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• NL: Review Block - HIS Ed

  Published: Monday, July 26, 2004 | By: Dennis

  Here is a HIS two-fer for the ATI fans out there.
  
  - HIS Excalibur 9550 VIVO @ LAN Addict
  - H.I.S. Excalibur Radeon X600 XT @ Overclocker Cafe
  
  Read with caution, too much ATI on the brain can be harmful to... ummm... something, I just know it can.
  
  More craziness at..

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• Memory Timings Explained @ CoolTechZone

  Published: Monday, July 26, 2004 | By: Dennis

  "Since the cost of memory modules does not vary drastically between speed grades, we recommend that you purchase the highest speed you think you may need in the long term. You will save some money if you decide to upgrade you microprocessor later, all memory is backward compatabile as far as bus speeds are concerned."
  This is a rather informative little article that explains a little about how memory works and what them pesky numbers mean.

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• Corsair TwinX 3200XL ProSeries Review Posted

  Published: Friday, July 23, 2004 | By: Dennis

  Low memory latency affords the system building a variety of things that range from super fast system response to increased overclocking performance. Corsair XL ProSeries modules can do that and provide some cool lighting effects in the process.

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• Intel to bundle ATI-based VGA cards with 915/925 motherboards

  Published: Friday, July 23, 2004 | By: Dennis

  "Intel and ATI Technologies plan a co-marketing initiative called “Driving Change,” which will target the channel and bundle ATI own-brand add-in-board (AIB) clients with Intel own-brand motherboards, according to sources at Taiwanese motherboards makers.
  
  The plan, which will kick off on August 2 in North America and Europe, will offer channel distributors discounts of US$20 or US$30, depending on the motherboard models.
  
  A discount of US$30 is being offered for an ATI Radeon X600-based graphics card bundled with an Intel BOXD925XCV, BOXD925XBC or BOXD915PBLL motherboard."
  Good times for those looking for a cheap way to upgrade their system, though I would have liked to see them apply the discounts on any of the ATI cards.

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• Behind The Scenes: DDR2 @ Legit Reviews

  Published: Friday, July 23, 2004 | By: Dennis

  Legit Reviews has posted a very eye-opening look at the current state of DDR2 marketing from the big 3 memory makers in the United States.
  "When DDR2 memory hit the market I was honestly anxious to see what the memory companies and their marketing departments would do. During the months leading up to the launch of DDR2 platforms and the actual memory I was lucky enough to get see the development and branding of the new DDR2 product lines from three leading American based memory companies: Corsair, Crucial & Kingston. Little did I know each of these three companies would take a vastly different approach to DDR2 memory."

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• NL: Review Block - Water Water Everywhere

  Published: Friday, July 23, 2004 | By: Dennis

  It's almost like a water explosion.
  
  - Titan TWC-A04 Water Cooling @ Big Bruin
  - Xice ExternalCool EC900 Water Cooling @ MadShrimps
  - Bloques de agua Corsair Hydrocool @ XtremeNews
  - CoolerMaster Aquagate water cooling @ PC Unleash
  
  For all your current and future water cooling needs go no further than..

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• TR CPU decoder ring

  Published: Friday, July 23, 2004 | By: Dennis

  This is basically a huge list of current processors and their relative specs including CPU speed, voltage, FSB, etc.... Check it out and compare with your friends.
  
  Oh wait.. That might not work.

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• Abit AV8 Review @ VR-Zone

  Published: Friday, July 23, 2004 | By: Dennis

  "The AV8 is definitely a good overclocker. We were able to squeeze around 4 FPS more performance out of Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness while the board was overclocked. Fortunately, we are hearing from ABIT that they are working on a new BIOS that will give us even more overclockability, when we do get our hands on that BIOS we'll let you know how it does."
  OMG, 4fps! don't get me wrong this is a HUGE boost in performance, back in 1998.
  
  Good overclocking numbers though.

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• GeForce 6800 and 6800 GT GPUs @ Hexus

  Published: Friday, July 23, 2004 | By: Dennis

  "Can you tell them apart? Me neither. You have to get under the skin of the single-slot cooler reference boards (or plug them into a system!) before you can tell them apart."
  Many of the new 6800 cards, including the GT and Ultra, come with reference design heatsink and fan combo. To many mfgs the stock cooler works better than anything they could design and still remain profitable.

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• The Real World Truth by Real Life Comics

  Published: Thursday, July 22, 2004 | By: Dennis

  Ya know Doom 3 had better be the shiz or there will be a TON of really pissed off and poor gamers out there. The sad part is that the game doesn't "require" that great of hardware.
  
  Fellow Pepsi drinker Greg Dean has hit the nail right on the head with his latest comic.

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