• IBM reduces warranty on hard drives soon
• AMD expected to enjoy at least 20% sales growth in 4Q
• Nvidia backs TSMC, NV30 will cost $400 million
• Is Intel set to dump on SIS?
• Intel's prefetch problem continues
• Anti-Palladium site opens up for biz

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Obviously with the next generation of AMD processors using a 25% increase on the system bus which means a new era of mainboards are now coming through and with the KT333 & KT400 chipset supporting motherboards once again are going to be the most widely available board. However Nvidia Nforce 2 mainboards which are expected to hit the retail shelves prior to the end of 2002 have shown to be the optimum choice from the early samples that have been seen.

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First glance at the front of the box quickly shows you that the card inside is sporting 128MB of DDR RAM, DVI, and TV Out. The back gives a quick overview of the cards specifications, points out that it comes with WinDVD and two full retail games, and that is has a 3-year warranty. Not as bold as others who offer life time warranties but to be honest who keep the same vid card for three years?

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In this article, I compare memory from 3 different companies, Crucial, Corsair and Mushkin, all big names, and having very well established reputations as providers of quality memory solutions.

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Albatron started life out as a company called Chun Yun Electronics and was a display manufacture. Founded in Taipei, Taiwan in 1984 now time warp to year 2002 and the birth of current company Albatron. Albatron now make's a wide range of computer components motherboard's, 3D cards and plasma display's. This review is going to be on the KX 400+ Pro KT333 based AMD motherboard. Let's have a closer look shall we.

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My first attempt at a case mod case was a 120mm hole I cut for a front intake and a Digital Doc 5 to display my temps. It wasn’t much, and it wasn’t pretty, in fact it still isn’t. I wasn’t concerned really with the way the case looked, I just wanted more intake than the standard 80mm fan game me, and a way to get temperatures without running a program inside of the operating system. I achieved my goals, but later on I started to wish the case was a bit prettier.

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I like a lot of the features offered in this family of products from Vantec, and if you are building a system that requires cooling capacity on demand, they are a pretty good choice for exhaust fans. The workmanship and packaging are the usual exceptional Vantec quality, coming with all the little bits and pieces I have come to expect from a company of their stature.

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What the heck's a Casewrap? Some type of clear wrapping tool to protect your computer? Thankfully, the answer is no. Actually, casewraps are a very cool alternative to airbrushing. Specifically, they are adhesive backed vinyl sheets featuring a digitally printed image that you can apply on to your case. I'm not talking bits and pieces of stickers where you can just slap on here and there. I'm talking huge, printed sheets that can stick to your side panels, top and possibly the front too, where they can dramatically alter the visual appearance of your case, just like what airbrushing can do.

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Chaintech 7NJS nForce2 board is based on the latest ZENITH series which is a more powerful solution over the current successful APOGEE series. Many more goodies and features are being added into the ZENITH series of boards making them the best featured and most accessories bundled boards of all time. Chaintech ZENITH 7NJS board features AGP8X, Dual Channel DDR333/400, 333Mhz FSB Athlon XP, 2 x Serial ATA interfaces as well as Firewire. This board is made for the overclockers and enthusiasts definitely therefore i shall emphasize on the features as well as its overclockability.

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What do you do when you need a fancy looking case but really can't do anything yourself? Get a pre-modded Xoxide one! The X40 Blackbox is a great deal for $80, you really can't go wrong.

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The Ti4200 has been an incredible success story for NVIDIA and even hardened enthusiasts soon realised that they could save themselves some serious cash by opting for a 4200 over a 4600 and making use of its strong tendency for overclocking to narrow the performance gap. The card I'm looking at today has taken the GeForce4 Ti4200 and done something quite extraordinary with it. To begin with they've built the card on the larger and theoretically much more stable 8 layer PCB used previously for the Ti4600 cards only. Next they've teamed the GPU up with a full 128MB of 3.3ns BGA memory and finally they've added a very efficient all-copper heat sink and aluminium RAM sinks front and rear to keep things cool.

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• Gauge overall system in a flash with the combined performance index wizard to quickly gauge overall system performance and compare and contrast upgrading options.
• Supports the latest technologies (AGP 3, Hyper-Threading), chipsets (Intel 7500, 845GL/GV/GE/PE; SiS 648, 655, 746; VIA KT400, P4X400), controllers (SiS 963; VIA 8233A/C, 8235/L), Clock generator ICs and devices on the market.
• Detailed context sensitive help for Tips/Warnings/Errors. Detailed technical definitions.
• Extensive reference results: over 50 different reference results from legacy to cutting edge systems. Can save you own and combine with your own results.
• Burn-in wizard: improved monitoring options, can see in real-time the changes in system state as burn-in progresses. Can program terminate conditions in case of out-of-range conditions.
• Cooling system information: Can estimate thermal resistance to determine the performance of the cooling system, thus ensuring proper cooling for the processor(s).
• Multi-platform: Both ANSI (for legacy systems) and Unicode (native for Windows 2000/XP/.Net) versions included in a single improved installer.
• Improved graphing options: users can compare the results in log, or inverse mode as well as standard linear mode.

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Once seated and comfortable in the meeting room the lights dimmed and the room filled with smoke as a group of four go-go dancers took center stage. Nice attention getter. Now that we were all very attentive Geert van Dijk, CEO for Chaintech Europe took the microphone and introduced the Chaintech, nVidia and Promise representatives in attendance. AMD was an official sponsor of the event as well; however, there was no one in attendance to represent them.

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