Just got word from Crow at Darkcrow.co.kr that he's been searching the web high and low for the latest graphics card reviews to have hit the web and grouped them all together on one page! There's 30 reviews in total. Here are some of the list:

You should be controlling your computer, rather than it running the show. If you're going to have a stable PC then it is important to keep your system temperatures down as low as possible, as well as your CPU temperature.

And so Thermaltake are now producing controllable fans to cool computer cases specifically. Their Smart case fan II can be used as a powerful alternative to a standard case fan, and also as a CPU fan, found on Thermaltake's Volcano 9 and 11 series of heatsinks. As well as bringing temperature control to your fingertips the Smart Fan provides the added bonus of reducing noise...

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Graphics Card Reviews

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Nordic Hardware.com sends word that their 9 card GeForce FX roundup has been posted! Here's a snip.

Today we'll be looking at nine GeForce FX-based videocards. One 5200 Ultra, one 5600, three 5600 Ultras, three 5900's and finally one 5900 Ultra. The three boards we'll use for comparison are Radeon 9600 Pro, 9800 and 9800 Pro. (We won't use Radeon 9200 Pro since the 5200 Ultra reviewed today is even more expensive than a Radeon 9600 Pro and thus would make it a very unfair comparison.)

Silence is indeed golden. Now that computers are being used increasingly throughout the home people are becoming less and less happy to endure the constant droning emitted by modern high-powered PC's. Consequently a number of innovations have been made to help with noise reduction, probably one of the first to hit the mainstream being variable-speed cooling fans. Now cases are also being produced with peace and quiet featuring highly on their list of design priorities.

Today at RipNet-UK we are pleased to bring you our review of the Acousticase from Quiet PC. Is this case going to be the answer to your headaches?

Tom's Hardware Guide hat sich das neue Targa Visionary XP 10 Notebook mit ATI's 9600 Mobility Grafikchip angesehen. Neben beeindruckenden DirectX 9 Fähigkeiten bei maximalen 350 MHz für den Grafikchip in der Pro Variante, sowie 300 MHZ Chip- und 300 MHz Speichertakt in der 9600 Standardvariante die auch mobilen Gamer die Augen wässrig werden lassen bietet Targa noch einige nette Features mehr. Nebenbei bietet das XP10 noch eine integrierte MP3-Player-Funktionalität ohne das das Gerät eingeschaltet sein muss. Das Notebook wird von einem AMD Athlon XP 2500+ auf Touren gebracht. Ob es überzeugen konnte lesen Sie über den obigen Link zum Testbericht.

With processors and video boards getting more powerful, they are also getting considerably hotter. Anyone with a computer needs to take a look at cooling. But there is more to this topic than just a good heatsink. There also has to be a manner to transfer the heat built up from the processor TO that good heatsink. This is where a good Thermal Interface Material (TIM) comes into play. Come join TweakTown's Mike "Darthtanion" Wright as he pits Arctic Silver III against OCZ Ultra II against Arctic Silver Ceramique. Who knows, the results just might surprise you!

VR-Zone Hardware has just posted a review for Cooler Master's new Wave Master aluminum case, a really kickass case that you should check out!

The top panel of the case is where you would traditionally find an exhaust fan in Cooler Master's premium cases but instead of another 80mm fan Cooler Master decided to put two USB 2.0, Firewire, Microphone, and Headphone ports. This is particularly useful if your computer case is under your desk as the inputs are closer to you.

Today Viper Lair takes a look at Corsair's latest TWINX kit, which matches a pair of XMS4000 modules. 500MHz anyone?

To be able to run your ram 1:1 at 272FSB is simply amazing. When we pushed to 272, MemTest failed, but the system still ran. The TWINX didn't seem to like any timing adjustments at this speed though, as we could never stay stable once we got into Windows.

The world of the CPU cooler is a busy old place - new developments are constantly appearing, and we could probably run a whole website just reviewing coolers if we wanted to? not so long ago a CPU cooler would be a basic lump of extruded aluminium with a fan screwed on top (probably emitting an ear-splitting howl if you went for a preformance model). But now your cooler may have LED's added, weird and wonderful heatpipe designs, and perhaps speed control as well.

Today RipNet-UK brings you a review of the latest customisable cooler from one of the market leaders, the ThermalTake Volcano 11+. This features variable fan speed control and interchangeable grilles...

