Clawhammer, the quiet, gentler processor

REGULAR CONSUMERS of the Wibble will know all about the GeForce4 MX440-8X by now. But since the non-disclosure agreements all ran out today, reviews of cards sporting this AGP8X chip are creeping onto the wibblesome web.

There's a look at a Prolink GF4 MX440-8X in fine Australian over at TweakTown, here.

And the Frenchmen who briefly let slip some of the specs of a card by accident have posted their look at MSI's offering over here.

Back in Blighty, a reader writes to say he got what he thinks is the first commercial 2.5GHz Pentium 4 in the UK. He's kindly benchmarked it here.

In Hammerdom, This EETimes piece led to the assertion here, somewhere, that Clawhammer, would be the "quiet, gentler processor". While Ace's Hardware Forum managed to unglove STMicro's hand in providing "compilers and associated tools," for AMD's 64-bit onslaught.

The fine AMDZone has posted a detailed look at VIA's KT400 chipset over here They've put three KT400 boards up against nine KT333s as well as swapping out DDR400 memory and DDR333.

One for the linguistically dextrous is HARDINFO's look at MSI's KT4 Ultra, ECS's L7VTA, Gigabyte's GA-7VAXP and Abit's AT7 Max2 motherships over here, in Danish.

Tech PC have a look at Leadtek's WinFast K7N415DA nForce motherboard over here.

Hexus.net can see, it says a real use for a VapoChill cooler beyond wooing the overclocker who wants to push the hardware to its limit over here.

Tech-Report takes a look at the SY-KT400 DRAGON Ultra Athlon board over here.

Guru3D has a chat about graphics cards with Creative Labs' Eoin Leyden over here.

And Van's last word is here.

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