This is the first Socket 754 board that supports the ASRock Future CPU Port: Socket939 upgrade interface for ASRock 939CPU Board, Integrateed. Mirage2 Graphics with DirectX8.1 support, AGP8X, Hybrid Booster, SerialATA 1.5Gb/s, RAID 0,1,JBOD, SATA_HDD Hotplug, USB2.0, 5.1channel Audio, 10/100 Ethernet LAN.

With the 939CPUBoard (daughter board), we plugged in a FX-53 processor and set the jumpers on board to support the Socket 939 CPU. We also managed to overclock the Socket 754 3400+ to 8 x 252MHz.

As Apple iPod gets more popular and it being the 50 percent market share holder of the portable audio players, it makes sense for companies to produce products for the iPod. Of course the choice of products is fairly limited as iPod comes in a very narrow market segment, however, that hasn't stopped numerous companies from producing different accessories for Apple's portable music wonder. Altec Lansing recently entered the market with few products that are solely designed for the iPod.

When ATI initially introduced the AGP Radeon X800?s only X800 XT Platinum Edition and X800 PRO?s were introduced, which left many wondering if there would be a standard X800 XT edition. Although a PCI Express X800 XT (500/500) configurations was announced, ATI were initially adamant that there wouldn?t be one for AGP - now, though, they are relenting on this and state that they are giving their vendors the freedom to cross the AGP and PCI Express lines, giving rise to the X800 XT (500/500) for AGP. Today Beyond3D is looking at one of the first boards in this configurations to hit the market, the Sapphire Radeon X800 XT ViVo 256MB.

MBReview has posted up a review of Foxconn's DDR-I i915P offering, the 915A03-P-8EKRS. This motherboard offers up a decent solution to users looking to upgrade to the latest platform, but aren't looking for a DDR-II based solution. This board offers up some solid performance in comparison to other i915G/P offerings, though it is lacking in the overclocking arena. To find out more, check out the review!

OCIA.net has posted a review of the AeroCool VM-101 Fanless VGA Cooler. Below is a direct quote from the review:

That ZIF socket sure is closer to the AGP slot than on my last board... this one being the MSI K8N Neo Platinum. Fortunately, I don't use any PCI cards, so putting it on backwards wouldn't be an issue, and it would prove convenient later..

Hardware Pacers has posted a review on the Microsoft Wireless Desktop Comfort Edition.

In Microsoft's long keyboard history, they have come up with the most comfortable keyboards that feature curved designs. Today with the new Microsoft Wireless Desktop Comfort Edition, Microsoft brings a completely new meaning to comfort. This new comfort feature yet again includes a curved design and a new soft wrist pad, instead of the old plastic one. In addition to comfort, the keyboard sets it self with a great mouse that features side scrolling. With all these new features, we will see in today's review how Microsoft developed a perfect keyboard set yet again.

DFI is famous for their Lanparty series of motherboards, however they do make other types of motherboards... of course. HTPCnews decided to give one of their "other" motherboards a try, the K8M800 mATX motherboard, and they lived to tell a story about it. Does it's quality and features hold any water against their Lanparty series or any other mATX motherboards? Onboard video by s3, onboard audio, and support for the A64 lineup of processors are just a few "highlights" of this unit.

HardwareHounds have thrown up their review of Spirecoolers CoolForce VGA Cooler for nVIDIA and ATI GPU's!

How many of you out there still have your stock hsf on your cpu? How about your video card? If stock is not good enough for your processor, what makes you think it?s good enough for your video card? Enter Spirecoolers with the CoolForce VGA chipset cooling kit. A full copper, all-in-one cooling solution to help keep your video card running nice and cool.

The OCZ PC3200 Revision 2 memory delivered slightly faster speeds than the Corsair XMS 3200XL at DDR400 (2-2-2-5) and costs significantly less (around $280 vs. $315). This difference in cost may be the single most determining factor for someone that is shopping for DDR400. Keep in mind that with slightly looser timings operation up to DDR500 should be easily possible making this memory the perfect compliment to any system from an AMD64 based rig to an overclocked Intel P4 based rig. We award the OCZ PC3200 Revision 2 Memory the 3DXtreme Editor?s Choice Award based on the performance and price of this product.

