Opteron does battle with Xeon

IN THE RED CORNER, an Opteron 248, running at 2.2 GHz with 1MB of L2 cache. In the blue corner, a 3.2 GHz Xeon with 1MB of on-die L3 cache in addition to 512k L2 cache. Your referee: GamePC.com.

Still on the subject of AMD, AMD Zone reports the US military have bought a 256 AMD Opteron cluster.

Might a funky optical Trackman from Logitech persuade you to dump the rodent? Visit bit-tech for the ball-spinning.

Back on the subject of the US military, in front of the Firing Squad is an Oreck Super Air 7 air purifier. This, they say, is built with the "same electrostatic precipitation technology used in the United States Navy's nuclear submarine fleet. " Coo! Take a deep breath and click here.

When not ferreting through his postbag, Dan's fiddles with his monitor Here's his verdict on the ColorVision SpyderPRO kit.

Thermal glue blues? Chill out with an Arctic Silver Thermal Compound. The Hardware Pacers are stuck on number 5.

Alternatively, tame the temperature with a Thermaltake Hardcano Thermal Control. The good citizens of Tweaktown have number 12.

The Hexers mince their way through Corsair's uncheap XMS4400 TwinX 1GByte memory pack over here.

As some Madshrimps take the PC4200 "EL" memory kit from OCZ for a spin here.

A spot of laptop gaming using a GeForce FX Go5200 seems to have been going on at Adrian's Rojak Pot. Benchmarks and ev'ryting.

That sinking feeling at cooltechzone. Here's their look at Thermaltake's Venus 12 HSF.

A vote for water over at rbmods with JacolTech's 5.25-inch drive-bay water tank here.

Air! say the Madshrimps, with a roundup of A64 heatsinks here.

Water from bit-tech, in the company of the Xice EC600/H here.

Humble Greg's been in touch. Have a swing at his Golf Putter PC Case Mod over at ExtensionTech.net here.

A young Spodeling takes a quiet look at the AcoustiCase C6606 over here.

And subject of a mulling-over in the Overclocker Cafe is OCZ's 512mb dual channel PC3700 Gold memory kit. It left a favourable impression. µ