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Lets just start off by saying that if over clocking is your thing this is a review you want to check out, no doubt about that. We are going to be looking at one of the hottest power supplies out there. This PSU promises to meet almost all your requirements, if not all, from constant voltages to nice style. Lets go ahead and check out the features.

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The interesting thing about this card, and the most immediately noticeable, is its cooling system. Abit has come up with a new cooling design that incorporates a heat pipe technology. This system, dubbed, Outside Thermal Exhaust System (O.T.E.S.) uses a low profile fan operating at 7,200rpm that acts like a blower over a copper fin heatsink.

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Sapphire has posted new drivers that bring it up to build 7.80 from 7.79. For Win2K/WinXP these are version 6.13.10.6218. Not sure about Win9x yet. The driver packages includes all operating systems and the cpanel bring it to a whopping 32.4MB.

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Currently ATI succeeds in selling their RADEON IGP320 and 340 on mobile market and is very satisfied with the results. The Markham, Ontario-based graphics solutions developer will also concentrate on distributing mobile solutions in future. Nevertheless, it does not mean that the company does not want to address the market of integrated desktop solutions: according to our sources, next year the world will see a bunch of very powerful and feature-rich chipsets from ATI Technologies.

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The [H]ardOCP Hardware Workshop Sponsored by Yamaha Multimedia is back from the grave. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, right? The lineup might even make a trip to Dallas worthwhile.

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Kingston is definitely a company that needs no introduction. They have been around for years supplying various types of memory for all different platforms, some of the large OEMs even use their memory. Their reputation is excellent due to their high quality memory modules and good support. However, Kingston hasn't exactly been known to cater to the overclocking crowd in the past. Recently Kingston released a HyperX memory line that is designed with the gamers & "PC enthusiasts" in mind. The memory is tested for high overclocking as well as higher stock speeds. The HyperX line includes PC3000 and PC3500 modules. Today we are going to look at the 512 MB stick of PC3500.

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Our overclocking adventure with this board was also very positive, usually when we overclock boards we turn up the FSB in 2-3MHz steps until we find the highest stable FSB but not on this boards, with the KD7 we took 10MHz steps because we knew we could expect a high FSB and this is what we got.
Our final result was 195MHz FSB, after that our hard drive started to corrupt, I guess 39MHz PCI freq is a little to high for it. We would have loved to see that the 1/6 option worked so that we could run at 200MHz FSB since we believe the board would handle it.

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Are you tired of your old, cramped, beige-coloured case? Does it have trouble keeping your system's components from becoming baked silicon? Do you dream about having a big, flashy server case that performs as well as it looks? Is your next idea of case improvement a roomy suit of armor that is heavier than it sounds? I can't guarantee the armor, but Antec's PLUS1080AMG SOHO File Server Tower should satisfy both your medieval dreams and computer temperature and real-estate requirements.

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Whether you're watching movies, playing games or listening to music on your PC, you demand big sound. Two- and three-speaker systems just don't cut it. The Altec Lansing 5100 was designed for audio fanatics like you. This highly stylized, six-speaker system features five sets of 1" neodymium drivers for thrilling highs. A dynamic center speaker makes you feel like you're part of the on-screen dialogue. Plus, the subwoofer cranks out deep, rumbling bass that makes action movies and gaming truly intense. With 73 watts of total continuous power (100 watts peak), get ready to strap yourself in for a wild ride.

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