[H]ardNews 7th Edition

ASUS Does ATi:

Exactly one month ago to the day, there were reports that ASUS might announce an ATi based video card at Computex. Then, we had ATI video cards showing up on the ASUS website cementing the fact that ASUS will be producing ATi based video cards. To go along with all of this, we have some great rumor mill stuff too. We heard rumors that there will be an announcement on the 30th ( tomorrow ) of this new partnership. Bad news for NVIDIA, good news for ATi and very good news for consumers because ASUS is known for making great video cards with all the bells and whistles. Interesting development, let’s see what happens.

Albatron GeForce FX5900 Turbo:

How about a little Albatron GeForce FX5900 Turbo review action? The Albatron card is sporting their proprietary brand of cooling called “wise fan”. Albatron makes a very nice card, and the Oc Prices fellas seemed to really like them too.

I'm starting to sound like a broken record, but this is yet another case of Albatron making a superb video card...which is unfortunately based around nVidia hardware. It seemed like nVidia was really back on the right track with the NV35, but now it seems that they still have a long way to go.

Silent PC Project:

It must be that time of the year again where the “silent PC” projects come to life. System Cooling has the latest in a long line of Silent PC projects sharing some of their ideas to silence the beast under your desk…in your closet…in your head. Heh.

We had high expectations going into this project, but in truth, the Silent PC turned out better than we ever expected. Not since the days of the Pentium II have we had a computer that was so quiet, and at a performance level never dreamed of back then.