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Monday, June 4, 2007
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NVIDIA's finest is here in the form of MSI's GeForce 8800 Ultra. Find out more about the most powerful and expensive graphics card now.
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HP's largest ever notebook, the Pavilion HDX Entertainment notebook with a 20.1-inch widescreen display has landed in our labs with a resounding thud that only 7kg of sleek metal and plastic will have. Find out more about this giant notebook in our preview.
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Jetway has gone through the trouble to deviate from the ATI reference design and come up with a X1950 Pro video card packed with 512Mb GDDR4 memory chips. We compare its performance to the vanilla X1950 Pro with GDDR3 to see if there are any improvements performance wise.
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Our last OCZ memory review on TweakTown was the OCZ FlexXLC water cooled memory modules that were able to run rings around Mushkin and Corsair, at least till the Dominator memory hit. Today we have OCZ's next memory module set designed for the enthusiast who does not have the option or does not want to run water cooling in their systems, this being the radically air cooled Reaper HPC edition memory running at PC2-9200 or 1150MHz DDR.
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In the end though, we have to judge the Fragpedal on its actual merits and not the potential it might hold and, on that basis, the Fragpedal is a horribly designed and pretty useless gadget which is ridiculously priced. We're sorry to leave it on such an awful pun, but gamers should really just give the Fragpedal the boot and find something better to spend their money on.
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Foxconn's P35A is in all ways an introductory budget offering based on the new Intel P35 chipset. However, it does come with a full set of features that includes dual PCIe x16 slots for CrossFire capabilities, an unusual implementation for a low-end board no doubt. Check out our preview right here.
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Biostar made quite some turbulence with its "T-Series" of motherboards. Accessible, but high-quality motherboards truly made a "boom" on the Intel platform. They also had a considerable reputation for their AMD-based boards, one of which we have under the scope this time - TA690G motherboard with an AM2 socket. MicroATX boards are generally hampered with a bad layout, but we can only congratulate Biostar engineers, since they did the best layout we have seen on a microATX board so far. With low price and great features, this tiny board proved to be great choice even for enthusiasts.
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Thermalright is a well known brand for its product, characterized by high quality standards. HR-07 follow the shadow of others solutions, being made using proof materials and good precision. Our test is clear: this cooler is capable of good performance and the price fluctuate around 20?, which is a good job. However, users could experience compatibility issues due to fins position and dimension. 10C of difference respect to a dissipator standard it is a great result!
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BFG is well known for overclocked already fast NVIDIA graphics cards and making them into speedy monsters. The BFG 8800 Ultra OC is no exception, BFG overclocks the core frequency to 630MHz, the memory clock to 2220MHz giving 106.6GB/s of memory bandwidth, and overclocked the shader to 1566MHz.
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Friday, June 1, 2007
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The card we're testing is not a basic reference model, it's EVGA's top of the line part, the 8800 Ultra Superclocked. This is one of the fastest cards on the market, with yet further increases in clock speeds -- 650MHz on the core, and 2250MHz on the memory, so let's see if these extra clocks are worth the extra cash over the price of a GTX.
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Earlier this month I already reviewed Noctua's 80mm and 120mm fans and I was amazed how silent they were. The exact same 120mm fan is included in the NH-U12F bundle so even before I unpacked the product I already knew this would be a pretty quiet cooling solution. But being quiet isn't enough to be a good CPU cooler, the cooling performance also matters greatly. Read on to find out more about the Noctua NH-U12F's cooling performance.
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The first chipset to come out under the AMD brand is the 690G series which we first looked at though ECS. This chipset is designed to be a value product for AMD and its Athlon processors. Today we have a new motherboard from MSI based on the new AMD 690G chipset series with support for HDMI which makes it perfect for the Home Theatre PC users out there. Let us today have a look at the MSI K9AGM2 and see exactly what it has to offer.
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GeForce 8600 GTS is the fastest mid-range video card from the new GeForce 8 family from nVidia, targeted for users that want a performance higher than GeForce 8600 GT and are willing to pay more for this performance gain. This model from MSI, NX8600GTS-T2D256E OC, comes factory-overclocked, meaning that it will achieve a performance higher than the standard GeForce 8600 GTS, and also supports HDMI. Check it out.
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Blue Oyster Cult told us not to fear the reaper (look it up youngsters).....Well, Blue Oyster Cult didn't produce enthusiast memory, and they aren't in competition with OCZ. Today HL takes a look at the latest and greatest from OCZ, the OCZ PC2-6400 Enhanced Latency Reaper Edition.....arguably the most versatile memory kit to ever hit the HL test bech.
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The GA-P35-DS3 motherboard is the latest high performance platform based on the killer combination of the new Intel P35 chipset from Intel and Gigabyte. The GA-P35-DS3 is part of the GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 2 Series of motherboards, featuring top quality electronic components which provide optimized power savings, ultra cooling and extended system durability. Read on to see how it performs compared to other leading chipsets!
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