[H]ardNews 11th Edition

MSI 661FM3-V Micro-ATX:

PCStats says that the MSI 661FM3-V Micro-ATX motherboard would be a great choice for someone building a workstation PC. I’d imagine that a lot of you could find good uses for a relatively small LGA775 motherboard like this. A cheap file / movie / MP3 server for your home comes to mind.

While it's lack of dual-channel memory support hurts it in some benchmarks, it's an affordable and stable platform for a budget office system, which is probably the position it's best suited for too.

HiS Excalibur X850XT & X850XT-PE:

The good news is that the HiS Excalibur Radeon X850XT is quite the overclocker and can achieve X850XT-PE rather easily. The bad news is, the HiS Excalibur Radeon X850XT-PE is reviewed side by side with the X850XT in OcPrices’ latest review.

The HIS iX850XT Turbo card is without doubt the best value X850 XT card I have seen. Thanks to the included iTurbo program, HIS can guarantee that it will run at full Platinum Edition clock speeds without issue.