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Elite Bastards posted Sapphire Radeon HD 2900 XT 512MB video card review

Late or not, the present day is the present day, and NVIDIA's DirectX 10 graphics boards finally have some competition at the high-end, courtesy of ATI's latest R600 architecture as leveraged in the Radeon HD 2900 XT. Ignoring NVIDIA's flagship GeForce 8800 GTX and Ultra parts, and instead focusing its aim upon the lower priced GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB, the Radeon HD 2900 XT packs an almighty punch on paper between its massive memory bus and vast number of shader processors. Of course, we all know better than to simply assume that a theoretically impressive design will translate well into creating a real-world winner, and thus today is the day where we stop talking about the Radeon HD 2900 XT in theoretical terms here at Elite Bastards, and sit down to take a look at its actual performance characteristics. Sapphire have been kind enough to provide the sample to this end, and so it is their reference specification-based SKU that gets put through its paces in our benchmarking suite.
Sapphire Radeon HD 2900 XT 512MB video card review

3DXtreme posted a new review on OCZ Reaper HPC PC2-6400 and PC2-8500 2GB Memory Kits

OCZ has been well known for their high quality and blistering performance memory products that they have been bringing to the market for years now. With the switch to DDR2, OCZ has maintained their same level of quality and performance seamlessly bridging the gaps between DDR 1 and DDR 2. Today 3DXtreme is taking a look at two of the offerings from OCZ in the DDR 2 line of memory. The Reaper HPC (heat pipe conduit) brings evolved cooling into the fray. Taking a heat spreader and moving into the future OCZ has designed the HPC line of memory and is taking memory cooling to the next level...
OCZ Reaper HPC PC2-6400 and PC2-8500 2GB Memory Kits Review