I just wanted to read the review.. and this is what they said @ T-Break:
Call it a stroke of bad luck- apparently, the Xabre card we had received was a damaged piece which is why the performance was so unexpected. SiS is arranging a new card and driver set for us that we will re-benchmark. Very bad luck if i may say..

The GeForce 4 4600 range of graphics cards offer excellent performance, but is it the right one for you? This depends on quite a few factors - in addition to the price and 3D performance, there's the video quality and the noise of the cooling fan to consider as well. Press READ MORE for further info.

VR-Zone has done up a review on the new Iwill P4R533-N board based on the Intel 850E chipset. The P4R533-N comes with a nice packaging just like the XP333-R, sports a brownish PCB with a silver chipset heatsink and has some nice features such as onboard 10/100Mbps LAN and 6 Channel Audio.

The interesting part is that this board will support PC1066 "officially" and our tests conducted with 2 sticks of Samsung PC1066 -32 RDRAM show that it does support PC1066 without any instability issues and is able to overclock the RDRAM above 600Mhz! We have compared Iwill P4R533-N against SiS645DX, Intel 845G @ DDR333 and Intel 845D boards.

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"While going through the tests, my final size increase to 19inches left me in awe. Right from the first time I booted up my computer with this monitor, my jaw dropped. The sheer size and clarity of the 191T is amazing.I have never enjoyed a computer component as much as I have enjoyed this monitor. Yes, I know it costs a considerable amount of money, but if you have the money, it's worth it hands down." Click on Read More... for a picture of the LCD & a link to read the whole review.

Sharkyextreme have posted a new review on the upcoming Intel 845G chipset. A few new things FSB 533 support and USB 2.0. Read more for info and link.

3dgameman have posted a new review on a Xwing case from Colorcases. Looks cool. :) Read more for link and info.

Now that we're half-way into the month of May the first board vendors are shipping their cards. Enthusiastic users have noted the appearance of the Ti 4200 on search engines such as Price Watch as an indication that the cards were finally here, and indeed they are. Update: Now the link is available, had some problems Click on Read More... for a link to read the whole review

When it comes to modifying your computer case today, a great amount of time and hard work is needed. Some people just like to pull out their trusty dremel tool and hack away at there computer case and install various modifications like side windows, blowhole exhausts, etc. On the other hand we have the other computer crowd that like the look of a unique, modified computer, but just do not have the time or the handiness to go about a modification by themselves. In this situation, the only way for them to get a nice computer case is to have a friend do the work for them or buy a modified computer case from a company like Xoxide. Click on Read More... for a link to the review and a picture

VR-Zone today has done up a review on the new EPoX 4G4A+ board based on Intel 845G chipset. This board supports 533Mhz FSB P4, USB 2.0, 10/100Mbps LAN, ATA-133 RAID, 6 Channel audio, Debug LED etc. One special feature is the support for DDR333 which will enhance the performance even more. The BIOS of the EPoX 4G4A+ has numerous tweakable settings that makes it one of the most overclockable P4 board around.

In terms of CD-RWs and CD-Rs, it didn't seem to have any problems reading them and went through them quite easily. There was a slight grainy hissing apparent upon inserting a CD. This also occurred when copying large files. As well, testing the unit with CD Speed generated squeaky sounds, much to the likes of an ill oiled tin man. Not particularly impressive, especially given Samsung's Adopted Acoustic-noise Reduction System (ARS) feature, which is supposed to minimize noise during high-speed rotation.

The good boys at Anandtech take the freshly announced Celeron budget CPU on a test ride. The new Celeron core is based on a 128KB L2 version of the original Willamette core that the Pentium 4 debuted with in November of 2000. Unlike previous-generation Celerons, the Willamette-128 core is no different architecturally than the Pentium 4's old Willamette core. The cache organization and mapping algorithms are still the same, the only difference is that the Celeron core is only outfitted with a 128KB L2 cache instead of the 256KB cache present on the original Pentium 4. Anandtech review

What does the KT333 offer over the older KT266a? Really only two things. The first one is the ability to run your memory asynchronous with your CPU bus. When your processor is running on a 133/266 bus, you can have your RAM running at 166/333 at the same time. This gives you a 25% increase in theoretical memory bandwidth. The second new feature is an improvement in the South Bridge to support ATA 133. Since most good KT266a based boards sport ATA133 RAID controllers this second feature is really no reason to upgrade.

