Hardware Roundup: Friday Edition

Category: Affiliate News
Posted: July 24, 2009 04:09AM
Author: Nemo

Intel's latest solid state drives were announced earlier this week and we're already seeing reviews of the drives including a pair in today's roundup. The major changes seem to be in the use of 34nm process flash memory and a corresponding drop in price. The 160GB version is being offered at $440 which is less than half the original price of the first generation X25-M. Building a high-end system on a mATX board might seem like an oxymoron, but there's a new game in town when it comes to X58 based SFF boards and the MSI X58M may offer some serious competition to the Asus Rampage II Gene and at a lower price point.

Cooling
Intel Core i7 Heatsink Roundup Q309 @ [H]ardOCP

Gaming
Resident Evil V PC Video Card Benchmarks @ Neoseeker

Memory
Patriot Viper II PC3-16000 6GB DDR3 Kit @ TweakTown

Motherboards
MSI X58M @ Bjorn3D

Operating Systems
SUSE Studio: The Do-it-Yourself Linux @ Techgage

Storage/Hard Drives
Intel 34nm X25-M Gen 2 SSD Performance @ HotHardware
Intel X25-M 160GB 34nm MLC G2 SSD Benchmarking @ Legit Reviews