Wibbling through the mobo mountain

While OCWorkbecnch has a look at EPOX's special edition 8K9A2+ board over here. The board sports HightPoint HPT372RAID which provides ATA-133 RAID, they say, along with Serial ATA using the SATALink chipset by Silicon Image.

The Aussie Tweakers cast an eye over Gigabyte's GA-7VAXP KT400 motherboard here.

And HotHardware casts an eye over the SiS648-powered MSI 648 Max motherboard over here.

And the Gamersdepot has a look at FIC's Radeon 9700 Pro. The full scoop, they say, including overclocking benchmarks, is over here.

Dan puts Nexland's Pro100 broadband router up against SnapGear's much more expensive PRO+, a router, which, he says, has the real purpose of making people who just spent tens of thousands of dollars on "enterprise" networking hardware feel like the world's biggest idiots. Wibble over here.

The Viper plumbs for an external enclosure that supports USB2.0 over here.

AMD goes on tour round the US later this month, banging the drum. AMDZone has the info over here. While the company's very own propaganda can be found over here.

Hexus.net has a look at the Sapphire Radeon 9700 Pro Graphics card over here.

VR-Zone visited Shuttle HQ at Taiwan and had a chat with the man behind Shuttle's XPC series, Mr Ken. They also managed to capture a photo of the new copper heatpipe cooler meant for the upcoming SN41G2 XPC based on nForce2, they say. Wibble on over here.

BiT-Tech.net has a look a Alternative Technologies, of which they say Nintendo Gamecube is an example. Wibble on over here for an assessment of the console.

Sudhian goes a-modding with a 'special Edition' SS40G - SFF/LCD mod over here.

And the OverclockersClubCanada has a look at Thermaltake's Volcano 7+ Copper Heatsink and Fan, over here.

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