Squeezing the x86

OUR NEW MATE, Rick C. Hodgin has written a fine piece on some of the ins and outs of getting the most out of x86 CPU performance over at Geek.com. It's called ‘How multimedia and non-multimedia applications can benefit from MMX, SSE, and SSE-2' and it's over here.

X-bit labs has posted an analysis of the state of the memory market. Have wibble this way.

AMDZone has posted a review of Shuttle's SS40G small form factor system based on the SiS 740 Athlon chipset over here.

To Dual or not to Dual, ask the bitbenders over here.

OCWorkbench casts a critcal eye over ECS' SiS 648 mainboard. The L4S8A to see will probably be the next classic from ECS , they reckon over here.

So, too, does HotHardware.Com over here. Wibble between the two, we say.

X-bit labs takes a look at a HighPoint RocketRAID 404 controller over here.

Hexus.net takes a look at a nice aluminium Coolermaster 111C-SX1 case over here.

Get a fan, urges Viperlair over here. More specifically, they suggest, a fan than glows. Coo!

The HardwareMasters have been a litlle slack recently, they confess. Finally the've tipped up with a look at an NP16 Bundle from Compex. Primarily a switch/router, this doobrey allows the user to add wireless capabilities by inserting a wireless PC card, they say. Wibble ye hither.

Dave, says Monster Hardware, was one of the lucky few who after some haggling actually received a CPU out of the Fry's 900Mhz Celeron fiasco. Some of his methods might help others increase their chances of getting vendor satisfaction, they suggest over here.

VR-ZONE has some coverage of VIA's Technical Forum, with roadmap oix and everything, over here.

You can nail the Wibbler here.