[H]ardNews 4th Edition

Granite Bay Review:

MSI's GNB MAX mainboard is up for review at NexusHardware. We looked at this board a couple months ago and it really seems to be a "middle of the road" product that would be at home in a workstation but not in an enthusiast's box.

The board has a slew of extra features, yet lacks in overclocking.

1,000,000:

Folding 2 Team, [H]ardOCP, passed another milestone last week. They have officially broken the 1 million work unit barrier. Congrats guys, and keep those boxes hot. Thanks Hogg.

mATX Review:

This is certainly a class of board that has always been smaller than the ATX boards we know and love. The Micro ATX form factor is not exactly tiny like some of the mini stuff we see today, but it also packs more of a punch with a few extra PCI slots as well. Hexus reviews the new board from Shuttle.

The Shuttle MN31N takes all the best bits from the nForce2 and bundles them into a micro-ATX form factor. We're still left with the all-important AGP slot and 3 PCI slots, too. It's stable, fast, and the on-board graphics work relatively well if the board is run in dual channel mode.

Faster with Software?

We fully suggest upgrading your PC if you want any real performance benefits out of it, but the guys over at ThinkTechie seem to think this software is worth 10 our of 10 stars. You think they might have actually run some timed benchmarks to prove the software is all that.

When you have an older system you need to optimize resources. SpeedUp MyPC can help anyone make their computer system more efficient.