Weekend Waffle II

The weekend waffle is our new weekend feature where we re-cap on those articles that have proved popular, as well as sharing some community news from the Overclockers Forums and distilling some of the best news and reviews from across the internet.

Top Articles

In case you missed them the first time round, the top three articles this week are linked below.

• Our i3/i5/i7 Overclocking Guide by MIAHALLEN proves ever popular. The full article can be found here.
• Setting Up OS RAID with Windows 7 Ultimate by Joetek was our second most popular article this week, located here.
• Our recent article on Overclocking the New Phenom II X6 1075T was also popular, where hokiealumnus managed to squeeze well over 4 GHz out of this new chip.

On the Forums

The manufacturer of the Crystal Edge acrylic case we reviewed recently has offered a 20% discount for Overclockers.com forums members. Please see this forum thread for details. It’s not the easiest case to assemble, but definitely looks the part once it’s up and running.

From the Internet

Our friends at Silent PC review (SPCR) recently published an article on torture-testing fanless power supplies. Naturally, a lot of our readers and forum members are more interested in how fast it goes rather than how quiet it is, but these fanless power supplies can prove useful for applications such as home-theatre PCs (HTPCs). The five units they tested pretty much covered the spectrum: from a modern unit that performed flawlessly, to units that cope alright, to a unit that appeared to be ATX 1.3! Also on SPCR is a review of a rather nice-looking small form-factor Lian Li case, the PC-Q08.

It’s not quite overclocking, but The Hill report that the FCC will soon be able to regulate the volume of TV adverts.

Browser statistics from CNet.com (found via HardOCP.com) show that Google Chrome has made steady gains in browser share over the past year.

Finally, Conceivably Tech report that the current trend of adding more and more cores to personal computer CPUs may soon hit a ‘soft wall’ at 48 cores, and face considerable efficiency issues at 16. These limitations will require new operating system design to overcom.

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Do you want to write for Overclockers.com? Do you have an interesting review or article? If so, contact one of the Lead Editors via PM on the forums, who will put you in touch with the relevant Content Editor. If you have any interesting links for next week’s Waffle, send them to david [at] overclockers (dot) com.

• Brett (splat)
• David (David)
• Jeremy (hokiealumnus)
• Matt (I.M.O.G.)
• Matt (mdcomp)