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  • Review: Shuttle XPC SB75G2 and XPC ST62K Zen

    3 April 2004, 00:00

    Shuttle, it seems, plans to dominate the lucrative SFF market by using a strategy of offering the consumer a cube based on every available chipset. Two newer cubes, reviewed today, ...

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  • Review: Intel Celeron 2.8GHz

    29 March 2004, 00:00

    The Celeron is positioned such that it will fit into a huge number of boards - literally every S478 going. It's cheap by Intel standards but, and here's the big ...

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  • Review: AOpen AK86-L K8T800 S754 Motherboard

    26 March 2004, 00:00

    If evaluated in context of its intended pricing structure the AOpen AK86-L deserves to be included on at least a shortlist of boards. It doesn't particularly excel in any one ...

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  • Review: Tagan TG480-U01

    23 March 2004, 00:00

    Support for upcoming ATX, ATX12V and BTX standards means you'll be able to use it in a wide range of systems for quite some time, the sensible fan placement seems ...

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  • Review: PowerColor Radeon 9800XT 256MB

    20 March 2004, 00:00

    PowerColor, then, has to position its 9800XT on the basis of price. It doesn't contain enough novel or value-adding features to warrant purchasing for anything other than low price, and ...

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  • Review: AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 CPU

    18 March 2004, 00:00

    Intel's Pentium 4 3.4GHz Extreme Edition put the onus back on to AMD's shoulders. We'd call the heavyweight fight pretty even now, although the balance may swing entirely in AMD's ...

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  • Review: MSI GeForce FX 5950 Ultra-VTD 256MB Card

    14 March 2004, 00:00

    The conclusion actually simplifies well. If you absolutely, positively want a GeForce FX 5950 Ultra 256MB card and don't mind shelling out, MSI's is as good as any we've seen. ...

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  • Review: nForce3 250 Chipset

    10 March 2004, 00:00

    With NVIDIA giving the 250-series chips a feature upgrade, a 'fixed' HyperTransport implementation, some new disk based ability with the changed ATA and SATA controller, 1000Mbit/sec Ethernet capability to let ...

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  • Review: VIA KT880 Chipset

    9 March 2004, 00:00

    nForce2 Ultra 400 has been around since July 2003, some seven months. Plain nForce2 has been around for over a year. While KT880 may boast better base features than nForce2 ...

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  • Review: AMD Athlon 64 Model 3000+

    5 March 2004, 00:00

    The Athlon 64 Model 3000+ was a much-needed CPU in AMD's performance lineup. All we now ask for is a 1.8GHz 512kb L2 cache version priced at around £140. That ...

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  • Review: AMD Athlon XP-M Barton 2500 Evaluation

    3 March 2004, 00:00

    The results speak for themselves. High performance doesn't necessarily have to be limited to the Athlon 64 or top-end Pentium 4 CPUs. What's more, it can be achieved with a ...

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  • Review: Voodoo PC Envy m:855 laptop

    1 March 2004, 00:00

    The Voodoo PC Envy m:855 has shown us an impressive array of power in laptop form. Impressive enough for us to re-think the real use of a cumbersome desktop system. ...

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  • Review: Chieftec BX

    29 February 2004, 00:00

    Chieftec cases have always been popular and there’s a reason why. They are superb cases. Some people maybe put off by the size of it, but it’s lovely to work ...

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  • Review: External Disk Roundup

    28 February 2004, 00:00

    There\'s something for everyone in the four disks on test, I\'m just more tempted to add other disk to an ATX chassis, rather than hang it externally. Like everything, you\'ll ...

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  • Review: Hercules ProphetView II 191 BLK

    27 February 2004, 00:00

    Ultimately, the DVI-I connection, dual inputs, its 2D/ClearType performance, fast motion performance, aesthetic and panel size make it the best display I've ever had the pleasure of using. I favour ...

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  • Review: Scan 3XS-OC

    26 February 2004, 00:00

    There's more than one method of building of high-performance system. Scan has shown us that. Going down the enthusiasts' route of overclocking the CPU and motherboard has paid dividends for ...

