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contests and give-aways on the web has teamed up with memory giant Crucial
to bring you a killer two month long super easy to enter case mod
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X800GT is ATi’s first mainstream PCI-E VPU that offers a good performance/price ratio since the R9800 and R9600 days. The X600 and X700 were bug-ridden and slower than its AGP counterparts. The X800GT has a similar speed as an overclocked 6600GT
PCI-E

If you are looking for a great midstream card, this one may be for you. Check out the full article at Overclockers New Zealand.

DDR2 performance is exceptionally powerful and the ability to run low latencies takes performance to another level. Patriot brings
us their DDR2 XBL memory with an exceptional price tag.

Check out the full review at InsaneTek.

This is going to be a quick and dirty review of Ulti-Mat’s Add ‘n Slide mouse feet. This product is attached to the bottom of your mouse to replace the stock feet, which companies rarely put enough effort into. Though this is a very simple product, the proper mouse feet can finely tune how your mouse moves on the pad, from effortless and quick to high friction and slow.

This is different than most like it, the skates are smaller. Check out XYZ Computing to see if they are worth buying.

Gamebiz has a couple video interview with developers of great upcoming games! They talk to Bruce Shelley of Ensemble Studios, creators of AoE III. They have also interviewed Tak Fung, who is working on the new Fable game, the Lost Chapters. Lastly, they interview Brian Reynolds who is a game designer on…..

Priced at £129.99, the financial cost of having a passively-cooled card is a £10 or so premium over a regular ATI Radeon X800 GT0 256MB card. Is it worth it? That depends upon how much you value silence. Whatever the case, the X800 GTO is another fine addition to ATI’s burgeoning PCI-Express family.

Check out the full review at Hexus!

Overall, the Vantec Stingray is another great water cooling kit available in the market. Although its performance is not the best we have seen, please be reminded that the results were based with the CPU, VGA and Northbridge water block used at the same time. Another advantage of the Vantec Stingray is its silent operation by not affecting the cooling performance.

Check out the full review at PC Modding Malaysia!

Frankly, we didn’t believe NVIDIA when it told us that this mobile chip was going to be as fast as the desktop chip. However, leaving aside the fact that desktop enthusiast mainboards and chips are faster than laptops, the graphics chip itself appears to be almost exactly as fast as the 7800 GTX – that’s an incredible feat.

Wow, this thing IS fast. If you are buying a laptop for gaming, you need to seriously consider the one with this in it.. Check it out at Bit-Tech.

Based around the versatile nVIDIA nForce4 SLI Intel Edition chipset, the Foxconn NF4SLI7AA-8EKRS2 motherboard which is the focus of this review boasts support for Socket 775 Pentium 4/D/XE and Celeron D processors running on a 533/800 and 1066 MHz Front Side Bus (FSB). Its four 240 pin DDR-2 RAM slots accommodate up to 4GB of DDR2-667 memory. Integrated peripherals include a two port Silicon Image SiI3132 Serial ATA II/RAID controller, IEEE 1394b Firewire, dual Gigabit network cards and 7.1-channel audio.

Check out the full review at PC Stats.

The 7800GT is a worthy successor to the 6800GT and sell at about the same price point. At the moment, a 7800GT outperforms the competition at the same price point, has more features, and is widely available. The XFX card brings to the table a factory overclocked core and memory speeds (450MHz/1.05GHz), good overclocking ability (505MHz/1.15GHz) and an excellent bundle.

Check out the full review over at Gamepyre.

Looking for blistering fast DDR memory that can run at ultra-low latency? Well, now you can get some for FREE! Today, we are proud to announce a new giveaway contest sponsored by OCZ Technology! Here’s your chance to win an OCZ Gold Gamer eXtreme dual-channel memory kit for FREE!

Check out the full contest details here. We reviewed these modules a little while back and loved them. Don’t hesitate to enter!

If you are impressed with OCZ Technology’s Platinum series of high speed DDR memory, then you will want to check out the latest addition to the family – the OCZ PC4800 Platinum Elite Edition memory. A dual-spec memory module, it is rated for both high speed operation as well as ultra-low latency operation. Let’s see how well it performs!

Check out the full review at Rojak Pot. Gotta love memory at DDR600 speeds.. killer.

R520 lands next week, but how much will it set you back if you want one at launch? We’ve got details on the pricing of R520 and its brethren across the X1xx range.

Check out the full look at Hexus. $500 for an X1800XT doesn’t seem so bad, especially if it ends up kicking the 7800GTX’s ass. We’ll have to wait and see..

Now then .. the performance of the kit is beyond doubt marvelous, ~40 Degrees C maximum is what we had on a very stressed out Pentium 4 3.6 GHz Prescot processor. Once we started overclocking it the end result became 4.2 GHz, a really exciting achievement and at that speed with the CPU 100% utilized you will still be at 50-55 Degrees C. Using this kit on a much cooler AMD platform would kicks ass also. Corsair’s COOL brings you admirable water cooling performance, quiet operation, reliability, and for it’s money outstanding value. The kit in the stores will cost you roughly 180 USD. If you like to you can expand the kit with cooling blocks for Northbridges (mainboard chipset) and VGA blocks, so there definitely is a lot of flexibility there.

Check out the full review at Guru 3D.

After building an Intel test bench I knew it would be a task to find an everyday heatsink to keep the processor cool. Everybody knows that the Prescott chips produces its share of heat, and it is a job that requires a hefty heatsink. Shortly after talking to the people at Scythe, we received the SCNJ-1000 Ninja heatpipe cooler. The Ninja boast the ability to cool without the usage of a fan. Well we have the products to test this claim as well as the time. Also in comparison we do have a spare 120mm fan to add to the cooler, to see how well it performs against other coolers.

Check out the full review at Pro-Clockers.

In our newest review we test a graphiccard from the midrange sector, we have tested a card with the geforce 6600 chip and 256 mb ddr memory. but no referenz card from nVIDIA with an active cooling device, concequentliy we decided us for a passive cooled NX6600-VTD256EH from MSI with a red pcb. You can find the results of the tests in our review….

Check out the full review at 3D Chip.

No penny or watch needed to give you a size comparison here, you can see how small this is from the USB plug under the cover. …. normally in a tv card review I would be looking at the chips used here but as its an enclosed unit and very small (and liable to break if I try to open it).

Check out the full review at Xtreme Computing.

Laptops, most of them do not come with a separate mouse. If it is your first laptop then it is really hard to get used to those touch-pads or pointers. The purpose of a laptop for most people is travel and portability, so larger mice are rarely used for laptops. People want something that is easy to travel with, and does not take up much space. Today we will be looking at a product that solves both of those issues, along with some added features.

Check out the full review at Think Computers.

We have found Plextor drives to give very reliable service over all the years we have been using them and see no reason so far to suggest that this Plextor PX-740A DVD/CD rewriter drive will be any different.

With prices as low as they are now has got to be the time to upgrade your computer to this new combination PX-740A DVD & CD rewriter drive.

Check out the full review over at A1 Electronics.

Published on September 28, 2005

Our top prize this month is the new Centurion 531! We’re also giving
away 2 power supplies and 2 CPU coolers! Get in on the action, the contest
ends Sept 30th!

There are a couple great prizes here, so check out the full details at Overclockers Online.