Hardware Reviews

Sorry for the lack of news lately, I've had some serious issues with my computer and was busy at work and thus did not have lots of time to spare. Thanks to Jason for picking up some of the slack.

Stuck with SATA on a mobo that doesn't have enough PATA ports for all your HDD"s?. Check this out and see if its for you:
"Anyone who has bought a motherboard in the past 6 months is likely to have SATA capabilities onboard but it's also likely that you don't actually have any SATA drives to hand. It could be that you have some drives lying around that you wouldn't mind adding to your system. Perhaps you'd like to have only one channel in use from your IDE headers. Whatever the case, it would be nice if you could have your cake and eat it too, and use those SATA headers without buying SATA drives."

A nice, simple case with a good feature set

DVD burning goodness:
"As a DVD-ROM however, the drive proved to be one of the fastest for a DVD writer with its 12x read speed. Although you'll have to keep in mind that like many other DVD drives that we've tested, the TEAC will slow down to 6x when reading DVD+R/RW and DVD-R/RW media."

Looking for a wireless router? 3Com has always been a good name in networking:
"Let us take a look at a Wireless offering from 3COM and talk about what one should look for in a wireless product. If you’ve often wondered, what makes one wireless router different from the next then read on. I’ll tell you, I’ve been networking for quite some time now and this review sure changed my home networking experience for the better."

A couple Gigabyte motherboard reviews that should be worth checking out: NForce2 and KT600