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S3/Diamond Savage2000 In-Depth
11:42 AM EST - Email Us |
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Sharky
Extreme has posted an in-depth article/review
of S3/Diamond's Savage2000 chip. Ironically, they talk about the
Savage2000's poor depth-buffer (with quite a few screenshots) and
finally provide some benchmarks comparing it to the GeForce 256.
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Supermicro PIIISCD Slot-1 Mobo
12:14 AM EST - Email Us |
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iXBT
Hardware has posted a review
of Supermicro's PIIISCD i820 based Slot-1 motherboard. I guess we
can start to expect a flurry of i820 motherboard reviews in the upcoming
months. So far it seems as if the i820 boards are a waste of money
because of their poor performance (with SDRAM) and lack of overclocking
capabilities.
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VideoLogic DVD Decoder Card
12:11 AM EST - Email Us |
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I had to make two separate posts for these
VideoLogic reviews because the header would not fit in one :) In
any case, the guys over at Tech-Junkie
have also notified us that they've posted a review
of VideLogic's DVD Player (Decoder card) which is based on the same
Sigma Designs chip that is found in the Hollywood Plus Decoder card.
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VideoLogic DigiTheatre Decoder 12:08
AM EST - Email Us |
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Tech-Junkie
has posted a review
of VideoLogic's DigiTheatre Dolby Digital, Pro Logic and PCM decoder
box. Overall, it looks like an interesting and noteworthy device,
especially if you are anal about getting Dolby Digital coming out of
your system (for DVD's and such).
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Thursday - December
30th
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AMD Super Bypass Article 5:12
PM EST - Email Us |
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Toms
Hardware Guide has posted a very interesting article
on AMD's enhancement to the 750 chipset, they call it the "Super
Bypass." Here is a bit from the article to explain what it
does:
Basically super bypass removes some
unnecessary memory latencies between the main memory and CPU. How much
of the memory latency does super bypass remove? AMD-documents claim
that super bypass reduces the latency by no less than 25%! One of the
primary goals for any chipset designer is to develop a chipset that
can communicate to the different internal buses with the least amount
of latencies for each transaction.
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CL 3D Blaster Annihilator Pro Review 5:10 PM EST - Email Us |
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nV News
has posted their review
of Creative Labs 3D Blaster Annihilator Pro GeForce 256 32 MB DDR SGRAM
card. This is probably the easiest one to find, so head to see if
its worth the money.
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MSI MS-6163Pro Slot-1 Mobo Review 5:06 PM EST - Email Us |
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Extreme
Hardware has posted a review
of MSI's MS-6163Pro Slot-1 i440BX based motherboard. This is one
of the best BX boards you can get and even has chipset overclocking
capabilities! However, when I installed one of these for a friend,
I noticed a small problem. Windows would not install with an
Internal IDE Zip drive connected to the system, it would just hang at
the initial screen for the longest time. If you disconnect the
drive, it installs fine and once Windows is installed, everything works
perfectly. This happened with the same system with two different
6163Pro's, but it may have been a conflict with another device in the
system.
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D-Link DHN-910 Phonline Network Kit 5:04
PM EST - Email Us |
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Lost
Circuits has posted their review
of D-Link's DHN-910 home phoneline networking kit. If you want a
capable, easy to setup network in your home, check out this kit.
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EPoX EP-USB66 Review 4:59 PM EST - Email Us |
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While I was over at 3D
Alpha, I noticed that they've also posted a review
of EPoX's EP-USB66 card. This PCI card has 4 USB ports on it as
well as 2 UltraDMA 66 connectors. It doesn't specify which chip it
uses for UDMA/66 but it seems to perform well and is the perfect
addition to your computer if you need to add more devices.
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Seagate Cheetah & Barracuda Reviews 4:56 PM EST - Email Us |
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3D Alpha
has posted reviews
of Seagate's Cheetah 18LP and Barracuda 18LP Ultra2 SCSI drives.
