Well if your looking for a new motherboard for your new P4 CPU like myself you've probably been looking @ SIS 648 chipsets with all the goodies you could want! Anandtech.com have posted a review of the fastest SIS 648 chipset available on the market today. Here's a snip:

The Gigabyte 8SG667 was able to withstand an onslaught of memory, CPU, and overclocking stress tests in every configuration we threw at it. Three banks of DDR333 or three banks of DDR400 didn't faze the Gigabyte 8SG667, and neither did FSB overclocking up to 150MHz on default voltages using retail cooling. As you can probably already tell, we've had lots of fun testing the Gigabyte 8SG667. At this point we just have to wait and see what other SiS 648 boards will bring to the table. Quite frankly, we'll be surprised if there's anything out there that'll be able to impress us as much as the Gigabyte 8SG667 has, but we don't have any problem being surprised once and a while.

Finally Serial ATA Drives are started coming to markets. There is Seagate's SATA (Serial ATA) V harddisk review at LostCircuits.com. The two main advantages of SerialATA format is the current/supported transfer rate is 150 Mbps, the cable is a thin, round one; instead of the current pre-historic flat big parallel ones which improve ventilation and coolness (pun intended) in the cabinet. For links to the review of Seagate Barracuda SATA @ Lostcircuits.com , Seagate SATA II News release and Seagate's Barracuda SATA Product details @ Seagate.com, hit read more.

Article Snippit: "Do you like great gaming, great features, TV-out, Optional DVI output, and a pretty good software bundle, well, I might have an option for you. The Geforce 4 MX440 is the upper end of the budget based Geforce 4 lineup and isn't a slouch in the performance for value ratio. To aid in exposing a great budget lineup of cards, Albatron was kind enough to supply the Tweaknews staff with a sample of their Geforce4 MX 440 64Meg DDR graphics accelerator. Does it perform? Read on..." Article URL: TweakNews.net Nathan
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Among the first of a couple of reviews to come today we have the black ICEMAT in our testing labs. Here is a snip: The ICEMAT is a luxury mouse pad completely made of glass sold by a Danish company. It is available in a black version which we take a closer look at later and a transparent version. The ICEMAT is targeted at the ambitious gamer, hardware geek or on the other hand the design fetishist. In contrast to most plastic made high-accuracy mousepads the ICEMAT promises long lasting and effective mousing. The ICEMAT is advertised as providing sliding perfection? We will see if this turns out to be true. Read the review

The Naked Review.com has just posted a review of a 512MB stick of TwinMOS DDR400. This stick features Winbond 5ns chips and a TwinMOS 6 layer PCB. They test it out on an Abit IT7-MAX and a phase change cooled 2.53B P4. As usual at thenakedreview, all these items are retail versions.

What would you say if I were to tell you of a set of rounded ATA cables that will reportedly give you faster data rates? Think we're crazy? Come join TweakTown as they take a look at a set of IOSS RD3XP Rounded Cables. They claim to be able to do exactly this and it is time to find out if they can really live up to such a claim!

TechSpot takes a closer look @ FIC's brand new VC19 Advanced motherboard, a powerful Pentium 4 solution based on the eagerly anticipated Intel 845e chipset. The VC19 supports on-board USB 2.0, on-board LAN, on-board audio with 5.1 channel sound and on-board RAID.

With this particular board, I did notice a few things that I really liked. The first thing is the CMOS battery holder. I have never seen one like this, and now that I have, I want them all to be similar. Changing the CMOS battery on this board is the easiest I?ve ever seen. As you can see from the picture, the chip sits vertically, and is removed by simply pushing back the retaining clip. Nice stuff. Something else I noticed was the AGP locking mechanism. It slides freely and feels very slick, and is real easy to use. These may be little things, but to me these show that the manufacturer is going for the extra mile in order to make a good product even better.

Here's two reviews from TweakTown!

