For the NVIDIA chipsets are all but downgraded in the past week or so by ATI, with the GeForce 9 series going to replace the ailing 8 series, we; the public might expect that it may be the successor of the 8 series. For much they have made the 9 series, the 9600GT being the only great success, then follows the 9800GT in a later month and the high-end graphics of the 9800GTX and the GX2. With a number of problems show that it did not perform as fast as the previous version or way too expensive when it came out. And again with the GTX series, high prized and a dead proposition to be an improvement side of things. For much of the disappointment NVIDIA is making improvements in the graphics cards by rearranging and renaming the graphics cards with the new GTX200 as the high-end the main stream and budget GT200 and GS100. Or another alternative; by improving the memory chip and the core fabrication, I give you the 9800GTX+ with a plus sign to add in the name.
XFX is fast to adopt the new 9800GTX+, having the same G92 chipset but the fabrication went from 65nm to 55nm. And bigger improvement for a cooler graphics card and also gives about 1-5% more performance from the 9800GTX plus the memory and the core clock shades are been over-clocked by about 45MHz; good for those people who want a pre-stock over-clock. Plus the help of XFX’s own lifetime warrantee with modder friendly options, a return and repair policy to much of the range of XFX graphics. The cooler itself is a reference design of the original 9800GTX cooling it in a measly 45 at idle and around about 50 degrees at load, for the noise is the bright side in NVIDIA, keeping a silent whirr at about 35dBA in idle and 40~43dBA when the fan is at max rpm.
For the performance however, it does have an edge in some games in low res, but in Hi-res, where the CPU cannot help it anymore cannot keep up with the 4870 and even with the 4850. But with a two way battle against the original 9800GTX it pretty nails it there, by about 5-8fsp difference with the 9800GTX. For the usability of the 9800GTX in SLI or even Triple SLI in both AMD and Intel platforms, are much better than the GTX 260 and especially the 280, with some driver problems, the 9800GTX is a better choice in SLI solutions that can keep up with the 4870X2’s raw performance.
The XFX version of the 9800GTX+, as an over-clocked version, with the prize, about $30~$60 more expensive, but having the extras of modder friendly warrantee, is a great plus. With the thing cannot keep up with the newer versions and real world applications, this may be discontinued in about a month or two. But if you rig it into SLI mode, you can achieve a bit more on most high end games, and definitely Crysis in high-res but driver revision, fixing the problem that plagued in the GTX SLI, may itself make a 9800GTX+ SLI to be underrated. However the 9800GTX is not an all out lose situation, it can still play most high games and all of NVIDIA’s Physics engine games, even beating some of the offerings in ATI.
Even the 9 series are in its last legs, it is still not a bad option.
For the 4870X2 being in the top dog and the top drawer in graphics performance, with the same principle as the HD3000 series with two cores to compensate the single core constraints. With the memory of the excess of 2GB’s gives you enough memory to load up textures and good for those high resolutions with the use of the anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering and the speed and bandwidth of both GDRR5 and PCIex2.0 in one single long card.
So Palit, in my mind, would not miss this type of opportunity, by bumping the core and memory clock, by about more than 50MHz, but if that is not enough, they even replace the reference cooling to a dual fan combo cooling for you desire; over-clocking ease without the problem of overheating with evidence of other HD4870X2 card. For Palit, rather than calling the usual 4870X2, but still recognisable by its long and read PCB chip, is the revolution 700, derived by its code name R770 chipset. This triple slot graphics card has an input connection all over the place, with one Analogue video in the top and one DVI port, one HDMI and one display port, with one problem with it, the variety of video input is fine but the analogue video is almost obsolete the HDMI is a good inclusion, if you have an expensive HDMI monitor lying around the house.
Speaking of monitors, we also monitored the noise levels of the graphics and the all important cooling capabilities. Having about 45dBa in idle and around about the high 55dBa in an open case in load. With the help of the dual fan placing the idle temp at 50 degrees and load temp in 65 degrees. Overall good performance when comparing it in with the reference design 65-80 degrees idle-load. With video performance is up top being an over-clocked 4870X2. With the high-res gaming really recommended to compete it with the GTX200, having about 10 to 30 fsp over the average of the GTX280 with game in Crysis and also Unreal tournament 3, but for the Physics engine dedicated games like ghost recon and more in the future games will go in favour in the engine of NVIDIA’s GTX rather than raw performance of X2.
