IBM claims Power 6 will double chip performance

YOUNG SHAVER AND PEOPLE'S GEEK David Kanter went to the Microprocessor Forum last week and was entranced by IBM's gradual striptease of the Power 6 CPU.

It's going to fly along at between four and five gigglehertz and is built on a 65 nanometre silicon on insulator process. There is much more and it's here.

Are you a fan of motherboards? If so, you might wish to skip swiftly over to Virtual Hideout, where Temujin reviews the 975X7AB-8EKRS2H LGA 775 from Hon Hai, sorry Foxconn. Quite a mouthful, eh? Core 2, it appears. Here.

More mobo madness at PC Perspective, which has a gander at the Gigabyte GA-965-DS3 unit.

Xbit Labs has decided that people need a guide to choosing the best kind of memory for Intel's Core 2 Duo microprocessors. This is part three, which deals with DDR-800 SDRAM modules.

Here's something from Wired - an article that says the desktop is dead.

PC Arena reviews the Razer Copperhead and the Razer Mantis, here. The firm makes kit for gamers and that's what this kit is.

At Modders Inc, there's a review of the Voyager 3.5-inch dual fan hard drive cooler. The chaps reckon hard drives don't get as much attention as they should. Except when they stop working, that is. The review is here.

Hard OCP previews Nvidia's Geforce Go 7950 GTX with go-faster mobile stripes, here.

And meanwhile, the Bit-tech Boys look at the Sapphire Radeon X1950 Pro. Over at the other Bit-Tech, they're still selling diamond drilling products.

Ah, I've just come down from the Isle of Skye, I'm no very big an' I'm awfy shy, and the lassies shout when I go by "Hey Donald, whaur's yer troosers?". Said lassies must be blind as bats. My name is Jock McFrock and I'm the bekilted engineer, ye ken. Send yer wiblets in the direction of my sporran. µ