Daily Reviews Summary 01/31/08

Reviews 52751 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

ECS Geforce 8800 GT Dual Turbo 512MB Review
The Guru of 3D posted a review on the ECS Geforce 8800 GT Dual Turbo 512MB

They recently released their GeForce 8800 GT in retail and quite honestly, they are doing that properly by releasing this product with a custom cooler. Equipped with slightly higher than reference clock-speeds and custom made cooling made by Arctic Cooling they unleash their ECS Geforce 8800 GT Dual Turbo. It's a pretty nice card to be honest.
ECS Geforce 8800 GT Dual Turbo 512MB Review

Thermaltake NBcool T2000 Notebook Cooler Review
TechwareLabs has published a review of the Thermaltake NBcool T2000 Notebook Cooler

If you own a notebook then you are probably aware of how hot they get. Heat is well known as the number 1 killer of computer components so it is important to keep your investment cool and among the living. Justin has a look at the T2000 notebook cooler by Thermaltake and approaches it with from the unique perspective of not only its cooling properties but also how it affects your battery life and the battery savings due to the cooling effect on your CPU and components.
Thermaltake NBcool T2000 Notebook Cooler Review

Daily Reviews Summary 01/30/08

Reviews 52751 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

HighPoint RocketRAID 3520 SATA Raid Controller Review
TechwareLabs has published a review of the HighPoint RocketRAID 3520 SATA Raid Controller

We recently tested the HighPoint RocketRAID 3520 which sports more features than a fully outfit sports car and is just as fast. The RocketRAID 3520 really managed to pass up every bit of competition we threw at it and then some. Read our review to see the scortching hot numbers this card was able to produce and see what this upgrade to your workstation, server, or business will really help you accomplish.
HighPoint RocketRAID 3520 SATA Raid Controller Review

AMD ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 Review
bit-tech published an in-depth review of AMD's ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

While the Radeon HD 3870 X2 has the potential to become one of, if not the fastest graphics cards released to date, it's not something that I can recommend over Nvidia's current flagship GeForce 8800 Ultra and 8800 GTX cards because it's only as strong as its weakest link. Sadly for AMD's graphics product group, that means there's a long road ahead with driver support for this beast because, even from just looking at current releases, I believe there will be scenarios in the future where CrossFire isn't as well supported as it probably should be.

There are many ways to look at this and I'm sure the conspiracy theorists are hard at work. Are the developers locking AMD out because they're working closely with Intel's and Nvidia's developer relations teams? Is AMD's developer relations team helping developers to implement proper CrossFire support? Or is there something else that I've missed completely? I honestly don't know what the situation is, but there are developers which I've spoken to in confidence that //haven't heard from AMD for a while.

Ultimately, the long term success of this card is going to come down to AMD's driver and developer relations teams and how well it gets supported in this year's crop of new releases. I'm all for faster graphics cards using multiple GPUs, but there needs to be transparency for the gamer to really harness a multi-GPU card's potential. In the scenarios where the support is there, the Radeon HD 3870 X2 performs very well and it can be looked upon as a match for Nvidia's now nine-month old GeForce 8800 Ultra, but in the scenarios where there isn't support, you end up with a card that isn't even as fast as something that's nearly half the price.
AMD ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 Review

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