In some of the graphics card like the 4870X2, the speed and the performance of the card is astonishing, eating all of the frames and calculations per second, for the Palit is to catch one of these and tame the beast out, for example to keep it cool, while going ballistic in every game possible. But for the space conscious, the sound of the triple slot graphics is more of a death sentence rather than killing games, and the prize of the card and the rest; is going to increase when we heard the world markets are not well. For much you need to pay for it, for about $800 is a better choice than having dual 4870’s, but the cost over performance is not looking well.
With the basis of double the fan count can increase the cooling of your CPU, for Thermaltake DuOrb the dual blue LED fans with the combination of the copper red fins surrounding the two fans, make a colorful arrangement, great to show off to your friends in you very own windowed case. Very much the same with the much dazzling prize of about less than $100 online!
The Thermaltake is by all mean impressive with the two from the previous Orb brand of their fans, the stuck in the semi-aluminum and copper fins for a much affordable prize. For the fans can be easily replace when one of them fails for some reason, it can be a easy crew out, replace and screw in. also, the use of aluminum fins in the bottom of the cooler and the copper surrounding in the side, judging from its low prize, is a cost effective way rather than having a full body copper heatsink, with an improvement of cooling capabilities but also the increase of the prize by about 50 or so dollars. Also the downside of the cooler form Thermaltake is in the large form factor, with the dual fans in-turn need a lot of space to spray out the heat and the problem of having it to touch the Ram when the fan is placed in its side and when you compensate by locking the cooler vertically you have to think through about the graphics and some cases the Northbridge.
For the cooling factor of the DuOrb is placed against the Quad core QX6850 one with its stock setting into its default one with the core clock speed raised up to the 3.5GHz for the ultimate stress test. In the load temp of the default setting is in the acceptable 60degrees but the sound of the two fans is the justification of to compensate of silent cooling. In the over-clocked settings went sky high in the eye pooping 80degrees in our reading before blowing up and crashing in the process.
For the companies like the example of Thermaltake’s case to make really innovative their own products as their own is to make it “bigger and better” and without hitting the pack pocket. Well, in the case of the DuOrb is a great success and all out most failure, I cannot elaborate the situation but you can make your minds up, it has a lower prize variant than other coolers with blowing colors to show off and one too many fans make is a cheap alternative cooler, but with the test however tell a different story, a high temp count in load and a loud fans time s two! Is a turn off and make you look for somewhere else. But weighting in the pros and cons, the cooler is not bad for most cases, if you have a dual core and a lot of space to sacrifice or even a fashion item with and affordable prize to grab.
The fallout is here… well not literally, fallout 3, the third instalment of the much acclaimed games developer as I should know is located in somewhere in the 52 states of the US, for being one of the makers of elder Scrolls: Oblivion way back in 2004. And it is about time they make a comeback with the other type of RPG game that they have made in the last ten years or so, which was to re live the Fallout franchise.
With the story of Fallout deriving form the two previous games, you are in the 1950’s and the Cold War went out of have and lead the Americans and the Russians to have an all out nuclear bombardment, and found out that the whole world and especially destroyed, you are one of the lucky survivors of the nuclear fallout and living with a other survivors in an underground bunker. Fro much of the game, you meet other survivors and their sown story to tell, but your story is different. You find that you need to leave the safety of the bunker to the open world. The atmosphere of the world is so barren and also evidence enough in the sky and the environment, you would imagine if it happened now?
For the game play is all open and you will to do anything and choose whatever ending you like, more like Oblivion type with some aspects of Witcher, more or less explicit. Going more is the range of customizable items, with health items to weaponry, or even enemies is all unique in ways you cannot imagine. Mutants and zombies roam the now desolate place, with different factions of the surface survivors is also another to worry about. But if you find yourself in a firing-line, the interface come up and the game goes in a halt, the targeting system of Fallout is new and shows the host of shotting opportunities, rather than the head shots where all games go.
With this game with some problems in the classifications, with the reject of the game to the market for being drug endorsed game, with some of the items like syringes, and items like crack are shown to be used in a short period of time to increase stamina or heal in a short term, for a bit of editing of the game may make it playable to the public, but I personally seen other games with MA 15+ rating have shown drug related scenes, and clearly shows that, they take it seriously cracking down drug or any bad influence in a game that a 15 year old can get in best buy for about $80.
