G.Skill kit for the uberclocker

GURU OF 3D has some ultra-high performance DDR3 from G.Skill. The "enthusiast" brand has come up with a DDR3 2200MHz CL7 PI memory kit that, relying heavily on the XMP profile and a heavy overclock, delivers really shocking performance. 

No matter how powerful your rig is, there’s always room for some extra high performance, low-voltage RAM. XS Reviews tested Kingston’s HyperX PC3-12800 3x2GB kit. That’s 1866MHz frequency for your Core i7 system. Not much of an overclocker, tho’.

TweakTown tests Sapphire’s Radeon HD 5770  Vapor-X edition graphics card. Shane gave it a big thumbs-up thanks to a great performance/price ratio. Overclocking isn’t too good, but the card is already a bit more than your reference 5770.

Hot Hardware grabbed an Asus Eee PC 1005PE Pine trail-based Netbook and ran its tests. The new chips integrate the GPU and CPU in the same package, but video decode and 3D performance are still anemic.

While MSI continues to build up momentum for its Big Bang Fuzion motherboard - the one with Lucid Hydra technology - it's releasing other “minor” products like the Big Bang Trinergy, a P55 mobo with a NF200 chip so you can slot more graphics cards in SLI. Anandtech is breaking in a new format, you can read the article conclusions right on the first page.

Razer, the maker of fierce gaming mice, has released a new attack rodent dubbed the Abyssus Optical gaming mouse and Driver Heaven had a go at it. Equipped with a 3500dpi sensor and a response time of 1ms, it should be good enough for most gamers. But it isn’t a high-end gaming mouse, no sirree.

Techware Labs has its day with the Seagate Barracuda XT in the lab. The XT is the first SATA III HDD from Seagate, and this one comes in the 2TB incarnation. While clearly overtaking its SATA II ancestors, it doesn’t deliver on the technology’s potential, due to the 7200rpm spindle speed, says Matthew.

Crucial’s SSDs aren’t that well known, or popular, but the company is pressing onwards with its M225 256GB SSD. The drive is an overall winner, says Benjamin, but at a price point of $719.99, you might think twice before reaching deep into that pocket.

Overclock 3D has an Asus M4A79XTD EVO motherboard on the bench today. The M4 series targets AMD’s Phenom II series of processors and is apparently equipped to handle just about everything. Good pricing but limited graphics capability, as it can only split the PCIe lanes into 8+8. µ