They may not be one of the big names in the motherboard business but I must admit to having a sneaky admiration for DFI. While other companies are hyping their products out of all proportions DFI go quietly about their business and while you're unlikely to find brightly coloured PCBs, futuristic North Bridge coolers or fancy accessories what you tend to get is a very stable board at a sensible price. We've reviewed a couple of boards from DFI and though none of them have been spectacular overclockers or particularly good lookers I can safely say we've never seen a bad board from them.

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The new version 1.1.9.24 include the following changes:

- full compatible with Detonator 40.41 (include 8x anisotropic filtering,
which doesn´t works on nVidia driver panels)
- compatible with nView systems
- include Direct3D refresh rate fix
- experimental support for Riva TNT 1/2
- new expert mode
- extended system info
- extended game related profile support
- earlier bugs are fixed

aTuner is a highly compact tweak tool for all GeForce cards and can change these settings:

- Vsync
- Anti-Aliasing (including all unofficial modes)
- Anisotropic Filtering
- MipMap LOD Bias

In addition it features a profile manager to create game related settings.
The programm works with all GeForce cards on Windows 98/ME/2000/XP with a
Detonator driver up from 23.10.

VIA has released some new 4-in-1 drivers, this time version 4.42. Use this only if you're running a VIA chipset!

So why a GeForce4 MX440 card? For most of us Linux users, we aren't looking for a video card with big balls. After all, Linux is not traditionally known as gaming environment (but that is slowly changing). What the GeForce4 MX series offers is a great upgrade solution for system suffering from video card woes. And it costs about 1/3 the price of the GeForce Ti series cards, and performs great under Redhat and Windows.

In this preview we will not take an extensive in-depth look at the Graphics Core, no we'll focus on performance as that is what you guys want to know and that is exactly what this board was made for, believe me. Also, you been able to witness several reviews of this Graphics card where it produced breathtaking numbers. However, most tests and reviews out there used rigs based on 2.53 GHz Pentium 4 processors and basically all I've noticed where top of the line systems that even can't be bought in the stores yet. We will test the card on your average system, that means an Athlon XP 1800+ people. Furthermore we'll compare it to every known videocard of the past year and then will sum it up in a conclusion for you.

Lian Li now have a line of "PC-60xx" cases that have see-through front doors, just like the Cooler Master products, but which also have a few extra pretty-features of their own. While, of course, retaining the Lian Li look and feel that many users, me included, have come to rather like.

What is ATI's vision for the mobile market?
If you look at the trends we are on now, you will see integrated offerings to get extremely low power consumption, high efficiency in small form factors. We'll continue to push features and performance in the high end. It's a similar model to what we have in the high end desktop market where you bring the more expensive, fully featured cards and you try and move them down quickly into the mainstream market.

I think we will continue that trend.

After having a good chance to live with the monitor, I was very pleased with what it had to offer. It was simple to setup, which consisted pretty much of just plugging in the cables, turning the monitor on, and selecting your video source. Very simple to a regular television with multiple sources attached. Though for the price of this monitor, I would perfer a large widescreen television for my movie watching, and stick to a large CRT or a simple 17" LCD screen for my computer use. If you DO have the money, and can afford one of these Tantus LCD monitors, by all means get it. It does the job and does it well.

Geil's DDR400 and DDR433 modules, for their part, come stylishly equipped with full-body copper heatsinks, and are delivered in a sealed package contained within a very solid acrylic coffer. This arrangement is, as you can imagine, very effective at insuring that the product arrives at its destination safely. So, with that said, throughout the rest of the article, we'll be testing Geil's two little speed-daemons for your reading pleasure.

The first step in wiring is installing the power supply unit (PSU), and running its cables. Server-type PSU’s such as this one typically come with exceedingly long cables, so finding a way to keep them tidy can be quite a challenge. Just remember that the more time you spend cleaning up the cables pays dividends later.

I tried both an ice slurry and some hot water, and the T-3s managed decent accuracy, and quite close calibration between the two probes, too. Down around freezing point, the temperature readings were within 0.1°C of each other; up around 55°C, they were still not more than one degree apart. That's about all you can expect from cheap digital thermometers - and, since there's no calibration control on the T-3s, it's what you're going to have to live with.

