World War II ammo boxes become PCs

BRITISH SITE Hexus plays with a new toy from Asus, the P5AD2-E premium which is based on the powerful but expensive i825XE. It is very posh but does it perform equally well? There's only one way to know it. Read the article. Another article from Hexus looks at another motherboard, this time from EQS, not ECS. The A58XK9-ALF is based on the Radeon Xpress 200P chipset and targets the Athlon 64 family. This one comes without the integrated Radeon 9200 core but still does hold its ground against more mature products like the Nforce 3 chipset.

There is another British site called Bit-Tech, or News of the Screws. Here we see that there's a pair of units made to look like World War II ammunition boxes.

Dean Nottis offers us a battle at the top with on one side, an ATI X800XT PE, a very rare card indeed, and on the other side, the eVGA 6800 Ultra. Both of them are AGP cards so it should prove to be more popular than PCI-e models.

MVKTech puts the Mushkin DDR2 PC2-4200 CL3 to the test. Considered as one of the fastest DDR2 on the planet, the reviewer really puts it to the test and comes with some surprising performance.

The Moditory puts the Logitech MX1000 under the microscope and dissects what is probably considered as one of the best mice ever made. With a laser like accuracy and some wickedly well designed controls, it leads the way in mice mastery.

Mikhailtech gets his hands on a rather odd product, the AL Tech Anyrive Car MP3 FM transmitter. It is a USB driven radio that will act as a local transmitter for your car, allowing you to connect any USB music player to it.

From Dansdata comes the Dell Inspiron 9200 Laptop computer. Basically, it is a desktop replacement model with a WUXGA, 1920x1200 screen. You get the picture. A real bargain by Dan's words.

Apple released a new word processor named Pages. It is expensive but a welcome upgrade to the ageing Clarisworks word processor. A good review which exposes some pitfalls of the software. µ

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