You want fast performing, reliable drives for your server? Check
out these two very reputable drives.
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GoldenFinger Athlon Overclocking Device 4:48 PM EST - Email Us |
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Overclockin.com
has posted a review
of Trinity Micro's GoldenFinger Athlon Overclocking device. All
you have to do is plug it into the the top of the CPU's PCB (connectors
are already on the PCB) and you're off. You can change internal
clock multipliers, voltages and cache settings to get a lowly Athlon 500
up to speeds greater than 700MHz.
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Cordless Mouse Comparison
4:46 PM EST - Email Us |
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Dan's Data
has posted a comparison
between Logitech's Cordless Wheelmouse and A-Four Tech's Cable-Free 4D
Mouse. If you want to play FPS games on your big screen TV, then a
cordless mouse/keyboard combo and TV-Out is what you need.
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AOpen 10X DVD-ROM Drive Review
4:43 PM EST - Email Us |
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AGNHardware
has posted a review
of AOpen's 1040 Pro 10X Slot-loaded DVD-ROM drive. Overall rating:
8/10, not too bad at all.
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Wednesday
- December 29th
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Interesting Article on Transmeta
11:20 PM EST - Email Us |
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CTNews
has posted an interesting article
on the upcoming Transmeta chips, the first to be Crusoe (in Jan
2000). Most of this article is pure speculation on the very few
facts available, Transmeta is just being so secretive about everything,
but here is an interesting bit from the article:
Well, what exactly is this Transmeta
chip? The Transmeta team has been attempting to emulate an Intel chip
in a way that doesn't infringe on Intel's current patents. What does
this mean? No licensing fees to Intel, and in turn Transmeta will be
able to sell it's chips at a lower cost. This will then once again
make the Transmeta chip more attractive to "computer
appliance" (TV Internet Box, etc) manufacturers. The Transmeta
chip will also be apparently 1/4 the size of an Intel chip.
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Creative 3D Blaster Annihilator Pro
11:12 PM EST - Email Us |
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CGO has
posted a review
of Creative Labs 3D Blaster Annihilator Pro GeForce 256 32MB DDR SGRAM
card, when are those 64MB cards going to be released?!? As if the
performance isn't good enough already :)
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Guillemot FF Racing Wheel Review
11:12 PM EST - Email Us |
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Maximum3D
has posted a review
of Guillemot's Force Feedback Racing Wheel/Pedals package. They
seemed to like this set very much.
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Wednesday
- December 29th
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Interesting Article on Transmeta
11:20 PM EST - Email Us |
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CTNews
has posted an interesting article
on the upcoming Transmeta chips, the first to be Crusoe (in Jan
2000). Most of this article is pure speculation on the very few
facts available, Transmeta is just being so secretive about everything,
but here is an interesting bit from the article:
Well, what exactly is this Transmeta
chip? The Transmeta team has been attempting to emulate an Intel chip
in a way that doesn't infringe on Intel's current patents. What does
this mean? No licensing fees to Intel, and in turn Transmeta will be
able to sell it's chips at a lower cost. This will then once again
make the Transmeta chip more attractive to "computer
appliance" (TV Internet Box, etc) manufacturers. The Transmeta
chip will also be apparently 1/4 the size of an Intel chip.
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Creative 3D Blaster Annihilator Pro
11:12 PM EST - Email Us |
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CGO has
posted a review
of Creative Labs 3D Blaster Annihilator Pro GeForce 256 32MB DDR SGRAM
card, when are those 64MB cards going to be released?!? As if the
performance isn't good enough already :)
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Guillemot FF Racing Wheel Review
11:12 PM EST - Email Us |
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Maximum3D
has posted a review
of Guillemot's Force Feedback Racing Wheel/Pedals package. They
seemed to like this set very much.
