Why Clawhammer's gone for a Barton

SUDHIAN have a piece that seeks to lift the lid on why AMD decided to push back the release of Barton and Clawhammer. Perhaps they're not ready yet, eh? Have a look over here.

Neoseeker has a mobo shootout between MSI's KT3 Ultra 2 and Gigabyte's 7VRXP over here.

Some guy from the Overclockingstore pleaded for a link to his little Compo to win an Albatron Crush 18D nForce2 mainboard. He gives us a namecheck though, so here's his. Seems you gotta spend an 'undred squids first though. Swoop on widened wings in this direction. We'll assume the NForce board will be out by the time the compo's over, innit?

Over at HardOCP, some of the guys from VisionTek seem to have reappeared as BFG Tech. Well gurzle me snozzcumber… Wibble hither.

3DVelocity casts an eye over SiS Xabre400 over here.

Abit finally coughed up a SiS648 production board in the direction of Accelenation, it seems. Here's what they think of it.

The Japanese site Watch.Impress as some pix of some new members of the Opteron fan club over here.

Octools has just posted their review of CoolerMaster's TLF-R82 Neon LED Fan here.

You can nail the Wibbler here.