Powering through the mobo mountain

The Antipodean overclockers fiddle with five I845E motherboards over here. The boards they lookat are: Asus' P4B533, Aopen's AX4Bpro 533, Abit's BD7 II, Abit IT7 and Gigabyte's 8IEXP. They had to leave Epox out, the say, coz their boards are rarer than hen's teeth in New Zealand.

Luckily, phew! Mikhailtech has tipped up with a look at EPoX's 4G4A+ i845G P4 motherboard just to complete the picture, over here.

Gibbo of OcUK has a look at ABIT's IT7-MAX2 DDR mobo putting it up against ASUS' P4T533 RDRAM board over on TechPC here. Abit for overclockers, Asus for speed without the twiddling, reckons Gibbo.

Those naughty old hardwarzoners take a look at Soltek's SL-85MIR-L motherboard over here. Na. We didn't write it.

And Ocworkbench has stuck up a pic and spex of the "long awaited" SiS 746 mainboard from ECS. The L7S7A sports USB2.0, S-ATA and everythink, over here.

Over in graphics card land, ATi are telling the world what they're up to with their Mojo Days, they say. Tom's Hardware has the scoop over here.

3DVelocity have posted their thoughts on relative newcomer Connect3D's Radeon 9700 Pro 128MB. No fancy bundles just great performance and a price that positions it below most Ti4600's on the market, they say over here.

Neoseeker posts a look at ECS Xabre400 64MB DDR video board over here.

Tech-report reckons overclockers forget the importance of a decent power supply. They cast an eye over four very different power supplies from Antec, Thermaltake, and Vantec. Over here.

Boy, was Monster Hardware wrong. Their first impression of a bunch of Coolink's HSF's was, "What a joke." Little did they know that each temp reading and heatsink switch produced pleasant results over here.

Hardwareluxx bags about in a "cheap midi tower" build by Avance. Their look at the B030 Black Thunder is over here.

Meanwhile 3Dvelocity comes at cases from the other end. 6063T5 aluminium alloy costs approximately six times as much as steel, they say. And Cooler Master's ATC-210 is wrapped in it. Worth the wonga? Wibble this this way to find out.

No power supply for months, then they all come at once. Here's Tweaktown's apppraisal of a Topower 520watt PSU.

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