A 3.06GHz Pentium 4 for just $699. Coo!

THE EAGLE-EYED FRENCHMEN over at x86-secret.com have been a-wibbling through Intel's published pages again and come up with this interesting snippet.

You can lease a pre-production system from the chipster, sporting, of all things a Hyper-Threading NWD 2.8GHz Pentium 4 processor, for just $1950. The Frenchies wonder whether this little baby will tip up some time, along with, maybe, a more affordable 2.6GHz Multi-threader. Wibblez dans cette direction .

An equally eagle-eyed INQ reader has spotted a 3.06 GHz Pentium 4 on sale for just $699. Roll up, roll up! Sheesh! Couldn't I buy a whole PC for that? Don't quibble, man. Wibble over here. Available, they say, "at launch". Sheesh!

AMDBoard has lain its hands on a Leadtek roadmap sporting a few nForce and Athlon K8 details. Notice that red blob between December 2002 and 2003, marked AMD K8 motherboard? The Mageek has been known to get out a ruler and try and pin down the exact date, you know. Have a wibble over here.

Back in Mobosville, Beyond3D carries a review of Intel's Rambusting D845EBT motherboard over here.

Lostcircuits has a review of a Soyo KT400 DRAGON Ultra mobo, over here.

And the Overclockers' Club fiddles about with an Asus A7V8X motherboard over here. It's crippled but it's nice, they reckon.

Meanwhile, X-Bit Labs has a bash at overclocking an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro (Oh yes!). Wibble thee sharpish, over here.

Wondering why that brand new Ti4600 is running as fast as your old GeForce DDR? No, it's not the videocard, it's the CPU. Viperlair explains all over here.

Tech Report chills out with Ahanix's Iceberg "complete CPU water-cooling kit" over here.

For a bit of a departure from the normal overclocking accessories and chips - graphix or otherwise - have a wibble around a CTX PV720A 17" TFT screen over at Bit-Tech here.

The Hexers gave some Gainward gear to give away over here.

And for all you numbskulls itching to kick ass in Iraq, not that there'll be an airforce there to greet you, here's Sim HQ's in-depth preview of Microsoft's Combat Flight Simulator 3.

Nail the Wibbler here.