Guru Review sends word that their Ultimate Athlon XP Overclocking review is out!

In this review I hope to show you what is possibly the best motherboard, CPU and RAM combination available for a Socket A based system, especially when it comes to overclocking.

Just got word from my good mate Anton Nilsson over at Nordic Hardware that their Radeon 9200 and GeForce FX 5200 PCI-Express card reveiew is out!

We rarely test really cheap graphics cards here at NH. We often stick to cards in the range $180 to $700. Today is an exception; we are testing two PCI based graphics cards. The two cards are Radeon 9200 and GeForce FX 5200. In other words they aren't the fastest cards on the market.

This time I?m putting some CAS2 rated 3500 DDR into an watercooled P4 northwood system and seeing just what gains/timings and figures can be achieved by overclocking this ram with some high voltages. My reason for choosing this particular ram was due to the fact id heard a lot of good things about it in an overclocked environment.

The FiringSquad have thrown up their review of Nvidia's nForce3 250GB motherboard! Here's a snip.

Much like the original nForce chipset, NVIDIA?s early 64-bit chipset efforts got off to a slow start with nForce3 150 and nForce3 Pro 150. The chipset lacked native Serial ATA support, relying instead on an external controller. In comparison, VIA?s K8T800 was more feature-rich and offered better performance, making it the early favorite among Athlon 64 users.

When it comes to memory, there are several manufacturers on the market to cater to your current requirements. But, if you are on a mission to find "quality" memory, there are only a handful that you should be selecting from and I can assure you, Kingston should definitely be on your short list.

The PC4000 dual channel kit reviewed today performed exactly as it should with no instability or problems of any kind. Just insert them in your motherboard, adjust your BIOS settings accordingly, and enjoy the performance.

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Cooling is one of the major concerns for an enthusiast. We like to overclock our processors to ultimate speeds but for those of us who can't afford water-cooling kits, it's hard to reach the unbelievable speeds. For affordable thermal solutions, we turn to air-based heatsinks. We want something that works just as well as some of the affordable water-cooling kit.

OCworkbench has posted their review of ECS's new PT880-A board which uses VIA's new PT880 dual-channel DDR chipset! Here's a snip.

ECS dishes out another Pentium 4 solution based on the new VIA PT880 Dual Channel DDR400 chipset. The ECS PT880-A supports the Socket 478 P4 and Prescott making it one of the newer member of the ECS line of P4 boards. This board uses the VIA PT880 paried up with 8237 South Bridge. It supports DDR400 with up to 3 GB of DDR400.

Hexus have thrown up their review of Nvidia's upcoming nForce3 250 mainboard! Here's a snip.

It's been an almost insufferable wait for the second generation of Athlon 64 and Opteron chipsets from AMD's chipset partners. While the initial products - VIA's K8T800 and NVIDIA's nForce3 150 spring immediately to mind - are competent and allowed the processors to breathe freely and perform well, there's always been a couple of annoying niggles, as is always the case with the very first revisions of such things.

I am quite happy with the Epia ME6000. Certainly, there are a couple things that I would have liked to see done differently. The ability to handle faster DDR would have been nice, not to mention the availability of more USB headers on the motherboard. And were it possible, an AGP slot would propel this motherboard much further for HTPC users. Lastly, the file transfer on this system is quite slow.

However, let's stack that against the boards strong points? low power consumption, fanless for ultra-quiet operation, geared toward HTPCs and multimedia users, 6 channel sound, embedded MPEG-2 decoder, DDR support up, and the list goes on.

Today TweakTown are playing host to Western Digital's Raptor WD740GD 74.8GB Hard Drive which includes an impressive list of features such as 10,000 RPM, SATA connectivity and Command Tag Queuing and it is the fastest consumer level Hard Drive they've tested. They compared it against two Seagate 7,200 RPM PATA and SATA drives.

Back when I used Athlon XP?s I went through a plethora of motherboards trying to find one that worked the way I wanted, had the features I wanted and was reasonably priced. Eventually I settled on the NF7-S (2.0) which was a great board. As well as meeting the above requirements it was also an excellent overclockers board if you had the right CPU.

Therefore when I decided to make myself a Pentium 4 system a couple of months ago the first motherboard manufacturer I looked at was ABIT, eventually settling on the AI7. Hoping for a similar experience to the NF7-S would I be disappointed?

The FiringSquad have thrown up their review of ATi's lastest AIW graphics card the 9600! Here's a snip.

Traditionally the PC has been used for gaming and productivity applications, relegating its use to the den or home office, ten years ago many didn?t have a PC at home at all. Then the Internet revolution began. The Internet age was filled with buzzwords, many wanted to ?surf the web?, but had no clue what was involved. Eventually, the bubble burst. The market was over saturated and the cool factor was gone. The PC industry needed another killer app.

Are you ready to take the next step into creating your ultra quiet PC? Many of us are plagued with noisy VGA coolers that just seem to get louder with time. Today we don't have to put up with that noise anymore! Zalman has a reputation for silencing PC parts, and this new VGA cooler does exactly that. The question is, at what cost? Is there a downside?

Today Cooltechzone have the Cheetah 15K.3 SCSI hard drive from Seagate. The drive is for enterprise environments so it was tested accordingly in our lab. The results still provide some in-sight to general enthusiast crowd.

With modern graphic cards producing as much heat as a modest desktop processor, 3rd party graphic card coolers have changed from being an exotic piece of aluminium owned by geeks to a necessity for silent/cool computing. Here they test 7 popular VGA coolers to see which one would suit your needs best, whether you are searching for silence or extra performance.

The last week we analyzed a block of high benefits for CPU, today is the turn to this block for Chipset, with an aesthetic one very taken care of, Z-Chip this made in copper to guarantee the greater refrigeration, it includes racores for tube of 12 mm that allow a great water volume, the model that we analyzed is designed for chipsets Intel 865/875 but also another model for AMD exists. Just click in the image to read review.

The many programmable buttons mean that you can configure your remote to your liking. The RWII can take care of all of your entertainment needs, from playing tunes in WinAmp, to watching movies and TV via ATI's MultiMedia Center.

The unit is much better designed, sitting comfortably in your hand, and the mouse handling is far, far better than that of the RWI. Lastly, the fact that ATI is planning future support for IR Blasters means that this unit will be able to handle your hardware needs for quite some time.

A couple of weeks ago we looked at the Athlon64 FX-51 and how it compared in single channel mode to the Pentium 4, Athlon XP, Opteron and Athlon64. The result was that the AFX and p4 were the clear leaders however neither really established its dominance. So today we take a look at the 2 leaders and see if there is a clear winner when the Athlon64 FX moves into dual channel mode. We?ll also take a look at how well the FX-51 overclocks.

While most of the reviews out there give you an idea how fast a video card is, almost none show you what the actual visual difference is between a DX8 and a DX9 capable video card. In this article Madshrimps will show you what improvements you get when upgrading to a DX9 graphics card, the Powercolor R9800XT (XR98T-D3)

The Hornet PC-80566 Micro-Tower Case by Chenbro is a cutting edge micro design with a load of great features. The exterior is very stylish and flexible with the multiple front door design. The interior for a micro ATX case is really easy to work with because of the quick release drive bays. Overall, if you going to build the micro system, get a Hornet, you won?t get stung...