Ultra Cheap Nforce 6100 motherboard appears

LAPTOP LOGIC tested the Fujitsu Lifebook P7010, one more Centrino ultra portable laptop which comes with a good price, long battery life and a superb wide screen display. A potent competitor to the growing number of Ultra portables based on the Pentium M ULV. Don't expect it to be a gamer ultra portable - those two don't mix well. But Fujitsu has been nice enough to put in a Dual layer DVD writer and a more than acceptable price.

Digital daily has some news about what happens when you plug two 7800GTX in SLI mode. They actually got their hands on two MSI NX7800GTX-SLI cards, unfortunately, whose only difference with Nvidia's reference card is the stickers. You get the usual goodies and the Chronicles of Riddick game. Not exactly what we'd call an exciting product; but at this level of price and performance; there's hardly anything above you.

OCworkbekbench got its hand on the new Asrock K8NF4G-SATA2 motherboard which comes with the now famuous C51G AKA Nforce 6100 chipset. Aimed at the Ultracheap-performance market, this socket 754 mATX model comes with SATA2 ports, 8ch audio as well as the usual array of ports. A very strong contender indeed. Should sell below the £40+VAT. Not bad for a DX9.0 part.

Looking for the almost perfect power supply unit, try that Seasonic S12, a huge 600w PSU that has one of the lowest heat dissipation and one of the most silent ones around. Belgium website Matbe has a hard time trying to find out any fault from it, even minor ones. The Seasonic PSU is from their point of view the best 600W PSU on the market.

Bit tech experiences the thrill of laying their hands on the hot new Evesham Voyager C720 with an onboard 7800GTX Go. For the first time in a very long period, laptops have finally got their paws on a graphic solution that does not sacrifice performance. The Evesham laptop is a 17-inch model with a 2.13GHz CPU. As for the firepower under the hood and the price, you will definitely be surprised.

Compare that laptop above to the Winbook A710 which costs less than half but also comes with a 17-inch screen, GbE, 512 MB memory, a 80GB HDD, a DVD writer and WiFi. While the CPU used is a poweful Mobile Athlon 3000+ - not the budget Sempron - it is its video sub module which understandably is integrated which lets it down. Anyway, you have to choose. µ