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The Ti4600 is for people who must have the absolute best but weighing in at an incredible £300 is out of most peoples reach. The Ti4400 comes in at about £180 and goes up to £250 for a fully featured VIVO model. The model for me had to be the Ti4400 just because of brute power and saving a fair amount over the Ti4600. The model here is by Leadtek and is the VGA/TV-OUT/DVI model not the VIVO and has a huge heatsink wrapping round the whole card.

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It appears that Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will be the sole beneficiary of the first chipsets to support high-speed DDR400 PC memory.
Intel Corp. and third-party vendors said they have no plans -- at least for now --to offer DDR400 chipsets for Intel processors. However, any competitive edge that DDR400 might give AMD would be limited to a niche white-box market selling to PC enthusiasts and power users, analysts said. Early DDR400 memory chips are expected to be high-priced because of low production volumes. Also, the lack of an industry standard is seen as a barrier to wider adoption of DDR400.

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Monthly 3D Digest is the project of iXBT.com devoted to releases of new Windows XP (monthly) and Windows 9x/ME (once in 4 months) drivers for popular videocards (released from the 10th of August 2002 to the 10th of September 2002).As usual, there are many diagrams containing the information on changes in operation of videocards at change to last version drivers, and also summary diagrams of popular modern videocards performance. Traditionally for our 3Digest we provide the best price/performance ratios information. Quality aspects are reviewed in the Windows XP section.

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in this article I am not going to focus on the functionality or usability of the new version, and not about its abilities in terms of viewports displaying. All these issues will be discussed in greater detail in a separate review, which is to come out quite soon. The today's article will be devoted to the performance of contemporary gaming graphics cards in 3ds max 5. Among the testing participants you will find: the respectful NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4600, the powerful (in games) ATI RADEON 9700 Pro and the so long-awaited Matrox Parhelia-512.

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The clockspeeds are equivalent to those of a Ti4400. Abit I think have stayed with the Ti4200 naming so as to attract people who are looking at cards in that segment of the market. In this case the Abit Ti4200 OTES would be THE card to go for. The price is very similar to that of a Ti4200 with all the added performance of a Ti4400, and as we will show on the next page, great overclocking potential.

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DDR-400 is still yet to be approved as an official industry standard by JEDEC. This hasn't stopped several companies releasing DDR-400 memory, and even faster. Geil is one such company who accelerated in this area who went ahead and released their DDR-433 solution. TweakTown took time to put the memory through their usual torture tests to see how it stood up to the challenge with the most aggressive timings they could possible throw at it.

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Crucial Technology, the company famous for their superb memory products not only produce memory modules but also solid state flash cards and recently, graphic cards as well. Crucial carries two different types of flash cards in their product line, the popular CompactFlash (CF) cards and also MultiMediaCards (MMC) which are designed for use in smaller gadgets such as MP3 players and PDAs. This time around, we're going to take a look at the 64MB Crucial MultiMediaCard which is an excellent way of expanding the memory on board your PDA or MP3 player (if it supports MMC) at a very reasonable cost.

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This map pack contains 98% of the maps released in the leaked 927 build of UT2003. Only ones not included are severely incompatible at this time with the retail game and in the future will be edited so they can also be used, but for now you may never miss them. These maps are beta, so expect a couple bugs in some of them, yet they are still playable like they were originally intended. Some maps may seem familiar, so I renamed them with a "1" extensions so they dont overwrite the good maps. So expect to see new things, new textures and skies. Some beta maps rival even the final game's in color quality and playability. You may even see some maps you never seen before. To use these you must already have the retail game installed, as the maps will need files that arent included in this pack that only the full version of the game has.

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Admittedly, this board isn't the biggest, baddest, fastest thing out there. In fact, it comes to the table without all the fancy doodads that most of us have come to expect out of a motherboard. There is no official support for the 133MHz FSB, or even ATA-133, for that matter. There is also no official support for memory over PC2100, or RAID, or USB 2.0. You're probably asking yourself. what the heck am I reviewing it for then, right? Well, the fact of the matter is. sometimes, you don't want all that stuff. Whether you're building a box for your significant other, or for your little brother or sister (so they'll keep their grubby hands off your tricked-out gaming box), or whomever. sometimes, you just want a nice, stable - but fast - motherboard that won't force you to sell your little brother or sister into slavery to afford it.

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The selector switch gives you the option of auto, low, and medium. With the selector switch set to 'medium' the unit was anything but silent. Not annoying just very noticeable. In low mode, things were pretty much silent. Set in the auto position, the fan speed is controlled by a temperature probe embedded in the PSU's heatsink.

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As you can see in the graphs, the fan is capable of keeping the drive a full 7C below what it would normally be. This 7C could translate into a few years more of life for your drive! Overall this is a great product that has a great many uses. You can hook up virtually any fan to the fan switch, the thermal probe can be used to record temperatures on a limitless amount of things such as RAM, hard drives, cpu's, gpu's, north bridge chips, and even ambient case temps!

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With many cases becoming more pleasing to the eye, what is a manufacturer to do to try to stand out from the crowd? Come join TweakTown as they take a peek at the Antec Performance Plus 660AMG enclosure. With the reputation of Antec, we can't wait to see what they have in store for us this time. Come find out if they can live up to their past endeavors!

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If you want a fancy looking computer case with which to (in theory) impress your friends, you should expect to pay quite a bit of money. Windows and aluminium panels and lights and associated bells and whistles do not, typically, come cheap.
Lian Li and Cooler Master, for instance, make a variety of great looking aluminium PC enclosures - but you'll pay easily twice as much for a Lian Li without a Power Supply Unit (PSU) as you'll pay for a passable plain steel case with a PSU.

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