[H]ardNews 10th Edition

MSI K8N Neo:

Not everyone on the Athlon64 upgrade path is heading straight to the socket 939 boards, there is still life in the socket 754 boards. Driver Heaven has one such Athlon64 board, the MSI K8N Neo nForce3-250Gb. You can see our review here from April for comparison purposes.

Other than lacking the Dual Channel option that the S939 based K8N Neo Ultra offers this motherboard has enough tweakability to satisfy most users.

BFG GF 6600GT OC AGP:

If you need a great mid-range graphics card from a company with the best warranty anywhere, check out this BFG GeForce 6600GT OC AGP review at Neoseeker.

While the 6600GT is a great upgrade, the 6600GT OC is an even better one. The extra memory bandwidth in particular allowed BFG's card to stay a step ahead of the reference 6600GT and just behind the 6800.