We'll have a peek at a 1.2 Kilowatt PSU, this time from the folks at Sirtec. Oh did I already mention that the unit is only 245 EUR ? That flips things around doesn't it ?

Today AMD will launch the Radeon 3000 series products, in specifically the Radeon HD 3850 and 3870. I'll give you a quick hint, these cards are roughly as fast a Radeon HD 2900 XT .. yet they are priced a very promising level; how does a price range of 149 to 249 USD sound ? See, performance wise a 149 USD Radeon HD 3850 will wipe the floor with the entire competitors GeForce 8500/8600 series easily and the 3870 will put up a great fight with the 8800 GTS. With new releases often also we can see a couple of new tricks. Today's announced products will see light of in the form of DirectX 10.1 support, the new UVD (video de/encoding) engine is now integrated opposed to the 2900 XT which didn't have it. Full PCI-Express 2.0 support, and a die-size based on 55nm to die for.

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Today's tested product will come from Inno3D, in the past we have tested a lot of their products. They offer good quality products. Earlier this year they introduced a very powerful concept with their custom cooled solutions under the label iChill. A big hit from the very beginning. Today's product does not come from that iChill line, yet from their OC edition graphics cards. Along those lines Inno3D seems to have caught up with the enthusiast market, the market where products are differentiated and no longer are based on run of the mill reference clocked products. Today therefore it is with no surprise to see their new OC based product. A 512MB GeForce 8800 GT default overclocked to such a high level, that even made me scratch behind my ears.