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Radeon 8500 vs. Ti500 - Overclocked GraphicsNov 7, 2001 - in Reviews
ATI and Nvidia are going to keep playing driver leapfrog, and everyone's going to "cheat." Just means more benchmark work for us, and a continual debate about who really is the graphics champ these days. This time we take a look at the 8500 versus the Ti500 on an Athlon rig, and check out some overclocked benchmarks.
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AMD Turns Up The Heat: Athlon XP 1900+Nov 5, 2001 - in Reviews
The new AMD flagship is the Athlon XP 1900+. Will it manage to widen its lead on arch-rival Intel?
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Athlon XP Meets P4: A Comparison Of All CPUsOct 31, 2001 - in Reviews
We've got a monster comparison of CPUs highlighting the struggle between Athlon XP and Pentium 4. New benchmarks crown the performance leader as well as the winner for best price/performance ratio.
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Radical Make-Over: Water Cooling From KoolanceOct 29, 2001 - in Reviews
The last barebones Koolance system we tested got some harsh criticism. We put to the test an entirely new water cooling system for overclocking AMD Athlons & Pentium IIIs.
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Optical Mice: The Fall/Winter CollectionOct 26, 2001 - in Reviews
Only 59 shopping days to Christmas so, it's safe to start thinking about treating yourself to a bag full of goodies. This week we take a look at the optical mouse, both from a gamers and general user perspective.
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The Storage Champions: ATA/100 IDE RAID Controllers From AMI, HighPoint And PromiseOct 23, 2001 - in Reviews
After looking at the RAID abilities of Windows 2000, it's time to compare hardware RAID controllers at more than $150 for IDE. Currently there are three popular manufacturers for these types of controllers: Ami/LSI Logic, HighPoint and Promise. All of them have similar features, but we take a look at the differences
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MPEG-4 With The New Flask 4.1: Almost DVD QualityOct 22, 2001 - in Reviews
Using the new Flask 4.1/DivX 4.01 codec, the THG lab produced videos in MPEG-4 format. We found it to provide more speed, comfort and features.
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ATi's Radeon 8500 Is Final Or Something Like That ...Oct 16, 2001 - in Reviews
A week after ATi's announcement that claimed Radeon 8500 is shipping, final Radeon 8500 cards were all over a sudden rushed to the online press. Unfortunately the current state of the drivers is not as we would have liked it. Some things work fine, some don't work at all and others are significantly slower than the competition. Have a look yourself ...
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Real Gentlemen: Budget IDE Hard DrivesOct 15, 2001 - in Reviews
This hard drive review deals with budget IDE drives running at 5,400 rpm. Maxtor, Seagate and Western Digital sent us their current models. Besides being silent, these drives offer huge capacity at attractive prices.
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Performance Matters: AMD Introduces AthlonXP ProcessorOct 9, 2001 - in Reviews
The wait is finally over. Today AMD is releasing its first desktop processor based on the 'Palomino' core under the name AthlonXP. The launch of AthlonXP is also marking AMD's step away from the usual clock frequency rating of processors to a new rating system suggesting 'relative performance'. I consider this the real big deal about today's launch. It requires a lot of discussion.
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The Best Thing That Could Happen To Intel's Pentium 4 - The SiS645 ChipsetOct 8, 2001 - in Reviews
Despite its history as a low-budget chipset maker, SiS had recently been able to prove its ability to provide high performance core logic with the introduction of the well-performing SiS735 Athlon chipset. Today SiS launches its first Pentium 4 chipset, dubbed 'SiS645', for DDR memory. SiS645 is not just a Pentium 4 DDR-chipset. It is also the first to support the new DDR333 memory, which provides 25% more bandwidth than DDR266 a.k.a. PC2100. The attractive SiS645 package is finally able to touch Intel's i850 ...
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A New Lease On Life - How To Make Your PC 5 Times FasterOct 5, 2001 - in Reviews
Lots of users own a sluggish PC system. The best way to pep up your system is to replace old components with new ones. With our help, you can bring your system up to snuff and increase the performance by up to 500 percent!
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Lo-Cost Duel: Duron 1100 vs. Celeron 1200Oct 3, 2001 - in Reviews
It doesn't get any cheaper than this: both manufacturers offer entry-level 1 GHz CPUs for less than $130. How fast are they in comparison to the high-end processors - which is a better choice, AMD or Intel?
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Pricey Foundations: 9 Boards For The Pentium 4Oct 2, 2001 - in Reviews
Socket 423 boards support CPUs up to 2.2 GHz. We tested nine boards with Intel 850 chipsets for RDRAM.
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NVIDIA Launches Titanium SeriesOct 1, 2001 - in Reviews
Another half year has passed since NVIDIA's last 3D chip launch in spring 2001. Following the old tradition, NVIDIA is now introducing a beefed up version of its spring release chip. The new GeForce3 Titanium 500 will from now on be NVIDIA's 3D chip flagship, while GeForce3 Titanium 200 is meant to provide GeForce3 performance at a more attractive price point. GeForce2 Titanium is meant to offer GeForce2 Ultra performance at a low price.
