Site releases code to open Xbox up
Microsoft refuses to talk about it
A WEB SITE SAID that Microsoft's Xbox has a major security hole in it but the software vendor refuses to talk about the topic.

nForce 2 Roundup
When nVidia launched its nForce platform back in early 2002, the market was expecting to see a huge change in the way AMD Athlon processors would perform. Not only was the performance of the nForce well below expectations but it took nearly half a year from launch date till the chipset would be widely available. nVidia’s fatal mistake was to release the product information well ahead of its launch, by the time the chipset was available, VIA has perfected its KT266A chipset to combat the nVidia rival of the time.

Battle of ATI and NVIDIA: where are fair duels? or dishonest treating of 3DMark
No sooner had the disputes around the 3DMark2003 and Detonator FX drivers faded away than www.tech-report.com published some information about new cheats for this benchmark in the same Detonator FX, namely about the aggressive optimization of anisotropic filtering with the name of an active application being the criterion of its activation.

Palm-based laptop goes wireless from AlphaSmart
By Guy Kewney Posted on 03/07/2003 at 08:42
The Dana is the best battery-saving PC you can get - based on the Palm OS, not Windows, it runs for several days. But till now, it didn't have any way of connecting to wireless hot spots.

Building a performance PC for your dear Family Members: PART ONE
Yeah so guess what , I got drag into this by my dear mother.
She and her husband (my step father) finally decided to upgrade their 7 year old main pc which was a
Pentium 166 with Edo ram and 4 x 500meg Scasi drives to a new power pc for no money what so ever!

Lian-Li PC-6070 Aluminum Case
Lian-Li has pretty much dominated the high end aluminum case market for the past few years, and with good reason. The combination of a lightweight yet durable aluminum construction, beautiful anodized finish, excellent cooling ability, and superb features have always made Lian-Li cases some of the most desirable on the market.

Dual Format DVD Writer Round Up
Another Dual Format Writer
We have reviewed the Sony Dual Format DVD Writer, Iomega DVD+RW Writer, TDK Dual Format DVD Writer, TDK Indi DVD 4x +R/RW Burner and HP dvd300i DVD Writer. We noticed that all NEC OEM drives have similar performance and compatibility. In this review, we will look at another NEC OEM - Iomega Dual Format DVD Writer.

MSI 865PE Neo2 (865) Motherboard

Call it GAT, PAT or MAT- looks like Springdale boards can offer the same level or performance as Canterwoods as this MSI 865PE proves.

Will Nforce3 boost Opteron uptake?
WITH NFORCE 3 Professional now in volume production AMD has got to be wondering whether the chipset's launch will help Opteron gain more market share. With the new 1xx CPU's announced yesterday AMD is targeting the professional single-CPU workstation market where AGP functionality and expandability are more important.

OCAU reviewed Western Digital's Raptor a little while ago and were impressed by the speed of this new 10,000rpm SATA hard drive. Chainbolt has gone one further by hooking up two and four of these drives in a RAID configuration. Storage fetishists rejoice!
Click for Part 2!

More Linux on Xbox,
"A group of Xbox security researchers say they have found a way to run Linux on the Xbox game console without a so-called mod chip and will go public with the technique if Microsoft won't talk to them about releasing an official Linux boot loader."

And here Lots more Reviews!

Motherboards:
DFI Lan Party NFII Ultra nForce2 Ultra 400 on Legion Hardware
DFI Lan Party NFII Ultra nForce2 Ultra 400 on Ninjalane
DFI Lan Party KT400a board on HardCoreWare
DFI Lan Party Pro 875 Canterwood i875P-based P4 DDR on OCAddiction
ECS Photon PF1 Springdale i865PE-based P4 DDR on HardwareZone
Abit IS7 Springdale i865PE-based P4 DDR on Intelforums.net
Shuttle AB60/RS Springdale i865PE-based P4 DDR on Extreme Overclocking

Video Cards:
Gainward Ultra/1200 Plus GeForce FX5900 on Overclockers New Zealand
Albatron GeForce FX5600EQ on Hardware Avenue
FIC A92 RADEON 9200 on X-bit labs

Stuff that isn't strictly a motherboard or a video card:
Shuttle SN45G nForce2 Ultra 400 XPC on HEXUS.net
Plextor's PlexWriter Premium CD-RW on The Tech Report
D-Link DVC-1000 i2eye Broadband VideoPhone on Virtual Hideout
Enermax Xpoint CS-528 Case on OCModShop
Everglide Optical Mouse Surfaces on TechFreaks
Black Icemat Mouse Pad on ExtensionTech
GEIL Golden Dragon PC3500 DUAL DDR RAM on SubZeroTech

Intel PAT Enabled 865PE Boards Roundup
When Intel launched the highest performing desktop chipset, the 875P Canterwood in April, many hardware enthusiasts were getting very excited over it and no one is really paying any special attention to the 865 Springdale chipsets that will come one month after. Indeed, 875P Canterwood chipset proves more superior on specs than 865 especially the support for Performance Acceleration Technology (PAT) that will boost a 5-7% performance improvement over 865. There are so many good marketing specs thrown into 875P that make the hardware enthusiasts to go after it and even prepare to pay a premium for it.

EPoX EP-4PCA3+ (Intel 875P)
Thinking of adding as many as 14 hard disk drives into a single system? How about setting up a huge eight ATA-133 drive RAID 5 array? All that is possible with the new EPoX EP-4PCA3+.

ASUS P4P800 vs ABIT IC7 with PAT
While I continue to work on benchmarks for the ASUS P4P800 Review, I thought we might as well begin at the HEART of what you want to know. Does it beat PAT on the 875P Canterwood boards. To answer that I decided to compare first benches on the P4P800 to the latest from the ABIT IC7(-G), which just got quite a performance boost with Bios 1.3, and is now producing some of the highest performance numbers of the Canterwoods.

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