Asus Pentium M adaptor is a little miracle

BIOS MAGAZINE presents a review of the NEC 338, Europe's smallest 3G mobile phone. A very capable and not so bulky mobile with the added convenience of 3G. Unfortunately, it has no bluetooth and no memory expansion available. They have also reviewed the Axelab Translation Plus 10.0 which, as its name indicates, is a software solution to some of your translation problems. Biosmagazine though points out to its mediocre quality and says that you might be better off with one of the web's free service.

Suddenly Asus has released a whole heap of updates to its AMD board BIOSes, says AMD Zone. What can be cooking?

Gamepc checks two pieces of components. The first one is the Intel P4 Extremely Expensive Edition running at 3.73Ghz. Chris highlights the very high performance of the chip as well as all the inconveniences assosiated with it - heat, noise, throttling. But it trounces the FX55 in encoding and that is most interesting. The other component is the http://www.gamepc.com/labs/print_content.asp?id=770ct479Asus CT479 socket adaptor for the Pentium M. While it is compatible with only two motherboards for the time being, it does provide with a viable alternative to noisy, heat-prone and energy hungry P4 and FX powerhouses.

Hothardware has an AMD nForce 4 SLI motherboard Roundup featuring Gigabyte, DFI and MSI. While all three impressed the reviewer. the DFI LANparty SLI-DR claimed the top rank with a 95% rating thanks to its bundle, out of this world overclocking capabilities and stability.

The BFG Tech Geforce 6600GT OC in Solo and SLI versions are tested at Bjorn3D. BFG is one of the more widely available brands around and the 6600GT OC is their entry level SLI card. It has Dual DVI and HDTV support. With its lifetime warranty even when oveclocked and some of the best performance for this chip, BFG has covered it all. Bjorn3D has also reviewed the Icemat Siberia Headphones which was also covered yesterday with a rather good conclusion this time.

Neoseeker has an article on overclocking techniques, which might be a good thing if you're planning to upgrade your computer. They play with different variables (HTT, LDF speed, CPU and memory) to find out which option is the better. µ