Hardware Roundup: Thursday Edition
Category: Affiliate NewsPosted: November 20, 2008 04:35AM
Author: Nemo
The old saying about how you can never be too rich or too thin can be reworded for computer enthusiasts as you can never have too much memory or storage space. The new norm in memory seems to quickly becoming 4GB and now 1TB drives are no longer the king of the hill with the release of Seagate's Barracuda 1.5TB drive. With that being said, our roundup includes some reviews of products at the top end in terms of space and power starting off with the Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR3 10600 4GB memory modules (reviewed by OCC here). For massive amounts of power check out the 100W Silverstone Decathalon PSU. If you need need massive cooling then there's the Cooler Master V8 (also reviewed by OCC here). Intel's Core i7 processors offer the latest in speed and power and you'll be needing a new motherboard to run them so have a look at the two latest boards from MSI and Gigabyte.
Cases
Sunbeam Automation Mid Tower Case @ ThinkComputers
Cooling
Cooler Master V8 CPU Cooler @ Legit Reviews
Memory
Crucial Ballistix Tracer PC3-12800 @ XSReviews
Motherboards
Gigabyte and MSI join the Core i7 motherboard crowd @ Tech Report
Power Supplies
Silverstone Decathlon 1000W Power Supply (SST-DA1000) @ Bjorn3D
Storage/Hard Drives
Walton Chaintech APOGEE 2.5" Solid State Disk @ TweakTown
Video
NVIDIA ForceWare 180.47 Analysis - XP & Vista @ TweakTown
Nvidia GTX-260 Core 216 VS ATI 4870 1GB 5 Game Shootout @ Bjorn3D
x264 Benchmarks @ Tech ARP
