• ATI "Render Monkey" interests developers big time
• Tyan moves HQ to Taiwan, strengthening Asia-Pacific business
• Gainward will fix Pink Screen of Death cards quickly
• 19-inch Big iMacs to arrive in Q4
• Credit card theft feared in Windows flaw
• Games push limits of PC hardware

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The Internet Security Box (ISB) Pro 800 is a full featured small office router with a built-in 8-port 10/100 auto-negotiating switch. With features such as Dynamic DNS support, VPN IPSec tunneling through NAPT, Analog backup, and SNMP reporting, the ISB offers quite a few extras over simple internet sharing devices. Nexland also claims that their ISB series is the fastest of the low-cost routers in its class.

Due to a few factors, not least a lack of time to post news, review products, and negotitate with companies (those left afloat these days..) there will not be anything new appearing on ChicksHardware.com in the forseable future. We are now all at uni of some sort at separate unis and still talk, but we can't spare the time to keep the site up properly, it's all or nothing. Our @chicksharware.com e-mail accounts have been suspended so you won't be able contact us via them, although we were recieving spam on a hotmail scale by the time they were stopped.

Parhelia’s 256bit DDR Rams operates at 275 MHz. and offers a memory bandwidth of 17.6 GB/s. This rate is 8.8 GB/s in GeForce 4 which also operates at 275 MHz. but uses 128bit DDRs. Moreover, the sub controllers, fast Z-Buffer Clear and specialized buffer memories increase the efficiency of Ram bandwidth.

The ATI RADEON family was tested with the 6118 version, the ATI FireGL2 - ver.2088, the ATI FireGL8x00 - ver.3036. The NVIDIA based cards were tested with the latest official available version - 3082. The 3Dlabs Wildcat VP870 ran under the ver. 0423. The VP870 was estimated both in the maximum geometry mode and in the maximum texture one).

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. The key features other than the combo capabilities, Ultra DMA, JustLink Buffer Under Run Free technology, a whopping 8MB buffer memory, 1MB flash memory, and more are equipped into this high-performance Optical Disk Drive.

IDE Raid is becoming more and more popular as a user-end solution for those who demand better hard disk performance or better data security at a low cost. RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, coined from a paper written in 1987 at the University of California Berkeley. The author suggested the use of smaller, inexpensive disks to replace single, larger disks to implement "fault-tolerant data redundancy." Up to five standards were originally defined, and the two of these which are actually used today are RAID 1 and RAID 5.

The BlindWrite Suite comprises a set of software tools that can be used to reproduce any CD, even protected ones. It is a product of VSO Software, which is also the developer of CopyToCD. Actually, technically speaking, BlindWrite Suite (BWS) consists of two parts; BlindRead (BR) and BlindWrite (BW). BR is used to make a perfect image of the CD you want to backup, while BW actually burns the CD image to give you a working backup.

I received a fan today that was, oddly, not wrapped in any individual packaging whatsoever, but it was part of a whole package, so I guess that would save them from having to use another box that would only get recycled. After looking at the label I found out that it is manufactured by Dynatron Corporation, using their own Top Motor technology. Although this is the first time that I heard of this name *gasp* I quickly found out that they have a very strong reputation in high quality cooling solutions.

"This product is one seriously hardcore authentic controller that puts most other so-called game controllers to shame! Remember what a real arcade control panel felt like? Well this is exactly the same, except you are at home!" ~3dGameMan.com.