Cheap nForce4 Motherboard plus X8x0 cards reviewed

THE FIVE HEAD motherboard known as the Asrock P4Dual-915GL is reviewed at OCworkbench where it is benchmarked and compared to two other boards. The outcome is predictable and favours the Asrock board. OCW has also reviewed the Foxconn NF4K8MC-ERS which is a scaled-down version of an existing nForce 4 board. Even then, the NF4K8MC-ERS is a cheap yet powerful solution for the socket 939 processor.

French website TT-hardware shows you how to build an Athlon 64 PCI-Express rig within some hours. The article is quite concise and assumes that you do have some basics in hardware assembly. French needed.

The Gigabyte Radeon X850XT PE is slightly different from other similar cards in that it is factory overclocked and as such gets much higher performance should you want for some reason to keep your warranty intact.

Further down the road at Hothardware, they are testing the Sapphire Hybrid Radeon X800XL graphic card. A powerful yet affordable card that should prove to be a good buy.

Could be Bart's MP3 player. The Mobiblu DO(A)H-220 is a strange animal that can be placed into an old tape player - remember these?. The Mobiblu can also record from those old tapes making them ideal if you have loads of them that you would like to record.

The Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS is under review at Biosmagazine. This PC Card allows your laptop to become a 7.1 powerhouse. For those who might be interested, you can get pretty good deals on Creative products on their own website.

DVDoctor, via Hexus, takes a hard look at SATA technology and explains how this technology is beneficial to the video editing. While SATA optical drives are still rare and external optical drives even rarer, things should change pretty soon. µ