Not only was the player physically robust, but its feature list would go toe to toe with any normal DVD player on the market. As stated earlier, the visual and audio quality were flawless and you would never tell the difference when compared to the bigger alternative.

Just got word that Zardon over at DriverHeaven has just published his review of the Visiontek Radeon 9800XT. The review focuses on what the card can do at high res/AA/AF when really pushed and contains some excellent features such as downloadable video files showing how the card runs Need For Speed:Underground!

I would like to point out that not only did this card perform flawlessly under 26 hours of almost solid benchmarking but it held a generous overclock of 470 on the core and 400 on the ram without any stuttering.

Nach einer kleinen Arbeits - bzw. Umziehphase hat unsere Partnerseite Teschke wieder ein paar sehr interessante Testberichte veröffentlicht.
Diesmal geht es um: Festplattenkühlertest Ley Festplattendämmung Test Silentmaxx Xice Wasserkühlung Test Zu den Reviews geht es hier

Just got word from my good mate Anton Nilsson at NordicHardware that their AMD Athlon 64 3200+ review is out!

A couple of weeks ago AMD introduced their long awaited 64bit processor for the desktop market, Athlon 64 and Athlon FX. At that time we unfortunately got no opportunity to look closer at it the way we did with the new flagship from Intel, Pentium 4 3.2 GHz Extreme Edition. The processor is intended as Intel's "temporary" reply to Athlon 64 and proved to have an impressive performance with its huge 2 MB L3-cache. However, now it is time for AMD to show what they have got: Athlon 64 3200+.

Just got word from Crow at Darkcrow.co.kr that he's been searching the web high and low for the latest graphics card reviews to have hit the web and grouped them all together on one page! There's 30 reviews in total. Here are some of the list:

Digital fotografieren muß nicht teuer sein. Die Redakteure von der Chip haben Digital-Kameras unter 200 Euro getestet und waren von der guten Bildqualität überrascht. Welche Kamera für wen geeignet ist, zeigt der Test.

Tweaknews is reviewing Object Desktop, a Windows shell enhancement/replacement. Tweaknews takes a look at most of the sub-programs of Object Desktop.

Article Snippit: "Object Desktop is a fantastic suite, although it does have the potential to overwhelm certain users. Novices will be intimidated by the amount of separate components which make up this suite. I believe Stardock would have been further ahead to group everything together neatly, allowing you to change each aspect of Windows (skinning, desktop, Start menu, etc?) within one application."

I have my (old) ATI Hercules 9800 Pro 128MB tested in my machine, you think why? Simple for comparison. Yes you read that right comparison. I have compared this card with the Catalyst 3.7 and with the Catalyst 3.8. I published a couple of weeks ago some benchmark results in Longhorn Beta 4029, visitors asked me why I published this because there isnt any comparison. Well I listen to my visitors and tried to get the latest build of Longhorn, it was Longhorn PDC Build 4051. Finally after a couple of days, I was finished installing Longhorn 4051 and ready for some benchmarks. Looking around on some sites, I noticed that people would like to see how the Catalyst 3.7 and the Catalyst 3.8 driver performend against each other. And ofcourse is this as well included in this review! Ok, here is a short brief of what I did:
Compared Windows 2000 with Catalyst 3.7 and Catalyst 3.8
Compared Windows XP with Catalyst 3.7 and Catalyst 3.8
Compared Windows Longhorn PDC 4051 with Catalyst 3.7 and Catalyst 3.8
Compared Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Longhorn PDC 4051

Now you know what I compared lets see what I used for comparison:
3D Mark 2001 Second Edition (DX8)
3D Mark 2003 Standard Version 330 (DX9)
AquaMark 2003 (DX9)
Quake 3 Arena (DX8)
Unreal Tournament 2003 (DX8)
Halo: Combat Evolved (DX9)

Interested? Come on over and read the review! ;-)Review: 3D Prophet 9800 Pro 128MB Review, Compared with 2k/XP/LH/3.7/3.8!

Abit's latest motherboard is the value-orientated AI7 for the Pentium 4 based on Intel's Springdale chipset. Tweaktown put it right up against the IC7 MAX3 based on the more expensive Canterwood chipset and it doesn't fair too badly at all.

ExtremeTech have published an article that promises to be a useful read if you're considering putting together a new Athlon 64 based system: "We examined five Athlon 64 motherboards from the first wave of products, designed for early adopters and PC enthusiasts. We compared features, performance, and price on these socket 754 motherboards to help you decide which you should buy to go along with that new 64-bit CPU."

