Frank Völkel

Test Case: Sony's digital video camera DCR-PC100E. Apart from a connection to the PC via a Firewire interface, this compact camera also offers interesting features such as a night vision mode and a Megapixel sensor for still pictures.

All new AMD Duron and T-Bird processors are equipped with a fixed multiplier. With a bit of work the A7V can be modified to get around that problem.

The legendary and widespread Asus P55T2P4 motherboard is four years old now. But it is not over the hill yet. Thanks to a new .18 Micron Socket7 CPU, the K6-2+/500, the historical board achieves almost the performance of a modern PC system.

With the help of modern components an old PC system based on Socket 7 can almost achieve the performance of current PCs. We took the old boards to the limit.

The successors of the established but soon to be discontinued 440BX chipset are waiting in the wings. We took a closer look at five motherboards, two with 815E and three with 815 chipset.

Contrary to the AMD750/Irongate, the new KX133 Athlon chipset from VIA offers AGP 4x and a memory clock up to 133 MHz. But not all test candidates have overcome their childhood diseases, yet.