On this NFL Super Bowl Sunday here in the USA, we begin a new week and have wrapped up our articles for this past week. We began the hardware side of the week with a presentation of Logitech's MX-518 and MX-1000 optical mice. Under Linux, the mice operated flawlessly once they were configured to utilize all of the buttons inside of the X Window System, and Linux Gamer's lomoco (Logitech Mouse Control) was called in for some of the vendor-specific feature implementations. Onto our motherboard selection, the board we scrutinized this week was the Albatron K8SLI. This budget Socket 939 motherboard is officially certified by NVIDIA for Scalable Link Interface usage. In our tests, of course, we used NVIDIA's Linux 1.0-8178 drivers and used some SLI tests and ended up frowning upon the green's poor multi-GPU implementation with *NIX. Reaching the end, the Albatron K8SLI with nForce4 SLI Chipset is a respectable piece for budget users, but beyond that there are definitely better choices available. Yet another heavy hitter this week is our Xinerama v. NVIDIA TwinView article. In this piece, we compared the multi-head options available to X.Org Linux users, with the two key components being the universal Xinerama and then NVIDIA's TwinView. TwinView had shown its frame-rate advantages over Xinerama, and was almost equal to the single-head configuration. Our Xinerama/TwinView/Single-Head testing had occurred with Fedora Core 4 and a NVIDIA GeForce 7800GTX 256MB part. Our newest hardware-related article, and marking the end of a new week, is the ATI + X2 The Threat. As was mentioned in a previous post, Linux Game Publishing has released the fourth BETA of the X2 - The Threat game. This game marks official ATI driver compatibility, and we took this closed BETA for a spin with an ATI Mobility Radeon X300 64MB, Radeon X300 128MB, Radeon X800XL 256MB, and for comparison purposes, a NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT 128MB. The 6600GT had stolen the definitive lead over all of the ATI parts, including the X800XL, however, that was with ATI's latest v8.21.07 drivers. Software-wise we began with the SLAX Standard v5.0.7 distribution, followed by some fun with Sauerbraten v2006-01-31 that serves as the next-generation RPG and FPS engine based upon the infamous Cube, and ended off with the latest beta of SuSE v10.1 OSS. Ahead for this week, can anyone say ATI's monthly period? Look forward to the usual slew of GNU/Linux tests.