Brain sturgeon examines Western Digital Caviar drive

GAME PC has dipped its fingers into Western Digital's Caviar RAID edition drives, and finds the sturgeon eggs to its liking. Here.

At Rojak's Pot there's a review of the Mundu Interoperable Messenger.

Sapphire's "Toxic" X800 Pro Vivo gets put through its paces over at Beyond 3D, here.

Tweaktown has gone bananas and looks at a total of 12 Intel 925 and 915 motherboards, in this lengthy lookthrough, here. Are you a Doom merchant? Because if you are, Xbit Labs has a guide to what might be the best "brains of a computer" to run it on. It's here.

Ace's Hardware looks at the hawk headed Newisys Horus Opteron scaling thingie, here.

There's a review of an Asus A8V "Deluxe" motherboard at the Tech Report today. It wears black silk pyjamas, smokes Black Russian tabs, and is surrounded by red velvet. Well not quite, but the plushness of it all thrills the site.

Our old pals at Powerleap have one of their gizmos reviewed at Tom's Hardware, here. This one revives that old fave, the Socket 423 chipolata, from Intella.

Here's a review at Anandtech of what it describes an an eighth generation Pioneer burner.

Viper Lair sinks its fangs into the HIS Excalibur X700XT Vivo Limited Edition, here.

More Intel mobos over at Hot Hardware.

Aye. The sassenachs are back at work today, while old Jock McF continues his relentless quest for wibblesome bites. Mail him with your hardware reviews, if ye dare! µ