Features like CineFX technology and 128-Bit Precision Color are included as well as this card supporting DirectX 9. This card does not use intellisample technology which can be found on the higher end FX cards, not to mention the clock speed which is much slower. The Inno3D Tornado Geforce FX 5200 has a lower fill rate and the memory bandwidth is half of the Geforce FX 5800. The higher end FX 5800 cards utilize DDR-II memory interface while the 5200 and 5600 ultra and non ultra cards are using the DDR I interface. Read the whole review over @ 3dXtreme

This is the AMK Computers PC76-1708. It's a custom modified Lian Li PC-76 tower that has the most CFM on the face of this planet. It literally blows away the competition. Match it up with one of those GeForce FX 5800 Ultra's and even that won't bother you. Bring earplugs! (Available as option.) Review @ Short-Media

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 GigaCube Radeon 9800 Pro review Hercules 3D Prophet Radeon 9800 Pro review VisionTek Xtasy Radeon 9800 Pro review

ExtremeTech published their review. Overall, though, DFI offers up a complete product, with a robust feature set and acceptable performance. This is certainly a cool board to have in a modded case with windows and a light tube that generates UV light. We're reasonably impressed with DFI's attempt at building a premium board, and look forward to future products in the Lanparty line. Note: Warp2Search is giving away 1 DFI LanParty Pro875 motherboard here.

Geoff Gasior of The Tech Report.com has put up a review of Inno3D's Tornado GeForce FX 5200 Ultra. Inno3D's Tornado GeForce FX 5200 Ultra isn't yet available online, but GeForce FX 5200 Ultra cards from other manufacturers are going for as low as $132 on Pricewatch?a good $11 cheaper than the least expensive GeForce FX 5600 and $30 cheaper than ATI's Radeon 9600 Pro. If Inno3D is to be competitive among other GeForce FX 5200 Ultra manufacturers, its card will have to come in at around $130.
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ABIT has released their 875P and 865 solutions on time to the market and VR-Zone took this opportunity to take a close look at them! Here's a snip.

IC7-G is based on the 875P chipset and comes in a cool black box featuring support for Dual Channel DDR400 with ECC, PAT, SATA-150 with RAID, 6 Channel Audio, Intel GbE with CSA and Firewire. overclockability each reaching 300MHz FSB comfortably.

"Macs. You either love 'em, or you hate 'em. Either way, you have to admit... their towers look swank. Beautiful silver coated in crystal-clear high-quality plastic. The transparent handles blend in artistically with the rest of the case, and the chrome accents on the fascia get even the mightiest of Mac-haters weak in the knees. Some PC enthusiasts who have fallen for the "Mac looks" have gotten their hands on a empty or faulty tower. Then, in an attempt to mate Mac design with PC functionality, they try to assemble a PC inside the Mac tower, only to find it will require hours of modification for everything to fit right."

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Zardon at DH sends word that he's thrown up his latest TEAC CD-W552PUK USB 2.0 review for your reading pleasure! Here's a snip.

CD writers are taken for granted nowadays with almost every machine having one as standard. But is there really that much of a difference from drive to drive, and really what is the point of having a USB2 external drive? Well, Personally I have always fancied the idea of having an external drive to move from machine to machine without the need of opening them up, removing drives and configuring IDE slave and master settings.

VR-Zone today has taken a look at the newest phase change cooling solution from the Chip-Con team. They are definitely working hard since just 6 months after the first introduction of their Prometeia, they have launched the second generation of Prometeia known as the Mach II with even better cooling performance and better protection too.

Prometeia Mach II is probably the most advanced cooling solution to date. It has the capability of removing up to 200W of heat dissipation which allow you to overclock your Pentium 4 to reach 4Ghz or Athlon XP to 3Ghz comfortably.

Legit Reviews Nathan Kirsch has thrwon up his ABIT IS7 W/ "PAT"? review ! Here's a snip.

The ABIT IS7 could be the best enthusiast i865/i875 chipset motherboard released by any company thus far. Now that Tom's Hardware has uncovered the truth about PAT technology, a handful of companies have begun to unlock PAT technology on the Intel i865 (Springdale) chipsets. Last week ABIT-USA sent an unreleased BIOS for the ABIT IS7 that "increases performance."

AnandTech has posted a comparison of DDR400 memory modules from five different manufacturers on a total of 17 different Springdale and Canterwood motherboards. Motherboards from Abit, Albatron, AOpen, Asus, DFI, Epox, Gigabyte, and MSI were tested to determine which modules perform the fastest and have the fewest compatibility problems. For the review they compared five pairs of modules: Corsair LL (Low Latency) TwinX DDR400, Crucial DDR400, OCZ EL DDR400, TwinMOS DDR400, and Kingston HyperX DDR433 (running at 400MHz DDR). Check it out

Hexus has reviewed the latest all copper Pentium4 heatsink from korean manufacturer Zalman. The huge heatsink, taking up an area of 109mm x 109mm, is the biggest we've seen. Opening up the package reveals the CNPS7000-Cu in all its copper glory. Aesthetically pleasing too. The fan's an oddly-sized 85mm in diameter. Simple mechanics tells us that a larger diameter fan can push a greater CFM of air given the same RPM as a smaller one. Alternatively, you can lower the rotation speed to achieve the same air displacement as the smaller fan. The overall very positive review can be found here.

