PX845PEV Pro

Intel® 845PE Chipest & AGP 8x.
FSB 667MHZ Ready!

KX400-8X

AMD / VIA KT400 & AGP 8x
Support for the new XP 2700+

MX480 Graphics Accelerator

NV18 GPU
AGP 8x feat. enhanced clock speeds.

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Almost a year ago, Pine Technology introduced the XFX division to focus on developing a full line of solutions for gamers. Since then the award-winning XFX line of video cards took the market by storm and bested or matched our competitors on every front. XFX’s tremendous focus on gaming, led to our realization that no one creates motherboards with the gamer in mind. Being gamers ourselves, we dared not sit back idly and do nothing, we had to take action! So about six months ago we made the decision to develop motherboards that are from start to finish, built with the gamer in mind. As part of this process we acquired a team of developers with 13 years experience creating high caliber, stable, mainboards. The fusion of their expertise in motherboard development, and our years of experience in production and marketing, spawned a new brand of mainboards- XFX. .

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• Boffins work on atomic memory
• AMD cuts 3Q sales estimate by US$100 million
• AMD briefs OEMs on Hammer, Barton, speed futures
• Government releases top 20 vulnerability 'hit list'
• Microsoft zaps Xbox-hacking chipmaker
• Free download day a hit with fans

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Based in Taiwan with their technology arm in U.K., Sparkle Computer Co., Ltd. has solely concentrated on multimedia products, particularly on graphics cards since 1982. Besides retail boxed graphics cards, their major areas of operation is in supplying OEM and ODM businesses with their graphics cards, which is another reason why they do not engage in much publicizing. With 20 years under their belt and counting, one wonders how well Sparkle has mastered the trade in graphics cards and what to expect from their products.

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G450 was followed by the G550 chip. It didn't boast high performance, either, but Matrox Millennium G550 based cards provided good image output onto the display and supported digital displays. Being the continuation of G450, G550 again proved to be more "for work" than "for play" and we witnessed no attempts from Matrox to claim the leadership in the gaming graphics card market. This situation could prove dangerous for the very presence of Matrox in the graphics card market, as there were strong rivals appearing even in the stronghold of Matrox: high display image quality. Fortunately, we won't forget the name of Matrox. 11 months after the announcement of G550, on May 14, 2002, the company announced its new chip, Matrox Parhelia-512.

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The scope of this review will cover basic water block performance on both the AMD & Intel platforms under heavy overclocking conditions. Testing will also be conducted with the use of a 122W TEC (Peltier). Hopefully the results we provide here will assist water cooling enthusiasts, as well as those who have never used an H20 set-up, in understanding what they need from a water block.

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A modern harddisk is not that different, mechanically, from the first generation of harddisks that debuted with the IBM PC in the ‘80s. Today’s harddisks are also mechanical parts that use spinning platters and read/write heads to store or read information from them. That also explains why harddisks haven’t seen the rapid pace of innovation as for example CPUs have; simply because the mechanics are holding the harddisk back from making similar leaps in performance. But to be honest that’s not entirely accurate, modern harddisks could be substantially faster, but not without either driving up the price significantly or introducing unwanted side effects.

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Ever since AMD launched the Socket A platform in the spring of 2000, its been touted as a platform choice that gives customers an open upgrade path months or even years down the road. Given the recent release of AMD’s 2800+ and its increased FSB, we’ve decided to take a look at the major Socket A chipsets that’ve been released since the launch of the original Thunderbird, and what CPU’s they officially (and unofficially) may support.

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Despite what Microsoft, Apple or Adobe may want you to think, there is still a great deal of great free software out there. One great example of this would be IrfanView. This program follows two of my favorite strategies: #1 K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Stupid) and #2 Compatibility is key. While this program may only be about 428kb it has just about every feature that I could think of in an image viewer. It's important to remember that IrFanView is an image VIEWER and not an image EDITOR. While it will do some fancy image editing effects, it's not Adobe Photoshop. But if you just want to look at a picture real quick this is the program for the job.

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