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ECTS 2004: ATI's New Catalyst Control Panel

2 September 2004, 00:00

Weighing in currently at a lardy 60MB, the new control panel is built in .NET using DirectX Graphics to allow realtime preview of applied card settings, so you can see ...

Review: Chaintech Summit SK8T800 Motherboard

20 August 2004, 00:00

Let\'s be clear. The SK8T800 doesn\'t pretend to be an enthusiasts\' board in the least, but a little voltage wouldn\'t have gone astray. Every product should be evaluated with due ...

Review: HIS Excalibur Platinum Radeon 9600

14 August 2004, 00:00

It seems perfect folly for a Shuttle XPC or similar SFF chassis, should two DVI ports be your dream combination for your teeny tiny PC. Imagine a pair of decent ...

Review: ASUS A8V Deluxe S939 Wireless Edition Motherboard

14 July 2004, 00:00

Paired with low-latency memory and a high-end graphics card, the ASUSTeK A8V Deluxe provides excellent performance right across the board. If you\'ve set your heart on a power system and ...

ATI's Richard Huddy talks about Get In The Game

28 June 2004, 00:00

Richard is a veteran of the 3D graphics industry. Having previously held positions, amongst others, at Rendermorphics (a British company bought by Microsoft due to its impressive 3D graphics technology, ...

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Review: ATI PCI Express Introduction

1 June 2004, 00:00

ATI\'s transition to PCI Express is a logical one, the company well placed to take advantage of the technology, both in marketing, production and performance terms. An evolutionary step in ...

Review: AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 and Model 3800+ socket-939 CPUs

1 June 2004, 00:00

The bottom line is very simple. AMD\'s delivered performance in spades with its new Socket-939 processors; performance that makes Intel\'s Pentium 4s look impotent in comparison. We await Intel\'s response ...

Review: ABIT KV8 Pro K8T800 Pro Motherboard

25 May 2004, 00:00

This will undoubtedly be ABIT's cheaper S754 VIA K8T800 Pro motherboard. Expect a MAX3 model soon, and we're sure it'll be laden with various cooling gadgets and a few extra ...

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IWill ZMAXdp Sneak Peak

24 May 2004, 00:00

While the photographs don't give the entire game away, the basic construction, motherboard layout and cooling system are clear to see. My personal concerns lie in routing the power cable ...

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Review: EPoX 8KDA3+ nForce3 250Gb

6 May 2004, 00:00

The NVIDIA nForce3 250Gb is a step forward for Socket-754, albeit one that's taken six months to arrive. Fortunately EPoX has done a decent job with the 8KDA3+. The lack ...

Review: nForce3 250 Chipset Overclocking

20 April 2004, 00:00

There is no doubt in our minds that the AMD Athlon 64 will take a great leap forward in overclocking circles with the launch of the nForce3 250 chipset. At ...

Review: AOpen AK86-L K8T800 S754 Motherboard

26 March 2004, 00:00

If evaluated in context of its intended pricing structure the AOpen AK86-L deserves to be included on at least a shortlist of boards. It doesn't particularly excel in any one ...

Review: AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 CPU

18 March 2004, 00:00

Intel's Pentium 4 3.4GHz Extreme Edition put the onus back on to AMD's shoulders. We'd call the heavyweight fight pretty even now, although the balance may swing entirely in AMD's ...

Review: nForce3 250 Chipset

10 March 2004, 00:00

With NVIDIA giving the 250-series chips a feature upgrade, a 'fixed' HyperTransport implementation, some new disk based ability with the changed ATA and SATA controller, 1000Mbit/sec Ethernet capability to let ...

Review: VIA KT880 Chipset

9 March 2004, 00:00

nForce2 Ultra 400 has been around since July 2003, some seven months. Plain nForce2 has been around for over a year. While KT880 may boast better base features than nForce2 ...

