Monday News part 2

When it comes to upgrading your PC, memory is now the cheap-man's upgrade. Now with AMD's release of the Barton CPU with 333MHZ FSB, those still running at 266MHZ FSB and PC2100 RAM may question if this is the time to upgrade. We'll try answer that question as we test the XtremeDDR PC2700 RAM...

It makes a change to see such a slim line versatile unit, most card readers are a rectangular box that take up loads of space. This one is such a very slim device that you can easily hide away when not in use. On the bottom of the unit there is two rubber feet, this stops the unit from marking...

From our value for money thoughts we would rather have seen a faster AMD Athlon XP of 166MHz FSB version since this new 200MHz FSB Athlon XP need a new motherboard and DDR memory capable of running at this faster speed. Considering the next generation AMD Athlon 64 is just around the corner as such this increase in FSB knocks buying a faster processor and upgrading your AMD based computer on the head. This is the well established Intel route of getting you to buy one of their expensive motherboards every time they release a new processor speed.

The introduction of the 800 Mhz Pentium 4 and Canterwood (875P) chipset bring enjoys to the enthusiasts. They are currently the best combos for a performance P4 desktop system. However, the same as the Granite Bay, Canterwood motherboards cost a lot more than any I845PE based motherboards. It is surely not an option for people on the tight budget. So what about the good old I845PE chipset? Some vendors extend the lifecycle of the old boy and stick an 800 Mhz FSB P4 support (via overclocking as they stated) on their new I845PE motherboards. This is exactly what Albatron did with PX845PEV-800 Limited Edition motherboard. How does the I845PE compete against the 875P? Read on, then you will soon find out

The case itself is kind of deceiving At first glance the size and design are much like the Antec Lanboy. But the differences are quite apparent rather quickly first there is no door covering the drives and second a much more aggressive looking front grill area. In the grill is a spot for a case badge now normally people don’t look at things like this but the case badge area is a spot with infinite possibilities and the low nature of this spot would make hiding wires for a mod quite easy