More X2 6000+, The Asus P3N32-E SLI Plus, & BFG's 1KU PSU

by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, February 21, 2007, 01:00 PM EDT

There's a steady flow if news rolling in today. A trio of our compatriots have posted some reviews we thought you'd like to check out. First up, the Tech Report has posted a review of AMD's brand new Athlon 64 X2 6000 . They tested the CPU with the 64-bit version of Vista, so if you'd like to see how it stacks up to the Core 2 Duo in a 64-bit environment, TR's got the scoop.

[H]Enthusiast has a review posted of the Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus. As its name implies, this mobo is based upon and NVIDIA nForce SLI chipset, but what makes it somewhat unique is that Asus bolted together the nForce 650i SLI chipset with the older 570 SLI SB to make a sort of hybrid board that supports true 32-lane SLI. Turned out to be a decent overclocker too, once some early BIOS wrinkles were ironed out.

Finally, our friends at PCPerspective have just posted up a review of BFG Tech's System 1000 Power Supply. Performance was good for the most part, but they did find excessive AC ripple under heavy load.

Tags: Asus, PSU, sli, BFG, X2, 6000, K, N3

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com