Arrgghh. Back To Work..

I can’t believe that I got a tax return! A nice whopping $210 ain’t too shabby. After this bit of news, I have to go to sleep so I can show up early at work at 8am!

DDR2 Memory Roundup Q2 2005 @ Madshrimps

“Today in our DDR2 Roundup we´re seeking to accomplish two goals. Foremost: to compare performance among several models of DDR2 supplied by Tier 1 memory manufacturers. Second: to exemplify the overclocking community´s influence in re-shaping the world of the Desktop PC. Products have been supplied from Corsair, Crucial, Kingston, Mushkin, and Transcend. Our platform will be the mid-level Abit AA8 Durmax and Pentium-4 550 both water-cooled.”

DDR2 is the latest promoted computer hardware. All memory makers are pushing for great PC2-6400 memory. I believe Corsair and OCZ currently have the fastest. Not to bag on the review or anything, but that testbed they used isn’t going to cut it. A lower end 925X chipset paired with a high multi CPU just can’t get good memory results. That’s the main reason why I held back on doing DDR2 reviews. I need a freakin 10x multi CPU dammnit!

Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 Serial ATA II Review @ ClubOC

Motherboards now support SATA2 so it’s only a matter of time when the hard drives come out. Hitachi drives are a big hit mainly because of price and performance but they’re a bit noisy. Check how SATA2 performs.

AMD’s Athlon 64 X2 processors reviewed @ TR

Finally, we see some greatness from AMD’s dual core CPU’s. Damn I getting “excited”.

NorthQ NQ-4001EX Super Silent PSU Review @ PC Modding Malaysia
Computer Geeks Portable DVD @ Rbmods
Neo Flash Review @ Mistix.co.uk
XClio-Meridian 400W and 450W Power Supplies @ Systemcooling
Shikatronics Manhattan Edition USB 2.0 @ Viperlair
ECS RS400-A @ Bytesector
Samsung CLP-510 Color Laser Jet Printer Review @ Futurelooks
Enermax AX series 480W PSU @ xtremecomputing.co.uk

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