America's Army Tweak Guide America's Army is, surprisingly enough, a game centered around the US Army. The game was developed by the US Army and US Dept. of Defense experts. TweakTown thought it may be fitting to provide a tweak guide to this popular game as we near the anniversary of September 11. If you're a fan of America's Army, why not check out this guide to get the most out of the game

Everglide Optical Mouse Pads Everglide has long been in the business of making mousing surfaces for the serious gamer. But with the advent of the optical mouse, some of these mouse pads have become seriously outdated. Come join TweakTown as they take a look at the newest lineup from Everglide; namely a set of five mousing surfaces for use with optical mice. Can a mouse pad really make a difference in your game? Come on in and find out

The card chosen for this test is 9700 PRO MAYA II 128 Mb from Gigabyte who seems to be one of the best Powered By ATI Cards! They tested the Gigabyte Radeon 9700 PRO MAYA II 128 MO and compared it against a Radeon 8500 128 MO and a Geforce 4 TI 4600!

The new breed of Athlon board has been making it's way into the marketplace. Based on the VIA KT400 chipset, there has been a lot of talk about some of the future possibilities in the Athlon line. Come join TweakTown as they take a look at the Gigabyte GA-7VAXP Motherboard. It uses this very chipset and we need to find out if it will make a worthy addition to our own systems.

Modfactor.com has just reviewed the Samsung SyncMaster 191T 19? LCD, this is a one of a kind LCD with its bezel measuring in at only 18.6mm? WOW. The 191T is a professional grade display that easily out performs the competing 19 LCDs?!

While CD drives have become rather stagnant as far as speeds are concerned, the CD-R/RW market is still gaining speeds faster than one can keep up with. Join TweakTown as they take a look at the newest offering from TDK; namely the veloCD 48x16x48. With blistering speeds and some very nice additional features, it may be the drive to beat in the near future. Come see what makes it so special!

Since the introduction of the SiS Xabre 400 Video Chipset, I have been intrigued by the price/performance of it. I knew that it was targeted towards the ultra budget market, and mostly as an upgrade from the integrated video offered on some motherboards (of course with an AGP slot as well). Late July, Jaton sent me their latest card based on the SiS Xabre 400 chipset!

I would have to say that I am quite picky about the sound and clarity of my music. I love having strong bass kicks complimented with the clash of a treble tweet. Deep, crisp sound is what I am after, nothing less. Does the XPS 510 system have what it takes to please me, well read on my friend.....

I found 8 sites who has a review or/and a comparision about the latest Detonator 40! Click on Read More... for the links

Modfactor.com got a chance to review the very basic but cool PSU Mod today and like it for its basic idea and design but it give so much back in return because it turn that dull and ugly looking PSU into something you can be proud and enjoy looking @!

Hercules, is one of the companies that manufacture almost all type of sound cards.Today we will be reviewing a low-end user type of sound card from Hercules. The Hercules Gamesurround Muse 5.1 DVD, the new version of the Muse 5.1 XL.

Just got word that Vr-zone.com have posted their Plextor PlexWriter 40/12/40A Review! Here's a snip.

If you have a slow PC or your multitasking etc., you can almost forget about creating "coasters". Features like BURN-PROOF, Zone-CLV and PoweRecII, ensure that your writing at the highest speed possible with the highest quality. The reading abilities are also excellent, especially audio ripping. It barely doesn't matter if it's pressed or burnt, it will read both of them great.

Many years ago when Sigma released the Hollywood Plus, it was considered a great piece of hardware, allowing everyone to play VCDs/DVDs & MPEG1/2 on just about any system that could run Windows, however since then, we have all moved on.

The REALmagic X-card from Sigma Designs is their latest attempt to show us all why a hardware decoder is still the best choice; whether it's DVD, VCD, DivX or even audio output via S/PDIF, the X-card is supposed to put all that in your fingertips.

Modfactor.com got a chance to review two products and one is a custom Appliqué kit from The Shattered Web and the other is a Maxtor Personal Storage 3000LE 40GB USB 2.0 external hard drive. Click on Read More... for images and links to the reviews