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NVIDIA's GeForce FX Ultra A Pre-Production Showcase By - Dave Atlavilla January 27, 2003 The wait for NVIDIA's new GeForce has been almost an eternity it seems. Since their initial hints at their next generation technology, back in June, there has been much speculation and rumor milling with regards to the specifics of the retail board...
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Seagate's Barracuda V and SATA 150 Controllers Welcome to Serial ATA - A Performance Analysis By Dave Altavilla January 14, 2003 The day has finally come, where we have Serial ATA Hard Drives becoming available on the market. Never has there been such anticipation regarding a new Hard Drive technology. In kind, never...
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The Abit IT7-Max2 v2.0 vs. The Iwill P4HT-S Two Fully-Loaded i845PE's Duke it Out... By, Marco Chiappetta January 24, 2003 Over the past couple of years we have seen quite a few core logic chipsets hit the market for the Pentium 4. We have tested motherboards based on the i850, i850e, a slew of variations of...
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An Interview With ATi's VP Of Software, Ben Bar-Haim Executive Management at ATi shares their vision By -Dave Altavilla January 21, 2003 Hello Ben Bar-Haim, and thanks for letting us steal a few moments of your time here. With the 3D Graphics market poised for yet another flurry of new hardware technology and competitive...
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The Asus A7N8X Deluxe Motherboard Review May the 'nForce2' be with you By, Jeff Bouton January 9, 2003 Back when NVIDIA first announced they were entering the chipset market, one couldn?t help but wonder if companies like Via, Intel and SiS were looking over their shoulders. At the time, NVIDIA shared control of the high end 3D...
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Abit NF7-S Motherboard Abit's Version of the NVIDIA nForce2 Chipset By, Tom Laverriere January 7, 2003 When NVIDIA announced the release of its second generation NFORCE chipset, dubbed the nForce2, there was much anticipation amongst the enthusiast market. After all, the NFORCE, although it wasn't completely polished, displayed...
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The Gigabyte Maya II R9700 Pro Vs. The Tyan Tachyon G9700 Pro Two Full Featured Radeon 9700 Pros Go Head to Head... By - Marco Chiappetta January 5, 2003 It has been about 5 months since the first round of "Built by ATi" RADEON 9700 Pro boards found their way onto store shelves. Immediately after the first...
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The Plextor PlexWriter 48/24/48U External Hi-Speed USB 2.0 CD-RW Drive Speedy Burning On The Go Jay Gibson December 29, 2002 Since their debut in 1990, Plextor has been striving to make a name for themselves as one of the top-producing optical storage device manufactures in the market. Their introductions of generations of award-winning...
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Intel D845PEBT2 i845PE Motherboard Review Intel Appeals to the Enthusiast By: Chris Angelini December 29, 2002 Intel certainly has an established reputation when it comes to motherboards. In most regards, its reputation is solid but hardware enthusiasts generally don't recognize Intel for supporting those whom derive utility from...
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The Asus P4G8X Deluxe Motherboard Intel E7205 - Granite Bay Infused Horsepower By, Dave Altavilla December 18, 2002 The first Granite Bay (Intel E7205 chipset) motherboard to grace the HotHardware Laboratories not long ago, was MSI's GNB Max. This board, supports Dual Channel DDR and AGP8X, as well as a host of other features, for the...
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The Chaintech 7NJS Zenith & Leadtek K7NCR18D-Pro Motherboards Nvidia's Nforce2 Chipset pushes out Dual Channel DDR By, Tom Laverriere December 16, 2002 When we think of motherboard chipsets, NVIDIA isn't always the first that comes to mind. In fact, NVIDIA earns its stripes from their line of graphics chipsets and for good...
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ASUS P4S8X SiS 648 Motherboard AGP 8X, Serial ATA and More! By: Chris Angelini December 16, 2002 Manufacturing chipsets for AMD's Athlon XP is one thing. SiS, VIA and NVIDIA all vie for market share by focusing on different areas, be it price, performance or features. Contending with Intel in the Pentium 4 chipset market is quite...
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The Asus CRW5224A - 52X CDRW Drive The fastest rated burn speed on the planet.. for now. By Dave Altavilla December 13, 2002 It seems as though CDRW Drive technology is evolving as fast, if not faster, than Hard Disk technology these days. It's amazing to think that CD Burning speeds are now on par with Read speeds. However,...
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The I845PE Motherboard Shootout Clash of the Titans! By Robert Maloney December 11, 2002 The vast majority of motherboards for the Pentium 4 generally come in two varieties, those using RDRAM and others using DDR SDRAM clocked at 266MHz. While the consensus was that RDRAM was the performance leader, pricing and availability...
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The Hercules Digifire 7.1 Sound Card 360o Of Sound Emersion By Jay Gibson December 11, 2002 Since our last look at a Hercules sound card, the Gamesound Fortissimo II, there have been a few advances in the technology that audiophiles will rejoice over. As Hercules' flagship product, in their audio line-up, the Digifire brand sports the...
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The MSI GNB Max-FISR Motherboard Intel's Granite Bay With Dual Channel DDR and AGP8X By, Dave Altavilla December 8, 2002 It seems as though the entire PC world has been waiting for a Dual Channel DDR chipset to come to the Pentium 4. Although RAMBUS and RDRAM technology certainly had its merits, as the highest available bandwidth memory...
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The Abit IT7-Max2 i845E Motherboard A New Addition to Abit's "Legacy-Free" Product Line... By, Marco Chiappetta December 5, 2002 About six months ago, Abit Computer Corporation caused quite a stir with the introduction of their MAX line of "Legacy Free" motherboards. For years, PS/2, serial and parallel ports were...
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Gainward's AGP8X NVIDIA Powered "Golden Samples" Giving Things a Boost with AGP 8X By - Jeff Bouton December 03, 2002 When it comes to maintaining longevity in the video card market, nVidia seems to have the process down to a science. Since the release of the GeForce4 series of GPUs last year, the product line has enjoyed a...
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ATI RADEON 9500 Pro Performance Analysis Seriously Powerful Mainstream Graphics By: Dave Altavilla November 27, 2002 As you probably are aware, High End / Enthusiast 3D Graphics cards, make up a relatively small slice of the overall TAM (Total Available Market) in the Graphics Card arena. What is perhaps the largest portion of...
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SiS Xabre 600: Impressions The GPU That Scales With Your Processor By: Chris Angelini November 26, 2002 There isn't much room for error in the graphics market - just ask someone who worked at 3dfx. The current landscape is fairly barren for gaming enthusiasts, save the recent success ATI is enjoying and NVIDIA's GeForce FX announcement,...
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Shuttle's SB51G XPC Mini Barebones The i845GE Based Mini-PC That Feels Full Sized By Dave Altavilla 11/20/2002 Alright, it's quiz time (and you thought you were getting off easy!). What is perhaps the prominent technological advancement in Personal Computing, beyond high clock speeds with more processing power? Come on now... use...
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ATI RADEON 9700 and 9500 Family Preview Meet The Whole Family! By: Chris Angelini October 24th, 2002 ATI has been hammering away at NVIDIA?s firm grasp on the hearts and minds of gamers, multimedia enthusiasts, corporate users and laptop owners. Up until now, they have done so with individual product announcements, like the RADEON...
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