iPod busters muster amid the boards and the bored

THE TBREAKERS go all Zen with a look at the newest XPC from Shuttle. It's based on the ATI RS300 chipset and it's here.

The ST61G4 uses the same chipset and comes under the gaze of the boys at hothardware here.

Is Toshiba's GigaBeat G20 an iPod Killer? is the stupid question asked at i4u.com. No, is our answer. Their's may be different .

Or, BigBruin takes a look at another contender, the iRock! 830 128MB MP3 player here. They like it.

Big ifs over at Hexus in their look at the S3 DeltaChrome S8. It's in with a shout is their verdict here.

Adrian's Rojak Pot revisits the GeForce FX Go5200 following whines from Nvidia. Here's the latest. µ

Mr Schuette rattles on about the DFI LAN Party NFII UltraB motherboard over at Lost Circuits. You can't skip to the end without the pain of all the stuff in between. Well, you can if you go here. Or you can begin here. Or we'll precis for you: he likes it.

Also fond of a word or two are the TechReporters. Here's their look at Albatron's K8X800 Pro II, "one of the most affordable Athlon 64 boards on the market," they reckon.

There's a conflab going on down in the Overclockercafe over Inno3D's version of the GeForce 5700 Ultra. Wortha wibble, they reckon, here.

The Grunts entertain Chaintech's FX5600 Personal Cinema over here.

While grumpy's gang check out a competitor, ATI's All-In-Wonder, based on the Radeon 9800Pro, here.

Dan reviewed some mouse mats. Coo! Did he find anything useful to say about them? Nope. Does he say nothing amusingly? Sure, he normally does.

Much waffle preludes Cooltechzone's fiddle with a CoolerMaster Jet 4 HSF over here.

On Tweaknews a sliver of Crucial PC3200 DDR400 Memory gets a going-over here.

The now somewhat elderly Creative Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro gets a blast at Sudhian here.

The Arctic-Cooling Copper Silent 2L works pretty darn well they reckon, down in Ohls-Place here.

And some Water-Cooling kit is on offer to Brits able to draw themselves over at Water-cooling.com. The sad and the lonely should click here. µ