Fusion-io meets quad RAID 0 SSD

A WHILE BACK, Fusion-io, a rather unknown storage device company came up with their Fusion-io SSD PCIe x4 kit. Well, Hot Hardware faces their Fusion-io with Intel’s X25M 4-member RAID 0. The four-unit array is overwhelmed by Fusion-io’s kit, but then again, there’s the price issue. Fusion-io's kit costs just under $7,200.

Asrock, the maker of motherboards small and weird, has come up with a Nettop kit dubbed the AMCP7A-ION HTPC. Benchmark Reviews took it for a spin... and liked it: silent, powerful enough for HD video, but just below video-gaming standards.

IT Pro tests the Sony VAIO VGN-Z31VN/X 13.3-inch notebook. It’s crammed with features and a hi-res screen (at a quasi-HD 1600x900 resolution), and weighs just 1.47Kg. Comes with a P9600 Core 2 Duo mobile CPU and 9300M GS graphics.

MetkuMods is testing the Sapphire Radeon HD 4770, that rare bird that hopefully will become more common as TSMC sorts out its stuff. Performance, price and overclockability, if you can find one.

Tech Gage is looking at the NZXT PanzerBox Classic Series Mid-Tower. The tower is covered in mesh and comes with a ton of fans pre-installed, but they’re a bit noisy, much to William’s dismay. Looks cool and doesn’t cost much, though.

Boot Daily tested Gigabyte’s “budget” 9600GT and the GTS 250. This is supposed to give us some perspective, really. Ironically, a 9600GT will still play most modern games very well, just don’t expect tremendous frame rates.

Motherboards.org reviews AMD’s Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition. Backwards compatible, overclocks well, gives you performance on the cheap. Oh, and this *isn’t* a plug, but the processor is on sale right now at Pixmania here in €uroland, for just €179.

Driver Heaven tests Tagan’s PipeRock II 680W power supply. Good temps keep the power clean and the acoustics are pretty quiet. Thumbs-up.

Anandtech’s findings with the Elpida Hyper IC can be err... found... here. The number of modules failing on Rajinder were massive, enough to have Corsair and OCZ pull the kits from the shelves.

Guru of 3D got the new Patriot Torqx 128GB SSD kit. It comes with the new Indilinx multi-channel controller that puts write performance in the 200MB/s range. Worth the 369 bucks you pay for it, it seems.

Eteknix moves into the realm of video reviews with the Jetway MA3-79GDG Combo board. This board will take DDR2 and DDR3, has a 790GX chipset and is fairly cheap.

Tom’s Hardare has a pictorial on the new Asus P7P55D EVO motherboard. World+dog is chained to an NDA right now but it’s been a tease-show so far with everyone showing off a little bit more about the platform.

Small Net Builder plays around with the Linksys WGA600N Dual-Band Wireless-N gaming adapter. This device features an advanced QoS feature from Ubicom that lets you game at reduced latencies, however it falls short of its bigger brother the WET610N.

You can see Kingston’s SSDNow V Series 128GB SSD at Legit Reviews. This value series comes a lot cheaper than the norm, at just $219.99. You can’t really go wrong with this one, says Nathan. µ