AGN Hardware heeft een review gebouwd over deze goedkope DVD-Rom

If you are still looking to replace your CD-ROM with a DVD-ROM drive, you may not have to look much further than the Actima 6X (ATAPI/E-IDE Only) DVD-ROM. Like you, I also have not heard of Actima. It looks like they are a relatively new company peddling off what looks to be plain product for low prices. Aimed mostly at the OEM market, they also offer retail products for those of us not looking to have to extend a line of credit just to pick up a new piece of hardware. Along with the DVD-ROM that you are reading about in this review, we will also be posting reviews of their 50X CD and 4X4X20 CD-RW drive. The CD-RW drive is of particular interest to me because it is only going to set you back $255, for a drive with 2MB of buffer and some decent speed. Enough of this mental wandering though, after all this is a review of their 6X DVD-ROM drive.

In één van de computers bij me thuis heb ik ook zo'n cd-rom van Actima ingezet en dat ding werkt nog steeds goed...

Anand heeft een hele test van videoplanken op Super Socket 7 mammaplanken inelkaar geknutseld.

Since the first day of the official release of the Super7 standard, the efforts of chipset manufacturers Acer Labs Incorporated and VIA Technologies have been lack luster in comparison to their big brother, Intel, in terms of chipset compatibility. One could make the argument that due to Intel’s incredible size as a company, it is in the best interest of the market to make sure the best selling products are compatible with Intel’s chipsets; the responsibility falls on ALi and VIA to make sure that their chipsets are equally as compatible. In the past, ALi and VIA chipset solutions have been at fault for compatibility problems with the latest AGP graphics accelerators due to the nature of the AGP support provided by their two respective chipsets. Only recently have most of the "kinks" in the software drivers been ironed out and the level of compatibility of Super7 motherboards and the latest graphics cards been increased. Unfortunately there remains another limitation of the nature of the Super7/Socket-7 standard that has kept the lives of gamers who own such computers a little less happy than those running equally priced Celeron systems on the Intel side of things. The second tragic flaw of the standard? Poor 3DNow! support by video card manufacturers.

Mij lijkt een C300a toch handiger, gezien de (incompatibiliteits) problemen die hij beschrijft.
Je kan de review hier vinden.

Er komt binnenkort weer een nieuwe speakerset uit van Creative die weer voor beter geluid moet zorgen hun overbekende 4 Point Surround speakers.

De review is dan ook erg positief zoals je al in dit stukje van de review kun lezen:

For our listening tests, we used both the standard analog jacks, as well as the Digital input from our Sound Blaster Live. The sound quality for gaming, MP3's, and CD-Audio, was some of the best we've heard, and the amount of volume that was pumping in our ears was dumbfounding considering their very conservative power ratings, and small size. I don't think that you'll find a louder subwoofer for its size than the Sub in this system. Using a wooden bandpass enclosure, this little thing will really take you by surprise!

De hele review kun je hier vinden.