Son of Hammer details outed

THE HEXERS take apart an AMD Athlon XP-M Barton 2500 and discover big bangs for their Sterling, over here.

ATI's All in Wonder Radeon 9200 Multimedia graphical fun house gets an airing on Tweaknews here.

The Opteron tips up for more analysis and duels on 2cpu, with a look at a Tyan pairing of 246s over here. More facts and Xeon figures.

Chief Hammer architect Kevin McGrath discusses the next revision of the AMD core, revealing SSE3 support and other new features, summarised by the Techreporters here.

Designtechnica fiddles with the Motorola MPx200 Smartphone over here.

Bit-tech chooses to put six Socket 478 motherboards through their paces over here. The clear winner is the DFI LanParty 865PE, they reckon.

The Overclockersclub takes a look at Chaintech'sZNF3-150 Zenith motherboard here.

Bjorn3d goes for a spin with a Jetart JAK802A Socket 754/940 CPU cooler here.

Intel server chipset spex are served up with panache on x86-secret, here.

Gigabyte's Radeon 9600 XT wibbled through a wide array of DirectX and OpenGL benchmarks on Hothardware, here.

An mATX board with integrated video and overclocking tips up in the form of an ASrock K7S41 SiS 741 K7 here.

Spruced up Corsair TwinX-3200LL Pro memory modules lose their way in Gruntville here.

Overclockers New Zealand has fiddle on Gigabyte's GA-8TRS300M ATI9100 IGP motherboard. A gamer's delight here.

And Kylie's pumped up and going at it, armed with the righteous sword of truth over here. µ