Chips to unlock, boards to o'clock and cards that rock

Chris at AMDZone hears MSI "will be making a small form factor box for AMD's Clawhammer". There's not much to add, but here's the horse's mouth.

Intel's new mobos are still causing wibbles across the Web. The D845GEBV, ASUS' P4GE-V and Gigabyte's 8PE667 are compared with Gigabyte's 8SG667 (SiS648)over at OCWorkbench. So how does the official DDR333 supporting boards using 845PE and 845GE compare to the fastest SiS 648 board in town, they ask, over here.

They also carry a look at the Gigabyte GA-8PE667 Ultra, over here.

And Bit Tech sticks with Intel's new 845PE chipset, with a look at Albatron's PX845PEV Pro over here.

Over in graphics card corner, Sudian checks out Abit's Ti4200 OTES over here.

VR-Zone has a look at Prolink's GeForce4 MX440-8X over here.

Thanks to the Radeon 9700, and the upcoming NV-30, the Radeon 8500 and Ti4400 video cards have been cut in price dramatically, say Pentarsys. Their dollar-saving comparison is here.

Talking ‘value' ATI's ‘value' RV250 chip hit the graphics market in two variants: ATI Radeon 9000 PRO and ATI Radeon 9000, says Xbit Labs. In this review they check out how fast these solutions equipped with 64MB and 128MB of memory are, especially, they say, against the background of such powerful rivals as ATI Radeon 8500 LE 128MB and NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti200.

Later, they take a wander round Micron's manufacturing facility in Boise, Idaho. Here's the guided tour.

Hexus.net goes mod-tastic. Here's a Coolermaster201, some rounded cables and a pretty CCFL here.

Computerbase.de did not shy away from extensive custom-built testing hook-ups far beyond the usual volt-meter read-outs for their appraisal of PSUs over here in Altavista English, and here in the original Deutsch.

You can nail the Wibbler here.