ASUS’ ATTEMPT at getting a netbook with a decent graphics core is on review at PC World. Despite the N10Jc's EeePC looks, it’s quite a different animal. Price aside (the N10Jc is tagged a bit higher than the usual netbooks), the 9300M GS IGP should get you your high-def HDMI fix, although PC World put in no benchmarks (we guess it will still stutter if you try to run HD 1080p video). Give it a look, here.
TweakTown has a review of Thermaltake’s VI-ON 2.5-inch USB HDD. It’s a very sensitive piece of kit, says Chris, and it’ll scratch very easily, but it is otherwise great. Pricing and performance are spot on, he says. Read the review, here.
Benchmark Reviews has a 10.2-inch EeePC on the bench. The 1000H 160GB is pimped as a 7-hour battery life netbook, which proven true, would be quite a surprise. Matt got something between 5 and 6 real-life hours, but that’s already quite impressive. Accessing the netbook’s entrails is quite easy, and there's nothing’s to stop you from swapping out the RAM for a 2GB stick... Worthy reading.
There’s still a lot to be had in DDR2-800 memory. A-Data, for instance has a 2x2GB DDR2-800 G-Series kit that runs DDR2-989 data rates for a little over $52. Mikhailtech has done a review of the memory, and we can’t say it disappoints. Powerful stuff on the cheap... Read it here.
Legion Hardware has the HIS Radeon HD 4850 IceQ 4 Turbo, a very tricked-out 4850 as you can imagine. Essentially this is an HD 4870 cooler stuck on the top of an HD 4850 kind of kit, you get better cooling, we’re sure, a bit of an overclock (a feeble 25MHz), but nothing really original. Still, it kicks the 9800GTX+ in the shins at high-resolution high-antialiasing settings. Read about it here.
Zotac’s lightweight 9400GT is on test at XS Reviews today. NV (and ATI for that matter) usually cut down the memory bus to a laughable 64-bits, but this wasn’t the case. The 9400GT sports just 16 “stream processors”, but according to XS it’s highly overclockable both in GPU and memory clock – even though it’s fully passive. £40 will get you one... stick it in an HTPC. Read it here.
Of course a day wouldn’t go by without us tripping on a few more Core i7 reviews, this time at Chile Hardware, Fudzilla and Boot Daily.
Source : http://www.theinquirer.net/
