• Fujitsu faces class action over faulty drives
• Hynix develops 512Mbit DDR using 0.10-micron technology
• Patch and Reboot: Microsoft's Groundhog Day?
• All Intel P4 chipsets to support hyperthreading
• New SuSE Linux OS to run Office 2000, other Windows apps
• IBM talks up "computing on demand"

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There isn't much of a difference in the HDD externally as you can see. The first two pictures are the front and back of the 'Cuda V. The one major difference was that the back of the IV had instructions on it for retail sale. I am guessing this will also be so when the V hits retail shelves eventually. Is there any other changes? Does the 20GB/platter density increase make much of a difference?

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AOpen DX3R Plus-U

The board arrives with almost everything required to get you up and running. The first time I picked up the box I was a little stunned at the weight. I was to find out why pretty shortly. The box is crammed full of gear. A massive manual covering not only the DX3R Plus-U but also the Fortress 9500 server package, two I/O plates (one standard and one to suit the AOpen SV520 chassis, socket terminator, 5 position LVD cable, 50 pin narrow SCSI cable, extra serial port cable, IDE cable, PCI slot USB expansion plate, the usual driver software and Symantec's Norton Antivirus 2002. There's also a nice product catalogue showing AOpen's forthcoming VIA based dual Xeon offering.

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MSI's E7500 Master LS

As I just mentioned, the Sandra memory scores for the dual channel DDR weren't bad, but they weren't stellar either. Considering that all of Intel's server and workstation chipsets are dumping RDRAM for DDR, I guess I figured the scores should be better. As it turns out though, Sandra apparently isn't telling the whole story.

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Ahanix cases are truly a joy to behold, a combination of style and engineering. The Romeo DX case continues this tradition, being well thought out, with a removable motherboard tray, tons of expansion room and USB ports up front. The dynamic front bezel is removable for immediate color changes. Peter at ExoticPC came through in a blaze with the Romeo DX, the case is a top 10 in function and features at a remarkably small price.

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Most manufactors claimed that you could perfectly use an optical mouse without a mousepad. But was that true? Well yeah , but working with a pad under your mouse is always much more comfortable. First I thought that there wasn't much difference between mousepads, but after using a few I noticed that there were huge differences.

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The Radeon line started about two years ago with the ATi Radeon video card. Then we saw many other video cards from ATi based off this chipset such as the Radeon VE and Radeon LE etc. Then came the Radeon 8500 (R200) chipset. As like the Radeon card the Radeon 8500 was popular for it's high performance and excellent pricing. Then comes the highly anticipated R300 core, the Radeon 9700 Pro. But the question now is, will ATi fulfill the anticipation of the Radeon 9700 Pro crushing all competition?

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Logitech came up with this cordless mouse to compete with Microsoft obviously, and what better way than to throw all the bells and whistles at it? 8 buttons to utilize? A powerful and fast sensor at an accurate 800dpi being utilized? Rechargable batteries with the RF receiver doubling as a rapid recharging station? Sign me up, immediately! While the price may turn off some people at around $80, it could be worth it. Read on to see if it's the right mouse for you.

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Creative Singapore today has launched their newest and highest performance speakers for the first time in Asia, the MegaWorks THX 5.1 550 that delivers unsurpassed sound quality and power in movies, gaming and music applications. This new MegaWorks THX 5.1 550 is based on the award winning Cambridge MegaWorks 510D designed specially for Audiophiles and Gamers.

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Fred Weber, AMD vice president and chief technology officer, told the JEDEC-sponsored IC meeting that a new processor core with on-die memory controller will be developed to support DDR-II. The initial Opteron Hammer chip for servers and the desktop Claw Hammer version have on-die controllers supporting only the present DDR generation.

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Today I'm looking at the Ati Radeon 9000Pro. This is ATI's challenge to the budget computer market. The card that has the latest technology onboard, and packed with enough power to play UT2003 at 1024x768 everything high, without any problems.

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When it comes to the term “removable media,” a lot of different drive types probably come to mind. I mean, you’ve got your obvious ones, like the floppy drive, and the CDROM drive. Then, you’ve got Zip drives, tape drives, and more recently, flash drives (a.k.a. pen drives). In fact, about the only thing that normally doesn’t come to mind is a hard drive. That makes sense, right? I mean, why in the world would you want a removable hard drive?

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The Cold Cathode industry is obviously taking off, not with just computer add-ins, but in other industries like copiers, automotive, display back lights and so forth. One of the larger manufacturers of Cold Cathodes is Lamps Electronics and they have provided us with 8 cold cathodes for a round up.

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"The Abit Siluro Geforce4 Ti4200 OTES Video Card is an eye catcher with an incredibly designed cooler. This amazing cooler on the core performs very well allowing a high overclock, however, it is loud. Also, since it is based on the nVidia Geforce4 series Video Cards it is very stable and compatible. Watch the Video to find out more..." ~3dGameMan.com

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