Intel has made yet another great Pentium4 processor (as always) with a 133MHz bus. With a 133MHz bus Intel has a little closer to AMD, when it comes to the potential of a processor. Even though AMD has just released 166MHz version of their Athlon processor..

This card seems to a good purchase in the low-end range. It clearly outperforms the GeForce4 MX series and only costs a little extra which very natural. This card is not quite as fast as the TYAN Tachyon G9000 Pro but if it is correspondingly cheap then that is fine..

AOpen has made a quite reasonable mainboard and it actually reminds me a lot like their Tube version. It is made in a nice black colour, which I personally like. Even though SiS doesn’t officially support DDR400, the mainboard does support but it comes at a price. If you want DDR400 support, the performance will drop considerably. So I would recommend waiting for a better solution for DDR400, but luckily DDR333 still runs well.