Monday Hardware Reviews

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Today PQI (formerly known as PMI) brings us their Turbo Memory 1GB PC4000 DDR dual channel kit. It's rated at an aggressive 2.5-3-3-7. It used to be that if you wanted PC4000 memory, you'd have to give up your latency to do so. This appears to no longer be the case with PQI's new PC4000 sticks.

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The Gigabyte 6600 GT (GV-NX66T128D) that we are reviewing today has proven once and for all that a mid-priced PCI-E video card is a viable alternative to the standard AGP card. Throughout our tests this card proved more than capable of playing any game we presented it with and did it with relative ease. When you speak of price versus performance this card proves that there are still great cards for good prices available.

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Today we’re examining the one of the first video cards that was available this summer for early adopters of the PCI-Express bus: the Gigabyte GV-RX60X128V. Based upon ATI’s X600 XT, the Gigabyte card was among the most powerful cards that were widely available at the time as the PCI-Express variants based on the X800 were extremely rare.

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However, having the number of different speeds of DDR 2 coming from as many of the memory manufacturers as they are, DDR 2 should be quite refined by the time most people migrate to it. During my testing, I noticed absolutely no problems with this memory. I am quite impressed with the results that I was able to achieve when overclocking the memory as well.

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So for the moment, DDR-2 is an interesting evolutionary step in the world of system memory, and manufacturers can only wait for consumer interest to catch up. If you are one of the very few to have a performance PC powered by DDR-2, this review is for you! In it, PCSTATS is testing out two brand new 512MB sticks of Corsair Twin2X1024-4300C3 DDR2 memory. Corsair is consistently a market leader in the memory field, and they were among the first to announce performance grade DDR-2 RAM for enthusiasts. Talk about being on the ball.

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Today 3DXtreme has the great pleasure of reviewing one of Asus’ offering to the AMD Athlon64 socket 939 line, the A8V Deluxe. Historically it has been shown that performance from one motherboard to another on the Athlon64 platform has been very close across all manufacturers. We really don’t expect things to change much with the A8V. We then shift to finding the motherboard that offers the most features for the enthusiast who is looking to overclock the Athlon64 to it’s maximum potential. Can the A8V prove to be the one that we have been looking for? Let’s find out...