Wednesday, 3 April 2002

Lian Li PC-68 case Project K-pro review the new Lian Li PC-68 Aluminium case. With a total of twelve drive bays you shouldn't be running out of room in this case anytime soon. I also want to reiterate the fact how aesthetically pleasing the brushed aluminum on the outside of this case. See it here: http://kaypro.otakupc.com/default.asp?id=18&;mnu=1 6:49:02 PM

Cool cool Blue. Virtual Hidout have a review on the cool looking, and nice performing, transparent blue fans from So-Trick Computers. A must have for the elite air-overclocker. See the review here. 6:47:17 PM

While we are at it, the Bench-House have a review on P4 motherboard chipsets. Pentium 4 is a product in direct confrontation with AMD Athlon processor series. Performances of P4 "Willamette" core are not on the level that was expected from a leading product, which should hold leadership in the field of CPUs for PC platforms. With emergence of P4 processor with "Northwood" core the situation should get better and Intel should be back in the game finally. P4 was firstly introduced in Socket 423 package and after a while it got the final Socket 478 standard. On the market today, "old" Socket 423 processors can still be found for a very satisfactory price. However, one should have in mind there're less motherboards every day, which support Socket 423 CPU "package". Situation on the motherboard and chipset market with Intel Pentium 4 processor support is very similar to the situation in Socket A sector. Almost all major names are present, such as VIA Technologies, SiS (Silicon Integrated Systems), ALi (Acer Laboratories Incorporated) and, naturally, Intel itself. Hence, we shall make a brief review of chipsets specified for Intel P4 platforms. Check the article here: http://www.bench-house.com/motherboard/intel/p4_chipsets/p4_chipsets_001.html 6:39:25 PM

VR-Zone have a review on the new Intel P4 2.4Ghz CPU. The gap is closing for value performance between the Athlon XP and Intel P4's. The P4/2.4Ghz turns out to be excellent for Business apps performance but for gaming performance the P4 is just ahead but the gain isn't enough to persuade gamers to get a more expensive P4. The AMD Ahtlon XP still possess better value. See the full review here: http://www.vr-zone.com/reviews/Intel/P42400/ 5:41:30 PM