• Hon Hai topples Gigabyte in mobo market
• Nvidia and TSMC to reveal 0.13-micron progress on December 16
• Asustek’s Intel orders said to be Springdale boards
• Microsoft employee accused of squirreling software in exchange for status symbols
• Microsoft Patches Eight Software Holes
• Butterflies point to micro machines

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We felt that it would be interesting to take a close look at R300, looking not only at the surface, but digging deep into the technology. In this two-part article we will first consider each of the 3D related technologies within the chip, from there examining the performance of not simply the whole chip, but each individual unit.

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By and large, however, the major addition to the new PE chipset is official support for DDR333 RAM, providing for more memory bandwidth and improved system performance. Up for testing in the HotHardware labs today, we have three motherboards based on the Intel 845PE Chipset from some of the biggest names in the industry, MSI, Abit and Gigabyte.

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Introducing the state-of-the-art 3D Blaster 5 RX9700 Pro, the fastest 3D game accelerator ever created for the PC. Featuring the world's first 8-pipeline architecture in RADEON™ 9700 Pro Visual Processing Unit (VPU) running on a core clock of 325MHz and packed with 128MB of 620MHz DDR memory, this lethal combination will blow you away with breakneck speed performance, real-time cinematic visual effects and cutting-edge video features!

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Blaze through power-intense 3D games at unrivaled speed and leave your enemies to bite the dust! 3D Blaster 5 RX9000 Pro defies the limits of mainstream graphics, racing with 4 parallel rendering pipelines - previously found only on high-end graphics cards. Couple that with a 550MHz memory clock on 64MB of genuine ultra fast DDR memory for a blistering performance, and you're in for astounding gaming experience time after time.

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The 3D Blaster 5 RX9000 offers true and rigorous rendering of intricate graphics details and life-like effects for your total and immersive visual experience. Integrating state-of-the-art 3D hardware features like SMARTSHADER™, CHARISMA ENGINE™ II and an improved SMOOTHVISION™, you're guaranteed full support for Microsoft's DirectX 8.1 and OpenGL 1.3 for photo-realistic imagery.

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We felt that it would be interesting to take a close look at R300, looking not only at the surface, but digging deep into the technology. In this two-part article we will first consider each of the 3D related technologies within the chip, from there examining the performance of not simply the whole chip, but each individual unit.

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The second item of news is that Europe has caught up considerably with the United States. In fact, it's doing even better if you take into account the fact that US prices are not burdened with Value Added Tax, payable only on the other side of the pond. This means thtat European monitors are sometimes less expensive than the American versions.

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Asetek were one of the first companies to offer a complete below-ambient cooling system for consumer PC's - their VapoChill product. They have recently updated their range with the Mk 2 system, available in Standard Edition or Premium Edition, and in Titanium finish or plain White. We have featured their earlier product in various reviews and articles on OCAU and they contacted us to provide a VapoChill Mk2 Premium Edition in Titanium finish for use as a long-term testbed.

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Its a beta Stereo driver for the 40.xx detonator drivers. The Stereo control panel is for users that own 3d glasses like the Elsa 3D Relevator, ASUS VR100 or even anaglyphic (e.g. red/blue) glasses. You can enable the Detonator's Stereo feature then.

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Today in the MTB Labs, we will be evaluating the PC Tachometer Kit, a product that will accurately graph your CPU utilization on the car tachometer, redlining at nearly 8000 RPM under full load.

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A closer look shows that this is a graphics card based around the well proven nVidia GeForce4 Ti4200 core with 128MB of high speed DDR memory capable of up to 8gb/s bandwidth. As you can see from the features below, this is an advanced graphics card. AGP X8 and Leadtek's quite superb'MyViVo', make this card far more interesting than most Ti4200's in the market place!

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Pinto, Palomino, and Phen Phen… What do these three have in common? They all once where the cream of the crop until they got the ax. Remember the Pinto? Wasn’t that a nice little car? To bad it exploded whenever it got rear ended. What about Phen Phen? Great stuff for weight loss if you don’t mind heart failure. Then there is the Palomino. A fast little devil that required a new fire extinguisher mod on the side of your case. Now we have the new Thoroughbred "B" chip that helps one of AMD's biggest weaknesses: heat. But just having a cooler running chip wasn’t enough for the guys at AMD.

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Today we're looking at one of Epox's KT400 boards, which we received with much anticipation. The source of this anticipation was an Epox announcement stating this board allows the enduser to change the clock multiplier through BIOS without unlocking your Athlon chip!

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Mobile Hard Drive racks have been around for quite sometime now. A majority of them provide the same basic functions. They allow you to swap or remove your internal hard drives quickly and easily. They are useful mainly for transporting data from one machine to another. Some mobile racks however offer extra features and can double as a hard drive cooler as well. The BeanTech BT68 is one of these.

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"The Crystalfontz USB 20x4 LCD is the USB interface version of their 634 model which means only one cable and allows for easy installation. Also, with 20 characters per line and 4 lines it translates into a lot of data being shown at once. Their CrystalControl software is easy to configure and easy to use. Watch the Video to find out more..." ~3dGameMan.com

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