Small form factor revolution heralded

Some P4-based Small and Finely-Formed cuties from Shuttle, Soltek and ABIT get an outing in Tweaktown here.

Spex for a couple of new Chenming Athlon 64 barebones boards get wibbled at on AMDboard here and here.

Till the DVD drive doubles as a burger dispenser, here's ExtensionTech's fiddle with a 12 Volt PC Cigarette Lighter.

Get cordless with your Sexy SFF, Logitec sytlee, or not. CoolTechZone has its grumbles with the Navigator.

Stick the case altogether and get seriously Sinclair with the zero-footprint keyboard PC over on theTechzone. Here's a squint at the Cybernet Elite-4 Zero-Footprint-PC Keyboard.

Elsewhere, GamePC labs, gives Opteron's memory architectures a going-over over here. What's new and how does it get on with various speed grades of DDR, they muse.

Does the hard drive continue to be the component that makes you curse your PC? is the topic for Tbreak today, with a look at four hard drives, from ultra-speedy Raptors to fat Maxtors Over here.

MSI makes all sorts of stuff these days. USB Mega Sticks, 8x DVD recorders and Wireless 11g equipment, all spotted back here there in Tweaktown

While over at Spode's Abode, Leslie (cough!) Nielsen takes a look at the smallest KVM switch in the world, the tiddly StarTech 2 PC KVM over here.

The Hexers swagger about for a while with an Voodoo PC Envy m:855 laptop over here. Bet that's not going back for while. : )

SeaSonic's Super Tornado 350W PSU has got a big fan over on Datafuse here.

Back on topic, Shuttle's Zen XPC, the ST62K, gets blagged by bit-tech here. Looks, subtlety, performance and absolute silence, they reckon. µ