Your mouse needs a new pair of shoes

ECS ARE KNOWN for their motherboards aimed squarely at the enthusiast community. PlanetX64 has reviewed the new AM2 motherboard, the ECS EliteGroup KA3 MVP and have concluded by giving it the 'Best on the Planet' award for the Value / Enthusiast categories, high praise indeed.

The boys at PlanetX64 have also been playing around with the Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad Core QX6700 and the verdict is that AMD are now finding themselves playing catch up to Intel as they fall further behind in the CPU race. As you might expect though if your applications don't support multiple cores the benefits are negligible.

Rbmods.com has been looking at new ways to get the most out of your mouse and the solution seems to be to give it a new mat to play on and a new pair of shoes. Check out the Everglide Titan MonsterMat + Mouseglidez Review for more info.

A relatively new site on the scene, The Tech Repository bring us a simple guide to help get you set up and start overclocking your P5B motherboard". So if you one of these motherboards you might want to have a look and see how to really get the most out of it.

ChileHardWare has managed to snag an interview with ATI's Andrew Dodds on Folding at Home. It's an interesting read especially as it shows that GPUs are capable of a lot more than just drawing pretty pictures.

MVKTech has reviewed the NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT HDCP Compliant. The most noticeable thing here is the HDCP (High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection) compliant, which means that should you want to play back HD-DVD or Blu-Ray movies on your PC, this graphics card will let you. It's also a pretty decent card as well by the looks of things.

IT-review has put the EVGA 7950 GT KO Superclocked and the Gainward Bliss 7950 GT up against each other in a 7950GT head to head. The EVGA cards comes out as the winner, which is not very surprising, given the higher clock speeds and the extra memory, but those of course come at an extra cost as well.

For the people who don't want to buy a pre-made system FiringSquad has delivered a guide to Engineering the “Impossible” PC, proving that it is possible to aim too high when building your own super PC. µ

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