Benchmarking shenanigans reappear

FUTUREMARK'S APPEAL to the Overclockercafe to remove some pages reflecting benchmarks that may be of the "unapproved" variety has had Dean Barker up in arms. His rant about the whole affair is here.

The AMDZoners have been having a fiddle aboot with an Athlon 64 board from Aopen. The AK86L is based on the VIA K8T800 chipset and gets its going-over here.

Building a PC? Why waste money on a big fat burnished aluminum case when any old discarded Fedex box will do the job just as well. Short-media has the cardboard mod.

Over at XBit Labs, Anton's been musing on Intel's LGA775 socket strategy. Prepare for the deluge here.

Shuttle makes a showing for today's wibblers. Dumping the AGP gives the master of the miniature more room for manoeuvre, the techreporters discover.

While their S61G4 comes in for some sober assessment at HOCP. More shapely than Kylie's arris? You decide.

MyWorld Hardware enjoy the company of CpuMate's cooler, the DA34HM2, over here.

The Hardware Pacers are giving stuff away. Sign up here to blag yourself some wirelessness.

The Neoseeker has a fiddle with a northbridge cooler, Microcool's NorthPole, over here. One for the hardcore overclocker, this.

Sharky's posted this month's Extreme Gaming PC Buyer's Guide over here.

The Firing Squad meanders back through the mists of time to deliver its own look at 3D creation over here.

They've been banging about in an Athenatech A801 case down in HardwareHell here.

Another look at a Via 880 chipset, this one mounted on MSI's PT board, comes under the gaze of the Tweaktown posse. Competition for Canterwood here.

And, for those that haven't been paying attention, Fudo's been sucking up to Creative again. Here's his verdict on Creative Labs 7.1 Gigaworks S750 speakers. µ