WE'RE BACK AT IT again. Intel has a new Pentium 4 to release, and we're
going to test it against AMD's surprising new Athlon XP 2600+ to see which
is faster. This time out, Intel is making something of a leap; the fastest
Pentium 4 was previously 2.53GHz, but today's release is the 2.8GHz variant.
Almost scary, innit?
Beyond the jump up in clock speeds, there's not much new to report, but the
contest with the Athlon XP 2600+ is compelling. To keep things spicy, we're
using our updated processor test suite, all the latest drivers, and a whole
lotta Cajun hot sauce.

*drooooool*

SOME OF YOU may consider ordering a pre-built system one step short of sin, but when GamePC offered to send over its PGP X2 workstation for review, I couldn't resist. It's been a while since I used a computer that I didn't build myself, but it's hard to turn down a dual Athlon MP 2100+ system decked out with a gig of RAM, IDE RAID, and a Quadro graphics card.

TweakNews has released another review, this time Nathan takes a look at the Samsung SW-232 CD Burner.

The 32x burner from Samsung that I will be reviewing today is a GREAT all around burner for everyone. It is full of great features like buffer underrun protection, fast cd writing speeds, fast loading and unloading and comes with everything to get you making your favorite music cd's and/or backing up your data.