On pairing Opterons and cooling Prescott

An Acer explains how the new LGA 775 seeks to reduce Prescott's mighty thirst for power. Make your way to the Forum from here.

Hitachi and not IBM's new Deskstar line is the 7K250, a 7,200-RPM Serial ATA hard drive. Techreport nabbed one and put it through its paces over here.

Cooltechzone checks out memory for the enthusiast, Corsair's XMS TwinX PC4400, over here.

Over at Spode's Abode, an Artic-Cooler VGA Silencer gets the run-around. Put a huge chunk of metal on a card and you can expect it to run a bit cooler, they theorise, over here.

Thermaltake's PurePower 480W "Butterfly" PSU impresses down on ClubOC over here. They also have a bang about with a Black Demon case here.

Bjorn3d enjoys the company of Biostar's iDEQ 200P - a tiddler, in which an Athlon 64 and an nForce3 150 chipset sit on Biostar's own K8BNP motherboard. Here.

The Hexers have a fiddle with a hefty MSI GeForce FX 5950 Ultra-VTD 256MB over here.

The Overclocker Cafe plays host to a Lian Li "economic" case, the PC-7 H, over here.

Chaintech's P4 9PJL Apogee motherboard gets a going-over on rbmods over here.

Epiacenter takes a look at VIA's new Epia M2 10000 mini-itx mainboard. over here. I suppose they would.

And 321 Studios's banned DVD X Copy, with ripper included, tips up on Monster Hardware here. µ