October 7 News from Around the Web

[Amy]

SilverStone ST60EF 600 Watt Power Supply Review

In today's world 600Watts may not sound like much but it is really more than enough power for the average user and there are several aspects of the SilverStone ST60EF that help to reinforce this

@ Ninjalane


Tuesday Web Reviews:

HARDWARE

DFI exclusively shows us its LANPARTY UT X58 mobo
Sapphire HD4870 Toxic Review @ OCC
Cooler Master Ultimate Circuit Protection UCP-900WATT Power Supply Review @ Tweaknews.net
NZXT Khaos Full Tower Enclosure
Belkin F5D8053 WiFi N Wireless Adapter @ Benchmark Reviews
XFX 9800GTX+ SLI Video Card Review
ECS X48T-A Black Edition Motherboard Review
Thermaltake PW850i Watercooling Kit Review
ASUS EAH4870 TOP Radeon HD 4870 @ HotHardware.com
Thermaltake BlacX Review @ ASE Labs
Sapphire Pure PC-AM2RX780 Review @ OCC
Thermaltake PW 850I Pro Water CPU Liquid Cooling System Review @ Tweaknews.net
Sapphire Radeon HD 4550 Graphics Card
HighPoint RocketRAID 2640X4 PCI-E SAS Controller
Gigabyte 9800GT 512MB Video Card Review

Software

Free Anti-Virus Roundup @ Velocity Reviews

Events

Video coverage of the GIGABYTE GO OC 2008 event

Games

GTR Evolution - PC Review

[unfaithfulsfan]

HighPoint RocketRAID 2640X4 PCI-E SAS Controller
Just installed one of these in a server I built for a collection agency. Used the PCIE x16 slot because there is no need for anything other than onboard graphics for this build. Aside from a bit of confusion in setting up the card's BIOS (due to poorly written documentation and a bit of cerebral flatulence on my part), install was a breeze and all four drives recognized right off the bat. Pretty sweet. Haven't noticed any decline in performance of the 4 150GB Raptors used. Still very fast.

System specs:
Win XP PRO SP3
Antec 300 Case
OCZ 600 Watt PSU
GIGABYTE GA-G31M-S2L
Intel Q6600 (Stock)
4 GB Kingston PC26400 RAM
Samsung SATA 20x DVD R/RW (Connected to Port 1 on mobo)
4 WD 150 GB Raptor HDD
Sony Floppy Drive
HighPoint RocketRAID 2640X4 PCI-E SAS Controller

Jack