[H]ardNews 2nd Edition

Asus V9999GE and Sapphire X800Pro

Driverheaven takes a look at these two cards today. Both cards make an excellent choice as far as performance goes, but considering the price of the Asus card and it only being a 12 pipe solution, the 6800GT would be a better choice if Nvidia is your thing.

Around the same time the 6800 arrived we also received Sapphire’s take on the X800Pro, a competitively priced product to the Asus 6800 so it makes sense to look at them both in the same article.

Chaintech SK8T800

It just amazes me how much prices have dropped on Athlon64 motherboards. Take the Chaintech SK8T800 over at Cluboverclocker for example. With a MSRP of only $64 it's getting cheaper and cheaper to get into 64 bit computing. This isn't really a board for overclockers, though, so keep that in mind before purchasing.

The Chaintech SK8T800 will make a very rock solid foundation to any performance oriented system build with 100% stability in mind.

Dual Opteron Synthesizer

Man, I start to feel bad when I see musical instruments with more computing power than my main box. That's just the case with the OpenSynth neKo 64 that Paul sent me a link to. Not only does it have support for Dual Opterons, but it even has a 15" LCD built into it.

64 bit Processing: neKo 64™ is equipped with the state-of-the-art Opteron 64 bit processor from AMD, providing unsurpassed performance in a single or dual processor configuration.