Revered Socket A meets world's smartest mouse

XBIT LABS has a CPU overclocking guide where doors4ever explores the basics of overclocking. A good refresher for those who want to try their hands at this art but slightly lacking details in some departments. Perhaps dedicated overclocking articles should be welcomed.

Sysopt has a go at the Vantec's Multi port docking station, which is basically a USB 2.0 hub with a single parallel printer port, a 10/100 network port, PS2 keyboard and mouse ports but no USB 2.0 ports or Firewire. It's slightly more expensive but worth the money if you use legacy hardware.

If you're one of the many who still used the revered socket A platform and are in dire need of a cooling solution, then why not have a look at the Arctic Cooling Copper Lite socket A cooler solution. It sports a very different design and is much larger than the usual designs we're accustomed to. But performance was not as good as expected.

The Foxconn Winfast C51GK8MA-8EKRS motherboard, probably one of the more weirdly named components around, is on test at hexus. It is cheap, small, comes with SATA2 and integrated Geforce 6200 class graphic. With DX9 support and SM 3.0, fans of older games can look forward to performance of Ti4600/FX5500 onboard, which is not that bad

Hardwarecentral gets its hands at the Logitech MX610 laser cordless mouse review which they call the world's smartest mouse with its integrated remote control functions. RF-based, cheap, sassy and full of functionalities.

Firingsquad has a performance preview of the http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/ati_radeon_x1800_xt_xl/Radeon X1800XT and the X1800XL, both 512MB parts. While they give Nvidia's 7800 series a run for their money, the fact that they will generally cost more and that X1800x parts are as rare as chicken teeth makes it a lost battle for ATI as it stands now. µ