Hardware Roundup: Tuesday Edition

Category: Affiliate News
Posted: August 11, 2009 03:21AM
Author: Nemo

Zalman has departed from its traditional circular-shaped cooler design with its CNPS 10X Extreme tower cooler. Also included in today's roundup is another tower-style cooler - the Prolimatech Megahalems. We also turned up a couple of mid-tower cases from Maxcube and GMC. We've had several previews of the new P55 chipset motherboards pass through the roundups of late and today we have the Asus P7P55D Deluxe board which is joined by two AMD-based boards in the form of the ECS A785GM-M Black Edition and the Gigabyte MA770T-UD3P. But that's not all we have today so continue on with your reading using the links below.

Cases
Maxcube Amoris 6010 Computer Case @ Tweaknews
GMC X-7 @ XSReviews

Cooling
Zalman CNPS 10X Extreme CPU Cooler @ Legit Reviews
Prolimatech Megahalems CPU Cooler @ TweakTown

CPUs
Intel Core i7 In-Depth Performance Scaling Analysis @ Madshrimps

Gaming
ARMA II Gameplay Performance and Image Quality @ [H]ardOCP

Input Devices
Mionix Saiph 3200 Mouse @ RBMods

Motherboards
Asus P7P55D Deluxe Motherboard Preview @ Bjorn3D
ECS A785GM-M Black Edition Motherboard @ Motherboards.org
Gigabyte MA770T-UD3P Motherboard @ Neoseeker

Operating Systems
Windows 7 (Final OEM) vs. Windows Vista VGA Performance @ TweakTown

Optical Drives
ASUS SDRW-08D1S-U External Slim DVD R/RW Drive @ ThinkComputers

Power Supplies
Coolermaster SNA 95 Notebook Adapter @ Bjorn3D

Storage/Hard Drives
Synology Disk Station DS409+ NAS @ HotHardware

Vista versus 7 article: "When Vista launched it was nice to have all those new bells and whistles. The problem was that if you were a gamer you would quickly find yourself greeted with BSODs, random crashing and poor FPS." BSODs and random crashing? Not in my experience (nor have I heard of anyone else having that experience).