Best of year products
 

End of the year is coming; drawing to the close of 2005, we could take a deeper look into what we have done with the products that went thru our hands. Perhaps, we could highlight some of the GOOD, Better and Best.

We can catogorized the product groups; or lump all products together as a whole. What do you think?

Best in Air Cooler
Best in Water Cooing
Best gadgets (controllers, etc)
Best Video card
Best memory

Bases:
1) Performance
2) Price point
3) Usefullness
4) Installation in degree of difficulity

Good project, with a few newcomers scheduled before the end of the year it might be hard to draw conclusion already though

I think we can make our lists no? :)

Bases:
1) Performance
2) Price point
3) Usefullness
4) Installation in degree of difficulity

Best in Air Cooler
1) Scythe Ninja / Noctua NH-U 12
2) Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 (Pro)
3) ... que? :)
4) Scythe Samurai-Z

Best in Water Cooing
I'm not qualified to answer this :)

Best gadgets (controllers, etc)
1->4) Logitech Driving Force Pro.. but that's just me


Best Video card
1) nVidia Geforce 7800GTX 512Mb
2) ATI X800GTO² (X850XT modded)
3) any AIW Radeon card which is also used with cable TV/TV-in/Out,...
4) ...


Best memory
1->4) 512Mb memory modules capable of CL2 2-2-5 1T at PC3200 which are the cheapest

My votes-

1) Venice 3000+ = good price/performance/low thermal/excellent oc.
2) Gskill DDR - kiss ***, bad customer service
3) NUUO power supply = good price point +features

kiss ***? should that not be "kick ***"? ;)

Gskill is good either way :)

1) Opteron 146 (definitly the best)
2) Mushkin Redline xp4000
3) TT Big Typhoon

(but i dont think any of these passed trough your hands???)

x800 gto². only made in very limited number, but they rock! x850 xt pe performance for €200.

here's Redline XP4000 http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=get...&articID=2 90

They are back btw. Reintroduced.