HWRoundup The new Athlon 4 is launched today. Check out our story here (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/18919.html)... (Why didn’t they keep the name: Palomino? It's far better).

First on the reviews block is Anand here (http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1469). Moving on quickly, we have the verdict from Toms Hardware (http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/01q2/010514/index.html)

A summary of more information and rumours can all be found Ace's Hardware (http://www.aceshardware.com/#N25000418).

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Ace's Hardware today also carries a piece on how to wring more preformance from the Pentium 4here (http://www.aceshardware.com/#N25000419).

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But I hear you cry how do I cool my CPU? That marvellous review site Hexus today looks (http://www.hexus.net/review.php?review=189) at the Swiftech 462a.

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NvNews has an article (http://www.nvnews.net/previews/geforce3/anisotropic.shtml) about the Advanced Texture filtering on the Geforce3 chipset. I feel this card will be out of date before it hits the market.

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VIAHardware has the latest VIA 4 in 1 drivers. Head here (http://www.viahardware.com/) for more information.

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We end on this scary note from DSL Reports (first seen on HardOCP (http://www.hardocp.com)).
Apparently a Phoenix-based motherboard has tried to link in with the office automatically without asking. Read more (http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,826520;root=security,1;mode=flat). ®