Week in Reviews

This week's hardware reviews were dominated by ATI's latest motherboard chipset, the ATI Xpress 3200. The chipset offers two slots with 16 PCI Express lanes compared to the 8 lanes per slot of the older ATI Xpress 200. This is much like NVIDIA's release of the nForce4 SLI X16 chipsets. Of course this really only matters for those looking to run two ATI graphics cards via CrossFire.

Beyond the reviews on the new motherboard, there were a number of comparison reviews put out this week, so be sure to check out what reviews were posted over the last week.

Desktops

• AOpen MiniPC @ AnandTech
• ABS Ultimate M5 Vortex @ HardOCP

Notebooks

• Comparison of Eight 2.5" Notebook Drives @ Tom's Hardware

Cases and Mods

• Asys Freedom Tower Case @ Pro Clockers
• Comparison of 9 Power Supplies @ X-bit Labs
• Cooler Master Read Power 550W SLI Power Supply @ MADSHRIMPS
• NmediaPC HTPC 300 Case @ Think Computers
• Scythe Kamariki-2 Power Supply @ Pro Clockers
• Silverstone LC16M HTPC Case @ bit-tech
• Silverstone SG01s Case @ techniz
• Silverstone TJ07 Case @ The Tech Lounge
• Xkroma Chrome Case @ Think Computers
• XG Viper 2 Case @ Bjorn3D

Cooling

• Arctic Cooling Accelero X1 and X2 GPU Coolers @ Pure Overclock
• Arctic Cooling Accelero X1 VGA Cooler @ Techniz
• Arctic Cooling Alpine 64 Heatsink @ Frosty Tech
• Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro Heatsink @ Bjorn3D
• Cooler Master Hyper 48 KHC-L91 Heatsink @ Frosty Tech
• Cooler Master Hyper 6+ Heatsink @ PC Apex
• Cooler Master Sasurro Low Profile Heatsink @ System Cooling
• Corsair Nautilus 500 Water Cooler @ Legit Reviews
• Gigabyte G-Power Lite Heatsink @ XYZ Computing
• Hiper Type-R 480W Power Supply @ Extreme Overclocking
• Noctua NH-U12 Heatsink @ Frosty Tech
• Noctua and Coolink Heatpipe Coolers @ Metku Mods
• Thermaltake RX K8 Silent Boost Heatsink @ Tweaknews
• Thermaltake Rhythm HTPC Liquid Cooling Kit @ Big Bruin
• Thermaltake Symphony Mini Water Cooling Kit @ Overclockers Cafe
• XtFlux-GA Thermal Paste @ Overclockers Club
• Zalman CNPS7000B-AlCu Heatsink @ Overclockers Club

Hard Drives

• Comparison of Four 500GB Hard Drives @ GamePC
• Highpoint RocketRAID 2320 SATA Controller @ X-Bit Labs

Memory

• Comparison of 16 Performance DDR2 @ Tom's Hardware

Monitors

• ASUS PM17TU 17" LCD @ Hot Hardware
• Samsung SyncMaster 930BF-Black 19" LCD @ Overclockers Club

Motherboards

• ASRock 939SLI32-eSATA2 @ AnandTech
• ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe @ AnandTech
• ASUS a8R32-MVP Deluxe @ digit-life
• ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe @ HardOCP
• ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe @ Hot Hardware
• ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe @ The Tech Report
• ASUS P5WD2-E @ t-break
• ECS C51G-M754 @ Hardware Secrets
• ECS PF22 Extreme @ neoseeker
• Gigabyte *i945GMH-RH @ Legion Hardware
• Shuttle SB36G5M XPC @ SFF Tech

Video Cards

• Albatron GeForce 6600 512MB @ Overclockers Online
• ASUS EAX1900XTX @ AMDZone
• ATI Radeon X1900 XTX CrossFire @ X-bit Labs
• EVGA e-Fegore 7800 GS CO AGP @ nV News
• EVGA 7800GTK KO @ MADSHRIMPS
• Gainward Bliss 6800 GS 512MB @ Pure Overclock
• Power Color X1300 HyperMemory 2 @ Bjorn3D
• Sapphire Radeon X1800 XT @ Pure Overclock