Hardware Roundup: Tuesday Edition

Category: Affiliate News
Posted: August 26, 2008 03:44AM
Author: Nemo

Today's roundup features ongoing coverage of NVIDIA's NVISION08 conference with several reports on the opening keynote address. Western Digital's Raptor series of hard drives set the standard for speed with its 10,0000 RPM rotational speed and the latest rendition, the VelociRaptor, upped the ante with its 300GB size and 2.5" format. Today we get to see how a pair of these drives performs in a RAID 0 setup. Check out the rest of the reviews by following the links below.

Cooling
Glacialtech Igloo 5058 Light E Heatsink @ FrostyTech

CPUs
Inside the Nehalem: Intel's New Core i7 Microarchitecture @ PC Perspective

Digital Photography/Video
Dazzle DVD Recorder @ OCModShop

Input Devices
OCZ Alchemy Series Elixir Keyboard @ Virtual-Hideout

Monitors
Samsung SyncMaster 2263UW 22-inch Widescreen LCD Monitor @ ThinkComputers

Storage/Hard Drives
Western Digital VelociRaptor 10,000RPM Hard Disk in RAID 0 @ TweakTown

Tradeshows/Conventions
Day 2 Live! from NVISION08: Keynote and Sessions @ PC Perspective
Live blog from the Nvision opening keynote @ Tech Report
NVISION 08 Day 1: Jen-Hsun Huang's Keynote @ HotHardware

Video
ASUS ENGTX280 TOP Video Card @ [H]ardOCP
Desktop Graphics Card Comparison Guide Rev. 14.5 @ Tech ARP