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Mobos rule the roost
WHILE THE WEB isn't flooded by CES first-looks and hands-ons yet (they're coming, they're coming, don't worry), we've dug up a fair few hardware articles today for you peruse in the meantime.
Spanish site Madbox PC is reviewing LG's UP3# MP3 player (Googlenglish). Looks like a pen drive, but has its own OLED screen.
Fudzilla has a Jetway NC81-LF mini-ITX AM2+ motherboard. It's based on the 780G chipset just like J&W's MINIX solution. Quirky BIOS makes a mess of things, tho'.
Fusion Mods also has a Jetway mobo, the NC91-330-LF mini-ITX solution. We wouldn't call the Atom a powerhouse, but...
The Hardware Canucks are testing a shrunken eVGA GTX 260 Core 216 Superclocked, now on 55nm.
The MIDs are arriving at CES. Techradar has a fingers-on with the 2-pound Asus' Eee T91 touchscreen PC.
Bit Tech has a review of Hiper's Type-R II 680W PSU. Odd pricing tells us the blue PSU is £20 pricier than the black one. Harry has also dug up a familiar looking PC case at CES today... take a look.
TweakTown has a Vigor Monsoon III LT Dual 120mm CPU cooler hooked up. It's decently priced and adds a bit of bling to your rig.
Virtual Hideout received an Xclio 1000 PC case for review. It's quite a monster, in more ways than one.
TBreak has a P45 board built for DDR3 performance, the ECS P45T-AD3. Good pricing, it seems.
HardOCP has the eVGA X58 3x SLI on the bench. This is the board you want to go with your outrageously expensive Core i7 965...
WD's Scorpio Blue 500GB HDD is on test at Tom's Hardware: cheaper, faster and with more capacity than its predecessor.
French site Revioo.com has a review of the Gainward Rampage R700 Golden Sample (Googlenglish). Very pricey, but that's the point we guess.
Nilo at Red & Blackness is ogling the Asus VK246H LCD. $400 doesn't sound expensive for a full-featured 24-incher.
Hi-Tech Reviews got a shocker "Editor's Choice" for the ToPower PowerTrain 1200W PSU.
Phoronix is looking at Phoenix Hyperspace Instant-On Linux environment. It was announced quite a while ago, but now it's making a go for it. µ
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in october 2007 i bought an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4600+ , as there was lots of uming and aring about AM2+ at the time i thought id buy a cheap and chearfull mobo that would definitely support the 4600, i bought a jetway M26GT3-SVP nForce 405 mobo for the princely sum of 26 squids incl from aria thinking if its no good ill bin it and get a decent board when things settle down (sorry bout the green team chipset charlie lol) anyhooooooos in july 2008 aria were doing an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Black Edition 5000+ for about 65 squids incl which was a bargain at the time and was a good o/clocker, hmmmmm, what mobo to get, why not try it on the jetway cheapo, nothing to lose eh ?? what a surprise i got, i was stunned, ffs it cranked up to 3.10GHz, no sweat woot :O) for stability sake im running it at 2.90GHz to this day, its never missed a beat and that rig is hardly ever turned off, go go go jetway bloodyfurkinwell brilliant :O)