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Palit GeForce 9600 GT Sonic Review

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[H]ardOCP reviews a VERY sweet video card.

We are impressed, and can definitely recommend the Palit GeForce 9600 GT Sonic to any enthusiast gamer out there. We give this video card our Gold Editor’s Gold Award for providing incredible gaming performance and for Palit stepping way out of the box and providing some very unique features. You won’t be disappointed with this video card.

More Core's

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Interesting reading for Geeks.

Virtualization – Intel Hexes AMD
While AMD stumbles around trying to get its first errata-free Barcelona quads out two years behind Intel, Intel is off planning the launch of its six-core Dunnington microprocessor, a hex, if you will, the last of the expected Core 2-based Xeon server chips before it switches over to the Nehalem microarchitecture capable of supporting eight or more cores.

Intel, Microsoft, Uncle Sam sink big money into multicore
“With multicore, it’s like we are throwing this Hail Mary pass down the field and now we have to run down there as fast as we can to see if we can catch it.”…That’s a pretty good summary of where the software folks are at with the rapidly increasing core and thread counts that are coming out of the hardware side of the computing industry, which is why two recently announced research institutes are hoping to cook up a steroid injection that will boost the metaphorical runner’s speed.

AMD Pushes Multi-Threaded Computing With Open Source Move
To maximize the performance of multi-core processors requires multi-threaded code. “Going multi-core won’t automatically raise application performance,” Forrester analyst James Staten told LinuxInsider. “Single-threaded applications that are not multi-core-ready will not benefit much from the new generation of processors.”

Benchmarking the Benchmarks

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It is time to put your money where your mouth is, or maybe where your keyboard is. HardOCP sets out to prove that real world video card testing is where it’s at. Beware, we may make you feel dirty every time your run a benchmark from here out! … HardOCP has been thoroughly mired in “real world” testing scenarios for years now, and there is no doubt that we have taken a lot of heat from various sources. Most of it is generated through ignorance and the human quality of being resistant to change. Some of it is generated by websites and forums that will proclaim that there is no need for tools beyond a timedemo or cutscene in order to understand graphics cards’ performance.

I jumped right on [H]ardOCP’s bandwagon when they began discussing the validity of canned benchmarks years ago. Their article is definitely worth the read.
[H]ardOCP – Benchmarking the Benchmarks