Reviews
Setting Standards In 3D Graphics THE Technology Summit Report! - July 30, 1999 Roadmaps and Miles Stones - The history and future of 3dfx Once upon a time, this little spin off / start-up out of Silicon Graphics, invented a great new 3D only graphics chip called Voodoo. -Yesterday Without getting into too much fairy tale...
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Setting Standards In 3D Graphics THE Technology Summit Report! - July 30, 1999 Hooray For Hollywood! No this isn't a Broadway show, this is the real deal. Or perhaps, depending on your perspective, the digitally animated artificial deal! :-) Regardless, 3dfx will bring to your PC these new features which will take your experience...
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Setting Standards In 3D Graphics THE Technology Summit Report! - July 30, 1999 Soft Shadows and Reflections Let's face it, the shadows that are drawn in today's games via today's hardware, are a little lame. Nowhere in nature does any object cast a shadow that is perfectly symmetrical, sharp or even squared off and boxy. Today's...
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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 All New Abit TH7II-Raid & Skt. 478 P4 CPU! i850 Socket 478 Motherboard and a glimpse of Intel's new CPU By, Dave Altavilla August 6, 2001 This is just a bit of "show and tell", so to speak, on an all new motherboard from Abit and the new Socket 478 Pentium 4 CPU! The TH7II-RAID is Abit's follow on product to...
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Soyo's SY-6VCA Slot 1 Motherboard Is there a new Sheriff in town? By, Marco ?BigWop? Chiappetta June 16, 2000 Soyo has been making quite a name for themselves as of late. When Intel?s very popular BX chipset was prevalent, Soyo arguably produced a few of the very best boards available. Time goes by and new products...
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Transcend's AVE3 Socket 370 Motherboard A newcomer makes a splash By, Marco ?BigWop? Chiappetta June 7, 2000 There are a lot of heavy hitters in the motherboard market right now. Companies like Asus, Soyo, Tyan and Abit, among others, are always thought of first when...
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Transcends TS-ASL3 - i815E Motherboard Straight Shooting Socket 370 Performance By Dave "Davo" Altavilla 12/5/00 It seems like the folks at Transcend only came into the PC Motherboard scene within the last year or so. However, they have been in business making Memory Modules and Motherboards since 1988. Perhaps the reason...
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Tyan's S1854 - Trinity 400 VIA Apollo Pro133A with AGP4X This is our first review ever of a product from Tyan here at Hot Hardware. There is no specific reason for that other than we just haven't hooked up with them before. Tyan is a US based Motherboard Manufacturer known for producing very high quality...
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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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Abit's VP6 VIA Apollo Pro 133A Dual-CPU Motherboard Worth the trouble? By Marco "BigWop" Chiappetta February 22, 2001 Being afflicted with an addiction to PC hardware, I'm always on the lookout for my next major computer upgrade. Recently, Intel's Pentium 4 arrived on the scene but...
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Preparing For a Dual-Processor PC Know what you're getting into... By, Marco ?BigWop? Chiappetta 1 / 11 / 2001 Hello Folks. Today we?re doing something a little different here on H.H. We normally focus on straightforward hardware reviews but while working on my most recent project?a review of the Abit VP6?I hit a little...
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The Leadtek WinFast 5300MA All-in-one features at a stripped down price! Leadtek has been known for many years as a manufacturer of High End Graphics Cards. They have until now, stayed within the Video/Grpahics space. Like all healthy well established companies, occasionally it is time to diversify. Enter the Leadtek WinFast...
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The D-Link DFE-910 Network In A Box Award Winning Performance By Jeff Bouton 6/12/2001 In the past, networking home computers together required the installation of a few network cards and a simple hub. Usually, installing the cheapest 10Mbps network cards would be more than sufficient for file transfers and possibly sharing a modem with...
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D-Link DHN-920 - 10Mb Phone Line USB Network In A Box A Home Network For Dummies By Dave Altavilla - September 11, 2000 The proverbial "free lunch", this is what Home Networking really delivers to most people and what draws consumers down the isles of the retail store...
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The D-Link DWL-920 Wireless Network Nice and Easy... By, Jeff Bouton March 14, 2001 Tonight we?ll be taking a look at the latest home networking product from D-Link Systems, Inc. D-Link is one of the world's leading manufacturers of Networking, Connectivity, and Data Communications products. Although they...
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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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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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Intel's Pentium 4 1.8GHz. Processor Yielding additional gains in performance By, Dave Altavilla July 2, 2001 You may have heard this before but as the old saying goes, "image is everything". When it comes to microprocessors, MHz./GHz. speeds are typically what draw a consumer to a product. At this stage of the...
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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 Leadtek Winfast GeForce 2 MX Worth every cent...and then some... By Marco "BigWop" Chiappetta 10/10/00 nVidia has been on a roll as of late. They are seemingly starting to dominate the performance gamer market with their powerful GeForce 2 GTS. As if that wasn?t good enough, they will soon be releasing an ?Ultra?...
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The Leadtek WinFast GeForce3 TD A Reference Design With Attitude... By, Marco "BigWop" Chiappetta June 27, 2001 Now that the GeForce 3 has been widely available for a few weeks, we find ourselves in the same situation we we've been in numerous times before, since the days of the Voodoo2. Manufacturers follow a standard...
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