Rounding up the NForce2

NVIDIA's NFORCE2 chipset continues to be a source of fascination for Hardware site around webdom. Digit-Life rounds up a selection over here. Annoyingly enough you'll be prompted to install a Flash 6 player a mere five times before the pop-up box gives up. Isn't once enough, we wonder?

Hexus.net contines down the nForce2 trail with a look at the EPoX 8RDA+ motherboard, here. Some may bemoan the fact that the 8RDA+ doesn't support RAID in any format, and others may criticise its lack of a bundled S/PDIF feature, but at an online price of around £100, it represents good value, they reckon.

X-Bit Labs has posted up the spex of MSI‘s new K7N2 (MS-6570) mobo, that was showcased in June at Computex Taipei 2002. Another Nforce 2 board, of course this'll Bluetooth if you want it to, as well as all trhe usual stuff and not a lot else besides. Wibble hither.

OCWorkbench bites back for Intel with a look at ABIT's BG7E mainboard, based around Intel's i845GE chipset supporting the DDR333 memory and the Hyperthreading P4 3.06. Mousey on over here.

The Tech Report compares IDE RAID controllers from four top manufacturers, 3ware, Adaptec, HighPoint, and Promise. The piece includes a primer on RAID technology, tests for different RAID levels and different numbers of drives, and features a series of benchmarks intended to isolate the performance quirks of each RAID controller card and each RAID level. It's here.

Hothardware takes a look at two new cards from Gainward that brings AGP 3.0 compliance to the GeForce4. Gainward they say was not looking for a simple 8X upgrade. Instead the company added new features to each card to help them stand out in their respective crowds. Wibble this way.

The Source has just completed a Thoroughbred review. Will AMD bring out any more Thoroughbred chips before Barton tips up? they wonder, over here.

The Aussie overclockers have a "pictorial guide" to unlocking the multiplier on Thoroughbred-cored AthlonXP chips over here.

Overclockersclubcanada chills out with a look at an AeroCool AB7080H - R heatsink/fan combination for AMD Thoroughbreds at 2600+ and up, over here.

And while some people have been reviewing video cards this week. Dan hasn't. He's gone for a model radio controlled M26 Pershing tank instead, over here. Possibly, he reckons, the best toy ever.

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