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Ultra-X RST Pro PCI Express ™

SUMMARY: Extremely thorough test for both RAM and system integrity. The good guys at Ultra-X were nice enough to send a sample of their RST Pro PCI Express ™ memory tester to use in evaluating PC RAM. RST Pro PCI

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BookMooch? . . .

There’s a new website and concept out there called BookMooch. The idea behind it is: You list the books you own that you don’t want any more, as do others. You also list the books you want, as do others.

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Some Better Numbers . . .

HKEPC has detailed breakdowns on how many desktop CPUs AMD sold the first half of the year, and what they would like to sell the second half. We used to see these estimates years ago, but this is the first

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Adding Fuel To The Fire . . .

AMD apparently wants to sell an extra three million CPUs a quarter the rest of the year. How much is that? Assuming a pretty good second half of the year, that’s about 5% of expected world demand during that period.

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The Next Story . . .

The big story the next few weeks, maybe the next few months, will be Conroe availability. So far, things aren’t looking too good, especially for the upper-end models. Per Intel, no Conroes bought on the retail side are supposed to

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Antazone AS-C1000

SUMMARY: Interesting design, moderate performance and noise. The good guys at Antazone were nice enough to send a sample of the Antazone AS-C1000 to check out. Key Features Three heat pipes with radial fin pattern Copper fins and base Fan

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Silly and Sillier . . .

Maybe I’m just hot and grumpy, but . . . . Mozilla announced that they’ve had two hundred million downloads of Firefox. Unfortunately, their announcement wobbles between silly and sillier. Silly? To quote: “Let me start off by saying that

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Corsair HX620W Modular Power Supply

Corsair is reknown for their memory products, however, as of today they are entering a new market segment with the introduction of a new line of modular power supplies, the HX Series. Here is a first hand look at the