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The Asus V8420 Deluxe is a bit of a paradox at first glance. It could be assumed that this is a budget package. After all, it does contain a card built on the NVIDIA GeForce 4 Ti 4200 chipset, technically the "low man on the totem pole" of the three cards in the GF4 Titanium series. A closer examination reveals that Asus didn't just give you any board based on the Ti 4200 but a faster and more powerful version than most competitors.

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There are some caveats, which diminishes the performance of the ZXR-500. The soundstage is relatively narrow for most of the tests; while audio can sound a bit too bright and sharp. For movies, the center speaker which typically handles spoken dialogues could have been better with a more powerful speaker in order to project stronger audio range and reach.

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The main difference between the 30 and 40 series of drivers is the inclusion of a refresh rate fix. Lord knows how long this has been needed, but it is through no fault of NVIDIA that this issue even exists in the first place. Microsoft generally caters to the lowest common denominator, and in doing so figured that everybody likes to run monitors at a migraine-inducing 60Hz. There are those amongst us who couldn’t tell the difference, but the vast majority in this community could tell the difference between 60Hz and 100Hz - even with their Coke bottle bottom glasses behind their backs.

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Today, we'll be reviewing the Asus P4PE which is the first mainboard that arrived to our lab to implement the most recent i845PE Pentium 4 chipset out of Intel -- one that is meant to support speeds of up to 3GHz CPUs and over. The P4PE's biggest selling point: is its support for DDR333 memory, meaning better performance, and greater memory bandwidth.

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For many of us, our towers are crammed with more stuff than you can shake a stick at: additional drives, beefy video cards, performance fans, cold cathode kits, and more. All of this takes power and in some cases, when the power isn’t there, or when the power supply is worked too hard, things begin to blow or short out, in turn delivering a nice power spike to another area and ultimately blowing other parts. I personally faced this problem once and I can assure you, it’s much cheaper to be prepared than it is to be caught with your pants down and faced with having to replace motherboards and peripherals.

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What can be said now finally to the chips of the Bitboys? Only once one can reject the statement due to the submitted Samples of the Avalanche chip, the projects of the Bitboys would be pure vapor commodity. The chip developments really took place, only they unfortunately arrived in no case up to ready for the market ones.

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There is only less than two weeks left before Tweakers announces the winner of the Thermaltake prize pack including their latest heatsink the Volcano 9, a Cystal Orb for keeping your motherboard's chipset cool, a Hardcano 5, a Memory Cooling Kit, and two Smart Case Fans - All courtesy of Anyware Computer Accessories. We're also accepting entires on a worldwide scale, so what are you waiting for!

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Hercules changed some parts of the ATI 9700PRO. They changed the heatsinks and fan on the card. The orignal fan/heatsink was replaced by a heavy copper based fan/heatsink combo. This to provide better cooling. On top of that they placed on every memory chip and extra heatsink. Also on the back of the card there is another heatsink on the back of the VPU. All these extra's are there to get a more stable and better cooled graphics card.

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Now, first off, don't get to obsessed with the temperatures (did I just actually say that??). But focus on the ability to remove heat that is indicated by the rise in temperature from unloaded to loaded. Running at stock settings and voltages, the Tundra turns some pretty decent numbers, with only a 7C rise in temperature from idle to full throttle, and in fact turning an acceptable number even with half the air it should get through the fan.

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Once you have found this area, it is recommended to clean this surface with a pencil eraser to remove any layered debris left from the manufacturing process. The first step is to use one of the included tape tabs to cover the L3 bridges just below the L1 set. This is done as a precautionary measure. Since in the first step we will be filling in the gaps, I chose to cover both the top and bottom dots of the L1 bridges, just leaving the gaps visible. You then want to apply a SMALL amount of gap filler to this open area.

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