Witness the birth of a motherboard

LEGIT REVIEWS TOOK a visit to Shenzen in China, to see how ECS is manufacturing motherboards. The guys took a peak at not one, but two factories and checked out how the base of your computer is made. If you want to see this, head over here.

Whoopty from XSreviews took a look into one of rare power supplies with 90% efficiency. Yes, we're talking about Corsair's HX620W PSU, 620W that have enough juice to power components which alleged to different sources, require 800 Watts or more. Actually, all that is needed is efficiency, and this modular PSU comes just right.

Bit-Tech tested an XFX 8800Ultra 650M Extreme card. A lack of any price protection annoyed nV partners, but the winners are potential owners, with the price of the card sharply dropping. See what Bit-tech has to say about the XFX here.

Hardware.Info on the other hand, found itself with a lot of processors on testbeds. The guys tested no less than five processors, two from AMD and three from Intel. You can click on a separate review by clicking on the name - Athlon 64 X2 5600+, Athlon 64 X2 6000+, Intel Core 2 Duo E6320, Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 and Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6800.

DFI Infinity NF UltraII-M2 got tested over at PC-Treiber. This is el cheapo motherboard spotting AM2 socket and nForce4 Ultra chipset.

And if you want to properly cool these babies in a hot summer, take a good look at Peltier-assisted waterblock, Swiftec MCW6500-T. OverClockersClub took a good look to see if this cooler is the one.

Rob continued to look at cooling accessories, so it is no wonder to see CoolIT products reviewed over at TechGage.

All of these components don't mean much if your view into the world isn't up to the task. Dell's 24-inch monster has been coming down in price for quite some time now, and slowly we can start talking about this monitor as a mainstream part. And yeah, if you are crying that 500-600 dollars is much, this baby costs around 1100 USD here in Croatia, so you might want to reconsider sending an e-mail with "dude, this monitor is expensive, it costs me 650 USD, I am not rich, m'kay?".

For building a compact machine, size is everything. TweakTown reviewed VIA's EPIA EX, a new mini-computer spotting Mini-ITX form factor.

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