Gadgets And Tech Peripherals Reviews And News
Keyboards, mice, Bluetooth speakers, smart displays and speakers, DIY maker products like Raspberry Pi - there are all these other gadgets and gizmos in the tech world and we'll cover them here.
Getting PC1066 Level Performance From PC800 RDRAM & PC800 Motherboards A modification project on the Abit TH7II-RAID By, Dave Altavilla April 5, 2002 It's been a long time coming but finally, the Pentium 4 platform has gone mainstream enough that motherboard manufacturers, like Abit, are building...
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Atek Super Mini Optical Mouse Good Things Come in Small Packages... By Marco "BigWop" Chiappetta March 27, 2001 I know what you're all thinking, "This is HotHardware.Com! Why are you posting a portable mouse review?!?"...Well, I'll tell you, let me set the stage...A few weeks ago, while lounging on my couch, browsing with my...
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The CDI InWin Alaska 3 "Cool Case" Practical? Maybe Not...Worth it? You bet! By, Marco Chiappetta September 20, 2001 It's upgrade time. Picture yourself browsing all of the best on-line retailers looking for great deals on all of those high-end parts you've been dying for. Only the best of the best will...
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The Linksys PS2KVMSK - KVM Switch Control 2 PCs With One Keyboard and One Mouse By Jeff Bouton - October 23, 2000 Normally, you find us reviewing the latest and greatest motherboards, video cards and hard drives. However, today we?ll look at a product that has made quite an impression on this tester, the Linksys PS2KVMSK ...
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The Massworks ID-75 USB Touchscreen Limitless Possibilities? By, Marco Chiappetta September 5, 2001 Recently I was presented with an opportunity to test a truly unique product from a little known company based in Albuquerque, New Mexico...Massworks. Massworks has developed a compact USB Touchscreen controller for Windows...
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PC Expo 2001 New York Coverage! Big Technology In The Big Apple By, Dave Altavilla June 29, 2001 We here at HotHardware certainly don't get a chance to go to enough of the industry's major trade shows. That's why when one is actually held in our back yard, like this year's PC Expo, we show up there with bells on. Well, OK...
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The Romtec Trios RX-910T6 IDE Hard Drive Selector Something a Little Different By Jeff Bouton 7/05/2001 Working as a hardware reviewer can be both a rewarding and exciting experience. Where else can a person get regular exposure to the latest innovations in the technology world? From new motherboards boasting the latest chipsets...
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Hot Hardware Presents The... Well this is it, you silly freaks! The main event! Tonight we'll show you the two most smokin' overclock setups in the Hot Hardware Open Pit! Before we announce our winners I would like to comment a little on some of the Hot Hardware clientele. YOU PEOPLE NEED HELP!!!!! :-) You have way too...
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January 11 Getting 515 From Your Little Machine First, allow me to give you some backgrond on my motives with respect to overclocking. I am a speed freak. I intend to push my hardware as far as it will go without damage to the components. Some people are value freaks. They want the most horsepower...
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The Kingmax TinyBGA PC133 SDRAM DIMM A New Form Factor In PC Memory Technology June 14, 2000 By Dave "Davo" Altavilla We've said this before and the same rings true time and time again, the PC Hardware Industry always has a place for something new and innovative. Too often products are brought to market with a "me...
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MadOnion Boot Camp Or a "San Francisco Boondoggle", which ever you prefer... By Dave Altavilla - October 6, 2000 Hi there folks! We are just now getting around to posting the incriminating photos...... err I mean coverage of our trip to San Francisco last weekend. We met with the MadOnion folks and learned a little...
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One Hot Athlon Overclocking Card From Outside Loop Computers As the old saying goes, "where there is a will, there is a way". When AMD's Athlon first hit the market many were disappointed with the lack of user configuration options for the first round of Athlon Motherboards. Still today, there aren't many...
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3/00 The Thermaltake Golden Orb Bright and Shiny Heavy-Metal Cooling High Performance CPU Cooling and Heat Sinks themselves, have literally become an art form over the past few years. From wild water cooled rigs to simplistic brute force multi high speed fan set-ups, many inventions have been mothered by the overclocking community's...
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Cooling The Cache ! Decapsulating the P2 and delivering a cool breeze over your cache! I got a little bored Saturday night and decided to "pull a Kyle" on my Pentium 2-333. This was a serious leap of faith in that this processor already does 500+ Mhz. very stable on most BX motherboards. I really didn't have a lot of...
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How do you properly cool a Pentium III ? The TennMax P3 TF Cooler These days most custom PC enthusiasts, tend to use some sort of third party Heat Sink and Fan combination for proper cooling of their CPU. Stock Heat Sink / Fans from Intel and other CPU vendors are usually only adequate for operation of the CPU within normal specs. Obviously,...
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PC133 CAS2 SDRAM Module Competition Corsair Vrs. Mushkin By Dave Altavilla - September 19, 2000 Like building a house on a solid foundation, there is just no substitute for good memory, when it comes to performance computing. Virtually all of the various components in your PC access main system memory at some point or another. ...
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The gating item. Something that renders everything else dependent upon its outcome or performance. The type of SDRAM (Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory) you have installed in your PC weighs heavily on the overall stability of your system and the various other components that rely on it. These include just about every other...
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The Enermax EG451P-VE ATX 2.03 Power Supply Big Clean Power For Your High End System By Dave Altavilla - November 30, 2000 Let's do a little "case study" here. All puns intended literally, let's take a look at all the different components inside your computer case. OK, so we have the Processor, Motherboard,...
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The FRONTX Multimedia Ports It makes life easier... By, Jeff Bouton May 1, 2001 Every once in a while a product arrives at the Hot Hardware labs that really gets our attention. It doesn't necessarily need to be the fastest, largest, or most powerful item, but rather innovative in its design. Needless to say, the FrontX Multimedia...
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How much ya bench? - The P!!! 500E Coppermine @ 750MHz. We recently got in a new sweet little Pentium!!! 500E Coppermine from our good buds at OutsideLoop Computers. By the way, in case you haven't heard, they rock! We have heard many VERY encouraging stories on the net these days about the ability of the 500E and 550E...
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Hot Hardware's How Much Ya Bench? - Version 2.0 Pentium !!! Coppermine 800 On The i820 Platform April 17, 2000 - By Dave Altavilla Over the past few months Intel has been releasing a myriad of processors covering all ends of the performance spectrum. Never before has the end user had so many options to choose from with respect...
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The CDI Alaska Cool-Case Divine Intervention or Invention ? There are three main problems that you'll need to solve with respect to your next computer case selection, accessibility, looks, and cooling/ventilation. The folks at Computers Divine told us they have the solution. They claim the "Alaska Cool-Case"...
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