HW Roundup Remember Microsoft's Xbox? Y'know, the one that uses an Intel rather than an AMD chip and DDR rather than Ramboid memory?

Well, over at Hard OCP (http://www.hardocp.com/), Kyle seems to have somehow got hold of the press release and spilled the beans early about Intel's part in the games developer kit. Vtune is a performance analyser. The Xbox, of course, will not support those additional Screaming Sindy II instructions the P4 has.

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Chris Tom at AMD Zone (http://www.amdzone.com/) is looking for some fresh benchmarks so he can give some new version of some AMD chip or other a fresh thrashing. What could that be?

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Tom's Hardware, in a piece called Tabula Rasa (http://www.tomshardware.com/mainboard/01q1/010321/index.html) looks at six boards for the Intel Pentium 4.

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And at Ace's Hardware (http://www.aceshardware.com/#N25000351), there's a round up of Pentium III motherboards. There's a lotta life in these and in this chip, yet.

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Cebit is tempting JC (http://www.jc-news.com/pc/) into getting as many people as poss to go to the iWill stand, toute suite.

And that's it. Look here (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/25/index.html) for the older stuff.