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"The eDimensional wired 3D Glasses add a whole new thrill to games, pictures and even DVD's on your CRT monitor. Also, with this model you don't have to worry about batteries, however, those who dislike cables might prefer the wireless glasses. Whichever model you prefer they will both offer the same amazing 3D effect. Watch the Video to find out more..." ~3dGameMan.com

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If you are looking at buying a system with the intention of overclocking, then consideration has to be taken when deciding what to buy. Set yourself a budget & decide what you want from the computer. Performance, looks, longevity or all three.

The five main things that will have an affect on your overclock are:
Cooling, RAM, Motherboard, the chip itself & the PSU. We are going to look at all of these and the affect that they have.

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The sensor in the MX-series mouses is grandly named the "MX Optical Engine", and Logitech proudly claim that it captures "up to 4.7 megapixels of surface tracking information every second". Which is apparently more than any previous mouse sensor manages. But Logitech have stopped quoting how many images of the surface the mouse snaps per second, and nobody ever seems to have quoted the actual sensor resolution of one of these things. So I'm in the dark about what, if anything, the megapixel number means.

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Corsair has been a leading and well-respected memory manufacturer for years now. They have provided some of the highest quality memory modules available on the market and have made quite a name for themselves. This year they started their Extreme Memory Speed (XMS) line. These modules are made for people who really need the speed such as gamers. These modules are the top of the line in speed and performance out of all the Corsair modules. Today we will be looking at the 256 MB XMS3500 Platinum Modules, which are currently the fastest memory modules Corsair has to offer.

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In terms of performance, other than the XTC and EXP products, performance between the compounds was relatively equal across the board. Even the absolute worse was only one degree higher than the Nanotherm Ice and Blue. The question now is what to buy and do you need it.

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If you've got an older drive, I'd recommend the Tx Venus II. It excels in not just writing but also in reading. With an estimated street price of around £50, it's not too heavy on the pocket either. I just hope that a decent software bundle is provided.

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In comparison to the 9000 PRO though, it seems that 9500 can keep a nice little performance gain over all resolutions. This is probably in part to the extra geometry throughput of the 9500, but it could also be due to the fact that 9500's 'HYPER-Z III' bandwidth saving scheme can do early rejection of occluded pixels that weren't already rejected by the hierarchical Z-buffer.

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Computer gamers around the world often only look toward a desktop computer system for their gaming needs. Although as gaming increases in popularity, companies such as nVidia and ATI are working very hard to bring exciting new mobile graphics products to the market. In this investigation, TweakTown takes a look at Dell's speedy Inspiron 8200 notebook with ATI Mobility 9000 GPU and compares it to a standard desktop system with nVidia GeForce4 TI4200 graphics. Can notebook gaming really be taken seriously? We think so, and so should you!

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Over the past years, Plextor has become a name associated with quality, innovation, and speed. The Plextor 48/24/48A is not a disappointment in any of these categories. It's truly amazing everything this drive can do, and even more amazing that it can do it all in less than 3 minutes over the span of an entire CD.

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You can see the metallic heatspreader at the left - unmolested... it looks OK, eh? Well look at the next pic after a bit of sanding... the concavity clearly stands out as an unlapped area... this area slowly shrinks as you lap... but be careful of some of the higher resistors on the board (outlined in red)... get too enthusiastic while lapping and "off they go!" - I can tell you that Crazy Glue won’t fix it either, don’t ask me how I know that....

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Using fans for cooling has never been a problem as yet, and in terms of getting the job done, it does that very well. However, everything has a price, and for fans, the price is noise pollution. This fan noise can be caused by the fan motor itself, or by the amount of air that the fan pulls through. The more air you put through a tight space, the more noise it is going to make. For some users, this noise is very annoying, and if you have a computer in your room, sometimes this noise is loud enough that you have trouble sleeping without turning the computer off. So how can you maintain a quiet system and yet provide sufficient airflow into your components? This is where Zalman steps in.

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During the keynote, NVIDIA’s CEO was on stage to talk about the success that NVIDIA has had with their partnership with AMD. Also, with a little slip, the he mentioned a 400 MHz FSB Athlon running at the NVIDIA labs -- after more digging I verified with someone at AMD and at NVIDIA that the AMD Barton core processors will ship with a 400 MHz front side bus. This is huge news, as we should see about a 10% gain or so from just the bus increase, then adding on the additional cache and that will make Athlon Barton a more than competitive product.

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This time of the year is great. New technology is emerging right before one of the biggest computer shows of the year. Every company is rushing to get their latest and greatest products out so they can be the talk of COMDEX. Iwill certainly followed suite but in no way is this a rushed, out the door product. Iwill didn't skimp on any of the features either. The only question is, will the Iwill P4HT-S, that comes with all of the latest and greatest technology, come with the bugs and instability that usually accompanies untried technology?

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