Barracuda surfaces amongst the sharks

SO WHAT DID HAPPEN to Serial ATA then? Burger all, you might say. Well now, over at Lostcircuits they've a look at a Seagate Barracuda SATA V drive in a piece entitled Serial ATA and the 7 Deadly Sins Of Parallel ATA. "What are the real pitfalls of parallelism? How can serialization address the issues and what can we expect in terms of the industry supporting the new kids on the block?" they ask. Find out over here.

And there's an early look at Abit's AT7 MAX2 (KT400) motherboard over here.

TecChannel has what it says are the first pictures of Intel's Madison, paparazzied at IDF last week. No Photoshopping here, we note. That's here.

Fudo at the INQUIRER (who he, Ed?) has a look at five Geforce 4 TI 4600s. Not spotted it? It's over here

OverclockersClubCanada has a look at the AOpen GeForce 4 4200TI 128MB Video Card over here.

hardware-testdk say they are taking a look at MSI's flagship in the Ti4600 business, the MSI GeForce4 Ti4600-VTD MS-8872. It has 128MB of memory and a very excellent software package, they say, in their rapidly-improving English over here.

Tech -Report has an "in-depth" review of ATI's Radeon 9700 Pro card over here.

There's a look at Abit Geforce 4 Ti 4600 over at 3DVelocity here.

Meanwhile, Mr Tweak of Tweaktown has a bit to add on the ATi Radeon 9700 AE2 Stepping AGP 8x Bug here, or follow the debate from here.

Betwixt the cleavages over at the Naked Review lurks a look at a 512MB stick of TwinMOS DDR400 memory. They test it out on an Abit IT7-MAX and a phase-change cooled 2.53B P4. Dribble hither.

Monster-Hardware fiddles with a heatsink -- the Kanie Hedgehog Type W HSF topped off with two 60mm cfm Delta screamers. It weighs in at around 1.3 lbs, apparently. Gordon Bennett! Lumber this way.

Tech PC have just posted a review of the Akasa ShinEtsu Thermal Interface Pads here, and cast an eye over MSI KT3 ULTRA - Non RAID (MS-6380E) motherboard here.

And here's a handy little list of links to reviews of some 228 motherboards that feature in 1275 reviews all gathered together in one handy spot by those nice chaps at 8Dimensional. That's here.

And, ok, due to popular demand here's the lastest spoof on Tom's not altogether upfront review of tomorrow's Pentium 4 chips. Giggle ye hither.

You can nail the Wibbler here.