Overclocking the GTX 275

FOLLOWING UP on his 4890 OC’ing article, Anandtech is back with a thorough GTX 275 overclock test. Apparently the part overclocks quite well, despite requiring a lot more trial and error attempts. Still, Nvidians have reason to rejoice.

Xbit Labs is getting some audio delight from the Asus Xonar Essence STX. It seems to Sergey that the card is just one step from perfection. Wonder what happens if you plug in some Skull Candy kit?

Thrusted Reviews tests the Ion-based Acer Aspire Revo R3600 nettop. The Revo delivers an very cheap HTPC that can even attach itself to the back of a panel on the VESA mounting…

iXBT Labs has a bash with the Asus P5Q-VM. Micro-ATX, as most -VM motherboards are, this board provides you with some quality components and HDMI output for the G45 chip, but needs some extra cooling …

TechPowerUp got one of those nifty Power Supply testers from Coolmax. The PS-224 LCD Power Supply Tester is cheap as chips and will tell you just what’s going on with your PSU. We should get one ourselves…

Bjorn3D has the Maximus II Gene in the shop. Raymond thinks it’s top stuff for your Core 2 CPU improving where there’s very little to improve already. Good overclocking, it includes an LCD  readout to keep things in check.

HardOCP tests the Foxconn Flaming Blade, a Core i7 mobo with great overclocking but some memory-setting snags hit along the way. Still no serious complaints from the boys at [H].

Bit Tech got a new Corsair P256 SSD to play with. It provided some pretty astonishing performance but it fell to a full-format bug that turned the speedster into a crawler. Corsair still hasn’t nailed it… *sigh*

Tech Report goes over five different 500GB 2.5-inch HDDs. That’s “half-a-terabyte to go”. Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate (x2) and WD. Seagate seems to still lag, somewhat and WD’s Scorpio Blue remains untouchable.

PC Games Hardware tests a very European piece of kit, the EKL Alpenfoehn Heidi (sic) VGA cooler. It’s compatible with most VGAs out there, of the single-GPU variety of course. It actually takes the performance crown, but then again it eats up 3 (!) slots.

The Last100 blog tests the Western Digital HD Media Player. You have to plug storage into it to as it has none of its own, but it’ll handle just about any video format, except DRM infections. Cheap too.

Laptop Mag tests the HP ProBook 4710s, a 17-inch DTR that costs little but still packs some serious hardware. Don’t expect to play games on it, though, but you’ll easily manage hi-def video and workloads.

Computer Shopper got one of those MSI Wind U115 Hybrid netbooks that uses a 9-cell battery to stay alive for full-day computing. We still don’t get why people expect Atom to run rather than walk, though…

Inside HW is testing Biostar’s TPower X58A motherboard, the tame version of the TPower X58, which lacks heatpipe cooling for the power regulation and northbridge and a simplified BIOS. It can still do SLI, tho’.

A bit of mobile gaming action is taking place at Hot Hardware. MSI’s GT627-216US gaming notebook shows what its made of. Good gaming, shame about the screen res. µ