Koolance is probably best know for their involvement in liquid cooling products for the overclocker and hardware enthusiast. But when Benchmark Reviews stumbled upon their booth at SC07 before the show opened, we noticed a few things different about their strategy. As it turns out, the Enterprise market will benefit from liquid cooling far more than the rest of us.

On day number one of SC07, the SuperComputing exposition hall was officially opened to the media and select visitors for open coverage. Many of those in attendance gravitated to some of the largest names in the high performance computing industry such as Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, and Intel. However Benchmark Reviews spent some quality time at a few exhibits by manufacturers with roots to the enthusiast segment. In this article we brief you on the Tesla project from NVIDIA.

SC07, or SuperComputing 2007, is an international conference dedicated to advances in high-performance computing, networking storage and analysis, is being held in Reno, Nevada - the home of Benchmark Reviews. Sunday November 11th 2007 was the last set-up day prior to the start of the event.

Benchmark Reviews owner and senior editor Olin Coles made an early afternoon arrival to complete press registration, but this day-0 event also allowed a behind the scenes look at the tremendous effort put into the construction of such a large scale event. Since this years event is expected to draw 9000 visitors, the 5.8 million dollar budget could easily be seen spread throughout the very large Reno-Sparks Convention Center.

Thanks largely in part to the hometown location of the event, Benchmark Reviews will offer insight to industry trends and research, from large corporate names such as Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Intel, Microsoft, and Cisco, to some of the growing market names like Super Talent and Gigabyte.

This is my short story of a first year visit to the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), and it supplements my 2008 International CES Computer Technology Highlights article. Prior to starting Benchmark Reviews in March 2007, I had only heard of the aftermath and accolades from the stories handed down from affiliate webmasters from the previous years' CES. Since I am a resident of Nevada, I feel the gravitational pull of Las Vegas more than a few times per year. But this year I was on a mission: meet the manufacturers, ask the important questions, and attend the parties. This is a diary of the most interesting experiences while I attended the 2008 International CES convention, and the lessons I learned the hard way. This article is dedicated to anyone who is considering, planning, or just slightly curious about joining the crowd in Sin City.

Reno, NV – October 18, 2007 –– For seven days, the Reno-Sparks Convention Center will be home to one of the most powerful and connected networks in the world – SCinet.

Built each year for the annual SC07 conference, SCinet brings to life a highly sophisticated and extreme networking infrastructure that can support the revolutionary applications and network experiments that have become the trademark of the annual SC07 conference held in Reno, Nevada, November 12-16, 2007.

Sponsored by ACM and the IEEE Computer Society, SC07 showcases the latest advances high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis. SCinet serves as the platform for SC07 exhibitors to demonstrate advanced computing resources from their home institutions and elsewhere by supporting supercomputing and grid computing applications.

Benchmark Reviews will be on the scene to experience SC07, which means you can expect many industry trends to be revealed by the end of the conference week.

Throughout all of 2008, I made it my mission to test every high-performance CPU cooler that Benchmark Reviews received. The Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad processors did their part to separate the cream of the crop from our large collection of LGA775 coolers. In our previous Best CPU Cooler Performance article, Benchmark Reviews retired the LGA775 platform from its testing duties and made room for the up-and-coming LGA1366 socket. It didn't take long to collect several CPU coolers designed for the Intel Core i7 CPU & X58 platform. This Best CPU Cooler Performance LGA1366 - Q1 2009 article focuses on a wide selection of performance-cooling products for overclockers. It's a mistake to think that any LGA775 cooler can do just as well with the new LGA1366/Core i7 platform; primarily because the size and location of processor cores has changed.

The breakneck pace of product development for graphics cards doesn't always generate bigger, faster, more powerful chips and cards. Sometimes a new product gets developed and introduced to the market that isn't a barn burner. Such is the case with this GTX260-based video card, the ASUS ENGTX260 Matrix. That doesn't mean it isn't a worthwhile product, or isn't worth the attention of Benchmark Reviews. Instead, it's usually a more focused design that is aimed at a tighter target market. As if the high end PC graphics card market isn't tight enough, ASUS has carved out a niche in their product line called Matrix, and adopted it into their Republic of Gamers.

The hallmarks of the Matrix range so far are enhanced cooling capacity, improved configurability, and unique visual designs. The 9800GT and HD4870 cards that were released in 2008 have a new sibling, the ENGTX260 Matrix, and there is clearly a family resemblance. This isn't the first GTX260 video card that Benchmark Reviews has tested, but let's see what's different about this one.

Last week's launch of the Phenom II X4 955 was a big win with the enthusiast crowd. This week, however, it looks like AMD has shifted focused to the mainstream market. Not only is the highly anticipated Radeon HD 4770 launching today, but also a new dual core Black Edition processor: the Athlon X2 7850 AD785ZWCGHBOX. Based on the updated K10 Kuma architecture, the 2.8GHz X2 7850 is poised to take over as AMD's flagship dual core processor. At only $69 USD, it's also shaping up to be quite a bargain. Benchmark Reviews has thoroughly tested this new processor, and today we bring you our results.