19-inch LCDs, 16GB RAM Disk reviewed

HARDOCP is reviewing one of the more funkier boards around. The DFI Lanparty 875P-T has yellow and orange connectors on a black PCB and couples with the Intel Pentium IV processor. Want to know how the i875 chipset goes with the socket 775. Make your way here.

With 19-inch LCD monitors being cheaper day by day, Hardware.fr and tomshardware are both reviewing a truckload of them. The first one reviews the Viewsonic VP151b and argues whether an 8ms LCD monitor is enough for gaming. Pabst's website send four TFT monitors, one from Xerox - ddin't know they were making monitors, one from LG-Philips, one from NEC and the last one from BENq and gives you one ultimate winner.

Hardwarezone from Singapore reviews the second Intel motherboard but this one based on the latest chipset from Santa Clara, the 925X. The Abit AA8 Duramax is a hell of a motherboard a you will see here.

Hexus brings us a review of the ATI Radeon X800XL which connects to the PCI-e slot rather than to the AGP. This one is the model which is supposed to come out at $299. So watch it cruise in Hexus's benchmarks.

Is an external casing worth five pages? Probably yes, if you are gideontech. They review the Vantec Nexstar 2 which is an external USB2.0/firewire 5.25-inch external device on their website.

Barebone.info, a German website specialised in SFF, has a review of the XPC SB83G5 from Shuttle, which is one of the first to feature i915G chipset. With Matrix RAID, HD-Audio and GMA900 graphics, surely one to count on.

The last review of today is not really one. I found that product online and would like to share it with you. It is the Hyperdrive III which is basically a card which allow you to build a solid state hard disk. At £399 for the nude card, it is not cheap especially since you would probably have to fill the eight empty banks with 1GB modules to get only 8GB of hard disk space. But its sheer performance and the fact that it will not lose any information if your PC is shut down means that it should be a winner. What's more exciting is that it can be used with a RAID card and is treated like a normal IDE hard disk. Some information. It has a sustained data rate of more than 90MB/s on ATA100 bus and a seek time of 100 microseconds, 40 times faster than the fastest hard disk. XP installs on it i four minutes and a full format takes only the time of a click. A 16GB hard disk would cost you around £2000, 500 times today's rate, but you can't get faster performance than this one. Any thoughts about this one, just send me a line.