Toms Hardware Guide has been experimenting with the predecessor of i875P, the Granite Bay or E7205 chipset which features a Dual DDR interface. While it is significantly cheaper than i875P based motherboards in can provide as much performance. Motherboards used to confirm this were the Asus Asus P4G8X and P4C800. Currently, Intel is promoting the 875 chipset as the ultimate in chipsets. Intel has devoted the longest development time to this chipset, ever since components of this type have been available from Intel. The chipset that is sold under the code name "Canterwood" is supposed to enable very fast memory transfer performance (bypass paths and faster paths), thanks to PAT technology (Performance Acceleration Technology). Our tests show that the old Intel 7204 chipset runs stably with a new P4 processor at an FSB clock of 200 MHz. This brings up the question of what advantages the new high-end 875 chipset really can offer over the old 7205.

What's faster AMD's Barton XP3000+ 400FSB or Intel's Pentium 4 3.0G 800FSB processor? If you want to know just that, then check out this shoot-out at OCWorkbench.com.

As we all know, Intel and AMD has been rushing out with newer processors to take advantage of the higher fsb. The most apparent jump was from Intel P4 533 (133 Mhz fsb) to the 800Mhz (200Mhz FSB). This paints another chapter in PC industry as AMD follows suit with an upcoming model known as the Barton 400 which runs at 200Mhz FSB.

VR-Zone has tested the new Radeon 9800 Pro card from CP Technology or more commonly known as PowerColor. Here's a snip:

PowerColor as a close partner of ATi has been following ATi reference design very closely all along and no doubt this time, their Radeon 9800 Pro card looks exactly like the ATi reference card. However, their key difference lies in the speed of the memories as the PowerColor Radeon 9800 Pro is using some special 2ns DDR-I memory chips from Hynix that has has an effective memory clock speed of 500Mhz while the ATI reference and its competitors are using 2.8ns DDR-I memory.

Here's a couple of Intel 845PE 800MHz FSB Motherboard Reviews sent in by TweakTown.

EPoX 4PEA800 Motherboard - 800MHz FSB : The launch of Intel Canterwood chipset which gives support to the new batch of Pentium 4 processors with 800MHz FSB has been meet mostly with open arms by the industry. However, for those users who cannot afford the high price for Canterwood, EPoX has developed a solution for you all. They've been clever enough to use the cheaper Intel 845PE chipset and unofficially support 800MHz FSB. Can it compete with the Canterwood? Read on as Cameron "Sov" Johnson gives us the answer!"

Just got word from Crow at Darkcrow.co.kr that he's been searching the web high and low for the latest graphics card reviews to have hit the web and grouped them all together on one page! there's 30 reviews in total.

ELSA FX 534 & FX 930 review Asus V9900 Ultra GeForce FX 5800 Ultra review Compro Poladyne GeForceFX 5800 review Leadtek WinFast A340 GeForceFX 5200 Ultra review Hercules 3D Prophet Radeon 9800 Pro review VisionTek Xtasy Radeon 9800 Pro review

It's been a while since ATI?s spring line-up was announced, and its taken even longer for them to come to market. While Radeon 9800 PRO?s were reviewed in early March, but only made available in April, and 9600 PRO?s have only recently been seen, oddly it?s the low end Radeon 9200?s that have taken the longest to break cover. Today, however, courtesy of Sapphire we take a look at the very entry level of ATI?s Spring line up with a review of the Sapphire Atlantis 9200 64MB.

Stewart Saathoff over at Activewin.com has posted his review of Windows Server 2003 which is a multipurpose operating system capable of handling a diverse set of server roles. Here's a snip:

Windows 2000 was unable to avoid the mounting criticism that all of its predecessors had endured in times past. The native SECURITY was terrible. It was relatively easy to lock down a 2000 Server, but you had to actually have to go in and tighten everything manually, leaving room for human error. Nothing was automatically closed up. If you installed a new service, you would have to tighten it down. There was no end to the irritation, but it sure was easy to use.

Here's two reviews that were sent in by the guy's at VR-Zone.com.

EPoX 4PCA3+ 875P Canterwood board which will definitely bring some cheers to the overclockers out there. EPoX 4PCA3+ comes in a newly designed cool white box and and features support for 800Mhz FSB, AGP 8X, Dual Channel DDR400, Serial ATA RAID, 6 Channel Audio with S/PDIF, Gigabit LAN and 4 Channel RAID 0, 1 0+1 functionality. EPoX has also included some cool blue rounded cables into their package but there are no expensive accessories bundled to lower the overall cost.

Today 3dXtreme has the great pleasure of reviewing the Soltek (Nforce2) SN-75FRN-L. This motherboard is geared towards the budget crowd looking for the perks of an Nforce2 board while shopping on a budget. Read the complete review over @ 3dXtreme.Org

VR-Zone has reviewed the new AOpen AX4C Max board based on the Intel 875P Canterwood chipset supporting 800Mhz FSB Pentium 4 processors announced last week.

