7300GS is a big, lazy GPU

The Gigabyte card is aesthetically the most stunning of the bunch with a yellow cover which connects the bracket to the heat spreaders. The card itself is passively cooled. The card is a 90nm model running at 550MHz and using 64-bit GDDR2 memory running at 800MHz. It has the same features as the beefed up 6200 that the 6500 was. Performancewise, it is a big let down as the X1300LE manages to beat it in a majority of benchmarks - 3Dmark01, 03, 05, Doom 3, HL2 and BF2.

Phoronix has a long history of Tyan motherboard reviews; the latest one they reviewed is the Tomcat i7230A S5160 which as you can guess is a LGA775 motherboard. It has dual PCI express and surprisingly integrates the XGI Volari Z7 integrated GPU and 16MB memory. My oh my. The benchmarks include two other chipsets from Intel. Other specs include two GbE controllers, four PCI expansion slots and four SATA2 ports with RAID support. Phoronix always include a Linux section in its benchmark and tests drivers so you might want to see how the item perform with the penguin OS. That said, this motherboard is aimed squarely at the corporate market with notable absence of everything dealing with o'clocking, tweaking and firewire.

Toms reviews a few 32-inch LCD TVs which go past XGA resolutions offered by smaller LCD TV. Six sets are investigated. If you are a budget buyer, you can't go wrong with the Samsung TV set. However, if performance is paramount, then for slightly more the Philips one is admitedly better. In fact TH says that it is the best LCD TV currently available and the best 32-inch set they've ever seen.

Legitreviews tests the Corsair 4000PT and the 3500LL memory module. They are both 2GB DDR memory kits covered with heat sink spreaders. Jason, the reviewer, also tries to answer the question about the idea of getting 2GB in your box. As a conclusion they say that 2GB is here to stay. Whether it will be with DDR memory, that's something else. My bet would be to shun DDR1 for now and wait for AMD's new platform to come in a few months. Else you might burn yourself very seriously.

Hardwarezone reviewed three X1800XT in a couple of days. I've chosen the best one as an appetizer. The Asus EAX1800XT TOP is certainly the quietest, fastest, most expensive and best looking of the bench. Pity though that it will be outclassed in a few days by the X1900XT. I won't go other the features. They are already well documented. The cooler is a huge aluminium one with a copper plate from Arctic Cooler. It is black which differentiates it from the other cards. It is highly overclocked - which means that you won't be able to get it even higher and it is a two slot model - that was expected. You've also got a Gamepad and the Kingkong game as well as 15 more items.

Italian website Hardware Upgrade has a four page article on the new Nforce 4 chipsets for the LGA775 range from Intel. Like for AMD, Nvidia now guns for the Performance and the Mainstream users which translate into cheap SLI and high performance non SLI users. While they have less USB ports when compared to their SLI x16 and normal SLI, model, they do come with HD Audio which is a surprising addition if you're an entry level model. No benchmarks though as this is only a preview. µ