Site tests Opteron, Pentium 4, Athlon XP all together

FRENCH SITE X86 Secrets has posted an article comparing and contrasting an Opteron 140/146 against an Athlon XP engineering sample of 3200+ and a Pentium 4 3.2GHz engineering sample.

These sit in an Asus SK8N, a Shuttle AK39N and an Asus P4C800 respectively. You can find the start of the article here.

There's a big comparative case review over at Tom's Hardware.

Meanwhile, Anandtech is reviewing a Microstar International KT 600 board, here.

Hardwarezoom reviews JBL Creature 2.1 speakers in an aricle that speaks about capacitance touch and the like.

Ace's Hardware has an article about open war breaking out over OpenGL, on its front page, here. There's an outrageous piece of gossip at Bit-Tech which seems to mention all the usual suspects apart from that nice Mr Raeck over at Intel, Swindonia.

The same site has what it claims is a worldwide exclusive on a Gainward piece of watercooling nonsense on the main page, here.

DV Hardware investigates memory called Twister from those people at TwinMOS, in this article.

Rob Squires at AMD Zone took time out to visit the Moscone Center Linux World show yesterday, and has spotted all sorts of info about AMD's plans, and written it up, here.

Ecoustics reviews the Yamaha RX-470 6.1 channel receiver in this article, and goes for the double whammy with a review of the Yamaha DVD-CD 920 five disk DVD changer, here.

Viper Lair looks at Microstar's little PC, the Mega 651. This is a little cuboid lunchbox, and you can read a review of it, here.

OCC reviews a Coolermaster Cool Drive 3 in an article which you can find over at this this page.

Dukgamers says it's back online and it's reviewing an Nforce 2 motherboard from Abit, the NF7-S V2.0, in this article.

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