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ATI's Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition AGP and Club3D's Radeon X800 XL AGP

25 April 2005, 00:00

Club3D's example doesn't go overboard on the bundle, however you do get a great game and the cables you're given are sufficient to make good use of the VIVO ability ...

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SCAN 3XS ISOTOPE System

23 April 2005, 00:00

The review model's performance was good. An AMD Athlon 64 4000+ CPU is the second-fastest S939 CPU, so gaming, allied to a GeForce 6800 GT PCI-Express card, will be inevitably ...

AMD's Dual-Core x75 Opterons

21 April 2005, 00:00

The release today of AMD's dual-core workstation and server parts is a significant landmark in the world of x86 computing for the enterprise and professional users. The ability to pack ...

Gigabyte's GA-8AENXP-D Mainboard

17 April 2005, 00:00

If I have to say something bad about the board, it's that the aesthetic makes me decidedly unwell. Go forth and seek, should high-performance, feature-packed, well-presented Pentium 4 be your ...

Sony Playstation Portable

14 April 2005, 00:00

It’s not often that anything remotely techie raises more than a resigned sigh from the missus, but even she was impressed by the look of the PSP.

SavRow's Katana 3D-9 Portable Workstation

12 April 2005, 00:00

Clearly, the SavRow Katana 3D-9 Portable Workstation isn\'t perfect. But computers, especially portables, are a compromise. If you need or want what this desktop replacement offers, you\'ll buy it, warts ...

EPoX EP-5LWA + i925XE Mainboard

11 April 2005, 00:00

The most important decision a potential i925XE purchaser needs to make is whether they really need third-party SATA/PATA RAID and wireless networking integrated into a motherboard. If you do, look ...

TrackMania: Sunrise

7 April 2005, 00:00

So, what did I think of TM:Sunrise as a game? Is it worth your dosh? Well, that is actually far trickier to answer than you’d expect, as I’ve now got ...

NVIDIA nForce4 SLI Intel Edition

5 April 2005, 00:00

NVIDIA has made a successful transition of its SLI tech. over to an Intel-based platform. SLI works exactly in the same way it does on a current AMD machine, and ...

Intel's Pentium Extreme Edition 840 and 955X Express chipset

4 April 2005, 00:00

Whether or not it\'s worth ditching your present system for the obvious benefits of dual-core computing is entirely dependant on your application usage. The Pentium XE 840, whilst hugely impressive ...

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Will Of Steel

4 April 2005, 00:00

Now, I’ve really have given the headset and voice control a fair crack as a game that can be near completely voice controlled is a superb idea and allows for ...

FIRST LOOK : AMD GPU!!

1 April 2005, 00:00

It’s going to have roughly the transistor count of a pair of current 130nm Athlon FX processors. It also looks like it can share vertex load with a dual core ...

GeCube's Radeon X850 XT Uniwise

31 March 2005, 00:00

So while I wait for the hardware I described on the first page of this article, GeCube\'s X850 XT will do nicely. For the performance, it\'s hard to argue with ...

Intel's Pentium-M 735 Processor and DFI 855GME Motherboard

31 March 2005, 00:00

Performance wise, there\'s one thing that stands out from the analysis and observation of P-M\'s scaling with nothing more than its base frequency: it\'s crying out for core logic to ...

Gigabyte 8IPE775-G 'Springdale' Motherboard

24 March 2005, 00:00

But if you've got your heart set on Socket-T in the near future and have decent RAM and at least a midrange AGP graphics card already in your system, the ...

DFI LANPARTY 925X-T2

24 March 2005, 00:00

There\'s plenty of decent 900-series boards doing the rounds right now, and DFI\'s 925X-T2 is decent. The problem is, as far as I can see, that other manufacturers now offer ...

ECS ELITEGROUP 915-A Mainboard

22 March 2005, 00:00

Not a horribly bad board, but unless you desperately want the GMA900 in order to do dual display with another discrete card, there's no reason to consider it, given other ...

Memory Shootout - Extremely High Performance DDR using Samsung TCCD DRAMs on Socket 939 AMD64

14 March 2005, 00:00

To sum up, if you want the coolest modules on the block and you're feeling flush, the Corsair Xpert is in a niche of its own. Paired with Samsung's TCCD ...

Pro Rugby Manager 2

9 March 2005, 00:00

You can sort out sponsorship deals for the club, give post match interviews and try and poach promising players from other clubs. If you’re particularly nasty, you could give a ...

ATI ALL-IN-WONDER X800 XT

8 March 2005, 00:00

ATI\'s Multimedia team took the time to get right a product that will appeal to many. Expensive in X800 XT guise (there are other X800 AIWs which I\'ll talk about ...

Intel's BTX Form Factor - An Analysis and Opinion

7 March 2005, 00:00

Intel will argue that it\'s not just about the heat, that it enables smaller x86 PCs due to the thermal reorganisation. Tell that to SFF PC makers, the guys pushing ...

ASUSTeK A8N-SLI Deluxe -vs- DFI LanParty UT nF4 SLI-D

28 February 2005, 00:00

Both come recommended, but the DFI has strings to its bow that you will not find elsewhere. Go forth and purchase, there's absolutely no finer Athlon 64 mainboard at the ...

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AMD's Athlon FX - CPU Scaling to 3GHz and 250MHz dHTT

24 February 2005, 00:00

Please take this article in the spirit that it's intended. I just overclocked some stuff using a chiller, I didn't steal new SKUs from AMD. A nice mainboard, some good ...

Logitech MX1000 Mouse

23 February 2005, 00:00

As usual, Logitech have used a classic, but highly effective packaging method for the mouse, a variance on the type used on the previous market leader, the MX700. Being the ...

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Intel's Prescott-2M: Pentium 4 660 and Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.73GHz

21 February 2005, 00:00

And it\'s that 64-bit ability of Prescott-2M that\'s its main selling point, rather than any performance to be gained by the double-sized L2 cache, compared to Prescott-1M. I missed out ...

Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI

14 February 2005, 00:00

Buying an SLI capable nForce4 motherboard, you know you are paying a premium for the cutting edge technology it represents, and thus expect a lot for your money. The GA-K8NXP-SLI ...

ASUS P5AD2-E Premium

12 February 2005, 00:00

ASUS has taken the simple step of updating its already impressive 925X Premium board with this incarnation. It's fast, solid and overclocks well. Users looking to migrate to a 925XE-based ...

Pinnacle Liquid Edition Pro 6

11 February 2005, 00:00

Pinnacle’s Liquid Edition 6 is a featured-packed hardware/software combination. The supplied breakout box is well-endowed with sockets – including component in/out - but provides no hardware acceleration. So, a PC ...

EQS A58XK9-ALF Radeon Xpress 200P motherboard

11 February 2005, 00:00

While I wasn't expecting this particular motherboard to offer a plethora of overclocking options, as it simply isn't aimed towards that market, what I would expect is at least the ...

Klipsch ProMedia GMX A-2.1

10 February 2005, 00:00

If I had to sum up the GMX A-2.1 in a single sentence, it would most likely be \'One of the best sets of stereo speakers I\'ve ever heard\'. For ...

ATI's Radeon X800 256MB and Radeon X850 PRO Preview

9 February 2005, 00:00

Both make a compelling case for themselves in terms of performance, features and manufacturer pricing. It's whether that pricing rings true and availability holds for long enough to grab one.

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Asetek's VapoChill XE-II