AMD Athlon 64 named 'processor of the year'

In a somewhat surprising move, it seems that analysts have awarded the Athlon 64 a gong as ' processor of the year'. This seems a somewhat brave move considering the processor isn't available for another seven months.

Intel's new Centrino/Banias processor is set to be one of the highlights of the mobile world this year. Rolotech has a good long look at just what makes it special.

Vidilab continues the journey into the the problem with MSI Nforce 2 motherboards. There might be an official fix available but it could be just smoke and mirrors.

Pawel over at PCLab poland has a look at the SoundBlaster Audigy 2 Platinum EX. He says you might just be stuck looking at the pretty pictures unless you can read Polish.

A good while ago there was a big fuss about Quad Band Memory, a technology that should make memory much faster. Time has passed and nothing has been heard. Xbit Labs takes a look at what has been going on and reaches some unfortunate conclusions.

Hubert over at Viperlair has a long and soul-searching look at the state of hardware review sites. If you thought everyone just got along, the bad news is here.

Datafuse has gone all maudlin on us and thinks that 2003 might already be a flop. Maybe it's because they don't want a vacuum cleaner GeForce FX in their PC any more.

3DFX might have died quite some time ago but there are still people out there updating drivers for the cards as Nordic Hardware discovered. They interview the people who still carry the flame.

Does serial ATA really make much difference? CyberCPU wanted to know so they carried out some tests. The results were surprising, especially for the amount of processor time used.

Got an old Apple Mac that's too slow to keep up with the latest software? It might seem heretical to many Apple fans, but DistroWatch suggest you might want to try running Linux on it. µ