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  • Review: AOpen Aeolus GeForce FX5900XT 128MB

    24 February 2004, 00:00

    Our final thoughts are simple. NVIDIA's done a good job in ensuring that a midrange GPU has true top-end performance clout. AOpen hasn't seized the opportunity with both hands. The ...

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  • IDF Spring 04: Tweaking Session

    19 February 2004, 00:00

    One of the sessions at IDF was a “How To Tweak” seminar put on by Intel and some partners. Intel recognizes that the enthusiast market is educated and doesn’t fall ...

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  • IDF Spring 04: Day 3: Keynote

    19 February 2004, 00:00

    Memory latency accounts for half of the total execution time and a key in increasing performance is in reducing latency. One such tool that can be used is the implementation ...

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  • IDF Spring 04: Day 2: Grantsdale

    18 February 2004, 00:00

    Intel wants to use the Grantsdale platform to help to increase consumer usage models, the idea of the Grantsdale which can help with the increase of adoption and usage in ...

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  • IDF Spring 04: Day 2: Keynote

    18 February 2004, 00:00

    Intel demonstrated the BTX 12.9 and 6.9 solutions – Grantsdale and Alderwood – high performance in a small form factor; we believe that Intel has done this since they have ...

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  • IDF Spring 04: Tech Showcase: DDR2

    17 February 2004, 00:00

    We got some shots of Intel boards, DDR2, and managed to run some numbers on it too :)

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  • IDF Spring 04: Day 1: Keynote

    17 February 2004, 00:00

    From the Q and A with Barrett at the end he re-iterated that they have the differnet micro-architecture within the core. But the software support will mean it will run ...

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  • IDF Spring 04: Pre-Day 1: Chipsets, Digital Home and LCOS

    16 February 2004, 00:00

    In 2004 Grantsdale offers several feature sets which are targeted at the digital home. Following is just a sampling of the upcoming technologies. PCI – Express 16X. The next generation ...

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  • IDF Spring 04: R&D Briefing - Silicon Photonics

    16 February 2004, 00:00

    IDF does not offically start until Tommorow however Intel today decided to spend time with the press going over current RandD projects. The first is that of Silicon Photonics, the ...

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  • Review: Gainward GeForce FX 5700 Ultra Golden Sample Ultra/960 Dual-DVI 128MB

    15 February 2004, 00:00

    We're left with the nagging feeling that NVIDIA has orchestrated the premature death for the FX 5700 Ultra with its own 5900XT. Thus we think Gainward's diligent NV36 efforts may ...

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  • Review: PowerColor Radeon 9600XT Bravo 128MB

    12 February 2004, 00:00

    It's difficult to manufacture an intrinsically bad Radeon 9600XT. PowerColor has done just fine with its attempt. It's small, it's quiet, it overclocks like a champ, and it doesn't cost ...

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  • Review: Asetek WaterChill KT12-L20

    10 February 2004, 00:00

    Undoubtedly better than air cooling but not without its problems, the Asetek WaterChill KT12-L20 comes recommended if you have no fear of stiff pipes, or are willing to change them ...

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  • Review: EPoX eX5-300S Mini Me SFF System

    8 February 2004, 00:00

    There's enough here to make the eX5-300S Mini Me SFF system sell on pure merit. We can just see enthusiasts using the highly overclockable Northwood Pentium 4 200MHz CPUs and ...

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  • Review: ASUS K8V Deluxe and K8V Deluxe Wireless Edition

    5 February 2004, 00:00

    Our first look at Model 3200+ Athlon 64 on K8T800 was an encouraging one. K8V is a well featured, well presented, well laid out board. It performs well, K8T800 deserves ...

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  • ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 Opinion

    4 February 2004, 00:00

    So bar the clock change over the high-end MR9600 parts, has anything else really changed, bar the Low-K process switch? Not really, which explains the low key launch. Parts were ...

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  • M11 Interview - Chris Hook

    4 February 2004, 00:00

    DR: We have noticed the recent Mercury figures and they show that you seem to have picked up on Mobile shipments, can you confirm the numbers?

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  • Q1 2004 In Preview

    4 February 2004, 00:00

    Prescott shouldn\'t be the bogey that everyone thinks it might be, it should end up doing well and the 3.4EE is always there for the stupid(ly) rich or the reviewer ...

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