Intel Pentium 4 3.2Ghz Extreme Edition Northwood Processor @ Tweaknews

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Intel's Extreme Edition version of Northwood is targeted towards a specific and focused area of today's consumer. If you want something that is incredibly fast right out of the box for high speed gaming, extensive graphic work or just bragging rights at stock speeds, this processor is for you. The 3.2EE easily held its own in most benchmarks even against a steroid induced 2.4C clipping along with a 1Ghz+ FSB and 3.2Ghz.

But even so, say you still have a little overclocker left in you and want to see what extra cycles you can squeeze out of your new purchase, with some decent air-cooling you could easily overclock it above 3.6Ghz. Now I know if I had a water-cooling or a refrigeration setup, 4Ghz wouldn't be far out of reach. I personally can't wait to reach this goal.

DFI's smartest motherboard - 875P and 865PE

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Today TweakTown have two of DFI's Infinity range of motherboards under the spotlight, Canterwood and Springdale. Carrying on from the success of their Lanparty series, DFI has delivered yet another well thought out motherboard product for the enthusiast.

Abit's Radeon 9800 XT @ TechReport

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Abit is one of the highest profile defectors to switch from NVIDIA GPUs to ATI. Rather than wait for the next generation of chips to capitalize on its new partnership, Abit is rolling out a high-end Radeon 9800 XT right away. Does Abit's 9800 XT vindicate the company's new partnership with ATI? Read on to find out.

simFUSION 6000q ATI R300 X 4 quad VGA Card

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Just got word from Crow at Darkcrow.co.kr that their simFUSION 6000q ATI R300 X 4 quad VGA card review is out!

simFUSION 6000q System is the name on the card and it can go up to 24X in Anti-aliasing which is three times more then any gamer card. simFUSION provides the features that you need to create realistic and effective training experiences, including the best PC image quality available under real simulation conditions.

Mad Dog Multimedia's Entertainer 7.1 sound card @ TechReport

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Mad Dog Multimedia's Entertainer 7.1 is one of the first discrete sound cards to use VIA's mid-range Envy24HT-S audio controller, and it promises to deliver great sound for audio enthusiasts on a budget. I've put an Entertainer through a punishing trifecta of performance, quality, and listening tests to see if it can hold its own against its discrete competition, integrated motherboard audio, and even a high-end alternative. Read on to find out how the Entertainer fares.

Chaintech GeForce FX 5700 Ultra - nVidia's mainstream VGA fighter

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Yesterday TweakTown compared the performance of nVidia's GeForce FX 5950 Ultra against ATI's Radeon 9800 XT. Today they step down a class to the mainstream segment and put nVidia's GeForce FX 5700 Ultra, in the form of the AA5700U from Chaintech, against ATI's Radeon 9600 XT. Let the mainstream VGA battle begin!

Upgrade to gaming bliss for under £150 ($275)

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It seems like only a few months since I installed my Geforce4 4200ti, but time has passed and new games have been released. The last generation of graphics cards don?t cut-the-mustard anymore. Frequently having to reduce the screen size, texture quality and turn off/down FSAA in a recent game does get frustrating. Especially when you see, the beautiful hi-resolution, in-game screenshots with FSAA set to max and Antistropic filtering enabled too.

Friendtech DreamX-1480

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The stock Xbox has a 733 Intel CPU with 128KB L2. Alan at the FiringSquad tests an Xbox with a 1.48GHz Tualatin CPU with 256KB L2. Enough said.

ATI 9800 XT vs. nVidia 5950 Ultra - Gigabyte Style @ TweakTown

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In the past we've taken a look at various modern day high-end graphics cards based on both top of the model ATI and nVidia chips. On the menu today is Gigabyte's GV-R98X256D graphics card based on the Radeon 9800 XT. We put it directly against Gigabyte's GeForce FX 5950 Ultra for comparison sakes.

Antec P160 Aluminum Enclosure

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Antec's latest enclosure is under the spotlight today at TweakTown. The latest model is called P160 and features an aluminum construct with a different design than what we have grown accustom to from the folks at Antec. Read on!

Chaintech GeForce? FX5600 Personal Cinema @ Nvnews

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The gaming performance is sufficient for DX7 and DX8 games, and the potential for overclocking is not very high. So, if you're not a huge gamer but you want to have respectable gaming performance at 1024x768 and also having VIVO features with a TV Tuner, then this card is for you.

Sony DRX-510UL DVD±R/RW Drive Reviewed @ GeekExtreme

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Today, we look at the Sony DRX-510UL External Firewire/USB2 DVD±R/RW Burner - is this the proper external solution for you? Let's find out.

Quote: The Sony DRX-510UL is a multiformat (DVD±R/RW) drive that burns both format DVD discs as well as CD-R and CD-RW discs. A little bit larger than a standard internal optical drive, it is still relatively compact and feels very solid -- not flimsy at all. The clean-cut design is a nice addition to any desk, being simple yet very nice looking.

Creative Gigaworks S750

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Just got word from Nordic Hardware that their Creative Gigaworks S750 THX 7.1 speaker review is out!

While 7.1 audio cards were being introduced, not to say Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS, the need for a speaker system with a 7.1 configuration was born. The little bit cheaper series Inspire was adapted quickly and the result was Inspire T7700 which was delivered with seven satellites and one subwoofer. Though, my self and other enthusiasts which sat with a Megaworks 5.1 was waiting with excitement for a sequel to that system to come. Megaworks had before been the flagship in the fleet of speaker systems and there are two versions, 510D and 550 THX.

Philips Aurilium External Soundcard @ TechSpot

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Philips made quite a splash in the soundcard market a few years ago when they introduced the PSC 70x family of soundcards, in particular the Acoustic Edge which I?m sure a lot of you may still use as your ?primary? soundcard.

The PSC805 Aurilium is Philips? latest effort to take on the somewhat crowded soundcard market still dominated by Creative Labs. The Aurilium is a certified USB 2.0 external soundcard which doesn?t differ much in concept with the SoundBlaster Extigy that we have previously reviewed.

Athlon 64 3200+ & 3400+ review

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Bit-tech.com has Athlon 64 3200+ & 3400+ reviewed. "Fundamentally there is only one real difference between the Athlon 64 and the 940 pin FX51 CPU ; the dual channel memory controller. You would be forgiven for thinking that this will seriously hamper the performance of the 64 but as you will find out later, this turns out not to be the case! Socket 940 has a major disadvantage in that you need to change you RAM to ECC Registered RAM just to get the system to boot up, Socket 754 on the other hand uses your normal, everyday DDR400 RAM."

Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe Wireless Edition reviewed.

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Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe Wireless Edition is reviewed at Hothardware.com. "Today in the HotHardware labs we have the Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe Wireless Edition on the test bench and are ready to show you if the second revision of the A7N8X motherboard is reason to get excited. .....

AOpen AK89 Max @ VR-Zone

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AOpen AK89 Max is based on NVIDIA nForce3 150 chipset supporting AMD Athlon 64 processors. It comes in a cool white box with nice accessories and sports a classic glossy black PCB. The board features support for DDR400 up to 3GB, IEEE1394, 6 Channel Audio with S/PDIF, 4 x Serial ATA 150 ports with RAID functionality, Gigabit LAN and 6 USB 2.0 ports.

Graphic Card Reviews

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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: