February 21, 2005
Lots and lots of news today.
Sapphire X800 PCI-E Review @ The Tech Zone
“The Sapphire Radeon X800 is clocked at 391.5 MHz core and 351 (702 DDR) MHz memory. The 391.5 MHz core clock is a bit shy of the 400 MHz ATI specs. Were not sure of the reason why Sapphire would choose to downclock their cards from the reference specifications. They did; however, include an overclocking utility, Redline, that easily clocks the core to 400+ MHz. They also doubled the memory from ATIs reference to 256MB, which is a nice bonus.”
Mushkin PC2-4200 CL3 @ Bytesector
Fast low latency DDR2 action from by the guys at Mushkin. Low latency DDR2 is some great stuff.
“When I took a look at Mushkins DDR2-533 CL4 memory a few weeks ago, I was quite amazed with the performance it offered, but I was also disappointed by the lack of performance increase when I overclocked those modules. Today, I will be taking a look at Mushkins DDR2-533 CL3 memory which offer an all-time low 3-2- 2-8 DDR2 memory timings at 1.8v! I am hoping to find that these modules will offer greater performance than the CL4 modules; lets take a look!”
PowerColor 550 Theater Pro TV Tuner @ TheTechLounge
5 Simple Steps to a Quieter PC @ BigBruin
Copper Silent 2L AMD Cpu Cooler Contest @ Mike’s Hardware Depot
Corsair Flash Voyager 512 MB USB 2.0 Drive Review & Giveaway @ Systemcooling
OCZ Value Series Memory Review @ AMDGamer
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