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3D Benchmarking - Understanding Frame Rate ScoresJul 4, 2000 - in Reviews
Understanding 3D-cards is not quite as simple as many people are suggesting. The first requirement for sensible 3D-card evaluation is a good understanding of 3D-benchmarks. This article about 3D-benchmarking is supposed to point out the bottlenecks of current 3D gaming solutions.
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Full Review of NVIDIA's GeForce2 MXJun 29, 2000 - in Reviews
NVIDIA's on a rampage to take over every segment of the consumer market with their latest chipset release called the GeForce2 MX. Learn why the competition shouldn't take this new low-cost assassin lightly.
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Blue Wonder? The Guillemot/Hercules 3D Prophet II GTSJun 28, 2000 - in Reviews
In this test we compare the 32 MB version of this GeForce2 GTS graphics card with the competitors Aopen PA256 Pro, Asus AGP V7700 Pure, Elsa Gladiac and Leadtek Winfast GeForce2, that are all based on nVidia's newest offspring.
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Overclocking AMD's Thunderbird and Duron ProcessorJun 23, 2000 - in Reviews
So you think that fiddling a bit with the bus clock of Duron or Thunderbird deserves the name overclocking? Find out how easy it is to alter the clock multiplier of those processors! Stand in awe to see Duron run at 950 MHz and Thunderbird go up to 1100 MHz!
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The Celeron Killer: AMD's New Duron ProcessorJun 19, 2000 - in Reviews
Finally AMD has launched its low/mid range processor by the name of Duron. Its Athlon inheritance makes it very strong. In fact Duron wipes the floor with Intel's Celeron processor and gets even close to Athlon and Pentium III.
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Comprehensive VIA motherboard roundup June 2000Jun 14, 2000 - in Reviews
Lining up two new boards from Asus and Epox makes a total of 27 motherboards. They all make use of the VIA Apollo Pro 133A (694X), coming either with Slot-1 or Socket 370. We will now crown the best ones for this summer.
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Review of Final i815/Solano ChipsetJun 11, 2000 - in Reviews
We were able to collect i815-motherboards with final silicon at Computex2000 and put them right to the test here in Taipei. Find out if Solano is indeed the new killer-chipset. Will it be able to beat BX133?
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AMD's Thunderbird finally fully fledgedJun 5, 2000 - in Reviews
'Smaller and Faster' is the motto of AMD's new Athlon processor with 'Thunderbird' core. AMD's new processor is coming with 256 kB on-die and full-speed second level cache, which boosts particularly the integer performance of the new Athlon. We've put this CPU through our test suite and can tell you that we were rather pleased with the results.
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6 IDE Hard Disc Drives between 15 and 30 GBytesJun 2, 2000 - in Reviews
Tom's Hardware Guide presents its first hard disc review ever, testing six drives from Fujitsu, Quantum, Seagate and Western Digital.
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12 Socket 370 Motherboards using VIA's Apollo Pro 133AMay 25, 2000 - in Reviews
According to Intel's plans, Socket 370 is gradually replacing Slot-1. This time we compared 12 new motherboards for Socket 370 Processors.
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SOLANO Preview - Once Intel Makes Sense ...May 22, 2000 - in Reviews
Once Intel makes sense, it produces good products that the market wants instead of patronizing consumers and forcing them to use RDRAM. We tested a motherboard with Intel's upcoming 815 chipset and found out that Intel is still able to kick some real butt once it remembers that customers want to be taken seriously.
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Asus AGP-V7700 Pure ReviewMay 19, 2000 - in Reviews
With the release of the GeForce2 GTS graphics chipset, vendors are rushing to put their flavors of the board onto store shelves. Asus is one such company and will be appearing on shelves sometime soon. Look over our detailed comparison of the newly released Asus AGP-V7700 Pure to the alternatively available GeForce2 boards.
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BX Flagship: Asus CUBXMay 18, 2000 - in Reviews
Some weeks before the release of the i815 chipset (code name Solano), Asus comes with another i440BX motherboard. Is the CUBX better than others?
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Slot-1 VIA Motherboard UpdateMay 17, 2000 - in Reviews
The VIA Apollo Pro 133A motherboards from ABit and Soyo have now arrived as well. How do they perform compared to their competition?
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Professional Affair: OpenGL Graphics Cards CompeteMay 15, 2000 - in Reviews
With GeForce as the performance leader in the game market, Nvidia is now pushing into the workstation market. In our test the Quadro competes against OpenGL cards from Diamond, 3Dlabs and Evans & Sutherland.