Samsung Electronics has been a hot competitor on the current computer electronics market. Its products have shown the innovative and digital life styles which encourages the public in purchasing their products. A few days ago, I received two IDE ODD (optical disk drive) units from Samsung Electronics Canada. The SM-332 Combo drive, which was announced at the CeBIT electronics show in Hanover, Germany, is currently the fastest combo drive and the newest ODD offered from Samsung Canada. In this review, we will see if the Samsung SM-332 and the SW-240 can stand up to our expectations of digital life.

The grills are made from a medium-grade copper, and are polished to a brilliant shine. As you should have already noticed, there are two different designs - the first one being a honey-comb type pattern, centered off with the 'Tt' symbol, while the second design has an outline of a mountain with the 'Tt' symbol appearing towards the corner as the sun. Each design is laser cut to precision, producing a quality effect.

Chaintech, from the minute they started selling motherboards, were all about one thing; overclockers. Chaintech came into the motherboard industry rather late and are a relatively small and young company. Yet this hasn't stopped them from producing some very interesting motherboards. One of these boards TweakTown has taken a look at today and it is their Apogee series 9EJL1 for the Pentium 4 platform!

Terratec TerraCam USB Pro is a small very light webcam, thanks to it's dimensions and its weight is perfect to be used with a notebook, also because you can change the base of the camera if you use it attached to a notebook monitor or on a desk.

Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) was established in 1987 as one of the first motherboard manufacturers in Taiwan during a period of rapid growth in the world's IT industry. Today we are looking at their latest motherboard the ECS L4IBAE and to try and find if ECS has what it takes to become one of the leading motherboard manufacturers in the world.

Case Wire Cleanup Guide

"Have you ever looked inside your case and wondered how you could make that mess of wires more organized? Well here is one way to make your wires look professionally finished while still staying under a $10 budget."

CD-ROM LED Mod Guide

"Want to add that little bit of extra coolness to your modded case? Why not replace that dull LED in the front of your CD-ROM with an ultra-bright LED and make your friends stare in awe when you spin a CD. Ultra-bright LED's are the latest craze in the computer mod world and can spice up any case or component that might use them."

It would be an understatement to say that Thermalright is on somewhat of a roll lately. With their last few products like the SK-6, AX-7, SLK-600. I would have to put Thermalright at or near the top of the air cooling market right now.

Okay, we've seen what this cooling kit can do. If you'll remember my prediction, you can see that all in all, I was right on the money, except that I may have underestimated the performance of the HSF cooler. We got an amazing overclock of memory frequency by using the RAMsinks, and we saw evidence of a temperature decrease using the HSF cooler, even though it didn't help me overclock the core frequency any further. Don't you just hate it when you reach the limits of the hardware?

The Speed-Pad is offered in black, translucent colors of blue, green, yellow, or clear. Having a choice of colors to choose from is always a hit around here. The flip side of the other Speed-Pads is see through colors don't work with all mice. Compad is very forth coming about this and has a compatibility list on their site here

CD burning has taken on a whole new meaning this summer. Prices of CD burners are at an all time low and the prices of DVD burners have dropped though the floor! Not just a few short months ago, a DVD burner would cost you about a month's pay. With DVD burners costing about the same price as a new video card, even the average Joe can afford one. I've been waiting anxiously for these burners to become affordable, not for copying DVD movies, but more for their massive storage ability. With each disk holding 4.7gb of data, normal CD burners are about to become obsolete!

The forums are now officially open! I've just finished designing, hacking, and polishing them all up. We have many categories that are sure to please just about anyone. And now, to kick off the launch, I've decided to have a giveaway! The first place prize is the WhipserRock II AMD CPU cooler -or- the Easystream Intel cooler both made by the Fanner Group and spire-coolers.com, the second place prize is still to be determined. Here are the rules:

We're at it again. With all the new toys hitting the marketplace, it was time to update the TweakTown Buyers Guide. There are some mighty hot tickets that have been added to the list so come join TweakTown as they tell you what is hot... and what is not!