AMD Socket 754 chipsets compared

ACE'S HARDWARE compares two AMD Athlon socket 754 chipsets in the shape of the MSI K8T Neo, which uses Via's K8T800 chipset, and the K8N Neo Platinum, which uses Nvidia's Nforce 3 250 Gb. Which one is better? Read here to find out.

Tec Central gets its hands on some A-Data 512MB PC4000 DDR 500 memory sticks and pumps them for all they are worth.

Beyond 3D previews a reference sample of the GeForce FX5700 Ultra GDDR3 here. The Game PC Labs take AMCC's sexily named 3Ware 9500S4-LP RAID controller and over an amazing 11 pages checks out its performance.

Eva. Love her or hate her, you can now listen to her. Because Hardware Pacers has reviewed the X Micro Eva MP3 player with 256MB at its pages, here.

Viper Lair looks at the X-Arcade Dual Controller in this review.

More memory madness from Hardware-Mag DE, which checks out DDR 400 registered ECC kits from Infineon, from Kingston, and from OCZ too. The German page is here.

Another German language site, Tuning Total, reviews a keyboard that lights up and it looks very pretty as as well. But Revoltec?

Xbit Labs has a GainwardFudoGoldenSample and pours words about it over at this this page. This particular Golden Sample performs well on the overclocking states but has a name that must slow sales down when you go to buy one - the Gainward FX Power Pack! Ultra/1300XT Golden Sample. If the shop doesn't hear you right the first time, you've got to say the eight words all over again!

HardOCP editorialises at length about cheating and stuff on video cards, here.

Half Life 2. Love it, hate it or bored with it? Tom's Hardware Guide previews it.

Are you interesting in modding, you old rockers? If so, you might care to wibble across to Gruntville where you can perform interesting experiments with sharp knives, steel and other possibly injurious substances. µ