ATI FirePro V8750 benchpressed

ATI HAS LAUNCHED its newest workstation graphics solution, the FirePro V8750, which the 3D Professor happily benchmarked. The V8750 also marked the introduction of Crossfire Pro, basically Quadfire for workstations. The Prof raves about the gains, but we’ll let you read all about it.

Hot Hardware also got its hands on the FirePro V8750 workstation graphics card. The V8750 is based on the RV770 architecture of the HD 4870, but it costs you ten times as much… *cough* it’s the fastest thing in the AMD stable.

XS Reviews tests the MSI 770-C45 motherboard. Serving up the AMD crowd, this motherboard has all you’ll need to set things up for a Phenom II, and it’s cheap… dirt cheap, coming in at just under £60.

Most sites can barely contain the giddiness about Intel’s new Lynnfield processors. Unfortunately they’re all under NDA shackles, so they spend their time publishing nice pictorials of P55 motherboards, like PC Perspective and this P7P55D Deluxe motherboard.

If you’re a hardcore on-line gamer you know the value of a good headset. Tweak Town is looking at a nice pair, the Steel Series Siberia Full-size Headset (sic). Comfy and high quality, they’re worth the $60 they cost, says James.

MSI’s Radeon 4890 Cyclone SOC graphics card is being reviewed at Guru of 3D. According to Hilbert, this is a 1GHz card done proper – pricing, performance, everything.

Flash Drives are just getting faster and bigger by the minute. You can now pick up some serious storage, like the OCZ Throttle 32GB eSATA flash drive reviewed at Legion Hardware, for under $100. eSATA will get you roughly twice the performance of USB 2.0…

Netbook or cheap notebook? Anandtech  tries to answer this question reviewing a bunch of sub-$500 laptops. Good idea, considering back-to-school is ‘round the corner.

Tech Power Up is reviewing some very serious OCZ memory kit, the Reaper HPC PC3-15000 3x2GB. You get DDR3-2000 performance for under $150, which is quite affordable. Just be careful to check that your system can fit the heatspreaders.

OC Inside reviewed the Asrock A790GXH/128M motherboard. Combining HD3300 with 128MB of Sideport memory with dual PCIe x16 slots, you get pretty much the pick of the litter when it comes to graphics performance. The board is DDR2 only, but considering the performance of DDR2-1066, the price says loads.

Future Looks is… ermm… looking at a nice little gadget called the Xlink BT Bluetooth Cellular Gateway. This bridges your landline with your cellphone via Bluetooth. Useful considering you can receive 3 different networks. µ