Want to cool that Pentium 4 CPU to the max? We tell you which heatsink is best suited when it comes to aircooling!
Little over a year ago we put Swiftech´s greatest against Alpha´s best. The MCX4000 vs PAL8942 review is more then a year old. And it is time again to find out who´s the king of the Pentium 4 aircoolers. Read the review here

I've just released a review of Logitech's X620 6.1 Speakers.. How did they hold up? "I was surprised to find that at least at lower and middle volume ranges, the quality of these speakers is damned near that of the Z5300's -- that is to say it's excellent. Crisp and clear with no distortion to speak of, they do start to suffer a little more at higher volumes, but you can still crank them to a nearly uncomfortable volume before this happens. The subwoofer that comes with the X620's is decently sized and delivers very good bass. The midrange is good, but compared to the Z5300's is slightly lacking -- this is barely noticable."

Well, this is ironic... a renowned heatsink, fan, and powersupply company, that has its whole mission statement based around the pursuit of quiet computing, now wants to MAKE noise rather than prevent it.

The Tech Report have thrown up their review of AMD's Opteron 148 and 248 Processors! Here's a snip.

IF YOU HAVE BEEN following these things at all, you probably know that AMD introduced its Athlon 64 FX chip last month to great fanfare. This new processor took our benchmark suite by storm, beating out the Pentium 4 3.2GHz by some downright embarrassing margins in many tests. Intel struck back preemptively with its Pentium 4 3.2GHz Extreme Edition, but now that we know that product's actual, heart-stopping price, the P4 EE looks more like a stunt than an actual option for purchase. In my view, the Athlon 64 FX reigns as the fastest x86 processor in the desktop market.

GeekExtreme.com has released a review of the Logitech Z5300 5.1 Speaker System.

Logitech didn't drop the ball with these speakers, which are as crisp and clean as ever, with an impressive midrange and deep, rich bass. Distortion actually occurs from the rattling of things in my house before it occurs in the speakers themselves when raising the volume. Indeed, sitting next to the speakers becomes painful to the ears long before you are able to dial up the volume to max. At two bars on the guage on the remote, the speakers are loud and clear, and can be heard in my basement from outside my house.

While AMD's Athlon 64 has taken much spot light over the past while, AMD 32-bit central processing is far from dead. Read on as we take a look at the Gigabyte GA-7VT600-1394 motherboard based on VIA's KT600 chipset.

There are a couple of interesting reviews up at Anandtech. Although they solely concentrate on Dell hardware at least one of them might be interesting for you to check out: 1. Dell UltraSharp 2001FP Preview: Gaming LCDs for the masses What does the LCD industry lack right now? 1600x1200 low response time LCDs, of course! Dell didn?t hesitate to capitalize on the needs of gamers, so get ready as we take a first look at the quite amazing Dell 2001FP. Designing a 1600x1200 LCD for gamers was no accident. If you're a casual browser through our forums, you may note the dozens of inquiries about availability of low response time 1600x1200 LCDs. While 1600x1200 LCDs do exist (Dell 2000FP, for example), none of them have been able to pack the punch as a 16ms response time offering.

Eine Tastatur-Maus-Kombination der Extraklasse ist die Logitech diNovo-Kombination. Das edle Set, bestehend aus einer Designer-Tastatur, einem Media-Pad mit LCD-Display und der MX900-Maus, ist wohl das aktuell luxuriöseste Eingabegerät am Markt - und sicherlich auch das schönste. Die Tastatur wird über Bluetooth gesteuert, ein Bluetooth-Hub ist in der Ladestation der Maus vorhanden. Somit lassen sich auch andere Bluetooth-Geräte mit dem Set mit dem PC koppeln. Ob Bluetooth als Verbindungstechnologie für Eingabegeräte geeignet ist, ob die Tastatur auch im Bios funktioniert, wie sich die Designertastatur für einen Vielschreiber eignet und was das Media Pad alles kann, zeigen HardwareLuxx in ihrem Review, in dem man sich der 230 Euro-Luxus-Kombination ausführlich gewidmet hat.

Hardware Pacers has posted a review on the Northgate M8060 Centrino Notebook. Here is a snippet:

"Northgate today has something little more than just minor, it is a laptop with Centrino Mobile Technology that enables mobile users to use their mobile devices with blazing speed and at the same time browse the net wirelessly. In addition to wireless connection, Northgate specifically made a wide screen (15:10) and a video adapter that enables users to play latest DirectX 9 (Geforce FX Go) enabled games."

Sapphire's Radeon 9800 XT looks to power your PC with one of the fastest graphics solutions going - based on ATI's Kick-ass DX9 Technology - it even includes a voucher for a free copy of Half-Life 2.

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