Archive for August 9th, 2008

“With a display that can accept 1080p/24fps signals, this player’s picture quality is truly top class. Detail is astonishing and colours are vivid and lifelike. SD DVDs don’t fare so well compared to a dedicated DVD player with upscaling but they’re still good. A bigger issue for multimedia junkies is the lack of media support – MP3, WMA, JPEG and DivX files are not compatible. The player also lacks resume (of a Blu-ray Disc), which is annoying if you have stop a movie unexpectedly or change a setting from the menu. If you are looking for a reasonably priced entry into the world of high-def movies, then you could do a lot worse than choose this one. At this price, it’s a steal – especially for Sharp Aquos HDTV owners.”

http://www.biosmagazine.co.uk/rev.php?id=786

Digit-Life Review: Graphics Card + Processor, Part 3

Excerpt:
“We have already researched into the most balanced PC configuration, but it seems this problem has no ends. Today our objective is to increase game resolutions to 1680×1050 and add the most resource-consuming modern games.”

Article: http://www.digit-life.com/articles3/video/video-cpu-power-game-2-p1.html

TweakPC has posted a new article.

Titel:
USB-Stick Mega Roundup

Teaser:
42 USB-Sticks are compared in our Roundup, but we don’t look at the performance only. We also explain the technic and show what to
pay attention to if you want to buy an USB-Stick.

Link:
http://www.tweakpc.de/hardware/tests/datenspeicher/usb_stick_roundup/s01.php

Please note the little flag on the site for an automatic translation.

Title: Cyber Snipa Sonar 5.1 USB Headset Review on Technic3D

Link: http://www.technic3d.com/article-684,1-cyber-snipa-sonar-5.1-auf-positionssuche.htm

Quote: “The Cyber Snipa Sonar 5.1 USB-Headset arrived Technic3D. Technic3D will see as good they are with eight speakers against a Stereo Headset with two speakers.”

CPU3D Coverage: Multiplay i34 aka M-Festival Coverage (Part I)

CPU3D is proud to present a full and comprehensive coverage of the Multiplay i34 LAN event aka M-Festival, with a more than 2,500+ gamers attending. It is one of UK’s largest LAN event and this time it’s being held at Stoneleigh Park, Conventry. It’s our third time we’ve attended, we’ll be giving an exclusive and comprehensive coverage … right here @ CPU3D. We’ll be checking out the booths from manufactuers such as Coolermaster Crucial, Foxconn, MSI, Antec and many more. Retailers Scan, Aqua PCs, Kustom PCs and CyberPower will also have booths to show off their new range of products.

Read the rest of the coverage here … http://www.cpu3d.com/content/view/5603/47/

Gigabyte X48T-DQ6 Motherboard Review motherboards.org

Author: Ben Sun Date: 08-08-2008

Gigabyte tends to release many motherboards on the same chipset and the X48 is no exception with no less than four X48 motherboards currently on their website. The X48T-DQ6 supports all of the latest Intel Core 2 Quad/Extreme/Duo CPUs and also supports the older Prescott CPUs which some motherboards don’t due to the VRM 11.1 specification. The qualified memory support on the board is rather light as to their Qualified Vendor List on their website, with the lack of Samsung DDR3 memory above 1066MHz and no Crucial memory support on the QVL list at all though both companies’ memory worked great when I tried them. Not exactly an Editor’s Choice due to its lack of DDR3 support, but it is a Hot Product as it still has plenty of available options that make it worth taking a look at.

Review Link: http://www.motherboards.org/reviews/motherboards/1802_1.html