Today we are going to look at Gigabytes KT400 based GA-7VAX. This is the standard board without all the extras that the VAXP has. It is aimed more at the budget end of the market but still maintaining quality and speed known to Gigabyte. The KT400 chipset is VIAs first chipset to support 8x AGP as well as 400Mhz operation of the Memory interface. (More on this later) .The Memory interface is tricky ground because DDR400 is not a JEDEC standard yet and some modules differ in operation at that speed. This is the reason behind the compatibility list that Gigabyte has prepared covering DDR400 memory operation

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ASUS P4G8X is such a board based on the Intel E7205 chipset which supports Intel HT 3.06G+ processor and Dual Channel DDR266. On top of that, this board also features Gigabit Ethernet, AGP 8X, S-ATA, 1394, USB 2.0, Overclocking (voltage, fsb tweaks) etc.

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A commonly asked question is why, when ATI have the Radeon 8500 and 9700 cards, do they now decide to release a card that is slower than both? The answer is relatively simple. Top of the range cards bring in a very small percentage of a company's profits - what they do is to advertise the company. If ATI have the fastest card in the market, suddenly your average person will think "ATI... I've heard of them before, they had the best card around. But I can't afford that, it's £300! Ah ha - the Radeon 9000 Pro. £85, built by ATI, can't be bad!".

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This guide will teach you how to modify your Pentium 4 Processor to have a 1.85v Vcore. I am not responsible for anything that you break, fry, or otherwise damage, etc. This guide is only here to show people how to do this modification, and you should understand that there are risks. If you perform this modification you are voiding your warranty, putting your processor and all of your components inside your computer at risk to be fried, or suffer severe heat damage.

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Creative Labs has dominated the PC sound card market for as long as we can remember. Probably the most feature-packed SoundBlaster was the original Audigy sound card, bringing a ground-breaking amount of new features to PC audio enthusiasts. About four weeks ago Creative announced its new Audigy 2 sound card. Today TweakTown takes us on a journey documenting its new features including DVD audio and Dolby Digital EX 6.1 playback. Are these features alone worth your hard earned dollars? Read on and find out.

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As CPUs all at present available Intel Pentium 4 processors with 1,6GHz to 2,8GHz was used. Both the versions with a FrontSideBus by 400MHz and the versions with 533MHz FSB were used. Each mark of suitable RAM bus memory was used, in order to get the best performance at any time from the respective processor.

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