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  • 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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  • IDF Fall 2004: Keynote: Mobility

    8 September 2004, 00:00

    He started off his keynote talking about the change we have seen in the mobile computer since its first introduction, and the growth which we have seen since 2001. That ...

  • IDF Fall 2004: NVIDIA

    8 September 2004, 00:00

    NVIDIA, one of the Gold Sponsors at IDF this year, held their public discussion on the state of the graphics market, talking about how innovation drives demand. The presentation was ...

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  • IDF Fall 2004: Memory - 667 and 800 DDR2, DDR3

    8 September 2004, 00:00

    At IDF, Intel outlined its memory support plans for future products, forecasting its moves until 2006. The big plans come with support for desktop DDR3 modules in 2006, along with ...

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  • IDF Fall 2004: Tech Showcase

    8 September 2004, 00:00

    Overall this year the Tech Showcase is very busy but with little news. We have Rambus showing true modules of XDR, but as before they do not have a partner ...

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  • IDF Fall 2004: Multi-Core for more, more, more

    7 September 2004, 00:00

    Another major point in Paul Otellini's opening keynote address at IDF was Intel's multi-core CPU strategy. Openly demonstrating the 1.7 billion transistor Montecito Itanium processor, a chip that's dual-core with ...

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  • IDF Fall 2004: DTCP/IP

    7 September 2004, 00:00

    Paul Otellini's keynote speech touched on DTCP/IP as a means to getting protected digital content into the home without fuss. Close after, Netgear announced their first DTCP/IP devices that allow ...

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  • IDF Fall 2004: Paul Otellini's Opening Day Keynote

    7 September 2004, 00:00

    Intel's Paul Otellini just delivered his IDF keynote to mark the opening of the event. Covering what he calls the three spokes of IDF, Technologies, Together (networking with people) and ...

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  • IDF Fall 2004: Intro

    7 September 2004, 00:00

    Intel Developer Forum is one of those events that something exciting always happens at. Someone usually announces something new and exciting and more often than not it's Intel themselves, keen ...

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