Pipefish appears .13 micron Athlon while Visiontek doomed?

WE HEARD SOME manufacturing jobs had gone at Visiontek a while back but HardOCP reports that the writing is on the wall for the firm. The outfit shut down its Euro operations earlier this year.

Someone called Scooby McPabster seems to want to start a scrap between us, Anandtech and Eric Ross of Investec over at Pabster Central. CU outside, Jimmy!

Writes the Evil Dr Spinola: "Discredited poodle of Intel and Microsoft, The Pabster, has been desperately rewriting Van Smith's copy carrying out in-depth research by reading The Inquirer in a bid to win back readers…

The Pipefish appears .13 micron Athlon, as you can read here. Like Salvador Dali, not eccentric, concentric...

Things are happening at Accelenation. But we don't know what it is yet...

Elite Hardway reviews the Xioxide X300, a case which it says is very easy to scratch.

The lads at Hw Luxx review the ATI Radeon 9000 Pro here.

Rattle that SIS Xabre based ECS AG400T8-D64 - surely the snappiest name in town -- over at this place.

The Overclockers Club looks at an Iceberg 1 Cooling Kit at this page.

Them lads at Hexus have reviewed a memory stick over here. They say it works.

Interesting piece at Ars Technica about software firms pre-announcing, then announcing delays, then trying to foist betas on poor gamers. That's here.

VR-Zone looks at a KT-400 board from Abit at this spot.

Scott Wasson, left behind at Taipei Airport by a very inconsiderate Mageek at Computex this year, has a piece about kinematic rendering and AGP downloads and that's just here. There's a new graphics benchmark around...

The lad Hales is off to overclock his camper van for a week or two apparently, so just drop Southpaw McDither a line if you want him to look at your wee site... µ