The retail package for this nForce board is second to none. We were very impressed indeed at the professional driver CD and the very useful Firewire card. Rest assured that everything you need comes with this package.

• AMD patent could enable hyperthreading
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• New 'Iraq oil' network worm found
• Intergraph sues PC giants over Pentium
• Gateway tries trade-ins to boost sales
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Tyan is making an introduction into the graphics card community. They are pushing forward with a series of ATI Powered video cards engineered for the hardcore gamer and overclocker. This is our PREview of their 9700 based engineering sample.

Racing fans, take note: AndrewAce has given us a comparison of the MOMO Force vs. MOMO Racing wheels from Logitech. Is that extra $60 worth spending on the Force wheel? (Also, do we really need to see photos of our reviewers' feet?)

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The AOpen AX4R+ is the E7205-based board we’ll be examining for an overview of what Granite Bay’s performance looks like. E7205 is classified by Intel as a workstation-class board, with a big brother (the E7505) designed for Xeon processors and full server solutions.

Since its launch earlier this year, ATI RADEON 9700 PRO has been doing nothing but turning heads. The card earned our Editor’s Choice Award; numerous other publications have also praised the 9700 PRO. Why is everyone in such awe of this $400 graphics card? Quite simply, because it’s one of the most revolutionary product releases in recent memory.

Power supplies are probably the most important part of your PC. Without a good source of power the rest of your system can suffer, especially when overclocking. We have looked at other power supplies in the past, most noticeably the very high end PC Power and Cooling 475W PSU, but also a more reasonably priced TT420 SS. Today we take a look at the TT420 SS's bigger brother, the TT520 SS. With the slightly higher price tag comes a TRIPLE fan design (as opposed to the dual fans on the TT420 SS), an extra 100W of power, and more connectors to support dual Athlon & Xeon boards.

Despite the RAID controller, the board is of rather small bulk - merely 30 x 21.5 cm in dimensions. The system assembly is a breeze. This is possible thanx to the very well thought out placement of power connectors - on the very corner of the board.

For now though, the winner of this shootout is the ABIT KX7-333 for its no hassle speed and stability - a simply outstanding board. It isn't packed with features I won't use, it just has everything you need, where you need it, fast.

The Minolta-QMS magicolor 2300DL has two main access doors, one in front and another on the right side of the unit. The front access door doubles as a stylish bezel which pulls open to reveal the toner waste container, similar like those found in photocopiers. Besides the toner waste container, the front access panel also allows for toner changes when necessary. The access hatch on the right on the other hand allows you to clear out jammed media and there are different ways of clearing your jammed media depending on the location.

Holding the Fire Dragon panel in your hands up close you start to fully appreciate the attention to detail here. Not only are the edges of the Laser cut steel completely smooth, the pattern used is so intricate I doubt it would be possible to recreate at home with your dremel, even if you are really skilled.

The price of this CPU has lowered considerably, but it's still a bit on the high side, but now those who are looking for an Intel upgrade solution that does not require the powerful new technologies of the upcoming new year can give this product some consideration. For me, this was certainly a desirable upgrade over my 1GHz Celeron ("Coppermine").

The SL-85ERV/SL-85ERV-L is based off the via p4x400 chipset. This chipset gives you features including 533/400 MHz FSB support, DDR 333/266, AGP 8x/4x, ATA 133, 6 channel AC97, and up to 6 x USB 2.0. For the newbie overclocker it offers RedStorm Overclocking Technology, which can automatically adjust your front side bus taking the guess work out of overclocking. Also included are the Vcore setting and pc 2700 support. While this board does not have integrated LAN it is nice that they offer a model that does.

If silence is golden, then Arctic Cooling is out to sell large blocks of 24K Gold! Silent heatsinks are few and far between... and when I say silent, I mean SILENT. How many heatsinks can you not even hear? Not many. Probably for good reason too. How could something with so little airflow handle today's hot processors? Well, Zalman have been making a nice little niche market for themselves with silent and near-silent heatsinks... that actually perform reasonably well! Is there room for competition? Let's see if Arctic Cooling has what it takes.

However ATI has introduced a new contender to the throne, the Radeon 9700 VPU.
Today I'm not going to be reviewing an ATI card; I'm going to be reviewing an ATI based card made by Connect3D. This key difference reflects a shift in focus for ATI, who traditionally have designed and produced their own boards from start to finish. This was in contrast to NVIDIA, who designed GPUs, and then licensed those designs to third party producers.