Wednesday June 30, 2004

[H]ardNews 13th Edition

VapoChill Lightspeed:

Hexus has the Asetek VapoChill Lightspeed on the review bench for a little (actually a lot) hard core cooling action. The Lightspeed is virtually the same VapoChill you have come to know and love over the years only smaller.

The cooling performance is phenomenal, if you can stress it. Even if you can't, it's a better chiller than the XE, just noisier, and it'll really get into its stride with future processors.

AOpen GFFX 5900XT:

The 5900XT is “the” budget video card to get right now if you are a fan of NVIDIA based GPUs. PCStats has the review spotlight on the 5900XT from AOpen. Here is a snippet from the review:

Any card based around the GeForceFX 5900XT will be fast, and the AOpen GeForceFX 5900XT is no different. Performance at stock speeds was very good, and when the card was overclocked to 466/845, things were simply that much sweeter.

MSI RX9800Pro-TD128:

It looks like this MSI RX9800PRO-TD128 R9800XXL reviewed by Overclockers New Zealand is quite the performer when OC’d.

At default clock, MSI R9800Pro is just an ordinary R9800Pro, except for the huge software bundle. When overclocked to the maximum, MSI R9800Pro is faster than your standard R9800XT, despite having half the frame buffer.