Six Radeon X700s get hardware lookover

3D CENTRE tells me about its review of two of the rarest current graphic chips available in the market. The S3 Deltachrome and the XGI Volari. It even sends us back to a not so distant past with a comparison between the Savage 2000 and the Geforce 256 - remember? A good read via a translator.

Still via a translator, Hardware-mag carries a review on the Asus A8N-SLI deluxe with more benchmarks that one would chew. Good piece of reading.

If searching for text in huge files is amongst one of your next assigments, then you will be very thankful to iceteks which has published an article on text searching in Linux with GREP. Informative and straight to the point.

Abit has introduced a series of branded motherboard but the one reviewed at PC Perspective is not one from the Fatal1ty brand but rather the AG8. It boosts a list of features which make it appealing to the price-conscious overclocker. A 261Mhz FSB overclocking was possible.

Andy Hanley from Hexus reviews the Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI which caters for an audience different from the one above. Based on the nForce 4 SLI chipset, it oozes with quality and features but at a substantial price.

Six Radeon X700 Pro are in the labs of French website PC Inpact. They come from Asus, Gecube, Mediamax, MSI, Powercolor and Sapphire. Read here to see the surprising winner from the batch.

Michael Robertson, founder & CEO of Linspire, talks about his new site, MP3tunes, where every song is in ultra-high quality MP3 format. You own the music - not rent it - so you decide which portable player or software program you want to use.

Reviews of casing seem to be commonplace now. The Enermax Venus CS-10068-B is the latest in our column. It is a mATX model with a black paint finish and has impressed the reviewer, Mr Icee. µ

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