In search of the missing links

AN AMD GEEZER named Hal Speed gets grilled about the chipmaker's "True Performance Initiative", a sort of justification for their PR ratings, over at Tech Report. Hal is Senior Manager of Strategic Initiatives and head TPI honcho, apparently. "Is TPI still alive? When will we see it? Is that really your real name?" ask the cheeky fellows, over here.

The Hexers take a look at DFI's NB80-EA "exceptional" Granite Bay motherboard to see how well it overclocks, over here.

Beyond3D rounds up a few ASUS P4 boards and puts them through their paces. They muck about with ASUS's P4PE, P4GE-V and P4S8X models over here.

The [Hard] OverClocking Peeps have been twiddling about with an ASUS A7N8X nForce2 board, over, er, um, where's that blooming link gone… : )

Xbitlabs has a go at over clocking an ATI RADEON 9700 PRO to see how it might fair when put up against Nvidia's upcoming GeForceFX doobrey, over here.

They've also had a fiddle with a baker's half dozen Intel 845PE-based hyperthreading mobos here.

Why does the Soyo KT400 Dragon Ultra run about 30 per cent slower in DDR400 mode compared to DDR333 mode? Wonder the folk at excessivehardware. After three months of fiddling they've finally worked it out, they say, over here.

2CPU.com has reviewed Seagate 15K.3 drive. It looks like a hard drive; feels like a hard drive; goes like stink, they say over here.

LostCircuits have been fiddling about with an ASUS V9280S (GeForce Ti4200-8X), mostly with respect to the AGP 8X interface, over here.

AMD Zone tries out Abit's Serillel Parallel ATA To Serial ATA adapter over here.

BiT-Tech.net check out SPI's FSP300-60ATV(PF) ATX power supply over here.

Back over at Hexus.net they've been banging about in a NAYA Design cristO Classic case Review. It has adequate cooling for most people, those wanting high overclocks should look elsewhere, they say here.

Dan's checked out some more PC cases - AOpen's black-hinged-front H500W and super-slim aluminium A340, Chyang Fun's rather cheap yet very flashy CF-2029B, and FastWin's Lian-Li-challenging FW-168A over here.

HotHardware has taken a Hercules Digifire 7.1 Digital Sound Card for a spin. Who need 7-channel audio we wonder? Anyhow, it's um, here.

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