This blue beast is one feature packed board, not only does it have Firewire, GigaBit Ethernet, 4 DIMM slots, the board also has support for 10 ATA devices, 4 on nForce ATA133, 4 on the GigaRAID , and 2 S-ATA drives on the Silicon Image controller.

It was stable in standard configuration and had no trouble running my XP 2500+ at XP3200+ 400FSB settings. The GA-7NNXP is also an excellent overclocker with stable FSB speeds in excess of 240MHz. The Dual BIOS is a useful feature and can prevent unnecessary RMAs.

Today we take a look at another product from Boogie Bug, the CCFL Rounded Fan. Boogie Bug is a trademark from Bacatá. The package of the product is designed in France, but the actual product is made in China. I think the CCFL ring is made by Sunbeam, this is not a bad thing, because Sunbeam is known in the modding world for their quality cold cathodes.

OCworkbench.com have thrown up their ASRock K7S8X-E mainboard review based on SIS's 748 chipset and not forgetting they already have a Voltage Modification Guide up for the same board! Here's a snip.

ASRock K7S8X-E is the first board that incorporates the latest SIS 748 chipset. If you have been following our discussions in our forums, you should have read that the performance levels of the SIS 748 chipset is pretty good and it reigns in price/performance ratio. The ASRock K7S8X-E is such a board that has this in mind -a board that provides stability and performance at a fraction of the high end K7 boards out there in the market.

SharkyExtreme has posted an interesting review of Intel's latest batch of CPU's. In terms of comparison processors, they've got the Pentium 4-3.0C GHz (800), Pentium 4-3.06 GHz (533), Pentium 4-2.8 GHz (533) and Pentium 4-2.53 GHz processors for the Intel contingent, along with the Athlon XP 3200+, 3000+ and 2700+ on the AMD side. These CPUs represent a nice cross-section of the high-end and mid-range CPU selection, and should illustrate exactly where the new Pentium 4 "C" models fit in. Please note that that Hyper-Threading has been enabled for benchmarking, on all applicable Pentium 4 processors.

Digit-life.com have thrown up two new articles the first one is a 6 board Intel 875P Based Mainboards Roundup and the second item is their Secret of Performance of ASUS i875P/i865PE Based Boards! so let's kick off with a snip from the 875P Roundup.

The i875P chipset has strengthen the position of the most efficient solution after almost two months of its existence, and now it keeps on carrying the baton taken from the i850/E in detour of the iE7205. But its market position is not clear as compared to the previous chipsets developed for workstation/enthusiasts, and even the AGP Pro port, a traditional accessory of the workstation class which often came with iE7205 based boards, will be attached to i875P based boards only in 50% of cases...

VR-Zone has tested the new GeForce FX 5600 Ultra final edition clocked at 400/400Mhz core/memory, up from the previous 350/350Mhz core/memory clock. GeForce FX 5600 Ultra (NV31) encompasses most of the nice features of the NV30 core architecture and improvement to the core/memory clock from the usage of Flip Chip package and 2.2ns memory chips.

The GeForce FX 5600 series are meant to replace the current GeForce 4 Titanium series at a lower price point of US$199-250 for the Ultra version and US$149-200 for the non-Ultra version.

Serial ATA is poised to replace Parallel SCSI in the mid-range, but only if there's a drive that can meet the performance and reliability requirements of that market. That drive is the WD Raptor! (Yes it really is that good) The WD Raptor is a new class of hard drive that matches SCSI performance and reliability and provides simplified connectivity, all at up to 30 percent less cost than Parallel SCSI drives.

Can a notebook computer deliver desktop-style graphics performance? ATI brings its RV350 core to notebook computers, along with DX9, new power management, and even dynamic overclocking. ExtremeTech were checking out the performance of the mobile gamer's dream: The Mobility Radeon 9600 (MR9600) brings the four-pixel pipe/two-vertex pipe Radeon 9600 Pro architecture into laptops. Like its desktop counterpart, the GPU is built on 0.13-micron process technology, allowing for higher clock speeds. The GPUs we tested were clocked at 350MHz, a 45.8% increase from the preceeding GPU - the Mobility Radeon 9000. Because the MR9600 is built on 0.13-micron, it can acheive this maximum core clock rate while still fitting within the power and heat constraints required by mobile computing. The operative word here is maximum core clock speed, since the GPU only hits that speed when a laptop is plugged in, or when a 3D application demands maximum performance from the GPU.