Mobile Athlon tested on desktop motherboard

ALLELUIA. At least somewhat listens to me - or so I like to think. Thinkcomputers has a review of the Biostar M7VIG-400 combo with an AMD Mobile XP 2600+ CPU. Now I would really like to see a similar combo with a Turion Processor. That would be nice. Now it might not be what you call a performance champ but you do get a very nice overclocker bundle. The board is a s462 powered by the KM266 pro. It has PCI and AGP ports and the rest is pretty much standard. Shame though it doesn't overclock quite well.

That's probably one of the most fabulous mod ever to have graced the Inq pages. lBit Tech came forward with the Creative X-Fi music creation mod as a challenge set by Creative Labs itself. Twenty pages later and you get a huge case with some very impressive lighting and decorations, like one of those professional huge speakers, but perched on stainless steel legs. Wonder if they will start selling them.

Rockdirect specialises only in laptop - which is a good thing as they are quite expert at it as you can guess. Trustedreviews checks the Rock Pegasus 650 laptop. A 15.4-inch widescreen display sporting a resolution of 1680x1050 welcomes you - put's my dual 18.1-inch LCD to shame. P-M 2.13GHz, 1GB DDR memory, 100GB HDD, Geforce GO 660 graphics and a slim design. Not bad for the price as well.

AMD Zone has filed a dual graphics card showdown matching Crossfire versus SLI vs 16X SLI. A full look at the site.

HKEPC reminds us that Intel still makes good chipsets, albeit a little bit expensive ones. They review the Gigabyte GA-G1975X motherboard with the Intel 65nm Presler Pentium XE processor. The board comes with a strange but hopefully effective cooler system. The board is also compatible with Crossfire. No benchmarks for now, probably latter.

Pureoverclock checks the Gainward 7800GT Golden Sample - which is slightly faster than the normal GT itself. Speed bumps, this is what it is all about. Bloody faster than a X850XT PE and warranty even when overclocking means that this card probably lies within some 3Dmarks from the 7800GTX.

The i-mate JASJAR has been tested at ZDNET. It is a Windows Mobile 5 micro laptop with a phone or vice versa. With a swivelling screen, a built in QWERTY keyboard, a real one, 3G support and WiFi/Bluetooth integrated, this could be a real Blackberry killer. While being bulkier and quite expensive, its 3.6-inch 640x480 screen will surely get some heads turning. µ