Dual core Yonah previewed again

MATBE CHECKS the third generation of Centrino. It has not one but two Centrino cores. Yonah is burned in 65nm with 2MB L2 cache, has a starting FSB/clockspeed of 533MHz/1.066Ghz going up to 2.33GHz. The term Pentium M disappears completely. The whole platform is actually benchmarked with some interesting results. To some extent, we may say that Intel is going towards power efficient, laptop friendly processors. No AMD processors here though. As Matbe puts it, wait and see.

Meanwhile, something slightly more interesting comes our way in the form of the soon to be extinct X1800XT card from Connect3D. PlanetX64 has a review of it. Comes with a pair of adaptors, Component out cable and much more. It is a huge double height card with a copper heat sink and the same setting as reference cards. It can be had for $549 in its OEM form but that's way too expensive compared to the existing 7800GTX available on the market. AVIVO though may be what distinguishes it as ATI dominates Nvidia on multimedia.

Gamergod, another newcomer here, checks the EVGA 133-K8-NF41-AX nForce 4 SLI motherboard. The review is actually an old one dating from November. But eVGA's product reviews are such rare occurences that it is worth mentioning them. Anyway, the board overclocks well, has good tweaking options and matched the best. We would just like EVGA to get that buy a 7800GT card get a SLI motherboard promotion extended to the UK.

Moditory has a post holiday purchase guide and they did a wonderful job. They actually got a computer for budget, starting right from $1000. Prices have fallen down so quickly that even on that shoe string budget, you can get a 7800GT, an Opteron Proecessor and a SLI motherboard. Not bad at all. Guess what they bought with the $2000 cheque though. A good reason to restart browsing through the online sales catalog again.

German website HardwareMag.de - translator needed - rounded up eight gaming/office mice and tested them one by one. Two from Microsoft, Two from Razer, three from Logitech and One from Raptor. Loads of details and images and sixteen pages of pure rodent pleasure. Gna, Gna.

Anyone from E7even or using E7even, please contact me. I am looking for a Dual Core base unit. The cheapest 1GB DC PC base unit I got is a £450 - VAT inclusive. Anyone found better? Two days ago, it was not a Celeron M that was overclocked but rather a mobile Celeron. The main difference being that the mobile Celeron is Northwood based rather than one of those latter 90nm parts. Funny though that the Mobile Celeron is based on an older 130nm part. Nordic Hardware also came forward with that info about Marcus Kinc Hultin achieved a 3Dmark 05 of 18427 using optimized Nvidia drivers, a clock speed of 3128MHz and air cooling. That's a few days after reaching 40K 3Dmark03 using air cooling.