Athlon 2600+ with 333MHz FSB imminent

AMD WILL BE SPENDING THE WEEKEND preparing to unleash an Athlon 2600+ sporting a 333MHz front-side bus on an unsuspecting public this Monday, we hear, in what was, we confess, a muted whisper.

The chipmaker certainly has plans for this processor and includes it in a list of supported motherboards over here.

The chip runs at an actual clock speed of, 2.133GHz we're told. AMDZone says it expects it to chip up just before Comdex. Our whisperer says Monday.

Sticking with Athlony stuff, X-Bit Labs put an AMD Athlon XP 2800+ up against an Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz in 3ds max 5, on their pages. This Athlon, they remind us, is the first CPU with the 166MHz bus, while the Pentium 4 features a double-size cache and works at about 25 per cent higher core clock frequency. Who's the daddy? Find out with a wibble over here.

The guys at Xtremesystems are so polite we can't resist pointing at their look at a couple of Athlons. They bung a 2400+ and a 2600+ into Prometeia cases and produce, they say, the world's highest AMD speed results to date. You can read their entire adventure on their forum from here.

OCWorkbench.com tells you how to unlock the Athlon TB 2400+ with lower multipliers enabled, over here.

And Monster Hardware also carries a piece on how to overclcock your Athlon XP 2400+ CPU, over here. This processor is cooler-running then the last XP incarnation, they reckon.

In Moboland, Hothardware checks out the very silver Soyo P4X400 DRAGON Ultra Platinum Edition, which sports VIA's P4X400 chipset over here.

Grumpy Kyle and his crew have a fiddle with the KT4 Ultra, proudly billed by MSI, they say, as the very first AMD certified KT400 motherboard. Wibble this way.

Anandtech takes a look at MSI's 845PE Max2-FIR, motherboard based on Intel's 845PE chipset over here.

DeviantPC seeks to explain everything to do with system buses. Want to know why KT333 is no good for 266FSB XPs? Want to know the difference between RAMBUS and DDR memory, they ask. It's all here.

The Albatron Ti 4200 Turbo 128meg card is a bargain reckons OCAddiction They put it up aganist some competition over here.

AMDZone has a bang about in a Wahoo computer Schema case over here.

The seemingly hard-working Volk over at Hard Tecs 4U check out some modder's delights on their pages. Here's a Googled look at a Koolance PC2-601W water-cooled case. And here are some luminous Sharkoon round cables. The German pages start here.

8BallsHardware fiddles with a 4-inch cold cathode from Sunbeam they like here.

ICEHardware has a quick guide to drive stealthing over here. No case mod is complete without a stealthed drive or two, they reckon.

The Techzone gets some OCZ PC 3500 memory to run at 494MHz, they reckon, over here.

And finally, to whet your whistle, we're pleased to be able to point you at a handsome collection of shots from the upcoming Doom III. Oh yes.

The guys from 3DNews have trawled through German and Russian gaming sites and forums and posted up all the links to all the pix here. Many of the first lot have disappeared, we've noticed. Try the "others" section.

You can nail the Wibbler here.