c't publishes Athlon 64 benchmarks online

THE GERMAN-LANGUAGE c't has published some snippets describing its Hammer-cored Athlon 64 benchmarking experience. Sticking to 32-bit tests the processor proved 23 per faster than an Athlon XP running at the same speed, they say, when running "typical" office software. In tests, the Hammer needed "20 per cent less time" to encode a video. And, in compiling a Linux kernel the Athlon 64 proved itself a good 27 per cent faster than an XP running at a similar speed. If you want to learn more you'll still have to buy the latest print issue of the mag, it seems. Here's
the snippet.

Back in moboland, ocworkbench has put the ECS K7S7AG (SiS746 + Xabre 200) board up against an nForce2 + IGP reference board. And it turns out the SiS 746 with on board VGA chipset is a "formidable opponent" to the nForce2 (IGP) board, over here

Beyond3D takes a look at ASUS's V9180 Video Suite GeForce4 MX440-8x, based on the newer NV18 NVIDIA graphics core, over here.

The Tech Reporters have a fiddle with a P4PB Ultra a Pentium 4 board based on VIA's P4X400 chipset over here .

HotHardware tinkers with an Asus P4S8X, SiS648 motherboard for the Pentium 4. Over Thanks in advance for any linkage you can provide. As always, please send your PC Hardware News and PR to here .

Tweaknews has a look at a VIA Epia M9000 Mini-ITX motherboard over here.

The board is available with an embedded VIA Eden ESP processor core for fanless systems with ultra low-power requirements, or an embedded VIA C3 E-Series processor for more demanding digital multimedia applications, they say.

OCAddiction takes a look at Swiftech's MCW50 GPU water-block graphics card cooler. over here. There's a quiet look at Zalman's ZM300A-APF power supply unit over here.

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