[H]ardNews 5th Edition

Gigabyte GA-7VT600 KT600:

Another Gigabyte GA-7VT600 KT600 review today, this one courtesy of the fellas at PCStats. While the gang does like the board overall, they didn’t seem to have to overclocking success that other reviewers have had.

The layout of the motherboard is excellent, Gigabyte obviously took a lot of time and effort when laying out all the components. Having all the major connectors to the right of the DIMM slots and all the header connections at the bottom of the motherboard certainly makes things much easier for the end user. Even if you're using longer PCI cards, there's nothing that will get in the way!

Modding 101:

If we were to write a modding guide, it would no doubt contain chapters covering popular stuff like “don’t chop your damn finger off” and “running with sharp objects”. Thankfully Bit-Tech’s Modding 101 Guide is a lot more informative than anything I personally could’ve cooked up.

Computer modding is not just about producing the coolest and most original mods, sometimes mods are produced for a specific reason. Take the following project, here I take a vanilla CoolerMaster CM101 and turn it into a slightly less vanilla CoolerMaster CM101. The purpose of the work, is to enhance the looks without turning it into an over-the-top modding extravaganza.

Opera & Mozilla Betas:

If you are fans of alternative browsers then this link is for you. Both Mozilla and Opera have beta versions out for your browsing pleasure.

The Mozilla project, which is creating an open-source version of the Netscape browser, released the beta, or public test of its version 1.5 software on Wednesday. Opera Software, the Norway-based commercial Web software developer, released an updated version of its latest browser on Thursday.