Reviews
The X-Micro Impact 4 Ultra Haven't I seen you somewhere before? By, Jeff Bouton January 25, 2001 Today we?ll be taking a look at yet another product from Taiwan based X-Micro. Not long ago I had the pleasure of taking the Hulk V GeForce2 MX card for a ride around the block and as you may have already heard, I liked it! In fact,...
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The 3dfx/STB Voodoo3 3000 Hey... Do you see that? What synergy we have here! These colors look great on us! Hot Hardware and Voodoo3. Black and Orange, an unlikely combination but oh sooo pretty! :-) We were one of the lucky few sites that got first dibs on a the first retail run...
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The 3dfx Voodoo3-3000 PCI Leading Edge Technology For The Trailing Edge User As we all know with any business, you go where the market is. The old adage, "if you build it, they will come" works only in the movies. Not long ago the PC platform standardized on the next generation PC Graphics Bus Interface,...
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The 3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 AGP Update! New Drivers, Benchmarks and Full Review Rating! By Dave "Davo" Altavilla 5/12/00 Welcome back folks! This is an update to our initial Voodoo5 PREview article on 4/24/00. We aren't going to spend a lot of time with flowery verbage here. You came here for one thing. You...
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The 3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 AGP An "In House" PREview and Test Of Alpha 2 Product By Dave "Davo" Altavilla 4/24/00 This product review needs no introduction. We have been waiting a long time for the next coming of Voodoo Graphics. In what seems like a deluge of market hype over next generation 3D Graphics...
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The 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI 3D Graphics for a legacy system adds leading edge performance By Dave "Davo" Altavilla 8/4/00 These days technology moves so fast that there is almost as much of an available market opportunity supporting older platforms, as there is producing for the "bleeding edge" market segment. PCI is...
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The 3dfx Voodoo 5 Incarnate Up close and personal with 3dfx's next generation product By Dave "Davo" Altavilla and Marco "BigWop" Chiappetta 4/4/00 We packed our gear... Digicam, Notebooks, Laptop, Breath Spray, Cheeze Wiz, Rolaids... all the stuff that a good journalist should come prepared with to any important...
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Sharp's Internet Viewcam - Size Matters... Whoever came up with the saying, "size doesn't matter" was living in a dream world. This is a family show here at Hot Hardware, so we won't get into the specifics of the saying's origin. :-) However, as with most things in life, size DOES matter especially when it comes to...
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Taming The Beast A Look At The Hercules Terminator Beast Super Charged! Hercules Computer Technology Inc. is one of the oldest manufacturers of...
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The SGI 1600SW Flat Panel LCD Finally, a Multi-Media and Gaming ready LCD By Dave Altavilla 8/3/01 Flat Panel technology is still far from perfect, at least in this Tech Journalist's eyes. Then again, so is CRT technology. I guess we're a bit spoiled here at HotHardware. However, let's face it, the display you look at on...
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The Siluro GF256 GTS 64MB DDR More highly "over-clockable" hardware from Abit By Dave "Davo" Altavilla 8/9/00 The GeForce 2 market is what one would call "saturated". There are more flavors and brands of nVidia product available than you can shake a stick at. A new entry into this over indulged...
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The Leadtek WinFast 3D S320 II 4/30/99 Leadtek was absolutely the first OEM to release a Graphics Accelerator based on the NVIDIA TNT2 chip. We received a full Retail Release 32MB SGRAM Supported Card. This is a highly anticipated product as we all know, so I won't bore you with a long monologue. Let's get right to it! As I stated,...
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The ATI Radeon Experience ATI's new 3D Graphics powerhouse may just be the new King of The Hill By Marco "BigWop" Chiappetta 7/17/00 A few months ago, ATI made a bold announcement that they wanted to dominate the high-end consumer 3D graphics card market. Although ATI is already the largest graphics board manufacturer in the...
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The ATI Interview - The Rage Fury MAXX! October 20, 1999 Subject: Hot Hardware Exclusive - Interview with ATI regarding Rage Fury MAXX Hi Folks, Thanks for taking time out of your busy days to chat with us. We'll keep this crisp and let you get back to creating the magic back in the design labs! We have heard some exciting things about your...
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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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One Hot Athlon Overclocking Card From Outside Loop Computers We'll let the pictures say it all... We dialed the Athlon straight up to 800MHz. with the Afterburner from Outside Loop. This particular CPU we had, held stable throughout our tests for hours on end at this frequency. Will you be able to hit this mark? ...
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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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On The Case! A look at 4 ATX cases... one of the most important parts of your system! When is the last time you thought about your system chassis? It was probably when you had to get into it to replace a card or processor. Perhaps it was when you made the jump to ATX from the AT form factor when you bought that cool new Pentium...
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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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The Intel Pentium III 933MHz. Filling the gap between 866MHz. and 1GHz. June 22, 2000 - By Dave Altavilla Technology marches on at a relentless, blindingly fast pace. The high end technology of today will quickly be the main stream "bread and butter" product of tomorrow. In the Semiconductor space, tomorrow often...
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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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