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The Visiontek GeForce3 Powered by NVIDIA and made in the USA By Dave Altavilla 5/24/2001 "Board Stuffing", that's what the industry affectionately calls what the folks at Visiontek do as their core business unit. Otherwise known as "Contract Manufacturing", in a nut shell, Visiontek will take a customer's "Bill...
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The VisionTek XTasy Everything 5564 Personal Cinema A Cheap Date With Multi-Media By - Dave Altavilla November 19, 2001 Convergence, that's what the multi-media scene is all about. In addition to conjuring up printed documents, spreadsheets, charts and graphs, the modern personal computer, for the average household, has become...
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Needless to say, there sure has been a lot of hype and fan-fare on the net these days with respect to NVidia's next generation technology in 3D Graphics, The GeForce256 chip. High hopes have been built up on new levels of performance with this new technology. In addition new features are being touted as ground breaking...
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The Leadtek Winfast GeForce256 DDR Double Your Data Rate - Double Your Fun Semiconductor Technology is fascinating. An engineer will come up with a new technology that allows for a significant increase in performance over existing technology, as with the NVidia GeForce. As the new platform matures, the speed and throughput of given...
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The GeForce2 GTS Has Arrived! And A Look At Leadtek's Winfast GeForce2 GTS 4/26/00 By Dave "Davo" Altavilla This week has been relentless. It is as if the WinHEC conference is the designated battle ground for the PC Graphics Industry and the war has been waged with a vengeance. Now if only we media types can keep...
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Home Grown Networking and Modems from ActionTec Electronics http://www.actiontec.com Not long ago, "Home Networking" was a segment of the PC and Peripheral Market that did not even exist. However along with the huge success of the Personal Computer and the Internet within the mainstream and "Family/SOHO" (Small...
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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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Enlight's Bare-Bones AMD / KT133 System Mid Sized Socket A Athlon Performance By Dave Altavilla - November 10, 2000 These days, many "build-it-yourselfers" and PC Systems Integrators are looking for pre-configured products that take some of the busy work out of putting together a system. Hence the "Bare-Bones"...
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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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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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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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Unlocking & Overclocking The AMD Slot A Thunderbird Straddling the fence between the old and the new July 4, 2000 - By Dave Altavilla In this weeks installment of "my PC is faster than yours", we have a new processor that has emerged in the High End space. AMD's long awaited Thunderbird (god I love that code name)...
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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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