[H]ardNews 5th Edition

ASUS P4800 Review:

You can find a review of the ASUS P4800 that specifically focuses on PAT, or Performance Acceleration Technology, posted on Bleedin’ Edge today. Here is a clip from the review:

To be honest, this is the first Asus board I have really liked since the P4S533 - and that is not faint praise. The P4P800 is well-designed, well-engineered, innovative, SOLID, and a joy to work with. It is a GREAT board that is the equal of most any current 875 or 865 chipset motherboard.

Windows Server 2K3:

Adrian’s Rojak Pot has a little Windows Server 2K3 information after attending the launch of the new OS from MS. This basically covers a new feature called “Shadow Copies of Shared Folders” which sounds interesting.

What "Shadow Copies of Shared Folders" does is allow Windows Server 2003 to automatically create shadow copies of shared files. So, whenever someone opens and writes to a "shadow-copied" file, Windows Server 2003 won't actually overwrite the file physically, like what you would expect. Instead, it reclassifies the original file as a shadow copy (a form of backup) and the newly edited file is written to the hard disk as the default file.

P4 Boards On Linux:

Linux Hardware has rounded up a handful of Pentium 4 boards and put them through their paces in a Linux environment. Useful info to have for all you alternative OS users out there, even if these are older mainboards.

It's been a while since we've done a single processor motherboard round-up, but the time has come for us to take a look at several boards for the Intel fans out there. We'll be taking a look at three of the older chipsets for the Pentium 4 that just might make awesome choices for your next Linux box.