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DAN'S DATA reviews the Tamiya 1/16th scale radio controlled M26 Pershing tank, here. Every home should have one. A reader, though, reckons that tank is for wimps and points to this Russian page about radio controlled tanks.

Why bother reviewing one measly Nforce 2 board when you can review six. The reviews start here.

Here's a nice page. This guy made the Pumpkin PC we snapped at the autumn Intel Developer Forum and he's all sorts of other weird modifications up there. He's looking for sponsorship, dontcha know?

Are you interested in simultaneous multithreading (SMT)? We know the Alpha folk were. Here's a Ace's Hardware discussing what one of those Intel fellers - an ex-DECCite - has to say about the subject.

And Ace's also has a link to this Ars Technica article - a guide to understanding the microprocessor. This looks very interesting but unfortunately there is a ginormous Intel ad pushing the 3.06GHz HypeTransport Pentium 4 covering the first two paragraphs.

Which brings us neatly to a weird piece Jack Schofield has got in his Ask Jack column today. Jack reckons you should buy a 3.06GHz Pentium 4 with hyperthreading for Christmas. Either that, or you should buy a very cheap PC. He reckons it will be essential to have HypeThreading if not now, soon. He also says that Pentium 4s in general won't have HT support for another 18 months. But all Pentium 4s will support HypeThreading -- and sooner rather than later. Intel will introduce a 2.4GHz Pentium 4 that's Hyperthreading enables as early as Q2 next year.

I am not a Geek has a review of the Thermaltake Fan Speed RPM switch, here.

There's a review of the Shuttle AK37GTR motherboard at Xbit Labs.

Neowin reckons that sales of "Wi Fi" cards will outsell Budweiser Beer by 2006. This can only be a good thing.

A whole heap of Via Epia ME600 fanless stuff over at Akiba PC Hotline today. Use a Babelfish translator to get the story if you can't speak Japanese.

Cameron at TweakTown looks at the Liteon 52/54/52, which apparently is the fastest CD-RW burner in the known cosmos.

Tech Report has a review of the Soyo SY-P4X400 Dragon Ultra up today.

Our friends at Kick Ass Gear have an article about Death, Taxes and Spam.