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Altec Lansing ADA-880R Speakers
11:07 PM EST - Email Us |
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AGNHardware
has posted a video
review of Altec Lansings new ADA-880R 4.1 piece speaker set which
is supposed to have Dolby Digital support. I have no idea whether
that means a decoder built-in, or it can simply output a Dolby Digital
source.
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Kryotech SuperG Athlon 1GHz Review
11:05 PM EST - Email Us |
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Anand
Tech has posted a review
of Kryotech's SugerG Athlon 1GHz barebones system. Check out this
tidbit:
Unfortunately, the low cache speed of
the SuperG in comparison to the newly released Pentium III 800 makes
the 800 an overall better value for some applications that are very L2
cache dependent, especially applications that contain Pentium III
specific SSE optimizations, a rapidly growing population.
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Weekly CPU Prices Updated
11:03 PM EST - Email Us |
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Sharky
Extreme has posted an updated
CPU price list (the last one for 1999). Since the holiday
gift buying season has passed, there were quite a few significant price
drops, so head over to find the cheapest CPU prices on the net.
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ELSA ERAZOR X GeForce Review
10:59 PM EST - Email Us |
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FPS3D
has posted a review
of ELSA' ERAZOR X GeForce 256 32MB board. This is one of the
different GeForce cards on the market with a non-reference design and a
few small extra features thrown in.
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Best Data Cabo MP3 Player Review
10:57 PM EST - Email Us |
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got apex?
has posted a great review
of Best Data's Cabo 64 MB portable MP3 player. I can personally
verify every good thing that was said in this review because it truly is
a great player, expect to see our review soon.
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Guillemot 3D Prophet DDR-DVI
10:54 PM EST - Email Us |
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Keeping with the Guillemot family of
products, GamePC has posted a review
of Guillemot's 3D Prophet DDR-DVI GeForce card. I don't know how
much more power you could want in a 3D card!
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Guillemot Fortissimo Sound Card
10:51 PM EST - Email Us |
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Speedy3D
has posted their review
of Guillemot's Maxi Sound Fortissimo PCI sound card. Instead of evangelizing
some more, I'll just let you head over and check out the review for
yourself :)
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HPT366 UltraDMA/66 Controller Drivers
10:42 PM EST - Email Us |
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High
Point Technologies has released new drivers for its HPT366
controller which can be found on motherboards like the Abit BE6, BP6,
BE6-II and Soyo's SY-6BA+IV. Grab them below:
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Cyrix Company Brief
10:39 PM EST - Email Us |
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Are you wondering what even happened to
chip-maker, Cyrix? Well head over to 3DWars
and read their latest article,
which explains a bit about what happened and what's happening with them
now.
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VideoLogic Sirrocco Spirits 2pc Speakers
10:36 PM EST - Email Us |
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AGNHardware
has posted a review
of VideoLogic's Sirocco Spirits 2-piece speaker set. The cones on
these babies are quite large, which is why there is no need for a
subwoofer. They may be good if you are lacking space for a
subwoofer.
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Diamond Viper II Savage2000 Review
10:34 PM EST - Email Us |
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Gamers
Depot has posted a review
of Diamond/S3's Viper II card which is based on S3's new Savage2000
chip. Head over and see if it's any good.
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Aureal Vortex2 SQ2500 Review
10:32 PM EST - Email Us |
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Extreme
Hardware has posted a review
of Aureal's Vortex2 SQ2500 PCI sound card. Considered the best
Vortex2 out there because of its modified Vortex2 chipset (better S/N
ratio), S/PDIF output, 4 speaker out and excellent software bundle.
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Tuesday -
December 28th
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Guillemot Maxi Sound Fortissimo
8:51
PM EST - Email Us |
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Beyond3D
has posted a review
of Guillemot's Maxi Sound Fortissimo sound card which is based on
Yamaha's extremely capable YMF-744 PCI chip and the price is great!
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Sonix S-2000 Flat Speakers Review
8:49
PM EST - Email Us |
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Glide
Underground has posted a review
of Sonix S-2000 3-piece flat panel speaker system. Of course the
subwoofer isn't flat, that would just be too weird!