TechNation have now completed a review of the following 5 GF4 Ti4600 graphics cards, currently Nvidia's flagship of GPUs: Leadtek A250 Ultra TD MSI G4 Ti4600 Gainward Geforce 4 ?PowerPack? Ultra/750XP GS Visiontek Ti4600 Creative 3D Blaster Titanium 4600 To read the whole review click here.

Considered by most "the sweet spot" for an enthusiast card, most Ti4400 boards offer all the fancy and speedy factor of the more expensive 4600 Titanium's but at a lower price... today take a look at Creative's 3D Blaster GeForce4 Ti4400 videocard @ TechSpot.com.

The nForce was Nvidia's first entry on the chipset market, and while at the time of release was a pretty hot item, its high price kept it out from the big headlines. With the release of a graphics-less version of the chipset, the company was finally able to get more retail boards in production targetting the mainstream sector. With more than adequate performance and integrated components, ABIT is one of the few manufacturers with an nForce board out, TechSpot takes a closer look at the NV7-133R Athlon/Duron motherboard from ABIT.

Just got word from Aron that he's posted his EL Custom Shop's EL wire and lightstrip review. Here's a byte:

The kit that I have will be somewhat different than if you bought it. I received a flatlight wire, a regular EL wire, a heavy duty inverter, and a spliter. All the wires and splitters are made by using lock and release plugs. This is a really easy what to attach the wire. EL Custom Shop has really paid attention to detail when designing this. The end of the wires are booted and heatshrinked to perfection.

3dXtreme is excited to announce their Liteon 24x10x40x External USB 2.0 CD-ReWriter review. Here's a blurb: "While the Liteon 24x10x40 is agreeably more of a luxury item than a necessity for most users, I feel that techs on the go will have the most use for a unit like this. Liteon brings the same level of quality to this drive as they do to all their other products and there's no reason why I wouldn't suggest a second look at this drive for someone in the market for an external CD-RW drive. Laptop users and users lacking the motherboard support to add an IDE CD-RW should also consider this route. The Liteon 24x10x40x performed as well as any internal IDE CD-RW drive would. The read and write speeds really didn't differ at all and the drive burned perfect copies of the software I made backups with. Also burning MP3 to CDA and CDA rips to MP3 worked as flawlessly as my 40x12x48x internal IDE Liteon burner does." Read the complete article over here.

Here are some hardware reviews to read for your weekend enjoyment. Check them out if you like and have some pleasant days off. GlobalWin TAK-68 vs Coolink H2TWIN VIA P4PA Motherboard Ahanix Platinum XP Case Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz ATi AIW Radeon 8500 128MB X-Micro Impact T4600 Video Card Nintendo Gamecube Blaupunkt MDP-01 MP3 Hard Drive Abit AT7 KT333 Motherboard MAGNUM 390 Watercooling Kit VIA Debuts Tablet PC Design at WinHEC

Just got word from Crow that they have posted their GeForce4 Ti4200 64MB review. This one is based on a reference board design. Here's what they told me about it:

In this review we did a different test pattern.We used an Oscilloscope machine to analyze the RGB signal and each of power capacitor (GPU and Memory). We put the GeForce4 Ti4200 64MB up against these different cards: Geforce4 Ti4600/ Ti4400/ MX460/ 3 Ti500/ Radeon 8500.

The following benchmarks and tests were run: Comanche4, 3Dmark2001/2000, Codecreatures, AquaMark and more.

With the onset of the new "quiet" trend in cooling, people are just plain sick of dealing with a screaming heatink/fan combination to properly cool there processors. People would rather sacrifice some cooling today just to have a peaceful workstation. Due to this consumer trend, companies themselves are dropping the "strap a screaming delta onto a finned block of copper" mentality and are running to the designing boards again to try to find another method of effective cooling!