AOpen AX4C Max comes in its classic glossy black PCB in a red motherboard box and features support for Dual Channel DDR400 up to 4GB, IEEE1394, 6 Channel Audio with S/PDIF, CSA for Gigabit Ethernet, Intel PAT, 4 x Serial ATA 150 ports with RAID functionality and 8 USB 2.0 ports. AX4C Max has a decent set of BIOS options such as FSB up to 400Mhz in 1Mhz intervals, tweakable memory timings, CPU:DRAM ratios of 1:1, 5:4 and 3:2, VCore of up to 1.85V, VAGP up to 1.65V and VDIMM of up to 2.8V. As such, we are able to overclocking the P4 3Ghz to 3.47Ghz at 248Mhz FSB.

Cygnus_X_1 over at OC Addiction.com has posted his AthlonXP 2500+ Barton CPU review with AMD's new Barton core boasting double the onboard cache, is it enough to earn your money?

With the release of the Barton series of CPU's, a new debate has taken the forums by storm. Does the increase in L2 cache from 256K to 512K, bringing the total on die cache to 640K up from 384K, really warrant another upgrade to your system? Today we are going to look at how the 2500+ Barton performs, and throw in the 2100+ T-bred AIUHB to see what improvements, if any, to expect.

GeForce4's have been around for in excess of a year now, but with NVIDIA busily announcing their DirectX9 range their AIB's are still short on supplies of these new chips and are getting on with the business of selling their current line.

XFX, a relative new brand name to the world of NVIDIA based graphics, have let us review their GeForce4 Ti4200 Turbo NV28 based board. Does this board manage to differentiate itself in a crowded world of NVIDIA add-in boards? Does this have what it takes to be worthwhile in the light of DX9 boards being released? Our review takes a detailed look at the board and what it can still offer us...

Just got word that Eric Vaughan over at TweakHound.com has posted his Plextor's PX-504A DVD recorder review! Here's a snip:

Does your CDR leave you wanting for more space? Wanna back up that expensive DVD collection? DVD recorder drives are finally affordable! Plextor's new PX-504A DVD+R/RW CDR/RW received enough press on it's release to get my attention. They were kind enough to supply this drive for review. Anyone who has been around computers knows Plextor has a reputation for quality drives. Having said that I have high expectations for this drive and I'm going to throw everything I can think of at it. For those not used to TweakHound reviews, I don't get overly technical. Pretty flat, but here you go.

Just got word that Tim Tscheblockov over at Xbitlabs.com has posted his 13 page review called: New Family of Low-Cost NVIDIA Chips: GeForce FX 5600/5200 Review! Here's a byte. We reviewed NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra and GeForce FX 5200 Ultra reference graphics cards from NVIDIA and the first mass GeForce FX 5200 based graphics card from Albatron. New optimizations in Detonator drivers, new chips performance and image quality analysis, performance against the predecessors (GeForce4 Ti4200-8x and GeForce4 MX440-8x) and immediate rivals (ATI RADEON 9500 pro and RADEON 9000 Pro). And even more!

Just got word from our bro's at HardTecs4U.de that their 35 page review is up. Well I stopped counting at 35. Here's a google translation:

The first GeForceFX 5800 Ultra diagram maps. We could welcome equivalent two copies with nVIDIAs new HighEnd chip with us to the test: On the one hand the MSI FX5800 the Ultra TD8X in the well-known reference Design and on the other hand the Leadtek A300 Ultra TD Ultra MyViVo with their strongly deviating cooling construction with at the same time very stylischem exterior. For the comparison to the ATi side however a further Radeon 9700 pro representative in form of the TYAN Tachyon G9700 pro provided.

Article Snippit: "Being the first keyboard review at Tweaknews.net, you might as well come into this peripheral genre with a great product. This is one solid, well built keyboard packed with great features and industry leading technology. No wonder some Asian companies are trying to jump all over the hype and pumping out this type of keyboard. But, from what I have been told, Eluminx has patents pending on this technology in those particular Asian countries and that could potentially cause some problems. Should be an interesting couple of months ahead." Check out the full review at: www.tweaknews.net.

Techseekers.net takes a look at 3 versions of the NF7-S. V1.0, V1.2 and V2.0 of the nForce2 mainboard. Here's a snip:

The board we are talking about today is the nForce2 based NF7-S for AMD Athlon processors. The NF7-S is an extremely well specified board, with SATA Raid, Firewire, USB2.0 and AGP 8x all standard features, the NF7-S covers all the bases. This review is going to be slightly different because ABIT have currently 3 NF7-S versions on the market, version 1 (v1.1 made a very little appearance), 1.2, and the current version 2.0.

Having announced the Radeon 9600 along with Radeon 9800 and 9200, ATI are finally ready to unveil the performance of Radeon 9600 powered boards. Today we review ATI's Radeon 9600 PRO 128MB and also we look at an early version of Sapphire's Atlantis Radeon 9600 board.

VR-Zone has a review up on the Hercules 3DProphet Radeon 9800 Pro card that comes with a nice designed box with a Dracula image showing the power of the R350 VPU with Anti-Aliasing, Pixel Shading and Translucidity effects.

MSI pulls no punches with their flagship nForce 2 motherboard. Featuring almost every conceivable technology available for motherboards, they're doing everything they can to standout on paper. Let's see how it does in reality.