As a DUAL OPTERON user running two monitors and a pair of hard drives in RAID 1, I'm a pretty firm believer that two is better than one. Maybe that's why Gigabyte's GA-K8NSNXP-939 Athlon 64 motherboard caught my eye. The GA-K8NSNXP-939 might only accommodate a single 939-pin Athlon 64 processor, but the board comes equipped with dual BIOS chips, a pair of Ethernet jacks, two Serial ATA RAID controllers, dual-channel memory, and even a six-phase "Dual Power System."

ActiveWin has posted up a review of the recently released AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Processor. This is one of the chips that supports Windows XP Service Pack 2's Data Execution Protection thanks to AMD's 64-Bit Chips, it's also one of the first chips to use Socket 939. Visit the review here

Find those 15.4" Widescreen notebooks too small, then maybe the Sony VAIO VGN -A117S is for you as it has no less than a 17" Widescreen display with 1,920x1,200 resolution. The hardware specifications are pretty decent as well with a 1.7GHz Pentium M CPU, 512MB of RAM, an 80GB hard drive and a DVD writer. Check it out over at TrustedReviews.

OCZ Technology is a key leader when it comes to producing high quality workstation memory. They cater to enthusiasts with high expectations of gaining as much performance out of their systems as possible. OCZ is right next to their competitors and even ahead in some areas (value). System memory is not the only product that OCZ specializes in, the company produces power leads, heatsinks, and power supplies.

Eyeit have released their first hardware review of ELSA's Gladiac 940 GeForce 6800 Graphics card!

Overall with excellent speeds and good overclocking the ELSA 6800 card is a card for any of you that want to play the latest games in 1280x1024 with full detail.

Philips has once again invaded the PC Audio scene with a new soundcard offering. Earlier this year we took a close look to their Aurilium external soundcard which left us quite impressed. This time around they are bringing us a new internal soundcard based on the VIA Envy24GT chipset which combined with the Sound Agent 2 drivers we tested on the Aurilium, should make for a very solid entrance in the enthusiast market.

Lets start with the beginning, we received this Point of View FX5500 graphics card from believe it or not Point of View ;) and we are very proud to test this nice card with the latest NVIDIA Forceware 65.62 and 66.00 drivers. Both drivers arent WHQL certified but both are very populair among our daily visitors. You can download ForceWare 65.62 and ForceWare 66.00 from our local fileserver to find out if they work better then your previous driverset. Read on to check out the benchmarks used.

Now that NVIDIA is ready to take the lid off the performance of their new NV4x based mainstream card, GeForce 6600 GT, Beyond3D puts it through its paces with a full rundown of games performances, Shader Performance from Shader 1.1 to 3.0, PCI Express throughputs, video decoding performance, amongst others.

HTPCnews.com takes a look at the latest offering from Crescendo Systems, the famed external Transcoder manufacture (PC to HDTV interface). This time they are taking a different approach and have created a PCI version of their external transcoder which doesn't even need an external power source. They use the PCI bus to deliver all the power that the device needs, and even include a better set of chips this time around for a crisper picture on your HDTV. Perfect VGA to YPrPb conversions are possible with devices like this one, and they don't invoke Macrovision limiting the user to 480p resolutions which make them all the sweeter. Come see what happens when HTPC enthusiasts make a product for other HTPC users.

With the Inspiron 9100 Dell has produced the ultimate gamers laptop which can truly compete with a desktop PC in terms of performance. The Mobility Radeon 9800 graphcis card with 256MB of memory is faster than a desktop 9800 Pro and with a 3.4GHz P4 processor, 1GB of memory and a 100GB hard drive, this is one powerful laptop. Check it out over at TrustedReviews.

The Muro MR-100 is a new MP3 player with a set of unique features that separate it from other MP3 players in the market, and is proof that this new Korean company is serious about its business. When I decided to buy an MP3 player, I had a pretty clear idea of what I wanted. Not a CD-MP3 player because of the size, and I did not really need an expensive HD-based player like Apple's IPod or Creative's Xen, so I started searching for a good flash-based player. The Suntec Muro MR-100 had everything I was searching for and much more. Read on to learn more about it.