But for Fallout it is just the misconception of over-reacting classifying organisations, with where is already violent and drug related games in the market, but brushing of the cons, the good thing of the game is great game play and a whole new fighting system and relentless choice in most RPG games.
DFI, more on its name, has really defied the use of board making by having a good quality gaming motherboard. For DFI with the use of the X38 and the X48 chipset from Intel to make one of the gaming dream of all, makes we wet and bed. For DFI, has no intention of having these really fancy power saving engines located in the Southbridge to control not but the peripherals but to control the core frequency multiplier and core clock frequency. For the power consumption reading at 102W in the CPU, can be a bit of a sore of the power bill, but for the most it is easy to go to BIOS and manually change the frequency, for a certain task.
For the DFI Lanparty, it uses a black PCB board with a Full ATX form factor with a distinct orange PCI slots design to keep the eyes easy on a dark case. For much of the design layout of the board, the heat-sink is being used a full black colour configuration and a triple transfer heat-pipe in the north and the MOSFET. For much of the CPU treatment, it has a four Phase PWM and a support frequency of 1333MHz to the 800MHz front bus of the CPU, so there goes Intel Core 2 Quad QX9770. For much of the stuff is well shown off with, the use of 800MHz RAM frequency and have a capability of going 1066MHz overclocked with much of the time the P45 chipset is coming with extras like the CMOS pin in the back panel, with the dual crossfire support with shared x8 lanes in each and the hard button for the reset and power up button inside the board.
For the rest the board has a support of three PCI slots, two PCIex x, six SATA ports, with one IDE and floppy drive (with the floppy being in the bottom of the board). With the black panel going with dual PS/2 ports, one gigabit port, one coaxial port and one optical port for going in some cases devices with any use of high speed transfer. For much of the boards this thing has a performance of a fast cheetah, with a good burst of speed, but needs a lot of power to keep it up and running, overall latency with a 800MHz RAM acquire good speeds and higher the frequency you get a larger bandwidth. For much, games is a good factor, for a while, with a high resolution game in high quality played with a HD4870, is enough to say, brilliant image!
DFI, really defy the use of high performance, board mobo’s with scrapping off the power saver interface and having a pure overclocking board opened for a little while is fine for some. For the most part people tend to open their system for a period of time that you haven’t noticed. For the pure gaming delight buy it, for the set and forget scenario, I would prefer the Gigabyte P45 alternative.
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With Intel expecting the welcome intro of the new Intel core 7i for the desktop platform, the Processors are not yet released yet, and by first releasing the X58 chipset to accommodate the LGA1366-pin socket with the use of the triple channel DIMM memory with the use of SLI and crossfireX for support. The X58 is a different way to show the new product, wit the Intel Core 2 Duo processors going first then the chipsets, because they use the same pin design as the Pentium4. For that the new 1366-pin has a major difference over size and design, so they normally display the chipset rather than the CPU first.
So it doesn’t make any major motherboard provider to release of their own design of the new X58, the ASUS release of the X58/ICH10R chipset and they call it the ASUS P6T Deluxe series. With the Full ATX form factor and having the OEM specs, the only change is the use of a North and PWM heat-sinks with the new wind-flow thermal design that, uses the CPU’s top down cooler as a duct of air from the cooler. For most of the motherboard heat-sink, I would expect a water-cooling block for this and personally, it is great to have a heat-sink design to go with aesthetics and appeal but you can’t go wrong with the insurance of a good water-cool.
But for some, air is good enough, and as a deluxe series of ASUS, you would not expect to be an extreme choice. With the X58 going more of a speculation that it ever did in my opinion, for the Skulltrail with the support of NVIDIA SLI graphics solution, with the N200 chipset that will support only two NVIDIA graphics to battle it out with ATI’s own discrete graphics to have it compatible to any Intel chipsets.
For much of the boards specs are the, triple channel DDR3 memory, With the CPU front bus speed of about to 1066 MHz to the 1600 MHz or maybe the 2000 MHz mark, with the Southbridge going with the new ICH10R with the support of six SATA ports one IDE and floppy port. With much of the performance is out of reach because I wasn’t bundles of a processor and so in-turn I cannot use the board. But the board looks impressive and has a host of features, like a hybrid engine to control power in the board, with a USB onboard overclocking and also a lot of connection on the back, eSATA and also 7 channel audio ports for HI-DEF sounds.
