Hardware Roundup: Thursday Edition

Nemo - June 18, 2009 03:52AM in Affiliate News

Today's roundup has a good mix of articles for you to check out starting with a couple of reviews on solid state drives from OCZ and Super Talent. Legit Reviews has an interesting discussion of performance degradation issues on SSDs that makes for a good read. One thing SSDs can't do is match traditional hards drives such as the Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB in terms of sheer storage size - yet anyway. We also got reviews on power supplies, motherboards, coolers and more so follow the links below and enjoy.

Cooling
Cooler Master Hyper TX3 @ Bjorn3D

CPUs
Intel Talks Core i7 975 Extreme, Computex, Westmere and More @ HotHardware

Motherboards
High-end Socket AM3 chipsets under the microscope @ Tech Report
Gigabyte MA790XT-UD4P Motherboard @ Neoseeker

Power Supplies
Ikonik Vulcan 850w PSU @ Bjorn3D

Prebuilts
ASRock ION 330-BD Nettop - Affordable, Overclockable and 1080p HD @ TweakTown

Storage/Hard Drives
Indilinx based OCZ Vertex and Super Talent UltraDrive ME SSDs @ PC Perspective
OCZ Vertex EX SSD Update Guide To Firmware v1.20 @ Legit Reviews
Western Digital Caviar 2TB Green Drive @ Motherboards.org

Video
ATI Catalyst 9.6 Vista Driver Analysis @ TweakTown

Miscellany
Lowepro SlingShot 100 AW Camera Bag @ ThinkComputers