Wednesday April 30, 2003

[H]ardNews 4th Edition

Asus A7N8X Review:

A little more nForce2 action today. AMD3D has the scoop on theAsus A7N8X Rev.2 motherboard. What makes revision 2.0 any different from revision 1.0? Read on to find out:

So are there any REAL significant differences between the old N-Force2 and the newer N-Force2 SSP (Ultra 400) chipset? Well, apart from the official support for 400FSB processors ... it's almost identical. If you place a standard Athlon XP2000+ (266FSB) processor in both motherboards and ran them side-by-side ... the performance is near identical.

Comic Relief:

This edition of MegaTokyo would not be so funny if it wasn’t so true. Thanks to Damon Schmidt for pointing out that beer cooling your CPU is so wide spread now that even cartoons are doing it. Funny stuff.

XFX GeForce4 Ti4200 8X:

While the Ti4200 cards are now getting a little long in the tooth, the OCModshop gang reviews the XFX GeForce4 Ti4200 8X. The good thing about new products emerging at break neck speed is the fact that it helps drive the prices of cards like this down dramatically.

This is the second Geforce 4 Ti4200 that I have reviewed and I am very impressed with it. The thing I am most impressed about with this card is that it is such a good overclocker. Not only does the cards memory come overclocked but it is able to overclock even more from that!