Merry Christmas from Elite Bastards!
With just hours to go until Christmas Day begins here in the UK (you did remember to defrost the turkey, didn't you?آ Wrap the presents?), all that remains for me to do here is to wish all of our readers a very Merry Christmas from all of us at Elite Bastards - We hope that you all have a great time whatever you're doing, and with any luck some of you will find some shiny new hardware to play with come the big day!آ If so (and in fact regardless of what you get), don't be shy and come and let us know what goodies have made your day in our forum!آ Once again, have a great Christmas everybody!
- Hanners and the rest of the Elite Bastards staff
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Christmas Eve news round up
'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring... because they were all checking out our latest batch of recent news and reviews.
Video cards, CPUs and motherboards
- ASUS ENGT240 1GB DDR3 review at Bjorn 3D
- ASUS Maximus III Formula review at Pure Overclock
- Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD6 Motherboard review at Benchmark Reviews
- XFX and GIGABYTE RADEON HD 5970 CrossfireX review at Motherboards
Cases, cooling and power supplies
- Xigmatek Midgard Case review at RB Mods
- Titan Fenrir TTC-NK85TZ CPU Cooler review at Tweak News
- Ultra X4 750W Power Supply review at Driver Heaven
- Evercool HPH-9525EA CPU Cooler review at Hardware Secrets
- 9-Way 850W Power Supply round up at Hardware Canucks
- Aero Cool V12 Touch-screen Fan Controller review at Driver Heaven
- Zalman CNPS10X Extreme CPU Cooler review at Tweak News
- Everything You Need to Know About Batteries at Hardware Secrets
Storage and memory
- QNAP TS-419U Turbo NAS review at Overclockers Online
- Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB review at Tech Gage
- SanDisk 8GB Memory Stick PRO Duo review at TechWare Labs
- AXUS FiT300EB-I : HDD Rack with integrated RAID review at Tweak PC
- Team Group Xtreem 2000 MHz CL7 6GB Kit review at techPowerUp
- SATA 6Gbps Implementation Investigated - ASUS vs. GIGABYTE P55 at Tweak Town
- QNAP TS-439U-RP Rackmount NAS review at Think Computers
Systems and input devices
- Steelseries Siberia v2 review at Tweak PC
- ViewSonic VOT132 NVIDIA Ion Nettop review at Tweak Town
- Masscool MP-1371RS Media Player review at Think Computers
- Asus O!Play HDP-R1 Digital Media Player review at Hot Hardware
- Verizon HP Mini 1151NR Netbook review at Hardware Secrets
- Verizon HP Mini 311-1037NR Netbook review at Test Freaks
- Belkin Washable Travel Mouse and Pouch Pad review at Dragon Steel Mods
Software
- GFI WebMonitor 2009 review at Business Computing World
- 15 Fantastic Firefox Add-Ons You Didn't Know About at Real Xtreme
- 20 Essential Gmail Tips You Probably Don't Use (but Should!) at Maximum PC
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DFI not quitting consumer motherboard market
Earlier this week rumours abound that DFI would be pulling out of the motherboard market, to the disappointment of many - However, DFI themselves have now come out to officially state that this won't be the case, although it appears that they'll be streamlining their product range somewhat in the future.
According to Jarry, DFI will concentrate more on MI-ITX and Hybrid products, although they will continue to sell X58 ATX models as well.
Expreview carries the good news.
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AMD Radeon HD 4000 series has 'known performance issues' with OpenCL
For some time now we've been looking forward to OpenCL and what it can bring to the world of general purpose computing which uses a GPU for its processing power.آ However, if you're a Radeon HD 4000 series graphics board user, it appears as though you might have to revise your expectations for OpenCL performance downward somewhat, at least unless the developer of said application gives specific consideration to the functionality of your card.
Villmow later qualified that response by saying, "[the Radeon HD 4870] just has to be programmed differently than the 5XXX series to get performance because of the lack of proper hardware local support. It is possible to get good performance, just not with a direct port from Cuda [Nvidia's GPU compute architecture]." He also stressed that AMD's compiler stack will include more device-specific optimizations as it matures.
The Tech Report has more on this story.
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