Xtremesystems claims record for Athlon 64

A BUSY DAY for overclocking chips, it does appear. At Xtreme Systems, notable for its earlier success in pushing the Prescott to the limit using liquid nitrogen, there's also a report that the chaps have clocked the Athlon 64 to unholy GHz heights too, without too much bother or fash. You can find that report, here. And they say megahurts don't matter.

Meanwhile, Beyond 3 has a review of the GeCube Radeon 9550 Extreme with 128MB. And you can find that review just here. * See correction, at end.

RB Mods has taken the Value Select memory product tongue twistingly named the Corsair Vs512mb400c3 - och,and has put it through its paces, here.

Tech Report reckons that the Abit AG8 mobo is really groove is in the heart and it's the bees b*llocks. here.

AMD Zone notes, here, that 90 nano Winchester cores are well on the way.

More memory stuff, but this time at Gruntville, in the shape of stuff from Super Talent. The review starts here.

Lost Circuits reviews the Shuttle SB81P in this article article. Subtitled the Return of the Toaster.

A Gainward "Golden Sample" gets a review over at NV News - there's a pic of the card too, here. But thankfully no picture of a gal holding a flask with stuff in it.

Viper Lair has a hold of the K8T800 Pro from Microstar International. It costs about $120 and thankfully has a simple product name, the K8T Neo2-FIR. That's here.

A True Review tells us that the $90 Lite On SOGW-1633S, which is a 16X DVD Burner, is pretty AOK. The review is here, truly.

Heavens to Betsy and Lawks! Flickerdown tells you how to make your own CRT degausser, here.

More optical stuff at Cool Tech Zone, which looks at the performance of the Plextor PX-712A DVD writer, here.

Aye, it's the Big Bruin, which has a look at the A-Top X-Blade ATX case, and you can read all about it, on this page.

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* CORRECTION We apologise for not mentioning Rick Y and Pedro Rocha, frequent users of a Portuguese forum called techzonept.com. Even Jock McF makes mistakes. Sorry chaps. Ed.