"2500+" Barton Athlon XP previewed

The chip sports a 512K cache and the motherboard it's plugged in to reckons it's an Athlon XP 2500+. The site here seems to have clocked the chip up to 2250 MHz, but we can't be sure since it's all in Chinese. Our efforts at a translation here have failed, but maybe you'll have better luck .

Back in Angloland, the Guru of 3D has cast an eager and excited eye over a hyper-threading, 3.06 GHz Pentium 4 over here.

The Canadian Overclockers Club reviews the Gigabyte GA-7VAXP motherboard, sporting VIA's DDR400-supporting KT400 chipset over here.

The Geek at I Am Not A Geek has reviewed the Hercules Gamesurround Fortissimo III 7.1 sound card over here. Top performer, he reckons.

Tweaknews takes the lid off a Skyhawk Galaxy LX Designer Aluminum computer case over here. And enjoys the company of a 24INCH TFT LCD Samsung Synchmaster 241MP panel over here.

SubZerotech discovers the beauty of a SunBeamTech Sound Activated CCFL over here.

And an old Doom archive re-emerges from piles of spilt giblets over here.

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