ClawHammer thermals, All-in-Wonderfulness and NForce 2 exclusives

TODAY'S THE DAY reviews of ATi's All-In-Wonder RADEON 9700 Pro can be posted on the Web, it seems. Anandtech has a look at one over here. While HotHardware also seem to have blagged themselves one over here. Compare and contrast, we say.

Aceshardware has stumbled across a new Clawhammer thermal design guide. It shows how to design a cooler for the Hammer processor. Go here for the Zip file from AMD.

X-Bit Labs has posted a review of Seagate's Cheetah X15 36LP U320 HDD an Ultra320 SCSI disk They also undertake, they say, a detailed study of the Ultra320 SCSI interface features and algorithms. Wibble ye hither.

3DVelocity has a fiddle with a slice of Corsair's XMS3500 memory over here.

Beyond3D has an Intel D845GEBV2 desktop mobo in for testing. It's based on Intel's refresh to the 845 line-up with support for PC2700 DDR333 RAM, Hyper-Threaded enabled CPUs and with Intel's "Extreme Graphics". Coo! The excitement starts here.

OCWorkbench has an "exclusive" look at Chaintech's nForce2 motherboard, the 7NJS. Here are the specs: Dual Channel DDR 400/333/266 SDRAM up to 3GB, AGP 8X, CMedia 8738 6 Channel Audio, Promise PDC20376 Serial ATA RAID controller, 6 x USB 2.0 Ports, Onboard LAN, SPDIF, IEEE1394, etc. Here's the link.

Viperlair pitches in with its look at MSI's 845PE Max2 mobo over here. Hyperthreading support, Gigabit Ethernet and all that stuff, natch.

Oh, and here's another look at the Chaintech 7NJS with the nForce2 chipset. You had the spex, the suggested retail price is $188. Here's VR-Zone's verdict.

We all know about laptop makers putting desktop chips in notebooks. What about putting notebook processors in desktops? Ok, here are some adapters for that very purpose. And here are some more. Hmm.

RipNet-UK has come up with a nice liitle intro to programming with Visual Basic, for those that are interested in such things, over here.

The Overclockers Club has knocked up a thorough test of the Iceberg 1 water cooler. Built for the Itanic? (Giggle!) Wibble this way.

Here's more from a guide to cooling from Tech-PC.

Hexus.net have a look at a Coolermaster 201B, over here.

And Monster Hardware squeeze the new Swiftech MCX462+ heatsink into a tight space over here.

And some guy called Ethuscan says he overclocked his XP2400+ (2.0GHz) to 2.78GHz, cooled, it seems, using a Prometeia. He's put himself about a bit too, swaggering about proudly on a couple of sites. VR-Zone has stuck him in its Overclocking Database over here.

There's a very cruel parody of a hardware site here. Only read it if you're a sadistic beast.

Here's an article at Real World Tech on compiler optimisation. This is the second part of a three part series by Rob Thorpe on compilers, the first part can be found here.

You can nail the Wibbler here.