ATI releases the new Catalyst 6.9 driver which introduces CrossFire support for the Intel 965 chipset. This feature is available for D3D applications and is supported by ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire edition products. Further release highlights include:
3DMark2006 overall performance improves 6.7-23.7% with anti-aliasing enabled due to improvements in HyperZ efficiency on the Radeon® X1300, X1600 [...]
HotHardware reviews the XFX GeForce 7950GT 570M Extreme graphics card which features a passive cooling solution. However, this card is a decent overclocker with very good performance. HotHardware gives a score of 8.5 out of 10 and writes in the conclusion:
In general the XFX GeForce 7950 GT 570M Extreme was slightly faster than a reference [...]
Legit Reviews has looked at the Corsair XMS2 DOMINATOR PC2-8888 memory kit and gives it the “Innovation Award”, writing in the final thoughts:
Corsair knows how to make memory and they know how to do it right. For years they have been leading the way and even though their attention has been side tracked with water [...]
ThinkComputers reviews the Titan Amanda TEC Cooler which seems to be pretty good for AM2 CPUs. ThinkComputers gives this cooler a final score of 9/10 and writes in the conclusion:
After being skeptical at first I was very impressed with the performance of the Titan Amanda TEC cooler. Out of all of the AM2 coolers we [...]
Tweaktown reviews the XFX GeForce 7900GS Extreme. This card seems to be made for overclocking because Tweaktown could increase the core clock 48% higher with the memory clock being 25% quicker. Tweaktown gives a final score of 9/10 and writes in the conclusion:
I actually tested the XFX GeForce 7900GS last out of the other graphics [...]