"Despite the minimal improvement that the new 400fsb has brought the Athlon, all of us still seem to be suckers for every ounce of speed, and every pound of features...but we sure ain't gonna pay an arm and a leg for it! And we don't want to have to run out and upgrade in 3 months, either! That's my feeling, anyway." Article Link: http://www.gamingin3d.com/reviews/nforce2/

Hier wieder eine kleine Liste interessanter Hardware Tests in deutscher Sprache vom Wochenende und der letzten Woche. Wir listen auch interessante Artikel in den jeweiligen Kategorien.

Xbitlabs have thrown up their Quadro FX 3000 in 3ds max 5 review, where they compare the latest professional graphics card from Nvidia in the shape of the Quadro FX 3000 against the Quadro FX 2000 (based on GeForce 5800 Ultra), FireGL X1 (based on RADEON 9700 PRO) and a GeForce FX 5900 Ultra based gaming card. Here's a snip:

July 22, 2003, NVIDIA announced its new ?professional? graphics card ? Quadro FX 3000 based on the GeForce FX 5900 Ultra GPU. There was the usual blowing-out of cheeks and words like ?uncompromising?, ?universal for pro applications? and even ?unique? (although this same product costing thousand dollars differs from its game mate in the drivers only).

The Tech Report have thrown up their VIA's PT800 and SiS's 648FX Chipsets Review! which asks the question can these single-channel chipsets solution from Via and SIS compete with Intel's 800MHz dual-channel chipsets? Here's a snip.

The most striking thing about our benchmark results is, undoubtedly, the eye-opening performance of the VIA PT800 chipset. Even in places where we expected a single-channel solution to lag?3D gaming, speech recognition, video encoding?the PT800 excels. The PT800 is generally faster than Intel's 865PE chipset, and it gives the 875P a run for its (copious amounts of) money. No, the PT800 isn't the world-beater that the 875P is, but VIA is expected to deliver a dual-channel chipset before long to contend for that title.

Many of spend the majorioty of our spare time trying to squeeze every last drop of performance out of our computer systems. Why not consider your flat mate or partner for a moment and think about the bonuses of completely silent or near silent computing? If this is something you've been considering, you should really take a look at TweakTown's Shawn "Toxic" Bakers review of the GMC X-21 Trinity computer case which we promise your flat mate or partner will thank us for!

AMDZone have thrown up their Opteron 246 1P review! where they even managed to over Overclock the 2GHz Opteron 246 to 2.25GHz on a nForce 3 Pro!

They tested the single CPU configuration against the P4 3.2GHz and of course the Athlon XP 3200+ and a Opteron 144. Is 2GHz enough for the 246 to beat the P4 clocked 1.2GHz higher? It looks like it is.

Bit-Tech have thrown up their review of Next-Cool's W-Zero , a single and double 120mm watercooling radiators! Here's a byte.

Radiators are an important part of most watercooling setups the theory is that the thermal energy in the water is released to the air flowing through the radiator's fins. In this review I will take a look at a couple of radiators from Next-Cool. The Italian company produce some beautiful kit including the WaterCUBE GT3 which we reviewed back in January.

Hardware Pacers has posted a review on the Thermaltake Spark7+, here's a snip.

The Thermaltake Spark7+ cooler was able to provide 1100 MHz FSB @ 3.3Ghz Processing speed at 1.75V, however it was only stable @ 3.2GHz. On the other hand, the ugly Intel stock cooler was not sufficient enough to overclock the CPU to 2.7 GHz. Relating to noise, even @ 45C the fan was not at full speed, it only span around 4000 RPM, max is 6000 RPM."

Computer games are a big market, and so companies are naturally keen to get a slice of the action. One way they can get involved is through providing accessories for gamers, and one of the most contested areas of late has been for mousing surfaces (they're not plain old mouse-mats any more!)

Gamers are naturally competitive (I mean, who plays to lose?) and so anything that might give them an extra edge will be seized upon gladly. Today at RipNet-UK we take a look at one of the ways they might be able to gain that vital advantage, the Steelpad 4S.

Just got word from zardon at driver Heaven that he's thrown up their Gigabyte Radeon 9600 pro 128 mb & Sapphire Radeon 9600 pro 128 mb Fireblade Review! their recent reviews have concentrated on the high end of the Graphics card market. Today they have the chance to step back into the mainstream area as they review two Radeon 9600 Pros! Here's a snip.

Looking back at the period I used the above cards I could not have been happier with the performance and image quality. For approximately £130 Sapphire and Gigabyte have given users the opportunity to experience games using 4xAA and 16xAF with no concerns about stuttering graphics, even in the latest games such as Unreal Tournament and Elite Force 2.