For much of the boards height, with the Intel Core 7i being a month or year away, we can’t wait for it to be released, and the sneak peak of the boards to host the processor is a great preview but we would never know how it performs and bugs or problems it may have. So the ASUS is a great preview but we would expect new stuff coming in the X58.
The new way of cooling an already hot computer, with the most unlikely use of cooling in the fraction of the price , rather than having the major brand computers like the Acer predator and the HP blackbird, which cost easily in the $10K mark. For the most hardware cooling they normally tend to four most common cooling methods, one is the passive, active cooling, when the fans are involved, water-cooling and the most effective liquid nitrogen cooling. For most the principle of computer is to never, mix electric good to any water or liquid substances, and find out that the computer doesn’t work or shock you in a way. But for Hardcore computers Inc. it show how they can successfully mix water and electricity.
The Reactor is a new type of cooling, in which you submerge the whole PC components into water. Really, this sounds amazing to place the no. 1 culprit of computer damage and insurance void to a computer component, but the whole thing! The whole submersion thing is half true, they don’t use real water or the thing will never work, but a special oil that has the same properties of water but less conductive than water. For the example, the water-cooling uses a low-conductive water to lower the risk of damage to the electrical components, when a leak occurs.
The Reactor, have a core spec of having Intel processors, NVIDIA graphics and also windows ultimate OS system. For NVIDIA choice in discrete graphics is unknown to me, but I do know is that NVIDIA runs cooler other than the ATI radeon HDxxxx, which in turn with the extra cooling from submerging can be easily used to over-clock in a higher rate. For the cooling/case is finding that the design is a large and heavy case with half of the space holding the radiator block and the other half is the water, or the oil. In the specs of four Intel Core 2 duo and Quad processors, NVIDIA Geforce 9800GTX, GHTX260 and 280 with SLI, and the motherboard with the choice of having the 780i and the 790i Ultra.
The test beds for the Reactor is a good performance even with the dual core E8500 or burn a bit more money, you have a quad core ready to be overclocked. With the performance is good all-round with the CPU depends on what you choose works well with a 4Gb memory stick with DDR2 memory in the 1066MHz with good latency. With the overclocking, is a most exciting part of the system, with enough headroom for a few more MHz for a staggering 100MHz more, if you can? But for a cool silent, is not a good note for the reactor, with the radiator con sometimes is loud when run the whole day, it is like a fridge humming in the background. For the extreme choice is cooling and looks stunning the reactor is the one to buy in just less than $5000, fully submerged!
For as much as I know, Antec goes pretty well on the built of their cases and also power supplies, with some being one of the best choice for most computer and also gaming computers. With Antec’s, and my favorite, the performance one P182 SE revision, one of the most versatile cases I have ever seen, with some of the cases in independent computer stores are also good, but for the usual people, they like the variation of PC cases. For the more mainstream cases like the P182, the gaming PC is a ultimate reason for a cases to be open with a lot of air flow and very appealing to the eyes, for the Antec 900 is one of them.
For the Antec 900 is a the middle variant of the gaming series of Antec, with the 300 is the cheaper unit while the 1200 is the ultimate case with the full-tower configuration and can even fit a skulltrail with no problems, but the only problem with it is where you going to place the case and also being heavy when fully configured. For the Antec is a mid-tower form factor to fit a full ATX motherboard. With the open window and a look of a cage rather than a maximum security detention unit, you can see with the fan LED’s on to have it glowing in the dark. For the Antec 900, it has two front LED fans and have an external 5.2in optical drives with the front covered with aluminum mesh. With dual phase cooling the cool air going inside at the front and exhausting in the back or in the top of the large 200mm fan.
With the case can hold up to nine internal or all external 5.2in optical drives, with the two fans below is bundled with he case which can hold to six 3.5in HDD bays. With the optional side fans to exhaust the GPU heat and with the back and top fans to exhaust the CPU and the motherboard, for two or triple phase exhaust. For the most part the power supply is placed at the bottom, the motherboard not having a worry for side 24-pin in the side, but on the top is a hassle for some, while the fans when turned to the max is not bad for the game is played in high or deaf when using the earphones, the noise level is about 50dBA at load and at idle is at 35dBA for the much anticipated a bit of loud noise and also not bad force of air flow, can sometimes increase the chance that you need to clean the case in a week, so the filter can be an extra with the Antec 900.
