AMD Athlon 2800+, Microsoft Longhorn previewed

While Firing Squad has what they call a 'performance preview' of an Athlon XP 2800+ over here.

Anandtech dives deeper in to the world of the Nforce in a second part of a detailed look at Nvidia's, er, chipset thingummy over here.

OCAddiction has a PC3200 DDR Memory shootout over here. They compare the following: Corsair XMS3200v1.1 C2 256MB DDR-RAM, GeIL PC3200 512MB DDR-RAM and Xtreme DDR PC3200 256MB DDR-RAM.

X-bit Labs has posted ATI RADEON 9700 Pro graphics card review over here. Besides an in-depth performance investigation, they also offer, they say, a highly detailed look at FSAA and Anisotropic Filtering techniques and their implementation in the newcomer and its closest rivals.

ipKonfig does some xxRealest benchmarking of ATI's 9700 Pro, to give it “a huge UT2K3 workout”, they say. Have a wibble over here.

Meanwhile, the deviants detail how to go about creating a personalised Unreal Tournament 2003 level. This opener in a wee series kicks off here.

VR-Zone has conducted an interview with Florence Shih, the sales and marketing director of ABIT. Discussions of sales plans, technology marchitecture starts here.

Beyond 3D casts a 'previewing' eye over two new workstation PC graphics boards, the Wildcat4 and Wildcat VP560 from 3DLabs. The Wildcat4 follows on from the Wildcat III architecture, whilst the Wildcat VP560 is a new chip, P9, adopting the principals behind their recent P10 chip, they say. Wibble this way. Or, indeed, over here for Hexus' less extravagant claims for, yet more analytical presentation of, the original press release.

With an LCD price war brewing, fat (cough!) panels may yet make a significant dent in the US market suggest the guys at Tech Report. They've rounded up seven different LCD screens from the likes of Hercules, KDS, Philips, Samsung, and Solarism. Can they compete CRT screens? Are they any good for games, they wonder. Wibble thee hither to find out, they urge.

Hard Tecs 4U have a bang about in a bunch of cases a happily translate their findings for us. Here's the . Fong Kai Midi-Tower FK-320 Silent Edition. Here's a Thermaltake Xaser II 5000+. And here's a Lian Li PC-6089.

Over at Sudhian there's a look at MSI's bluetooth offering here.

And finally, on a Volish software tip, here are what we think are some proper Longhorn screenies. But hey, we've been fooled before, on occasion… µ

Feel free to nail the Wibbler here.