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Pine D'Music MP3 Player Review
8:46
PM EST - Email Us |
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Damage
Gaming has posted their review
of Pine's D'Music SM-320V Digital MP3 player. A very good player
indeed, but the file transfer rates are very slow compared to other
players like the Best Data Cabo that I'm currently reviewing.
Anyway, check out our review of the Pine player by clicking here.
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Boston Acoustics Media Theatre
8:37
PM EST - Email Us |
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Fast-MHz
has posted a review
of Boston Acoustics excellent Media Theatre 3-piece speaker set.
These things sound absolutely awesome but are a tad pricey, you can also
check out our review here.
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Ratpadz vs. Everglide Comparison
8:32
PM EST - Email Us |
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got apex?
has posted a comparison
between the ever popular Everglide Large Attack Mouse pad and the
newcomer, the HardOCP Ratpadz mouse pad. Which one do you think
won?
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ELSA 3D Revelator Glasses Review
8:28
PM EST - Email Us |
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Maximum3D
has posted a review
of ELSA's 3D Revelator stereoscopic glasses. If you're interested
in getting that real 3D feeling, head over and check out these
glasses. They work quite well, by the way, you can check out our
review of these glasses here.
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MGATweak v1.20 Build 018 Released
8:24 PM EST - Email Us |
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MURC
has posted a new version of MGATweak. This utility works with all
Matrox cards dating back to the Millennium card and allows you to tweak
certain settings and increase clock speeds. Grab it below:
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Monday - December
27th
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Pentium III 500/550E FC-PGA Review
11:31
PM EST - Email Us |
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Sharky
Extreme has posted a review
of Intel's Pentium III (Coppermine) 500E and 550E FC-PGA CPU's.
These new chips overclock wonderfully due to their 0.18 micron process
and their low clock multipliers. They were able to get the 500 up
to 733 without any problems.
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VideoLogic Sirocco Crossfire Review 11:27
PM EST - Email Us |
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3DHardware
has posted a review
of VideoLogic's Sirocco Crossfire 4.1 piece speaker set. I love
the way this set looks, its very attractive and expensive looking, but
more importantly, you should head over and check out their ability to
pump out good sound.
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Abit BF6 Slot-1 Mobo Review 11:25
PM EST - Email Us |
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Anand
Tech has posted their review
of Abit's BF6 Slot-1 i440BX based motherboard. With 6 PCI slots
and a plethora of overclocking capabilities, you should have a lot of
fun with this board. Too bad it didn't have the HPT366 UDMA/66
controller like the BE6-II has.
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Just Cooler - Cooler Reviews 11:23
PM EST - Email Us |
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Dan's Data
has posted a review of
Just Cooler's notebook, monitor and printer cooling devices. At
least they look kind of stylish :-\
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Midiland S4/7100 5.1 Speaker Set 11:21
PM EST - Email Us |
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GamePC
has posted a review
of Midiland's new S4/7100 5.1 piece speaker set. This set is a lot
more affordable then Midiland's older 2-piece high-end models, but
apparently, the subwoofer is not as good as it should be.
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Matrox G400 MAX Review 11:18
PM EST - Email Us |
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Extreme
Hardware has posted their review
of Matrox's Millennium G400 MAX card. By now, the drivers would
have surely been refined, head over and see if this card is still worth
the buy.
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BUSLink USB Hard Drive Review 11:23
AM EST - Email Us |
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Cool
Computing has posted a review
of the brightly colored BUSLink USB Hard Drive. This is basically
a hard drive stuck in a box with a USB cable attached to it. Speed
is around the same as the Iomega Zip USB, so as you can imagine, it
provides a lot more carry around storage than a Zip Drive.
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Guillemot 3D Prophet DVI-DDR Review 11:20
AM EST - Email Us |
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Chick's
Hardware has posted a review
of Guillemot's/Hercules' 3D Prophet DVI-DDR GeForce 256 card.
