We have already seen a number of reviews of Intel’s flagship i875P-based mainboards. Of course it is nice, it is fast and it is powerful, but if you want to choose a mainboard fully satisfying your needs, you have to read all of these reviews, written in different styles on different web-sites, to compare all the pros and all the cons of various products. Thus, I am glad to announce the first i875P mainboards roundup seen by me to date. Hard Tecs 4U has written a 43-page review in which they compare five products from AOpen, ASUS, EPoX, Intel and MSI. Among other things, there is a comparison of integrated audio-solution quality. Read the review here in German (translated version is available here).

VoidedWarranty has written an article about one thing that definitely capable of voiding your warranty - static electricity. Static electricity is the cause of the thunderbolts during summer rains. “Micro-lightning” coming from your finger after your walk on the synthetic carpet may destroy certain devices in your computer if you touch them. VoidedWarranty's review will help you to eliminate any possibility of damaging your computer parts by static electricity. Read it here.

Corsair is widely known for its high-quality memory modules, but quite recently company has announced water-cooling system, brand-named HydroCool 200, made in cooperation with Delphi Thermal Systems, the titan of liquid-cooling systems manufacturing industry (read our news-post about announcement here). Overlockers.com had managed to get this system in their laboratory and concluded that it is one of the top performing products even in nearly inaudible "whisper mode". Read the article here.

The Inquirer has a report from E3 where they talk about absence of multiplayer mode in the upcoming Doom III from id Software. That is quite strange since Quake series from id actually set a standard for multiplayer games. Technical director of id, famous John Carmack explained that this decision came as the consequence of the incredible graphic realism of the game. I think, this is quite doubtful explanation, but it is all, what we have, at least, now. The original Doom brought multiplayer to the world, Quake continued this tradition and now the Doom III will leave us without multiplayer. Read the details of Carmack’s sad speech here.