholic has a review on the Artic Cooling Accelero Xtreme GTX 280 GPU cooler. Pry off the old cooler, slap on this little baby and you'll hear the noise go away and see the temps come tumbling down.
Overclockers Online tests the Coolermaster Hyper N520 heatsink. Dual 92mm fans keep the CPU cool while doing the job quietly. Give it a look if you like an installation puzzler.
Tony at Modders Inc has a shiny brand new Patriot Extreme Performance Viper PC3-12800 3x2GB kit. Good performance but no overclocking headroom compounded with some really tall DIMMs.
Expreview has managed to grab a mythical 800SP-enabled Radeon HD 4830 in mainland China and put it through its tests. Officially this card doesn't exist, but it's there for everyone to see. Only slightly slower than a full-on HD 4850.
Extremetech ordered up an OCZ Neutrino "DIY" netbook and saw that it isn't really very much of a DIY project. Switch out the HDD for an SSD, they did, but that's about all you can do....
Tom's Hardware Store tested 4 different AM3 motherboards based on the 790FX chipset. Asus' M4A79T Deluxe takes first place across the board.
Speaking of which, Inside HW has a review of that same M4A79T Deluxe. The board is quickly becoming the reviewer's choice of Phenom II testbed. Really big thumbs-up from Fedja. µ
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Correct me if I am wrong, but the "Accelero Xtreme GTX 280" only blows the hot air from the GPU into the enclosure, right? Eventually the hot air has to be blown out of the enclosure by other fans. But before it gets out, it warms up all other components inside the enclosure, like the harddisks?! And that's when the sh!t hits the fan, eh?
That Intel Core i7 CPU wastes 170 watts in idle (!) mode. So much energy wasted for nothing. What a piece of junk.
The 170 Watts in idle mode in the Core i7 review is TOTAL SYSTEM power, not processor power... thank for playing "how big a fanboy am I", and that "I will see only what I want to see" and "if that don't work..I'll just make stuff up".
Is your name Nick by any chance?
Enhanced_fanboy_detector: haha!
That Tweaknews review of the "Vizo Master Panel II" is soo pathetic! First they copy'n'paste the companies press release ("Quality, liability and excellence: That's VIZO!"), then they merely describe what they see and how they managed to stuff the kit inside their rig (rather a DIY-howto that a test), and when it comes to the point where others do real tests: "I transferred some files back and forth from a few different SD and MS-Pro Duo cards I had laying around, and it worked great each and every time. Transfers were quick and I had no issues with card compatibility or file corruption." - BOOO!
Where's the beef? Where are the transfer speeds? What about SDHC performance? I consider this a new low in test design. The only point in testing for this guy was obviously the attempt to get the kit for free. No need to add substance.
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It's a shame that the Inq links to rubbish like this.
The "Tweakers" review also features this line on page two...
"No need to go to the back, do it in the front"
Ah, well...