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ASUS V9950 GeForce FX5900

12 July 2003, 00:00

Assuming price being as close to £300 as possible, the ASUS has to get same plaudits as the MSI. It ships with a good bundle like the MSI, and performance ...

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High End Workstation Chipsets

10 July 2003, 00:00

So with AMD out of the high end workstation arena just now with nothing to really challenge a high end E7505 solution in terms of features or performance it's up ...

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. ...

Intel Desktop Control Centre

9 July 2003, 00:00

Intel are about to launch a new application which will enable the enthusiast to make changes to their Intel desktop board from within Windows. This of course is not necessarily ...

MSI i865PE Neo2 FIS2R

9 July 2003, 00:00

Another decent board from the MSI Deluxe stable. Brimming full of usable features and having a BIOS that's a tad scary, it does most things right. This MSI is for ...

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Apple G4 Powerbook

7 July 2003, 00:00

Currently retailing at £2299.00 this beautiful work of engineering at its best does not come cheaply. But I ask my self, has the switch been worth it? Hell yea! I ...

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ASUS A7N8X Deluxe 2.0

7 July 2003, 00:00

If you're in the market for something solid, feature packed and that overclocks nicely due to the use of the new chipset, do yourself a favour and put the ASUS ...

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EpoX 4PDA2+ i865PE Springdale

3 July 2003, 00:00

This 4PDA2+ sample was a prodigious FSB overclocker, a features champion and a paradigm of stability. As long as EPoX launch a BIOS that corrects the Vcore failings found on ...

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Shuttle SN45G nForce2 Ultra 400 XPC

30 June 2003, 00:00

This cube is the fastest AMD one yet. It\'s stable, fast, tweakable, feature rich and relatively quiet. One almost begins to question the wisdom of large boxes when this little ...

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Coolermaster ATCS 630

30 June 2003, 00:00

A few years back when I first started messing around with computers, I can remember those horrible beige desktop cases that housed all the technical components. Recently Cooler Master have ...

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MSI GeForce FX5900

29 June 2003, 00:00

So, is it quicker than 9800 Pro? Is it quicker than 9700 Pro? Well, yes to both for the most part. On the tests that I consider to be the ...

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Shuttle AN35N nForce2 Ultra

27 June 2003, 00:00

Bar the odd latency issue, the AN35N is another solid if unexciting board. The trouble for Shuttle is that most of the major players have excellent boards already, so a ...

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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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VIA KT400A Roundup

26 June 2003, 00:00

There's a board for everyone in this review and providing you got here (probably by skipping right up, past the good stuff) without dropping off, I'm sure you've found one ...

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ATI Radeon 9600 Pro

25 June 2003, 00:00

This is what the midrange is all about. Good IQ combined with good performance and 9600 Pro (and 9500 Pro before it) certainly brings that to the table.

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MSI MegaPC

24 June 2003, 00:00

The mini PC market is getting very crowded; potential buyers have plenty of choice at the moment. MSI have exactly the right approach and have created something different with unique ...

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Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz

23 June 2003, 00:00

This CPU feels like a stopgap to the inevitable Prescott core. There\'s little denying that it is the fastest x86 processor around. Whether you\'re willing to stump up the cash ...

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MSI Hermes 845GV Barebones

19 June 2003, 00:00

In short, a featured, well-designed base unit with a number of possible uses. The business sector will appreciate its versatility, but it may well get shunned by the enthusiast crowd ...

GeForce FX5600 Ultra rev2

18 June 2003, 00:00

It\'s a solid midrange board, brings DX9 to your table and runs nice and quick with IQ features on.

ABIT IS7 [865PE] Motherboard

12 June 2003, 00:00

ABIT try to woo the potential customer with a number of high performance boards. Do they succeed in their mission ?. The answer is a probable yes. Brand loyalty will ...

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Zalman ZM400A-APF PSU

10 June 2003, 00:00

£80 is steep for a 400w PSU. Whether it\'s worth it or not depends upon how much you value silence. Recommended to those looking for uber-quiet rigs.

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Zalman CNPS7000-Cu Cooler

10 June 2003, 00:00

What attributes should a decent heatsink and fan combination have ?. It should cool well. It should be able to cool well with reasonable voltage load. It should have the ...

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ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB

7 June 2003, 00:00

We've been waiting for this time since consumer graphics finally took off with the Voodoo. Since then, as PC's finally had the pixel pushing horsepower to render 3D at speed, ...

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ABIT IC7-G

5 June 2003, 00:00

IDE RAID, a touch more DDR voltage, a fan-less Northbridge heatsink, and a modicum of extra performance would have made this a sure-fire winner. But let's make no mistake about ...

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VIA EPIA M10000

2 June 2003, 00:00

What do we think overall ?. The EPIA line is all about progression. The latest EPIA M10000 proves that a system doesn\'t require superlative performance to be a viable proposition ...

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LCD Keypad Guide

1 June 2003, 00:00

At the start of this project, it was designed to work with an LCD, but I will be finally applying the keypad to my VFD, showing how versatile the \'custom ...

Zalman ZM80A-HP Silent VGA Cooler

28 May 2003, 00:00

The Zalman ZM80A-HP cooler achieves its aims of cooling even the fastest of current GPUs passively. The clever engineering, large dissipation area, and excellent heatpipe ensures that we can run ...

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Performance-wise, the SB61G2 didn't disappoint with a discrete Radeon 9800 Pro hogging the AGP port. Performance was just where we'd have put it beforehand, that is, sandwiched between the Canterwood ...

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ASUS P4P800 Deluxe [i865PE] Motherboard

21 May 2003, 00:00

Our first foray into the performance Springdale chipset unearthed a few surprises. It seemed to be stupendously fast when set to SPD (DDR-400) timings at 200FSB, comfortably beating the Canterwood ...

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EPoX EP-8RDA3+ nForce2 Ultra 400

20 May 2003, 00:00

The 8RDA3+ is still an excellent foundation on which to build an AMD powerhouse of a system. Its considerable merits outweigh the slight qualms we may have. It's fast, it's ...

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Commell LV-670

18 May 2003, 00:00

If you are after the fastest MiniITX board you can get your hands on this is definitely a board you should consider, however the high price means that very few ...

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OCZ PC3200 EL DDR DUAL CHANNEL MEMORY

17 May 2003, 00:00

First things first. The modules do exactly what they\'re specified to. The 2-2-3-6 timings caused no problems when tested in both AMD and Intel dual-channel motherboards. We\'re still not sure ...

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Cooler Master ATCS 110B-SX1 Case