We don’t often receive ‘complete’ systems for review these days, so it was something of a rare treat to get a fully fledged rig – complete with LCD screen, keyboard and mouse – from Mesh recently. Its Elite Ice 7 is rarer still when you look at the price tag…

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Intel has made its anticipated price cuts on a number of CPUs. Notably, the Q9650's price has dropped 40 percent from $530 to $316, while the Q8200 has been cut by 16 percent from $193 to $163 - cheaper than Intel's incredibly overclockable (and popular) Q6600.  It's a good time to buy, if you're planning on building. Check out the full range of new prices here

Intel has now officially launched its Montevina platform which is set to make up the Centrino 2 architecture for high spec notebooks. Centrino branding has been a real hit for Intel, though with the new graphics subset scoring a ‘rip roaring’ 3DMark score of just 429, you will still want to make sure the words GeForce or Radeon are in your gaming notebook’s spec. “In San Francisco on July 14, the Intel Montevina project morphed into the Intel® Centrino® 2 platform. ...

Despite holding a significant lead in the enthusiast market, Intel has actually lost a small portion of its market share to rival AMD in the first quarter of 2008. Statistics released by research firm iSuppli show that Intel lost 0.7% whilst AMD gained 2.2% of the market at the expense of its bigger rival and other smaller chip manufacturers. Between the two of them, the AMD and Intel control a massive 92.7% of the microprocessor market worldwide. Read More here

MSI now has a full range of Intel P45 chipset motherboards available for sale, ranging from affordable mainstream solutions to the latest Crossfire-ready Platinum and Diamond series products designed for overclockers and enthusiasts. Whilst the P45 isn’t a huge upgrade over existing chipsets, if the pre-release samples we have looked at thus far are anything to go by, they should be capable of very high FSB clock speeds and run considerably cooler than previous offerings. Read More here