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The Impact of Intel's MTH-Issue on the IT-BusinessMay 12, 2000 - in Reviews
If you think you already know everything about Intel's MTH-disaster you might be very wrong. Not Intel is the company that's suffering from this issue; Intel's partners are the ones that are hit really hard. If you own an MTH-motherboard, make sure you read this article! If you don't, it's still worth to find out about 'Caminogate2'.
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Performance Guide: Intel Pentium IIIMay 11, 2000 - in Reviews
Our latest guide for Coppermine overclocking, including performance numbers. See which CPUs are suited best for overclocking and which models are still too expensive.
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NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS Battle RoyalMay 9, 2000 - in Reviews
NVIDIA's GeForce2 GTS chipset has recently been released and cards are beginning to pour onto store shelves. Take an in-depth look at the first few available cards on the market to find out what graphics solution is best for you.
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VIA's Apollo KX133 Chipset and Windows2000May 8, 2000 - in Reviews
If you are the owner of an Athlon platform based on VIA's Apollo KX133 chipset, desperately trying to run Windows 2000 reliably, we can give you some help. We explain the reason behind the strange device-numbering problem and can offer you a new beta AGP-driver for Windows 2000.
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Athlon KX133 Motherboard Roundup - A Nail-Biting AffairMay 7, 2000 - in Reviews
Contrary to the AMD750/Irongate, the new KX133 Athlon chipset from VIA offers AGP 4x and a memory clock up to 133 MHz. But not all test candidates have overcome their childhood diseases, yet.
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The 150 MHz Project, Part 2May 3, 2000 - in Reviews
Last time we did some benchmarks using a VIA Apollo Pro 133A motherboard. As BX is obviously the faster chipset, we did all tests again at overclocked 133 MHz - and up to 1 GHz.
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Tom's Take On NVIDIA's New GeForce2 GTSApr 27, 2000 - in Reviews
After 36h benchmark marathons, no sleep and tons of writing I can finally present you my delayed, but epic GeForce2 GTS review. Does the fastest 3D chip available blow everything else out of the water?
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ATi Radeon256 PreviewApr 25, 2000 - in Reviews
ATi releases the details on its next generation technology chipset based Radeon256 graphics board. Although hardware was not available for testing, we are able to give details on the technical specifications, next generation features and more. We take an in-depth comparison of the Radeon256 technology to that of its upcoming competition.
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Motherboard Comparison Epox EP-7KXA vs. Asus K7VApr 17, 2000 - in Reviews
Finally there are more and more Athlon motherboards with VIA's Apollo KX133 chipset becoming available. Before our big KX133 roundup goes online Tom had an in-depth look at two interesting contenders and tested them under Windows 98, Windows NT and Windows 2000.
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Roadmap 2000: Tidbits from AMD and IntelApr 15, 2000 - in Reviews
What is happening in the processor scene this year? Tom gives you some insight of what we can expect within the next 8 months.
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It's Time For An Upgrade... But What's Best?Apr 13, 2000 - in Reviews
Faster processors, new graphic cards and more memory make a PC upgrade attractive, but how's your money best invested? We'll help you to find out what type of upgrade is best for you.
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Processor and Chipset Tables: How to Configure a CPU CorrectlyApr 12, 2000 - in Reviews
For all of you who want to build or upgrade your own PC system we introduce these tables as quick reference. They already include the new gigahertz CPUs from Intel and AMD. Also new: the Cyrix III Joshua from VIA. Everything that you can't find in a manual can be read here!
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21 Slot-1 Motherboards using VIA ChipsetsApr 10, 2000 - in Reviews
What's the best board for Coppermine? i820 solutions cannot impress anybody whilst BX is not specified for 133 MHz, so the VIA chipsets are taking the lead. We found out which boards are winners and sort out less attractive models.
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Asus AGP-V6800 Deluxe and Creative Labs Annihilator Pro ReviewApr 6, 2000 - in Reviews
Two of the most popular GeForce boards strut their stuff to show who's in charge of the GeForce scene. We take a look at what these two cards have to offer over the competition and where they stand vs. competing chipsets.
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The 150 MHz Project, Part 1Apr 5, 2000 - in Reviews
Fast computers require fast bus speeds. How is the Pentium III performing at 150 MHz bus clock?
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