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Jetway N2VIEW

12 May 2004, 00:00

With an onboard graphics core and decent performance from Athlon XP, the N2VIEW makes a lot more sense as a MagicTwin platform, compared to the PT800TWIN. Low cost processors, no ...

Intel Pentium 4 3.4GHz Prescott

9 May 2004, 00:00

Indifferent performance, heat problems, lack of S478 upgrade potential, and strained availability, at the end, all count against a recommendation for the Pentium 4 3.4GHz Prescott processor. Looking at the ...

USB-PenDrive.co.uk 32MB USB Bar

9 May 2004, 00:00

The 32MB Bar isn\'t going back, unless they send me a 256MB version, perfect for all the extra things I\'d like a bootable USB key to do. I can\'t really ...

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 ...

ATI's Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition

4 May 2004, 00:00

R420 is what NV40 brought to the table in terms of performance, amplified, especially at its maximum AA mode. My 'ohmygod fast' exclamation on the second page really doesn't do ...

Rio Karma 20Gb MP3 Player

24 April 2004, 00:00

Chances are you own a CD where one track merges into the next without any kind of silence. MP3 players, including software such as Winamp, will introduce a gap where ...

Alienware Area51-m Extreme

22 April 2004, 00:00

Personally I love it. I'm a geek, I appreciate a £650 server CPU in my laptop. I appreciate being able to swap the GPU. I like having a 4x DVD+RW ...

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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 ...

ASUS P4R800-V Deluxe Motherboard

17 April 2004, 00:00

Given the street price of ~£75 and the wealth of features on offer from ASUS, the P4R800-V Deluxe is an excellent motherboard if pure performance isn\'t your primary aim. ASUS ...

Point of View GeForce FX 5900XT

15 April 2004, 00:00

With Point of View's card coming in at £130, along with the stylish presentation and good bundle that includes the excellent Call of Duty, it's hard not to recommend it. ...

Gainward FX PowerPack! Ultra/1100 XT

15 April 2004, 00:00

There's not much the Gainward FX PowerPack! Ultra/1100 XT does wrong. It's fast for its target market and at £135 including dreaded VAT in the U.K., it's a few pounds ...

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NVIDIA's GeForce 6800 Ultra GPU

14 April 2004, 00:00

NVIDIA have surprised me with NV40. It's rediculously fast compared to R360 in some tests, if you avoid the 8X supersampling mode. But there lies the rub. Shouldn't we expect ...

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ABIT Radeon 9800 XT 256MB

12 April 2004, 00:00

The ATI Radeon 9800 XT 256MB card is a fine proposition for the enthusiast that wants the best gaming experience right now. ABIT, however, does not do enough to justify ...

ASUS SK8V

8 April 2004, 00:00

If you're new to the market and know you want FX-5x (53 is going to be avaliable to buy soon), wait for the K8T800 Pro version if you want to ...

Shuttle XPC SB75G2 and XPC ST62K Zen

3 April 2004, 00:00

Shuttle, it seems, plans to dominate the lucrative SFF market by using a strategy of offering the consumer a cube based on every available chipset. Two newer cubes, reviewed today, ...

Intel Celeron 2.8GHz

29 March 2004, 00:00

The Celeron is positioned such that it will fit into a huge number of boards - literally every S478 going. It's cheap by Intel standards but, and here's the big ...

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 ...

Tagan TG480-U01

23 March 2004, 00:00

Support for upcoming ATX, ATX12V and BTX standards means you'll be able to use it in a wide range of systems for quite some time, the sensible fan placement seems ...

PowerColor Radeon 9800XT 256MB

20 March 2004, 00:00

PowerColor, then, has to position its 9800XT on the basis of price. It doesn't contain enough novel or value-adding features to warrant purchasing for anything other than low price, and ...

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 ...

MSI GeForce FX 5950 Ultra-VTD 256MB Card

14 March 2004, 00:00

The conclusion actually simplifies well. If you absolutely, positively want a GeForce FX 5950 Ultra 256MB card and don't mind shelling out, MSI's is as good as any we've seen. ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

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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Voodoo PC Envy m:855 laptop

1 March 2004, 00:00

The Voodoo PC Envy m:855 has shown us an impressive array of power in laptop form. Impressive enough for us to re-think the real use of a cumbersome desktop system. ...

Chieftec BX

29 February 2004, 00:00

Chieftec cases have always been popular and there’s a reason why. They are superb cases. Some people maybe put off by the size of it, but it’s lovely to work ...

External Disk Roundup

28 February 2004, 00:00

There\'s something for everyone in the four disks on test, I\'m just more tempted to add other disk to an ATX chassis, rather than hang it externally. Like everything, you\'ll ...

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PowerColor Radeon 9600XT Bravo 128MB

12 February 2004, 00:00

It's difficult to manufacture an intrinsically bad Radeon 9600XT. PowerColor has done just fine with its attempt. It's small, it's quiet, it overclocks like a champ, and it doesn't cost ...