Overclocked PEE 4.25GHz tested

SPODES ABODE reviews the Coolermaster Wavemaster TAC T01 EY casing. A Yellow piece of hardware. Where will it fit I wondered when I saw it. As a product placement in Kill Bill 3 I presume. Nothing much to be said. Pristine finish, Aluminium build and three 80mm fans. However, a lack of 120mm fans and an expensive price makes it slightly unattractive.

Extremetech has some disappointments about the ECS KN1 extreme which was meant to be the top of the range socket 939 motherboard from ECS with its nForce4 Ultra. Nope, this one ain't the rightful heir of the K7S5A. Unstable, slightly buggy and underperforming. Next board please.

Hexus checks the Asus Extreme N6800 Ultra/2DT 256MB video card . A hefty 315+VAT buys you one of the fastest graphic cards around in UK. Far more expensive than the $417 you'd pay in US. That Asus card is almost a photocopy of the nVidia reference card. A mediocre overclocker as Hexus puts it, you should probably buy something else.

Xtremeresources tests the Logitech Z-5500 THX certified digital speakers. A superb peripheral which comes complete with a central station and a wireless remote control. With a total of 505 watts RMS, it should be more than sufficient to wake up neighbours in a 100M radius. You also get DTS and Dolby prologic compatibility as well as loads of IOs. Superlative performance at a high price. For connoisseurs only.

The Epox 9NPA+ UItra (nforce 4 Ultra chipset) is on review at Tweaktown. Nice price, good overclocking performance, stable, PATA/SATA RAID and Gigabit Ethernet. Nothing less than others. Competition is only on price then.

MaximumPC explores the Falcon Northwest Mach V, an overclocked Pentium EE 3.73GHz on steroids which got up to 4.25GHz. With a price tag to get a free heart attack - ditto MPC - the rig better be good. DDR2 800 modules, Dual Geforce 6800 ultra with 512MB memory each and dual link DVI transceivers and walked out of the Maximum PC labs with all the records under its arm.

PCMagazine has another go at AMD's X2 processor. They use the usual Asus A8N SLI motherboard. Cinebench 2K3, Photoshop CS and Multitasking apps. While we are at it, there's still another X2 4800+ article, from a French website - translators needed - he reminds us that 1GHz CPU appeared five years ago. Already. Slight overclock at 215MHz FSB but some have already reached 3GHz somewhere else. Now if somehow someone could get a dual socket 939 motherboard or a 939-to-940 socket adaptor, that guy would get a big pat on his back.