For most the versatility of the case with good air flow and a look of a gaming case, with an attractive price, for about less than $160 you can have a gaming PC with that, for the think I like most is that it doesn’t look neat to me, for it looks bare, but for a cheap gaming case the Antec is a great choice.
HP now famous for their mainstream computing for most in a budget but not getting them in the right spot for performance, tries out the gaming industry instead. With the new blackbird 002 being one of their first in the business to come up with, and the help of their own merged company with Voodoo, more like the Dell company with their own Alienware counterpart, try to make something useful for the bigger gaming industry.
The HPS own Blackbird 002 is a gaming, or almost a industry grade computer case who wants a good heavy and also expensive way to get a computer with the much grunt when playing Crysis in really high res and quality. For most of the major providers of built computers, they are up most in the problem with independent computer stores with better price and also higher performance variants. With having a problem with people making their own budget computer, it not a bad excuse to a more high-performance computers; for most people they considering having a high priced computer to have an ultimate gaming PC, while your half right, you do tend to have to add a bit more on asking price but not that much for one in much as $7000.
For the Blackbird is all the as with the other major gaming PC providers, but for this one they also have a selection of their own configuration, with the configuration as fixed with their own four but good configurations into your system. With the choice of having an Intel Core 2 E8400, to the extreme Quad core QX9770. With the use of NVIDIA 780 or the 790i ultra boards, for what reason they used NVIDIA chipsets rather than Intel ones. for the choice of chipset is unknown to me, the good thing is that they can SLI two GTX260 or the 280 with no problem with air cooling or even better a water-cooling system.
With the testing of the computer, can be in a mixed bag for me, with the choice or four good CPU’s and the fastest single core GPU’s, is hard to choose. So I got an Intel QX9650, with 4GB of DDR3 memory, with a SLI GTX260 and in a water-cooling state. For the score in the raw performance in memory and CPU is great all-round with the help of the NVIDIA 790i ultra, gave the system faster speed and higher scores, with the video test in Crysis can be played in high quality and in resolution for about 50fsp in the average.
For much of the good major providers battling on the more gaming industry, in as much as I think of, they did pretty well with the blackbird, with the same as the Acer predator, they have not touched the core clock speed, and a water-cooling for your convenience, but no one can beat the self-served customization.
The Antec series of their own performance one cases for the most it is a more of aesthetics and function reasons of the case that really helps it to be a more of a high prized case. For the most, of the performance one cases the previous ones, in which are the P180 cases, are a great bet for a normal and a practical case for most users, with the use of air filters to limit the problem of dust coming the case and an almost a box made out of aluminium that separated PSU, motherboard and the two 5.25in and 3.2in drive and optical bays, for a more organized placement of the case.
For the refurbished look of the P182 is the same style P180 design, with the case having a full brushed aluminium and a plastic aluminium layer, you would expect a less or no feel of vibrations made by loosely fitted fans or high rpm fans. With a front door of the case having a magnet to hold when closed and the 2cm clearance to have in making them as vents for it to take air in when the door is closed. For the thumb screws coming in all of the drive bays and the motherboard, the HDD bays are removed by the side and moved in a sideway fashion. For they can hold up to three hard-drives each on the top and bottom bays with two cooling fans in the front to push the air flow to the HDD bay. With a maximum of about five fans you can have in the P182, with the additional of having a watercooling block compliant on to the side of the case with a back panel speed control for an easy switch to high and then to low when the cooling factor is no that necessary.
With the case design to have a triple cooling design, the chambers as they are called, have two separate inlet and outlet that cool specific parts the bottom has to cool the three bottom HDD’s and the PSU then out, the front cooling the Three top HDD, then the motherboard and going up or back of the case. For the noise that the total of five relatively small fans make is relatively quiet is some cases, but you can still hear the whirring sound inside the case.
With keeping the board and other parts of the case cool is not bad for the start the CPU going in a hot 66degrees on a really hot piece of CPU we can find, and it is a Quad core QX6850 and the graphics with the hotter 4870 in crossfire is not bad in the idle going with 38 degrees and then 50 degrees in load for the others the Hard-drive in RAID 0 with two in each of the bays top and bottom, is a good enough 30 degrees in use. For the most it was a hot day for me when using it. Probably using in a cool area you can have a few 5 to up most 10 degrees off the overall temp of all items placed.
For the most is can be a good case for the most with the better use of filters and also the plastic vibration dampener, it can be a good practical case for some, they would like it with the choice of a clean reflective cover.
