Nvidia makes vast strides on chipsets

VIRTUAL-HIDEOUT HAS REVIEWED the ASRock ALiveNF6G-DVI Micro-ATX Motherboard. This tiny little board is Vista Premium ready but you won't want to try playing the latest games on it without adding a discrete graphics card.

Bjorn3d has been sticking stuff in the Lian Li PC-B20A All-Aluminum ATX Case and with the exception of the cost they wax lyrical about it.

Our Spanish speaking friends at ChileHardware have reviewed the Sony Vaio UX180P UMPC and whilst it can be tricky to know exactly what they're rattling on about they seem to like it.

A lot of people, particularly gamers and enthusiasts, have a number of fans installed in their PCs to help air flow and keep the system cool. Madshrimps has compared four 120mm Fans to find out which ones will keep our systems the coolest, as quietly as possible.

Tweaktown brings us a review of the nVidia nForce 680i SLI Chipset. Whilst they perform the review on the EVGA nForce 680i SLI Mainboard, the review focuses on Nvidia's new chipset and its vast improvements over the 590 chipset.

If you're going to want to run HD content through your PC, you're probably going to need an HDCP compatible graphics card to handle all that legal copy protection stuff. If it's all a bit much for you and you're undecided about which card to go for then check out AnandTech's NVIDIA and ATI HDCP Compatible Graphics Cards Roundup.

Hexus.net has reviewed the eVGA nForce 680i SLI LGA775 motherboard and although the £200 price tag will send most of us running for the hills, the rich feature set and impressive performance bode well for the future of this generation of boards. µ

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