Gigabyte SLI board reviewed

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Cooltechzone lays its bare hands on the Pioneer DVR-S806, an external 16x Dual Layer DVD writer which spins faster than its shadow. Pity though it is not properly stocked around the web.

A 80GB Toshiba hard disk is under review at Mikhailtech. This 2.5-inch model sports a 16MB cache and a rotational speed of 5400rpm. Is it the nearest thing to SCSI on the road? Read it here.

T-Break scrutinizes the latest offering from Gigabyte, the K8NXP-SLI motherboard which should in theory be bundled soon with their famous Dual GPU 6800GT cards. May be we'll soon have a four-headed motherboard.

HKEPC has a look at what seems to be the future of the low end graphic market. They have reviewed the Colorful Geforce 6200TC - Colorful is the name of the company and compared it in TSOP and BGA memory packages to see which one is better. HKEPC also has a review of the Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI here. Note that you'll probably need Babelfish to translate all this.

Lostcircuits ponders over the DFI 855GME-MGF and the Intel Pentium M 735 couple and finds that there is still some good products coming out from Chipzilla

Unde the heading, battle of the bluetooth mice, thetechzone pits the MS Intellimouse Explorer against the Logitech MX900. At the end, you'll find whose better suited if you are a gamer or a regular user.

OCPrices posted yet another review of the entry level motherboard, the Albatron mars PX915P Pro. It combines the best of both worlds - support for PCIe cards and DDR-I support.

German website Hardware Centre review the CP4U Nvidia Geforce 6800LE which has 12 pipelines instead of the usual 16. Find out how it compares to its elder brothers. Use google translate if needed.

Techfreaks plays with the A4Tech NB30 batteryless optical mouse and seems to like it very much. One phrase that still puzzles me though is "If you like money, then buy the NB-30".