Daily Reviews Summary 02/15/09

ECS brings us yet another Black Edition board, the GF8200. This time a Hybrid function board for the AMD AM2+ socket CPU’s. The board comes with a DirectX 10 capable integrated graphics processor with 512mb of shared memory and HDMI output.

PerfectDisk 10 is a nifty new program that I've been testing out extensively over the past few days. Essentially, it is a defragment program, and one might say. Well, Windows already comes with a way to defrag my hard drives, how much more can this do?PerfectDisk 10, however, is the defrag equivalent to a Harvard student on a caffeine high before his finals. This program far exceeded any hopes I formerly had of any defrag software.

PerfectDisk 10 Professional is the version I=E2=80=99ve been working with, but each edition does virtually the same thing, with the only major exceptions being various versions are designed for larger servers, businesses, etc.

Today I've got part two of the Limited Edition Cooler Master Black Label Set, the HyperZ600 CPU Cooler. It's essentially the same as the original Z600, but just black colored. It's a large and heavy cooler featuring six heatpipes and the ability to use two fans for maximum cooling performance or use no fans for a truly silent system.

Sapphire has a track recorded of taking the reference designs from AMD/ATI and pushing them up a notch or two. The SAPPHIRE HD 4670 512MB GDDR4 is another fine example of their hard work.

We showed you a preview of the ASUS M4A79T Deluxe socket AM3 motherboard last month and today we will show you how it benchmarks against a socket AM2+ motherboard. Read on to find out if DDR3 memory helps boost performance over a board running DDR2 memory and if 8GB of DDR3 memory is stable on the board. If that isn't enough we also overclock the CPU over 1.2GHz!

Epson Stylus Photo PX800FW is new high-end A4 inkjet photo multifunctional device. Shape and design are very innovative (when it comes to multifunctional devices). At first sight it resembles some top-notch Hi-Fi music component and not some device that is used for document scanning and copying. All surfaces have piano finish that gives this device sophisticated looks. Front side is dominated by control panel with touch sensitive controls and LCD panel in the middle. Control menu is very good and offers fast and easy setup of many settings that most other models don't even have implemented into drivers. For connection with surroundings, PX800FW uses almost all possibilities that can cross your mind: UCB 2.0, Ethernet, WiFi and PictBridge.