• Opinion: Linux Finally Ready for Prime Time
• Fujitsu messed up its own hard drives
• AMD's share of the chip market tumbles to a four-year low
• UMC seeks financial damages from SIS
• Microsoft antitrust decision due Friday
• Microsoft preps for digital film close-up

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Many manufacturers currently ship 48X-recording solutions, while the next generation of 52X recorders make its appearance in the market. Users are wondering about the need of such high recording speeds, while its already hard enough to find high recording speed certified CD-R media. The writing quality and the wide media compatibility is probably one of the most important features of the upcoming 52X recorders.

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The Antec Performance Plus 660AMG is considered a mini tower, but if you put it next to a mid-tower case, it’s nearly the same size minus one 5¼ drive bay, which isn’t missed much by most everyone. What it does have is ample interior room for 3 Hard drives (4 if you don’t use both of the 3½ floppy drive bays), and some extra room for a total of 4 case fans (2 included). Other neat features include the lockable door handle which keeps the side panel (with integrated intake fan) closed even without the usual three screws, and to keep it sturdy on the ground it has the requisite 4 rubber feet.

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The KT4 Ultra is proudly billed by MSI as the very first AMD certified KT400 motherboard. Here, we take a closer look at what this board has to offer and how effective the VIA KT400 chipset is in this board’s performance lineup.

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The motherboard's layout is quite good, except for the ATX power source connector which is not placed very inspired near the rear motherboard connectors. The SiS 648 chip is passive cooled by a medium sized heatsink. Near the fifth PCI slot and the IDE connectors there are the two additional headers which connect four on-bracket USB ports. The headers position is good for airflow maximization, but not the easiest to work with. Fortunately you won’t have to play with these headers too often. The motherboard uses the ITE IT8700F I/O controller which is able to control three FAN speeds beside the traditional I/O tasks. There are only two fan headers on GA-8G667 and only one is close to the CPU socket.

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LCDs show you their whole panel, so their size specs are honest; you get the viewable diagonal that's indicated on the box. But a 15 inch LCD still has less than 90% of the screen area of a "17 inch" CRT, and that CRT will cost you from about $AUD2.50 to about $AUD5.50 per square inch, depending on whether you buy a thoroughly OK medium-range 17 incher, or a flashy big-brand model. The cheaper screens are much better value, if you ask me; Samsung also make some excellent low-cost CRTs.

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At last, we have a chance to review the nForce2 board. This board that just arrive in our labs is not a reference board but the retail packaged ASUS A7N8X !! As you know, we reviewed a lot of KT333 and the recent KT400s. Although the KT400 claims unofficial support of DDR400, we always can't get it to run steadily. Well, look like nVIDIA has a solution for that. On top of that, you can also operate in Dual Memory Channel to enhance the performance even further (even at DDR400!!). That is something we are about to find out in the next few pages of the review.

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Once setup had all the required information, it got busy. Twenty-five minutes later found me in a giddy state as I explored my new operating system. For the several days I played with Linux, it ran steady as a rock, albeit slightly sluggish in my opinion. However, a little more tweaking would probably take care of that.

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So today we take a look at MSI's latest creation, the MSI 845PE Max2-FIR, yet another 845PE motherboard. This motherboard is, quite simply, one heck of a feature-packed product, and we think you'll like what it has to offer.

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The block's dimensions are 50 x 50 x 20 mm, connections excluded, and it weighs 274g with water and 260g without. The base is entirely made of copper, its size is 50 x 50 x 10 mm; the face in contact with processor is well polished and without any scratches that could compromise the heat exchange.

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We're going to be giving away a Pentium 4 motherboard in the month of November. All it takes is a reply in the forums, and a minimum 10 post count. Winner will be drawn on on November 15th, 2002 at 6PM Eastern Standard Time.

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The new AT010 takes the PC entertainment experience to a totally new level. Powered by the advanced ATI RADEON 9700 PRO Visual Processing Unit (VPU), the AT010 features the very latest in Video and 3D graphics technology. Unique VIDEOSHADER and FULLSTREAM technology provide the very best video playback possible and 8 parallel rendering pipelines combined with 4 parallel geometry engines provide the fastest 3D gaming performance anywhere. The AT010 fully supports Microsoft DirectX 9.0.

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While a lot of you like digging out your dremels, and grinding away to do a cool window in your PC, there are people that do not have the skills, or want to do something like that. Even though PC Case Modding has been around for years. Overclocking, cooling, lighting, we all want it. But can the regular Joe have a pre-modded case, and not spend an arm and a leg for it, or spend hours tweaking their box, so they can seem cool? The answer is yes. You can now buy readily available Cases, that are coming straight from the manufacturers now a days, that won't cost you an arm and a leg. Enter this one in particular, The "Obsession" Case from koolcases.com.

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And while you're over there why not check out their review of Xoxode's Crystal LED fans.

Crystal LED Fans Review from Xoxide

LED products are at an all time high in case lighting. With new products coming out everyday, it's almost hard to keep up really. While these particular fans have been around for a while, in terms of computer other product launches based on LED Fans, I'll score them without bias to other new LED Fan products that are out there now.

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