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Big Sound, Low Price: Creative AudigySep 27, 2001 - in Reviews
Creative Labs is bringing out a new range of sound cards based on a new DSP by E-Mu assisted by 24 bit converters. Linked with a new games library, the Advanced HD, the Audigy card is aimed at both game players and musicians who will benefit from the ASIO drivers. And as a bonus, Creative provides a FireWire port. Here is the low-down on a multimedia card that approaches professional standards.
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Western Digital WD1000BB - Taking Grand Prize!Sep 26, 2001 - in Reviews
Maxtor plans to ship 160 GB drives very soon, and yet it will still be difficult to outperform the recently released Western Digital WD1000. Read on for details of the performance of the fastest IDE drive out there!
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More Than A SoundBlasterSep 25, 2001 - in Reviews
Before our monster Audigy review, we take a look at other audio cards for gamers from Creative, Hercules, Aureal, Philips, and Turtle Beach.
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A Lost Chance? SiS 735 Motherboards For The AthlonSep 24, 2001 - in Reviews
Two motherboards with the SiS 735 chipset arrived at our lab, several months after their release. Although SiS lost the performance crown to VIA's updated KT266A, this chipset currently provides the best value. Read on to see what you can expect from these boards!
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Last Passing Maneuver: Tualatin 1266 With 512 kB Versus Athlon And P4Sep 19, 2001 - in Reviews
The Pentium III Tualatin with 0.13 micron process is now available with a double-wide L2 cache. The 512 kB helps the Tualatin reach higher speeds.
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Hot Spot: How Modern Processors Cope With Heat EmergenciesSep 17, 2001 - in Reviews
Heat sink reviews receive a lot of attention. People want to make sure that their microprocessors run cool and safe. However, certain conditions can lead to fan failure or even fallen off heat sinks. We checked out what happens to the CPU once this nightmare scenario occurs.
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No Trip Without The Driver: An Excursion Into The Software Behind Today's HardwareSep 14, 2001 - in Reviews
Did you ever wonder why other computers run faster than yours, although they use similar hardware? We take a look at how today's graphics, chipset and storage drivers affect performance. The conclusions are shocking - if you forget to install one of them, your GHz system could be rendered lame. But don't worry, we provide you with links to the latest driver versions.
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RAID Without Additional Hardware: Do It Yourself With Windows 2000Sep 6, 2001 - in Reviews
Although IDE RAID controllers provide a cost-effective way of creating high-performance RAID storage systems, you can even do away with this piece of hardware by using Windows 2000 support for software RAID. We took a detailed look at this option and put several different configurations to the test.
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Real Gentlemen: Performance IDE Hard DrivesSep 5, 2001 - in Reviews
The latest hard drive generation clearly reduces noise and temperature emissions - at the same performance level than current models. In times of extremely hot Athlon or Pentium 4 CPUs with noisy fans, this kind of progress seems to be very reasonable.
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Accelerating Athlon: VIA Releases KT266A ChipsetSep 2, 2001 - in Reviews
At 12:01 AM Taiwanese time and thus on Sunday noon East Coast time VIA launched the enhanced version of its Athlon DDR-chipset KT266. If you think that this news isn't really worth disturbing your Labor Day weekend, then you might be wrong. The 'A' stands for vastly improved performance.
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The Outer Limit: CD-Rs with 80, 90 and 99 MinutesAug 30, 2001 - in Reviews
74-minute CDs have been out for a while, but with a few tricks, 99 minutes can be burned on an audio CD. Tested: new burners, software and blank CDs.
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Hot Microprocessor NewsAug 29, 2001 - in Reviews
Intel just released its new 2 GHz Pentium 4 while AMD dropped its processor pricing by more than half. That's what happened Monday, but what is waiting for us tomorrow? Will Intel continue the GHz-race with its new 'Northwood' chip and how? Will AMD be able to tackle the huge clock speed gap between Pentium 4 and Athlon? What are the microprocessor makers cooking right now? A huge pile of sizzling news just fell into our lap and we can't wait to share them with you.
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Intel Beats AMD To 2 GHzAug 27, 2001 - in Reviews
Revenge is sweet. Today is marking an important day for the big chipmaker from Santa Clara. After losing the 1 GHz processor race last year, Intel is now ready to ship the first 2 GHz processor way ahead of its competition. We checked to see if there is more to it than just high clock speed.
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Serious Burn: Copying CDs In Just 3 MinutesAug 23, 2001 - in Reviews
In this test, four fast CD burners from 24x to 12x show just how quickly CDs can be duplicated. We also look at burning software in more detail, including features for copy-protected media.
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AMD's Duron Reaches The Giga Hertz BarrierAug 21, 2001 - in Reviews
Yesterday AMD launched today's launch of their value processor Duron at 1 GHz . To create at least a little excitement AMD didn't just release a faster version of the well-known Duron CPU, but equipped the new Giga Hertz version with a more advanced core known under the code name 'Morgan'. We are having a look to find out if this had any significant impact on Duron's performance.
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