A tale of two chippies

OVERCLOCKERS CLUB Canada today carries a review of an 2.53GHz Intel Pentium 4 over here. The chip is still a bit on the expensive side, they reckon, but is still worth some consideration.

Meanwhile, the Pabster is up to his tricks again, overclocking a P4 to over 4GHz, just for the hell of it, over here.

Sticking with Chipzilla, Hard Tecs 4U has a wee, 31-page look at Intel's E7205 Granite Bay chipset + 3 E7205 motherboard. It's Googled into a form of English over here. And in its original German here.

They also had a noodle about with an EPoX EP-4PEA+ [Intel i845PE] board here in English and here in its original form.

And for the AMD posse, they've also got a nice piece on Athlon XP Thoroughbred cooling which is given a right Googling over here.

DeviantPC has rounded up a bunch of nForce2 boards, from Asus (A7n8x- deluxe), Leadtek (Winfast NCR18D-Pro) and EPoX (8RDA+). Wibble this way.

While HotHardware has amnother pair of nForcers, from Chaintech and Leadtek over here.

Rolotech has been fiddling with VIA's new small-form-fact EPIA-M motherboard over here. Based on the new CLE266 chipset, the VIA EPIA-M is the ultimate small motherboard, they say. And, though it comes in a tiddly 17cm x 17cm package, it still has a variety of extra features, like integrated USB 2.0 and Firewire, integrated 10/100 Ethernet, 6-channel audio and a video core that supports full MPEG acceleration and up to 64MB of texture memory… they say.

Neoseeker casts an eye over Gigabyte's 7VAXP mobo over here.

Sudhian likes the look of AOpen'sAX4R+ (E7205) mainboard offering here.

The Hexers put ABIT's KX7-333RAID up against ABIT's KD7-RAID. What's the difference? Find out over here.

PC Oracle, LiamC fiddles about with some hard drives, assessing the relative merits of Western Digital's BB series (7200 rpm, 2MB buffer, 20GB per platter) Maxtor's D740X (7200 rpm, 2MB buffer, 40GB per platter) and WD's JB series (7200 rpm, 8MB buffer, 40GB per platter) over here.

The Monsters awarded their first ever perfect score to a panel. The laser cut Crazy PC Imperial Fire Dragon side panel to be precise, over here.

OCA takes a look at some spiffy new lighted EL IDE cables. Something, they reckon, the hardcore case modders out there are going to want to take a look at, over here.

Over at Spode's Abode, Spode takes a look at the Archos Jukebox FM Recorder 20 that's here.

And, stop the press! Mikhailtech is back. We dunno where it's been but you can find out, if arsed, by wibbling you way over here.

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