The sad, the mouse and the benchmarked

Meanwhile, Mr Wong of Myworldhardware has a fiddle with Abit's IS7, board, based on Intel's 865PE chipset over here.

They've also found lime to cast an eye over Seagate's latest Barracuda, the 7200.7, here.

The X-Bit boys have got their hands on a Club3D Volari Duo V8 Ultra. Their assessment of XGI's chances begins here.

The Neoseeker takes a look at Gigabyte's GV-R96X128D 9600 XT over here. No Screen Rotation or Overdrive but a dread fancy heatsink, is the verdict.

The benefits and the disadvantages of Serial ATA are explored down in Tweaktown. A big deal? Maybe.

Over at HotHardware there's a look at Hercules Prophetview 920 Pro DVI, a 17" LCD with a very respectable 20ms pixel response time, they say. Wibble hither.

Here's another competition - a creative writing contest, of all things. A bunch of prizes are on offer. You must at least spell check your submission, they say, and submit it by "01/25/04 for editing and tecnical (sic) corrections." Cough! Point your pointer here.

The TechReporters enjoy a few snatched moments in the company of a Wireless Intelli VoleMouse Explorer 2.0 over here. Tilt wheel and everyt'ing.

The Overclocker Cafe takes ThermalRight's ALX-800 cooler out for a spin. Not bad for 25 bucks they reckon, over here.

Here's a look at the Aspire X-Superalien case. It's in German.

And over at Planet3DNOW! and also largely in German, a Herrn Intel-Hater has compiled a list of benchmarks for a great many systems. I dunno why he did it and I dunno who'll be interested. Are you sad enough?

Harware links appreciated by the usual suspects. µ