Abit Nforce boards and TI cards - bend capacitors

HEXUS NET says today that it is has come across some difficulties inserting TI 440s from Visiontek and MSI, this time into Abit motherboards. A few weeks ago problems were reported with an Epox mobo. The site says that you can install the cards fine with Abit boards as long as you bend one of the capacitors - oops. Here.

AMD Zone has been busy over the weekend with three reviews - one on a Boxx machine, here, one on a Maxxxxxxpert cooling kit, here, and the last on a 512MB memory bar from Crucial, here.

Tech Report looks at the Geforce 4 MX phenomenon, in this expose.

PC Stats looks at the Belkin USB 2.0 hub in this article.

Here, the MSI GF4 TI 4600 (numbers and letters - sheesh) is compared to the ATI Radeon 8500.

And Via Hardware has posted its review on the MSI Geforce 4 TI 4600.

Sim HQ has, it claims, the most detailed info on Red Storm Entertainment's Ghost Recon: Desert Siege. here.

Hardware IRC looks at this Epox KT 333 motherboard. (Italian), < a href="http://www.hardwareirc.com/Recensioni/Motherboard/EP-8K3A+/analprest.asp" target="_blank">English, and on how it overclocks internationally..

SL Central registered some big price drops on Athlon and Pentium 4 retail CPUs. You can find its regular update here. µ