Opteron knocks the database out of Xeon

Meanwhile, the Adaware vs Spybot battle begins here.

Control that fan noise, man; with Sunbeam, chez Rbmods here.

Ooops. NetBSD 1.6.2 for Xbox slips out over here.

Mud flies at BitTech with a douleurful slagging of poor hard-working folk failing in their endeavours to fight the evil virus ones in, "Who's To Blame?" starting here.

Motherboards.org goes Zen with Shuttle here. Gets jiggy with the Gigabyte GA8TRS300Mobo here. And quivers in the sight of a Crucial Radeon 9800 Pro here.

Before you relax, a sexy mid-range UPS showdown gets served up on Gamingin3d. Belkin takes on APC in a no-holds-barred contest that has Volts charging through it. If you wanna surge, then wibbble not hither.

Techware Labs pipes up with a wander round Albatron's Geforce FX5700 Ultra based graphics prowess here.

ipKonfig.com writes:
"As we have mentioned here recently, Microsoft is releasing some new security features with its upcoming SP2 for Windows XP. Having a new security feature within Windows XP is extremely important for Microsoft, but even more for users. And of course this will be the beginning, or foundation, for Microsoft's security measures to be enhanced as part of its new resolution to play safe. With the coming events and release of Longhorn, though public release is still some time away, Microsoft is now taking steps towards a better and more secure Windows environment for the consumer. Sadly, it has taken this much damage, this much time, and this much frustration for users before it finally responded."
There's more here.

SimHQ take a Short Hop on the Viking here.

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Sharky Extreme goes riding with a an the ASUS K8V Deluxe board here.

Here's one for the dedicated fan of Nvidia GeForce FX 5950 Ultra cards, or those that read Polish.

And Dan goes all triple-fantastic over here.