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Meanwhile, at OC Workbench, there's a review of the Abit AN8-SLI.

At first glance, you would be excused for thinking that the Albatron card. featured at Digit Life is a top view photo of that well known robot which made it to the screen some years ago. In fact, it is a Geforce 6800 card with 128MB and two cooling system including three illuminating fans and heat pipes. It is quiet and does have a good overclocking potential.

Italian website HW Upgrade trials the new Acer Travelmate 4400.. Acer is a firm backer of AMD and proves it with this Turion based laptop. Travelmate for those who ignored it was long reserved for Intel. Its features are quite standard - 1.6GHz ML30 CPU, Radeon XPRESS 200P Chipset, X700 GPU, 15-inch XGA, DVD writer, 512MB memory and 60GB HDD. You'll need a translator to grasp the gist of it.

French review site PC Impact tests 17 DDR memory modules,. including AData and G.Skill, two brands very popular in Asia but relatively unknown in Europe and USA. Other brands include Lidl/Aldi's favourite, Swissbit, as well as the other usual suspects. A very informative article which should enlighten your next DDR purchase. PC Impact plans to make another update soon.

A newcomer to our column, Eclipse OC tests the Crucial Ballistix PC3200 512MB memory module. in the website's first ever article. It's a plain type memory module with a heatspreader and seems to be oriented towards the mild enthusiast rather than the frenzied overclocker. ideal for those looking for the cheap and cheerful.

BIOSmagazine checks the Creative Sound Blaster X Fi Elite Pro,. which some other reviews have called the last PCI quality sound card. This little jewel from Creative Labs gets a virtual standing ovation from BIOS which calls it a revolution in PC audio. The model reviewed is the top end version and includes not only professional quality DAC but also a large IO module, a remote control and 64 MB of memory. There's no Firewire or USB ports though but even a professional musician should at least have a look at what it offers.

Phoronix gets a full review at the Abit AW8. which is a fanless 955X chipset based motherboard. It includes Abit famous OTES cooler in its silent version, as well as uGuru overclocking technology and AudioMax daughterboard. It does not win points however on wealth of features nor on outstanding overclockabilty. But Linux does not get any conflict with it which accoding to Phoronix is a big plus.