Athlon XP 2000 gives a Pentium4 2GHz a spanking

AFTER ALL THE REVIEWS of Geforce cards wibbling our way recently we've been guided towards something of a rarity. Here's a look at an ATi All-In-Wonder Radeon 8500 128Mb card by Bytesector.

The spods there also have a squint at Samsung's highly desirable SyncMaster 191T, a 19-inch fat panel (Oi steady, we've had mail about that already - ed). You find that here.

We've stumbled across a nice French site that has an expansive test of an Athlon XP 2000 up against a 2GHz Pentium 4 .

It starts here. Have your French dictionary handy…

Undistracted by the World Cup , the Frenchmen have had plenty of time to run numerous applications on both platforms and you can view the tables easily enough. They conclude that although the P4 has some advantage in terms of longevity of the platform, the Athlon outperforms it in most of its tests. The P4 handles games and "some multimedia applications" surprisingly well, they say, but taking price into account, the Athlon wins out overall. La Intella is closing the gap though, they reckon.

OCWorkbench has posted some initial benchmark results from its ongoing test of SiS's 648 chipset on an ASUS P4S8X mainboard. You'll find those here There's a wee gallery of pix, too, here.

Dan's been bashing Lian Li's PC-50, PC-601, PC-6100 and PC-7B aluminium computer cases about. You'll find his mini reviews here.

Those strange fellows at Phlux have posted an “Athlon XP Unlocking Guide”. This one's designed for “impatient oafs with terrible motor skills”. Sound like you? Go here.

TweakTown asked us to point to their updated monthly Buyer's Guide. "There are some new toys out there," they say. "We'll try to see which ones deserve a place within our own special systems”. Click here to see what they're on about.

Those belly-crawling legless ones over at Viperlair have been experimenting with a stick of Xtreme DDR PC2700 memory. Here's how they got on.

Hexus today takes a look at the VIA VPSD P4B-UR P4X333 Motherboard, which has 333 support for P4s. That's here.

VR-Zone says it has taken two new ABIT P4 motherboards out for a spin. These are none other than BD7II-RAID and BG7 based on i845E and i845G chipsets respectively. The techies there reckon you can easily clock a P4 2.4GHz to 3Gig, air cooled, with these boards. Start here.

Ace's Hardware has posted some performance benchmarks from the review of Matrox's new Paraphernalia they are still working on. They're here

Finally, Mikhailtech is gagging for a new writer.

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