A review of VMWare 4.5 appeared at Hernan Di Pietro's HDP Tools Site (www.hdp-tools.com.ar) including a test of VMWare 4.5 running Windows Server 2003 and a comparison with VMWare 4.0

How can a piece of plastic drop your CPU temperatures by 5°C or more? Read on to find out how a plug and play air duct can increase the cooling efficiency of your system!

Today ill be taking a look at their new 3200XL pro modules which are already causing quite a stir in the enthusiast market due to their extremely tight timings of 5-2-2-2 @ 400mhz. In todays current marketplace getting memory with timings this tight is nigh on impossible as the famous overclocking Winbond BH-5 chips have been phased out. The XL series of modules are being marketed as a screaming fast group of DDR modules and they are being shipped in the classic black and platinium heatspreaders in their PRO series. The XL family is based on a new Samsung chip, Corsair have worked closely with Samsung and their first tests showed the parts to be extremely fast.

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For the price point, this card is definitely a decent performer, and would serve well for any average joe's box. Performance in older games was excellent, and even though the card struggles a bit at higher resolutions in newer games, performance is on par for a card of its caliber. This is not a card that is designed to be a hardcore gamer/enthusiast component, but rather a good budget card for the occasional game. There are also multimedia possibilities which were not touched on here, but the card does support DVI, VGA and s-video out, and of course supports dual monitor configurations. This card would be a good choice if you are looking for something for playing your old favorites, that can handle newer games (albeit at lower resolutions), and want to save a buck or two.

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"Now before you discredit this card as a slow piece of hardware, let me clarify one thing. This card is neither meant or intended to be a screamer in any way shape or form. What this card is offering is a very cost effective solution to a person needing the great 2D quality ATI is know for, allow the user to have fully functional VIVO capabilities and do some very minor gaming from time to time. For me to judge this videocard on gaming performance alone would be a very ignorant and completely unfair. Not every card is made to perform in the enthusiast market."

Altec Lansing are well renowned for producing high quality, aesthetically pleasing speaker sets and the Concert Stage 21 package does not let them down in any aspect. They are well designed, not only to look the part, but also to give crisp audio performance.

With ATI?s latest high-end graphics processor, R420, announced in its AGP Radeon X800 guise a little less than a month ago we are already beginning to see a reasonable availability for the part and even some third part board variations. One of the first board vendors to bring the card to the market is Sapphire and Beyond3D takes a look at the performance of the Sapphire Radeon X800 PRO.

Fan controllers come in all shapes and sizes. Be that a simple knob rheostat all the way up to the fully automatic digital unit such as the Thermaltake Hardcano 12. Thinking outside the box, Thermaltake has gone in an entirely new direction with their newest fan controller, dubbed the XTunner. You have wireless mice, keyboards, NICs and printers so why not a rheobus? Thermaltake's press release cites the XTunner's extra "n" in its name, is for innovation. To come up with an idea like a radio controlled rheobus, I have to agree.

Have you ever played an online game like Americas Army and needed to communicate with other players quickly instead of trying to type text messages. Then TeamSpeak is for you. TeamSpeak is an application designed to enable people to talk to each other over the internet. Complete review

The Powerstream 420 arrived in a plain white box as these units are not yet ready for retail (at time of press), the supply itself however is built to the standard everyone expects from OCZ, first class, also internal component placement has been well engineered, taking full advantage of the units dual fan setup. The fans glow when in use - another aesthetically pleasing touch.

W2S Affiliate OverclockersClub.com has a list of reviews for the new AMD CPUs. As always, it's updated as they roll in.

The Athlon 64 platform has been gaining support in the enthusiast sectors, thanks to it high performance in 32-bit applications and the promise of more to come with a full64-bit OS, however the consumer chips have been split across two different platforms. With the move to Dual DDR on the Athlon 64, both this and the higher end Athlon 64 FX are being unified on a single Socket 939 platform. Today Beyond3D takes a look at the performance of the Athlon 64 FX-53 and Athlon 64 3800+ on the new 939 platform.

T-Break have scooped AMD's latest 64 bit processors in the form of AMD's Athlon 64 3800+ and FX53 CPU!

The Athlon64 CPU was one of AMD's most important products and, for good reasons, it has been quite successful since its launch late last year. At that time, AMD released the Socket 940 based AthlonFX CPU as well as the Socket 754 based Athlon64 CPU. The FX offered higher performance by utilizing a dual-channel memory controller built on the CPU while the Socket 754's memory controller only offered a single channel. Unfortunately, the FX only accepted registered memory modules which aren?t as easily or cheaply available as your standard non-ECC memory especially at higher speeds like DDR400.

Liquid3D from Madshrimps takes an in-depth look at the latest water block from Danger Den; the TDX features the same performance increasing nozzles as the RBX but improves on its design. Tested on an Athlon 64 setup! he takes a look at what it can do!

Any self-respecting modder will sleeve his wires. It's really that simple. The problem is, it can be one hell of a pain in the ass to do. So when cable sleeving kits come out, a lot of people flock to them in the hopes of saving themselves some grief. Frankly, they are useful not just for power supply units, but also for any other wires you need to run in your box; fans, front panel case wires (power/reset/activity LEDs), etc. The benefits are not just aesthetic, however. Sleeving your cables also allows air to flow better in your case.

AnandTech have posted their roundup of AMD's Socket 754 with boards from Abit, Chaintech, Epox, Gigabyte, and MSI.

The second generation chipsets for Athlon 64 represent a genuine improvement in features, flexibility, and performance for AMD's flagship processors. As you saw in our chipset review, the nForce3-250 nVidia has added the features to bring their nF3 to the competitive edge of Athlon 64 chipsets. The HyperTransport speed, which was widely criticized on the 150 chipset, is now 800 or 1000 depending on the chipset version.

Hexus have thrown up their latest review of mobile graphics solutions from Nvidia and ATI! Here's a snip.

Alienware were kind enough to send two swappable cores with the sample: ATI's Mobility Radeon 9600 and NVIDIA's GeForce FX Go5700. Evaluating mobile graphics parts is slightly more involved than evaluating desktop hardware, due to imposed form factor limitations. For instance, taking into account power saving schemes available in each driver is prudent, but something never exposed or tested in a desktop accelerator.

If you want to be competitive in today's heatsink market, there are two "H" words that are fast becoming a must for maximum performance. One is Huge. The other is Heatpipe. Today, we're taking an advance look at a heatsink that has both of the "H" words in spades. The XP-120 is Thermalright's newest heatsink for Intel P4 systems, and looks primed to become the latest in a long line of winners from Thermalright." Read More...

Antec has changed of style and left of band its line of simplicity that as much fame gave him, a change that to all they cannot like, ... without a doubt some the inner distribution of this box is excellent. The distribution of the frontal also very is obtained, with the revolving panel vertically, in whom it by hand has all the external connections and the value of temperature that detect the 2 sensors.
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