Interactive AMD Athlon 64 Socket AM2 Pinmod guide @ ocinside.de
"Finally, it was possible to find out the appropriate pins for the Socket AM2 processors and the first interactive AMD Athlon 64 Socket AM2 pinmod guide is published on ocinside.de It concerns – as in the previous AMD Socket A, S754 and S939 pin mod guidances – to connect CPU pins with a small wire.
Hereby e.g. the CPU voltage (Vcore) can be changed, in order to reach higher CPU overclocking results. In the first version, the interactive pinmod guide offers already an increasement of the CPU voltage up to 1.550 Volt (also on PC startup), which is awesome to overclock a well cooled processor.
And depending on the used motherboard it is even possible to get a Vcore up to 1.900 Volt!"
Intel D975XBX2 (BadAxe) Motherboard Review @ motherboards.org
"So what differentiates the Intel D975XBX2KR from other motherboards already on the market? The first thing you get is Intel’s bundling. Intel can offer a lower price to OEMs with their CPU+motherboard combos. The software that comes with Intel’s retail box is comprehensive, offering such tools as Intel Audio Studio, Diskkeeper 9 Home Edition, Farstone RestoreIT, InterVideo’s MediaOne Gallery, and much more to their software bundle, meaning you get value with your purchase."
Crucial Ballistix 2GB DDR2-800 (PC2-6400) Memory Review @ HardwareLogic
"Far be it for us as a review site to pick favorites, but one thing we can do is point out that Crucial’s offerings have performed exceptionally well on our test benches in the past. Today’s sample marks the third Ballistix product we’ve looked at in the past year, and fourth Crucial memory kit overall. Most recently we put their 10th Anniversary DDR2-667 kit under scrutiny and were blown away by the overclocking headroom. In fact, our only real gripe was we felt that it could (and should) have been marketed as a faster kit, so when we received Crucial’s Ballistix DDR2-800 with respectable timings (4-4-4-12), we were eager to throw our gauntlet of benchmarks at ‘em and see what kind of overclocking performance we could squeeze out of a higher clocked kit."
INTEL Core 2 Duo E6600 Processor Review @ HardwareLogic
"The last few years have seen Intel Processors showing up to the office as your left hand man. Need that PowerPoint slide done? Intel will do it. Need that Excel spreadsheet done? Give it to Intel, he?s a hard-working guy. Right down the line, Intel has been reliable, smartly dressed and dependable. You know, boring. But all that’s changed with the Core 2 Duo line…"