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Review: AMD Athlon 64 Model 3000+

5 March 2004, 00:00

The Athlon 64 Model 3000+ was a much-needed CPU in AMD's performance lineup. All we now ask for is a 1.8GHz 512kb L2 cache version priced at around £140. That ...

Review: AMD Athlon XP-M Barton 2500 Evaluation

3 March 2004, 00:00

The results speak for themselves. High performance doesn't necessarily have to be limited to the Athlon 64 or top-end Pentium 4 CPUs. What's more, it can be achieved with a ...

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Review: ASUS K8V Deluxe and K8V Deluxe Wireless Edition

5 February 2004, 00:00

Our first look at Model 3200+ Athlon 64 on K8T800 was an encouraging one. K8V is a well featured, well presented, well laid out board. It performs well, K8T800 deserves ...

ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 Opinion

4 February 2004, 00:00

So bar the clock change over the high-end MR9600 parts, has anything else really changed, bar the Low-K process switch? Not really, which explains the low key launch. Parts were ...

Review: AMD Athlon 64 3400+

6 January 2004, 00:00

Like any company, a CPU's fundamentals need to be sound... which is fortunately the case with the AMD Athlon 3400. Performance in spades, at least two chipsets with solid, stable ...

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Review: Albatron K8X800 Pro II

19 December 2003, 00:00

You know that feeling of disappointment you get when you're really excited about something that seems so promising, only to be let down by a couple of niggling little details? ...

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Review: ABIT KV8-MAX3 S754

4 December 2003, 00:00

ABIT's first stab at S754 glory is a decent enough attempt. We'd prefer a revised layout that makes installation easier and a newer BIOS that uses AMD's Cool'n'Quiet tech. to ...

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Review: AMD Athlon 64 3200 , VIA K8T800, nForce3 150

6 October 2003, 00:00

It\'s far too early to say which chipset complements the Athlon 64 better. What's clear is that AMD has risen to a new performance plane with the Athlon 64. Multiplier ...

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Review: AMD Opteron

23 September 2003, 00:00

You need to evaluate Opteron in context to see its advantages and from the right point of view, it has no equal. You may be able to put more power ...

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Review: AMD Athlon64 FX-51

23 September 2003, 00:00

It's difficult to ascertain the 64-bit qualities of the FX-51 right now. Limited OS support and limited driver support make any tentative benchmarking perilous. I'll leave that up to Mr. ...

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NVIDIA Crush K8 Solution

18 September 2003, 00:00

We got sent in some shots of the latest NF3 Pro silicon - we can't comment on performance since we have some of the silicon in for real testing but ...

Review: EPoX 8RDA3G nForce2 Ultra 400

18 September 2003, 00:00

Excepting a couple of idiosyncratic features exhibited by the sample board (FSB fluctuation in Windows and under-volting), the 8RDA3G is an decent introduction into NVIDIA nForce2 power. If your budget ...

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Review: MSI KT6 DELTA-FIS2R KT600

15 September 2003, 00:00

If MSI can market this board at, say, £20 lower than a similarly specified nForce2 Ultra 400, we can see a number of OEM system integrators opting for it. The ...

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Review: AMD XP2500+ Barton 'AQXEA'

1 September 2003, 00:00

Bottom line - if you're prepared to delve into the art of overclocking, you'll be considerably rewarded with an investment in these £70 wonders.

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Review: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro All-In-Wonder

1 August 2003, 00:00

As the ultimate combination of 3D speed, 2D quality and the All-In-Wonder feature set, it has no peer, and probably wont have for quite a long time.

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Review: AMD Athlon XP 1800

10 July 2003, 00:00

The movements in the CPU front over the past few years have been very substantial. AMD have switched from being behind Intel in core development and speed to overtaking them. ...

Review: VIA KT600 / EPoX 8KRA2

26 June 2003, 00:00

The VIA KT600 chipset is a step in the right direction. VIA needed to match NVIDIA on pure specification before they took them on from a performance viewpoint. The 'upgrade' ...

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Review: VIA KT400A Roundup