With prices of new video cards being introduced in the $400.00 price range, there is still a need for a sub $100.00 card for those building budget systems that need a card that can still keep up with today’s games. Today we take a look at the Chaintech GEFORCE4 MX440 SE 64MB and see how it fairs in today’s gaming environment.

See this? - This has a capacitor arrangement identical to a 3.06. It actually is a Dell 1.8A manufactured week 40. Not incidentally, it also overclocks to 3.5GHz.

S3 is not the only company to announce support for QBM. However, most of the intial announcements of QBM support were from earlier in the year. It's is now the end of 2002 and there is still no QBM products on the market.

Jetway? .... Yes Jetway. I picked up a Jetway V266B, a Via KT266A mainboard to replace my expired Abit KT7. Why? Because I needed the machine back up and running without too much cost. At £50 the Jetway V266B appeared to be a reasonable bargain with a few useful features, bearing in mind you don't usually get much for £50.

Casting back over the year 2002 you can not fail to realize just how many changes and advances in computer hardware technology actually took place and just how many manufacturers there actually were producing top quality hardware. In this end of year digest we take a look at the changes that took place and what the manufacturers tried to focus on, though incredibly difficult that would have been but some succeeded and some did not.

The last KT400 motherboard I looked at (the DFI AD77 Infinity) was excellent in terms of features but suffered in the performance department. Albatron has come a long way since their formation as a company in the motherboard market. Will their KT400 based motherboard be a hit as some of their previous motherboards?

As usual, ASUS puts their best into their product, and it's nice to know that you can buy quality with confidence. They've worked hard for their reputation, and they deserve it. And once again, that quality workmanship is amply reflected in the V9280 Video Suite. ASUS totally redesigned the V9280 Video Suite’s PCB to incorporate more features, making it more feature-laden than any competing product.

Not too long ago we reviewed the Swiftech WC50-T water block, which was equipped with an 80W Peltier, and had great success with it. We were able to achieve an overclock of 420 MHz on the Radeon 9700 using the block, up from its original speed of 324 MHz. At the end of that review we hinted about trying out the voltage mod that many have talked about and tried. So, here we are, once again, and with that voltage mod.

Graphics cards based on ATI RADEON 9700 Pro and NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4600 belong to the fastest and most expensive gaming solutions today. However, to get the highest profits possible, the companies should definitely have the whole family of graphics products, so that they could satisfy the needs of hardware enthusiasts ready to pay any money for extra performance and at the same time become a good choice for those, who look for some better value solutions.

1. Detonator 42.01 for Win2k/XP
dated 12/11/2002 (11th of December 2002).
generic, full multilanguage release
supporting all released nVidia cards to date.
DirectX9 compatible driver.

2. Detonator 32.20 for Win9x/ME and Win2k/XP
dated 11/08/2002 (8th of November 2002).
generic, non-multilanguage release.
supports all nvidia cards released to date.

Nowadays more and more people have two or more PCs at their home. At some point you may decide that you want to share files, share a printer, share your internet from one system, or play a game head-to-head. Well to do any of the things I mentioned above you will need to network your PCs. Whats a network you ask? Well a network enables you to hook two or more PCs together and lets you do the things I listed earlier.

Where the Asus A7N8X motherboard really shines, however, is in its Deluxe model version of the board. Here is where you get all of the added features that make the motherboard worth having: Firewire, Serial ATA, 6-channel audio with Dolby Digital, dual NIC and more. The motherboard is a quality piece of hardware that most users would be proud and happy to have.

The card is built on the new NV28 chip whose major difference from NV25 is the support for AGP8x. On the face of it, the specimen is practically identical to the formerly tested GF4 Ti4200 OTES, so we aren't going to dwell much on the card itself. Let me remind the pros and cons though.

The Radeon 9500 Pro for around $200 shows great performance at stock speeds, and slightly better (IMO) when overclocked. Since it is not just a matter of installing a program and overclocking, that can't be really included as a plus. But you get a great card at a good price. Just fix the OpenGL problems and it is all perfect.

After freeing the case from its dank, corrugated enclosure from UPS, I noticed the fact that it was extremely light due to the fact that this whole case has an aluminum construction. The X450 has a very nice brushed aluminum surface with rounded edges and other features that seem..