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  • Review: ATI's TV Wonder USB 2.0

    28 October 2004, 00:00

    The TV Wonder USB 2.0 is a simple product to rate. Take the multimedia hardware and software that makes an All-In-Wonder so good, give them a USB2.0 interface, enjoy high ...

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  • Review: ATI's Radeon X700 XT and Radeon X700 PRO Preview

    26 October 2004, 00:00

    This article serves two purposes. We\'ll take a look at the new XT, paying close attention to its thermal characteristics before looking at performance, and I\'ll also publish some numbers ...

  • Review: Gigabyte GA-K8VT800 Pro

    25 October 2004, 00:00

    VIA's K8T800 Pro chipset powers the most popular Socket 754 boards on the market and when that core logic was released, it was no surprise to see the major Tier-I ...

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  • Review: GALAXY GeForce 6600 256MB

    24 October 2004, 00:00

    I expect GeForce 6600 performance to look even stronger when evaluated via shader-heavy titles and thus have little problem in recommending it as a GPU, especially if you're looking towards ...

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  • Review: Cooler Master Stacker STC-T01

    20 October 2004, 00:00

    One thing defines the Stacker; size. That size will either make you love it or laugh at it.

  • Review: NVIDIA's nForce4

    19 October 2004, 00:00

    It's a really excellent bit of core logic for AMD CPUs. I know many of you have been waiting for nForce4 before you upgraded to PCI Express graphics cards. It's ...

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  • Review: AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 and Model 4000+ CPUs

    19 October 2004, 00:00

    Bottom line is that AMD has raised the performance bar yet again with its new FX-55 and Model 4000+ CPUs. It's now up to Intel to respond with its next ...

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  • Review: AMD Sempron 2800+ , Sempron 3100+ and Intel Celeron D 335

    17 October 2004, 00:00

    Which value processor should you choose?. If your budget resembles a shoestring then a bottom-end Sempron (Socket A, obviously) or Celeron D 320 are the natural choices. Both CPUs have ...

  • Review: 3DMark05 - A closer look

    13 October 2004, 00:00

    This article exists to tidy up some of my own self-inflicted loose ends. I\'ll talk a bit more about DSTs and NVIDIA\'s implementation of PCF in hardware, and I\'ll also ...

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  • Review: ECS 915P-A

    11 October 2004, 00:00

    Supporting LGA775 processors, it's by far the most interesting board in ECS's current line-up, squarely targetting the user who wants to upgrade to LGA775, but in the smallest steps possible. ...

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  • Review: NVIDIA's GeForce 6200 Launch

    11 October 2004, 00:00

    At the end of my recent preview of NVIDIA's GeForce 6600 GT, powered by their NV43 GPU, I remarked, "Now there's only one piece of the pie left", in reference ...

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  • Review: BFG GeForce 6800 Ultra Overclocked

    8 October 2004, 00:00

    Any and every GeForce 6800 Ultra is an excellent gamers' card. BFG's effort is above average, as the company offers a pre-overclocked core at default core prices. BFG's popularity is ...

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  • Review: GeCube Radeon X800 PRO

    5 October 2004, 00:00

    Formed in 1990 as a spin-off from Gigabyte, Info-Tek Corporation created the consumer brand GeCube to sell consumer graphics cards in Asia. Currently selling only ATI designs, they now trade ...

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  • Review: ASUS AX800XT/2DT PCI-Express

    3 October 2004, 00:00

    I like the ASUS AX800XT/2DT. It has beguiling power in a small form factor. ASUS needs to ensure that SmartDoctor works with shipping cards, probably by means of a software ...

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  • ATI's Theater 550 PRO Video Processor - A First Look Over Breakfast

    30 September 2004, 00:00

    A week or so ago, as I was in London to test ATI's Radeon X700 XT, I had the chance to spend some time with a few guys from ATI's ...

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  • Review: Koolance Exos-Al

    30 September 2004, 00:00

    Minor quibbles aside, Koolance has shown that it manufacturers some of the finest external watercooling kits currently available. Excellence in ease of use and cooling performance is enough for the ...

