Hardwarezone reviews the Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 motherboard which supports Intel’s new Core 2 Duo CPUs. Hardwarezone gives this motherboard a final score of 4.5/5 and the ‘Most Overclockable Product Award’ writing in the conclusion:
The GA-965P-DS3 is the mainstream offering from Gigabyte’s new S-series Core 2 Duo ready motherboards featuring the Intel P965 chipset. Like MSI’s P965 [...]
ATI has released the new Catalyst 6.8 WHQL certified driver version. Release highlights include performance gains in DirectX and OpenGL applications (3dMark06, Call of Duty 2, Doom 3, Quake 4, Chronicles of Riddick and Prey) and many resolved issues.
You can read the release note here.
Download ATI Catalyst 6.8
Phoronix reviews the Abit KN9 Ultra motherboard which supports AMD’s Socket AM2 processors and features Dual Gigabit LAN and IEEE-1394a. Phoronix gives this motherboard a score of 9/10 along with the Editor’s Choice Award and writes:
The KN9 Ultra was backed by phenomenal GNU/Linux support even when it came to monitoring the hardware sensors. The number [...]
BCCHardware reviews the Zalman CNPS8000 CPU cooler which supports Intel’s Socket 775 and AMD’s Sockets 754, 939 and 940(AM2). BCCHardware gives this cooler a rating of 9.2 out of 10 and writes:
Zalman has released yet another quiet cooler. This cooler differs from their other coolers as it is made to fit in smaller spaces than [...]
NVidia has released the new ForceWare 91.45 driver version for the GeForce 7950 GX2. Release highlights include:
Adds support for Quad NVIDIA SLI™ Technology on GeForce 7950 GX2 GPUs. For more information on Quad NVIDIA SLI, please visit this website.
Includes the new NVIDIA Control Panel. Please visit the NVIDIA Control Panel website for more information.
New NVIDIA [...]