Monday News part 3

Overall, Gigabyte snixp1394 offers a good mixes of features that appeal to the multimedia PC market. They even got a good name (snixp1394) to catch targeting consumers' attentions. The snixp1394 successfully fills the gaps of performance dual channel DDR segment with a lower price than the Granite Bay based motherboards. It gives you faster speed over the I845PE based motherboards with an affordable price. For none overclocker looking for a feature blown and performance multimedia motherboard, the snixp1394 would be a very attractive choice.

Now that ATI started shipping their Radeon 9800 Pro we take a closer look at how it compares it to the original Radeon 9700 Pro and Nvidia's GeForce FX 5800 Ultra, it is the world's fastest 3D accelerator?

Have you ever wanted to watch TV on your computer? How about play the latest DX9 videogames with super smooth frame rates? Have you ever wanted to edit video, captured from your DV camera or from those old family movies on videotape? Or how about control your PC with a custom designed remote control. With the ATI Radeon 9700 All In Wonder Video Card you can do all this and much much more. We are talking the ultimate all in one AGP video card all in one nifty little package. lets take a look at this marvelous product from the folks at ATI.

Cable Connections definately has a quality cable available! You will get an increase in performance, as well as a much nicer looking case for those LAN parties! With the Cable Connections round IDE cable, you will be able to twist and turn your IDE cable in any direction, and still have it look decent! Cable Connections has many colors you can choose from and their current sale price for these nice cables is US$5!! You can't get much cheaper than that!...

Hardware Avenue have posted their review on Intel's latest performance chipset, the 875P. Coupled with a 3Ghz Pentium4 that runs at a stock 800Mhz FSB, dual channel 400Mhz DDR memory and AGP 8X transfers, this new chipset redefines the high performance gaming system.

Belkin has long been known for producing Computer cables and other computer accessories however products like Cable Modems, Home Networking Equipment and even a Wireless Keyboard and Mouse combo have all been recently added to Belkin's product line. Recently 3dXtreme reviewed the Logitech Wireless Keyboard and Mouse combo, today it's Belkin's turn on the test bench.

I've been very tied up lately, but its time to get back to some serious reviewage! I'll start by sharing my experiences with a hard drive that Maxtor sent over, a behemoth 160 Gigabyte Diamond Max Plus 9 with a Serial ATA interface. Not only is this drive big---its fast too!!!! Not as fast as that screaming SCSI setup Scott just showed off, but for IDE gear, this drive is pretty darned cool. Since Serial ATA is quickly becoming the interface of choice for ATA RAID arrays, it was only a matter of time before Maxtor brought down absolute greatness and bestowed it upon us. Ok, enough fluff. Go read the review already!

I received this LED Chaser Kit from Xoxide.com today. This is not pre built, it is a kit and will require that you put it together. This is good for you do-it-yourselfers, newbies to electronics, or just for fun. It makes a nifty addition to your computer case, or anything else that could use some flashy lights.