Hardware Roundup: Thursday Edition
Category: Video Cards, Motherboards, CPU's, Cases, Cooling, Gaming, Music / Video Players, Input Devices, Monitors, Gadgets, VGA CoolingPosted: January 24, 2008 06:16AM
Author: Nemo
Many hardware manufacturers are beginning to tout their products as supporting the ESA standard and are even prominently display the ESA logo. Just what is ESA? PC Perspective explains it all in their NVIDIA ESA: Enthusiast System Architecture article. AMD/ATI has been getting some of the limelight with their HD 3850/3870 video cards. TweakTown shares the MSI Radeon HD 3870 X2 OC Graphics Card with us and you need to pay attention to the "X2" in the name because this is the new dual GPU version! Sharing the spotlight is the fact that AMD also just released two other cards as well and Legit Reviews looks at the ATI Radeon HD 3450 and Radeon HD 3650 Video Cards. For NVIDIA fans there is always the Inno3D 8800 GT iChill at Overclocker Cafe which sports a factory overclock and an Arctic Cooling Accelero X1 cooler. There's another new video technology making its way onto the market these days and you can head over to Techgage to read about DisplayLink - Multi-Display Setups with USB. Crysis is a game known for bringing many a system to its knees. What does it take to play this game at the highest resolutions? HotHarware has the Crysis v1.1 NVIDIA 3-Way SLI Performance Update. What good is a new video card without a large monitor to show off all that eye candy? That's where the Samsung SyncMaster 275T TFT LCD comes in and LAN Addict gives us a chance to check it out. Madshrimps just posted their Foxconn P35AP-S Motherboard Revisited: New BIOS. FrostyTech looks at the Xigmatek MAC-S3501 DDR/DDR2 Memory Heatspreaders and questions just how necessary is an active memory cooling solution. The Lian Li PC-P80 Case garners some pretty strong superlatives in the video review from 3dGameMan. Low power CPUs are more often found in mobile devices, not in enthusiasts' machines so find out what [H]ardocp has to say about VIA's New Centaur Designed Isaiah CPU Architecture. TechReport has a quick look at SanDisk's Sansa Clip MP3 player for those of you looking for a small music player whose name doesn't begin with an 'i'. When gaming, if your hands sweat like a kid on his first date then the Logitech ChillStream Actively Cooled Gamepad at Tweak News might be the answer for you. Don't forget to check out the Geeks 7" Digital Picture Frame over at Monster-Hardware before you go.