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  • Review: Shuttle XPC SN95G5

    30 September 2004, 00:00

    Very highly recommended if you need Socket 939 in a small form factor enclosure and you can afford the asking price. Pester your favourite retailer for a price drop and ...

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  • Review: Futuremark's 3DMark05 - An Introduction

    29 September 2004, 00:00

    If, like many of your enthusiast peers, you\'ve been staring at the counter on Futuremark\'s website for the past couple of days, wondering when 3DMark05 would make its debut, wonder ...

  • Review: AOpen EZ18-120 SFF System

    27 September 2004, 00:00

    We\'ve yet to see a perfect SFF system. AOpen does a lot of things right with the EZ18 - it also does a few things, subjectively speaking, wrong. Worth a ...

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  • Review: Vantec HDCS

    27 September 2004, 00:00

    In my eyes I believe the Vantec Vortex is the best hard drive cooling solution on the market today. It does a great job and gives peace of mind that ...

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  • Review: Cooler Master TAC-T01EK Wave Master

    27 September 2004, 00:00

    I've been pining after a quality aluminium chassis with a door for my ugly beige opticals, that's aesthetically pleasing to the eye (to my own tastes of course) and that ...

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  • Review: ASUS Extreme EN5900/TVD (PCX5900) PCI-Express 128MB and ASUS Extreme AX600XT/HTVD PCI-Express 128MB Graphics Cards

    26 September 2004, 00:00

    The main problem that I see facing both cards is the technology they're based upon. Benchmark graphs also showed the relative performance of a GeForce 6800 GT 256MB card, which ...

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  • VIA's PCI Express plans for late 2004

    24 September 2004, 00:00

    First to the initial PCI Express and AMD punch - with a product they strongly hinted to us would launch soon when we met them at ECTS - are VIA, ...

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  • Review: World Exclusive Preview of IWill's ZMAXdp

    23 September 2004, 00:00

    After we broke those spy shots back in May, a lot of people asked me whether I thought the ZMAXdp would ever get released. It's one thing to work on ...

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  • Review: ATI's Radeon X700 XT Preview

    20 September 2004, 00:00

    ATI's new mid-range power-house has arrived with a significant splash. Effectively dropping R420 (well, R423 with its native PCI Express interface) onto TSMC's 110nm process, chopping half the fragment shaders ...

  • Review: Crucial Ballistix 1GByte PC4000 184-pin Memory

    16 September 2004, 00:00

    Crucial's the newest player on the block with some of the finest DDR1 modules I've had the pleasure to test. Highly recommended if all Ballistix PC4000 modules can emulate the ...

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  • ATI's Theater 550 PRO Video Processor

    14 September 2004, 00:00

    ATI have used the, now venerable in some sense, Rage Theater 220 video processor in various products for the past couple of years or so. The advent of an ever ...

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  • Review: Jetway PT800TWIN

    13 September 2004, 00:00

    It\'s a specialist product that works well, but there are a lot of caveats to take into consideration before you\'d do so. You\'ll know straight away if a MagicTwin system ...

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  • Review: ASUS V9999 GeForce 6800 Gamers Edition 256MB

    12 September 2004, 00:00

    ASUS, I feel, has successfully bridged the gulf between vanilla 6800s and GTs in both price and performance. If £250 is absolutely burning a hole in your pocket ASUS' GeForce ...

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  • ATI set to kickstart PCI-Express in the mainstream enthusiast sector?

    9 September 2004, 00:00

    HEXUS have managed to track down several people who are ‘in the know’ to find out more about ATI’s up coming technology.

    ATI seem to have a ...

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  • IDF Fall 2004: AMD hijacks the journos

    9 September 2004, 00:00

    Every year at IDF, you can be assured that a number of companies will take advantage of the entire world’s journalists being in the same place at the same time. ...

  • IDF Fall 2004: Intel's Day 2 Keynote

    9 September 2004, 00:00

    Two years ago Intel shared a vision with us for the digital home - the convergence of computer based silicon and the software needed to control it, put in to ...

  • Review: ATI's All-In-Wonderfuls....

    9 September 2004, 00:00

    In an announcement that’s unlikely to surprise anyone, ATI has launched a new member of its All-in-Wonder multimedia graphics cards based on the Radeon X800 XT GPU. The new card ...

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