Tuesday, August 26, 2003

Daily mailbox: Bjorn3D, HardwareZone, OCWorkbench — Cormac @ 15:24 

Kingwin KWI-450WABK Divine Power Supply Review @ Bjorn3d

"At first I was quite surprised how light the unit is, but then I remembered that it is aluminum, which of course really helps it remain light. A general rule about PSUs is that higher quality ones are typically heavier, but the KWI-450WABK is breaking that rule a little bit I think. The lightweight aluminum casing should help you keep that light aluminum case just the way you like it —- light!"

Read more at Bjorn3D.

HWZ article: WD Raptor RAID Performance

"The Western Digital Raptor is undoubtedly one of industry´s fastest Serial ATA drive. Spinning at an incredible 10,000RPM, the drive is able to handle high data throughputs via its the new Serial ATA interface which is capable of delivering speeds of up to 150MB/s."

Read more at HardwareZone.

More K8 Benchmarks coming on OCW

"Here is another commonly used benchmark Quake 3 Demo 001 (1024x768x32) that you can use to gauge the performance of AMD K8 3100. The benchmark is done using Tyan Radeon 9700Pro with 1 x 512M Corsair XMS3500C2. Drivers used Catalyst 3.2 (7.84)."

Read more at OCWorkbench.