When Technology Editor Bill Wong built his concept of the Best PC of the year, he made sure the multicore, multidrive system included top-of-the-line components.
The following are reviews of four of those key components: Intel's motherboard with quad-core Xeon processors, Seagate's Barracuda hard disk drive, Lite-On's Blue-ray drive, and AMD's FireGL board.
Check out Bill's web-exclusive story on constructing the Best PC of 2007 at ED Online number 17567 when the issue goes live on Dec. 3.
Intel S5000XVN Host Dual Quad-Core Xeons
4 Platters = Terabyte Drive
Lite-On Goes Blue-ray For Capacity And Performance
FireGL V8650 For Workstations