Catalyst 5.1 drivers, 20-in LCD and well hung mobo reviewed

Anandtech, via Stephen Caston, reviews the Nikon Coolpix 8400 which is a wide angle digital camera with a 8MP resolution and bags of goodies.

Hexus had a fruitful Tuesday as they managed to test the performance of the new ATI Catalyst 5.1 while at the same time getting some cool Commodore C64-in-a-joystick to give away and pondering on females in the IT industry. Time for another download I presume.

Cooltechnews has a series of articles on the recent CES 2005 featuring news about MP3 players, Dual players etc. Also they have a good refreshers article on Linux as an OS and the one which spearheaded the GNU revolution.

DVDwriters.co.uk analyses the Plextor 716A DVD writer and finds a lot to love about it, not the least because it will soon support Dual layer DVD-R.

Denver Mcanally, from AMDZone went out to get a Gigabyte Geforce 6600GT graphics card, the GV-NX66T128D and tested it against one from eVGA and another one from Asus. The results are over here.

After HardOCP, it's Digital Daily's turn to fall under the charm of the Abit AA8XE fatal1ty. This motherboard they say is worth worshipping. It's worth buying at least for hanging it on the wall, apply voltage and start up the 14 LEDs to enjoy the illumination. Oh, really?

Alexander Maltsev from digitlife reviewed the Nec 2080UX+ LCD monitor which is one of the few 20-inch on the markets capable of 1600x1200 dpi with a 16ms full cycle response time. Go for it if you have the money.