Quite a few benchmarks, if that's what you're interesting in.
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MS Sidewinder Dual Strike Review 11:17
AM EST - Email Us |
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Hardware-One
has posted a detailed review
of Microsoft's Sidewinder Dual Strike gamepad. This new gamepad is
supposed to be designed for First Person Shooters like UT and Quake 3,
I've been dying to know how well it works, and thanks to HW-1, I now
know :)
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Monsoon MM-700 Flat Panel Speakers 11:14
AM EST - Email Us |
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Anand
Tech has posted a review
of Monsoon's MM-700 flat panel speaker set. This set goes for
about $149 USD and provides very good sound, especially in the
treble/mid-range department.
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ATI Rage Fury MAXX Review 11:09
AM EST - Email Us |
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GamerDepot
has posted a review
of ATI's Rage Fury MAXX card. If you haven't heard about this
already, its a card which uses two Rage 128 Pro chips in parallel on one
card, and uses a SLI technique similar but superior to that of the
Voodoo2.
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3Com Gaming Modem Review 11:06
AM EST - Email Us |
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Tweak3D
has posted a review
of 3com's new 56K Internet Gaming Modem. This modem is supposed to
improve ping rates by a substantial amount, head over and see if 3com is
feeding us a bunch of bs or not.
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Lots of new GeForce Drivers 10:58
AM EST - Email Us |
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A whole slew of new GeForce drivers have
been released by various companies, grab the one that applies to you
below:
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Sunday - December
26th
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HPros: Soyo SY-6BA+IV Mobo Review 11:25
AM EST - Email Us |
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We've posted our review
of Soyo's i440BX based Slot-1 motherboard. If you're thinking
of upgrading your system, I think you should definitely consider this
board, I haven't found a better one yet! Awesome overclocking
capabilities, overclocked stability at 150MHz FSB speeds, and UltraDMA/66
support!
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D-Link 10Mbps Phoneline Network Kit 11:08
AM EST - Email Us |
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Glide
Underground has posted a review
of D-Link's DHN-910 10Mbps Phoneline networking kit. This kit
comes with everything you need to get your network up and running using
your home's phone lines. This is especially good because its a lot
easier to plug into the phone jack rather than run Ethernet cables
across the whole place. 10Mpbs is quite good for a phoneline networking
kit, usually they run a lot slower.
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NVIDIA GeForce DDR Review 11:05
AM EST - Email Us |
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Anand
Tech has posted a great review
of NVIDIA's GeForce 256 DDR version. Ton's of technical
information and tons of benchmarks, head over and check out it out.
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ActionTek USB Call Waiting Modem 11:03
AM EST - Email Us |
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Exxtreme3D
has posted a review
of ActionTek's USB Call-Waiting modem. You can actually take a
call for a max of 7 seconds without disturbing your connection to the
net.
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VideoLogic Sound Card/Speakers 10:57
AM EST - Email Us |
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Tech-Junkie
has posted a couple VideoLogic reviews today. This sound and
speaker set are both very high end and make a good combo, check them out
below:
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Creative Labs Annihilator Pro Review 10:51
AM EST - Email Us |
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Euro
Gamer has posted a review
of Creative Labs 3D Blaster Annihilator Pro 32MB DDR SGRAM GeForce 256
card. I can't wait to get one of these cards.
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ATI Rage Fury Pro Review 10:49
AM EST - Email Us |
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CGO has
posted a review
of ATI's Rage Fury Pro card. This card has a higher clocked
version of the Rage 128 chip, and video in/out features, all for $150.
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Saturday - December
25th
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Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays 11:20
AM EST - Email Us |
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Well its finally Christmas, and if you're
celebrating it, I wish you a Merry Christmas. If not, then have a
heck of a holiday! and try to stay off the computer for a while, as I'm
going to try to do the same. I don't know how long it will last
though :)
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