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I apologize for the lapse in posting for the last week, I had been preparing and then benching at the regional qualifier for Gigabyte in Los Angeles. I flew out of Atlanta on Friday morning and I just landed 2 hours ago, safe and sound in Atlanta. Here’s a quick breakdown of the competition, I sadly haven’t got any pictures so I ganked some from other benchers/media.

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I would say for every two articles that I publish, one article never sees the light of day. I don’t often speak with other writers about their topic development and writing habits but I imagine all individuals have their own little rituals. My topics typically spawn from those moments when I blank out, absentmindedly staring at something. This does make for some awkward stares back, especially when I find myself staring at another person, but I don’t even realize it until I’m finished thinking. So after blanking out for a few seconds, what happens next?

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A little over 1.5 years ago I wrote about Asus launching an external graphics card for laptop consumers. Remotely locating the hot and power hungry GPU to a desktop located platform would bring laptops up to speed with desktops in the one department they are seriously lacking. Current performance GPUs easily chew through 75 to 125 watts which is easily double the power consumption of your average laptop computer. AMD is hoping to tap into the mobile market with an external graphics card with a custom graphical port permitting consumers to render images on both the internal laptop screen or up to 4 external displays.

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Since I’m now living in a fraternity house for the summer, I had to find a place to stash a computer for my daily activities. After investigating for a few hours I found a rather empty and unused office room. Grabbing what was available around me, I quickly setup shop so I could continue to partake in twittering, blogging, and Rick Rolling. In hopes of reducing the risk of losing my spare computer to sneaky gremlins and drunk college students, I disguised it as a rather innocuous box. It could only get better if I could somehow hide the screen.

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I believe it’s been a lengthy 5 months since I’ve slapped together one of these guides. I’d say I’m a bit overdue, so here we go.

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I just feel obligated to call to everyones attention that Nehalem looks to be a multi-threaded monster. While at Computex in Taiwan, Anandtech managed to snag two Nehalem systems, one at 2.66Ghz and one at 2.93GHz. Using pre-production boards with some serious bugs slightly impacted the scores recorded but even with these penalties, Nehalem bested an equally clocked Yorkfield. Roughly guessing from these results, Nehalem will walk all over AMD’s Phenom and quite possibly the 45nm Shanghai shrink unless the cache latencies are addressed. I look forward to the Nehalem launch, it promises to be as big as the original Conroe launch that seems to be so long ago.

Al Gore invented the Internet, we all know that. We also know that the Internet is a series of tubes and we can’t continue to clog these tubes. Time Warner has decided to start testing a system that financially punishes those users that heavily utilize the Internet in a move to manage traffic increases. Typically American’s purchase decent broadband connections with unlimited bandwidth caps within normal usage. Certain service providers have un-documented bandwidth caps but these typically range near a terabyte of data per month. Time Warner has set it’s base package with a cap of 5 gigabytes per month. Just to put this in perspective, a single-layer DVD is 4.7 gigabytes and a single-layer Blu-Ray is 25GB.

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Today I have a long put-off review of the Gigabyte 8800GT. The 8800GT happens to be rather “old” card in the grand scheme of things however it’s still a very powerful card and very attractive in it’s current price point. The 8800GT was originally launched in October 2007 and over the course of 7 months it’s drastically dropped in price will still being a powerful player in the midrange GPU market. Gigabyte has re-worked the PCB used with this card and features a factory overclock, do these extra features make this card even more competitive?

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