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"The GIGABYTE HD 6870 Super Overclock is GIGABYTE's elite offering for those looking to pick up an overclocking friendly Radeon HD 6870. GIGABYTE has even started the process for you and boosted the GPU frequency by 50MHz and the memory frequency by 50MHz. This represents a decent boost these days when some companies are labeling video cards "Overclocked" with a mere 10MHz GPU increase and the memory being left a reference frequencies. Kudos to GIGABYTE for giving us higher core and memory frequencies."

If you're looking for a fast, overclocked video card, the latest and greatest from AMD is reviewed in extreme detail over on HardOCP. As much as I like having a powerful video card in my system, what I don't like is the noise that often comes with having that power. The good news is that this card is no louder than the reference design - but the review doesn't explain exactly how loud that is...

"Gigabyte said it'd be showing off a trio of new netbooks at CeBIT this week and, lo and behold, all three have now emerged from their less than secretive whereabouts and made their public debut, and the good folks from Engadget Chinese were on hand for an up close look. While all three pack more or less the same standard netbook specs, they do manage to differentiate themselves quite a bit from each other around the edges..."

The standard netbook and tablet version are pretty much expected at this point, but I like the idea of the center one. Basically, it includes a vertical dock with connectors to hook up to a full size monitor and other peripherals, giving you in essence a netbook and a nettop. If priced similarly to other netbooks, you could easily pair this with a nice sized monitor and have a desktop and laptop solution that would satisfy modest users for somewhere between $500 and $600.