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8600GT Results from Xsreviews

Xsreviews has just benching this new mainstream card. And the results are quite amazing for a 128bit-card. It almost stand side-by-side with 1950pro which has twice memory bandwith (256bit). Of course such comparison is not appropriate because this is a brand new technology with new architecture and dx10. Below is some 3dmark results from xsreview. Nonetheless, what a shame its only 128bit.

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PCSTATS: Gigabyte’s Silent-pipe 3 & All-Solid Caps Design

Well this new silent pipe seems promising. Of course you would not expect to make some moderate overclock with this cooler in your cards. This cooler will fit nicely on a media center PC or for those who aim to have a silent PC.On the other hand, Gigabyte will also give all-solid capacitors design with their graphic cards. Just like what they did with their S-series. Seem to me Gigabyte is going to the right direction. Where people have become more aware of each component’s durability. Lets hope that this new design will also help their new cards to overclock better.

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Intel’s Next Chipset: PCI-E 2.0 & ICH10

According to HKEPC, Intel unveils the plan for the next generation chipset (Eaglelake). Eaglelake (to be releasing in Q2 2008) features support on 1333MHz FSB processors like 45nm Dual-Core Wolfdate and Quad-Core Yorkfield. It will also features PCI-E 2.0 & ICH10. Details about ICH10 has not yet been unveiled, but PCI-E 2.0 should support 5GT/Link compared to 2GT/Link on PCI-E. Eaglelake has two derivatives, namely Eaglelake-P and Eaglelake-G.

Source: HKEPC

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