Retail Nforce2 offerings splurge forth

YOU'LL EXCUSE US if we plug ourselves first, but Fudo spent many hours fiddling about with a bunch of Epox offerings, including a couple of their NForce2 chipset boards. Not only does that mean Fudo's been hard at work, it also means INQUIRER staffers have been hard at work on Fudo's idiosyncratic Bosnian English. Worth the effort all round, I think you'll find, over here.

The Hexers have also been getting busy with nForce. They've had a look at ABIT's NF7-S nForce 2 mobo. It looks formidable on paper, they say. Taking advantage of almost everything that the nForce2 has to offer, and adding ABIT's legendary Softmenu III BIOS and general stability, it should be a sterling performer, they suggest, over here.

They've also been having a fiddle with a SOYO KT400 DRAGON Platinum Edition board. That's here.

But, back with Nforce2, the Hardware Zone has their own take on Leadtek's version of Nvidia's chipset with the K7NCR18D-Pro board over here.

Biting back with a KT400 chipset board come UK Gamer with a review of the A7V8X from Asus, here.

Beyond3D take a fresh look at the MatroxParhelia-512 card, so what's happened in the six months since it first tipped up over here.

The German3D Center has been casting an eye over a roadmap detailing some upcoming Trident cards, with some specs for a Trident XP4e, due to tip up in May. Plus a 0.13 or 0.10 micron process Trident XP8 due to sample next July. DirectX 9.x, 350 MHz core clock, 500 MHz DDR-RAM memory clock and a possible 3DMark2001 of an estimated 14,000, they reckon, over here.

And Dukgamers have a review of Leadtek's Winfast A180 MyVIVO graphics card here.

Amdmb.com has a fiddle with a Swiftech MCP300 Inline Watercooling Pump over here. An excellent, well constructed and thought out design, they reckon.

OCAddiction has one of Sunbeam's "sweet-looking" Multicolor CCFL's on their test bed here.

While over at Spode's Abode Dr. Surlyjoe reveals how he quietened his P4 box down. His wife made him do it, it seems, here.

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