Monday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 11:46 AM on May 19, 2008

Monday

1. Breaking news: Condé Nast/Wired acquires Ars Technica
   (Ars Technica writes its own low-down here)
2. Yahoo! remains open to value maximizing transactions
3. AnandTech comments on AMD's Game!: raising the bar for mainstream gaming PCs
4. TG Daily reports Samsung demos 82" 2160p HDTV
5. OCWorkBench has HD 4850 & HD 4870 3DMark06 comparison
6. Fudzilla reports Intel's D945GCLF Atom board up for pre-order
   and RV770Pro engineering sample works at 625MHz
7. PCGH reports AMD's RV700 will have 480 shader-ALUs? (in German)
8. DigiTimes reports 3 Intel chipsets to see price increase due to Sichuan quake
   and Asus drops WiMAX from Eee PC 901
9. Sharky Extreme's May value gaming PC buyer's guide
10. DailyTech on building an "iron man" pt. II: jet-powered, winged flight
11. bit-tech's Left4Dead hands-on preview
12. 3dGameMan's NZXT Tempest case giveaway

Systems

1. Ars Technica pits RISC vs. CISC in the mobile era
2. ThinkComputers reviews Alienware Hangar18 HD entertainment center
3. HotHardware films motherboards gone wild: MSI's P45 sneak peek in Taipei
4. Overclockers Club reviews MSI P7N Diamond
5. Techgage reviews Gigabyte GA-X48T-DQ6
6. Overclockers Online reviews Biostar TF7150U-M7
7. Benchmark Reviews on 4GB Aeneon DDR3-1600 XMP dual channel kit
8. HardwareLogic reviews 4GB Corsair Dominator PC2-9136 dual channel kit

Graphics

1. Phoronix on AMD FireGL V8600: Linux vs. Windows
2. Techware Labs review Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 X2
3. Hardware Canucks review Sapphire HD 3870 512MB
4. HEXUS.net pits Sapphire's non-conventional Radeon HD 3800 cards head-to-head
5. MetkuMods review Gainward Bliss 9800 GX2
6. Björn3D reviews Sparkle GeForce 9800 GTX
7. [M]adshrimps have TwinTech & Vvikoo overclocked 9600 GT 5-way roundup
8. Motherboards.org reviews ECS N8800GT-256MX

Multimedia and casing

1. Guru3D reviews Cyber Snipa Sonar 5.1 Pro headset
2. TweakTown reviews Logitech Harmony One universal remote
3. bit-tech reviews Lian Li PC-V1110 case
4. Overclocker Café reviews Eagle Consus N-Type and I-Type drive enclosures
5. Mikhailtech reviews Vantec NexStar hard drive dock

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