Basically, reviews are sparse nowadays. No LCD reviews, no mobo roundups. When did they make the last A64 mobo roundup?
MSI was Gold Award for Socket 939 in the second half of 2004. Since then, no tests. Mainly DFI or Asus.
Kristopher promised an article on the Opteron dual cores, even created a thread on the forum. Nothing after that.
And recently a couple of reviews recommended problematic products, like the Asus mobo with ATI chipset, or the Dell 1905FP (good monitor but terrible ghosting for games).
Perhaps they are tired of just reviewing and benchmarking - just want to focus more on tech and more interesting stuff.
I miss the "old times" when Anand would say: get a Celeron 300A and o/c it to 450A with an Abit mobo. Or o/c the P3 coppermine etc etc.
I could always trust and reproduce those results at home.
In the last 1.5 year I bought some mobos and ram that never reproduced the results presented here. Either the reviews are made with Golden Samples and special BIOS provided by the manufacturers. Or I just got old and lost the touch.
I still like here and will keep coming back. But I would like to see some "return to the roots".