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Thursday, May 24, 2007
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The ASUS P5N-E SLI motherboard rings in at about $130 USD, which makes it substantially cheaper than many of the NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI motherboards on the market and even some of the nForce 650i motherboards. While this motherboard may be affordable, does it deliver upon the ASUS quality and innovations that enthusiasts have come to expect from their cutting edge products? Well, some of its many features include Intel Quad-Core support, NVIDIA SLI, and HD Azalia Audio.
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The main story of the game, as you can surely guess, follows the same plot as the movie, but Treyarch knew this wouldn't be enough and thankfully, gave many parallel side missions with famous villains from the comic books too, keeping the spider within all of us contempt. Overall, that's forty-two different missions, without counting the extra challenges like skydiving and such spread out throughout the city. But will you actually want to finish these numerous missions? Well, the answer might surprise you?
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The OCZ name is well known when it comes to memory. Offering top notch performance and outstanding overclocking capabilities, it is hard to beat. OCZ's PC2-6400 SLi-Ready memory modules are programmed to boot at 800MHz DDR2 with timings of 4-4-4 1T.
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With over clocking becoming a widely accepted mainstream hobby, memory companies are releasing more extreme solutions every year. This year has seen a rapid increase in the "funky" cooling sector (no, I just made that up, its not really a sector). It wouldn't be like OCZ to miss the party, so today we are looking at a 2 GB overclocking kit they released, called "The Reaper".
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Apart from the ton of features and excellent stability, the board doesn't offer any spectacular performance and is far more expensive than the competition, or even other Asus boards. You'd be far better off investing in anything DDR2, rather than forcing yourself down and extremely expensive upgrade path. It will allow some future proofing, but by that time in 12-18 months, you might as well upgrade the motherboard with a newer chipset which will undoubtedly support faster DDR3 modules and newer features as well. It's a really weird situation because it's genuinely a really good board, but there's absolutely no reason to buy it.
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As DDR2 meanders to obsolescence, we're going to send it out with a bang......Today HL begins a four review series covering some enthusiast kits that not only tickle the overclocking itch, but do it without breaking the bank. We'll begin our journey with Crucial's PC2-8500 Tracer Memory Kit, for those of you that want bling in your case....it doesn't get much better than this.
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Here's how it works: in the Eledees world, electricity doesn't work according to our laws of physics, but instead is dictated by the existence of a horde of cute little electrical sprites - the titular Eledees. You're the child of two scientists who study Eledees for a living. One night there's a mysterious blackout emergency affecting your small town, and your parents run off to investigate, leaving you alone in a dark house with nothing but your father's capture gun for company.
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There are three applications vying for the home video editing crown: Adobe's Premiere Elements, Corel's Ulead VideoStudio 11 Plus and the subject of this review, Pinnacle's Studio 11 Plus. Now owned by Avid, a major player in professional video editing on both the hardware and software sides, Pinnacle has gleaned some of the code from more expensive Avid applications in putting together this new version.
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The iLuv is a clear throwback to those 90s cool wall-mounted CD players with sliding doors from the likes of Nakamichi and Bang and Olufsen. You can see the discs spinning and everything! The cool bit is that at £170 it's much cheaper than anything you'll ever get from those companies, so if you ever wanted one of those, now's your chance.
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To an extent, your computer case defines your computer. If you get a 1U rackmount chassis, chances are that you are building a server. If you are using a mATX small form factor case, the aim is portability. A general mid-tower or full-tower case is used for mainstream and performance computing. As computers are now an integral part of many living rooms, the trend of stylish HTPC cases are becoming an important product line of many case manufacturers. NZXT, established in 2004, is starting their quest to become an important player in this market. When they contacted me roughly a month ago in regards to reviewing their products, what really interested me is their NZXT Duet -- a HTPC case that is designed to accommodate both vertical and horizontal placement. Besides external appearance, how well is this case engineered, and how does it perform? Although we haven't reviewed a computer case for quite a while now, it's time for us to get back to it -- and let's examine NZXT's Duet today.
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The GeForce 8600 GTS failed to wow us in the price-performance department but how would the other members in the cohort fare in our labs? We put the other mainstream GeForce 8 cards to test and here's our experience.
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Some gamers may know Saitek as the maker of some superb Chess Computers. In fact, Garry Kasparov, a World Champion chess player, has been associated with Saitek for over 21 years. With a rich history spanning 28 years, Saitek provides quality products manufactured in its own factory to assure the highest quality of merchandise designed to perform for many years to come. Today, we have a brand new product from Saitek called, OBSIDIAN. This is a wireless rechargeable mouse and comes attractively packaged and well protected within a hard plastic cover within the box.
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Mushkin's XP2-8500 4 GB DDR2 memory is the only kit on the market that can run DDR2-1066 in a 4 GB configuration. While other manufacturers have to use CL6 @ 800 MHz, Mushkin can use CL5 @ 1066, at around 2.30 V. Having 4 GB of system memory may soon be the recommended configuration when running the memory-hungry Windows Vista. The only drawback of this memory is its price: $679.
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The GeForce 8800GTS 320 MB is also in a great position when considering there is no immediate threat to it from AMD. Although the Radeon HD X2900 XT is out, the card is targeted to compete with the GeForce 8800GTS 640 MB version, and priced as such with an MSRP of US$ 400. From our experience, the GeForce 8800GTS 320 MB offer about the same performance as the 640 MB version, except in high resolutions and in certain games where memory capacity is extremely important. Today, we're going to take a look at four difference GeForce 8800GTS 320 MB cards from four difference manufacturers. They are the ASUS EN8800GTS, Gigabyte NX8800GTS, Leadtek PX8800GTS TDH and MSI NX8800GTS OC Edition. Of the four, the MSI NX8800GTS OC Edition uses a slightly higher core and memory clock.
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Although many have been a bit disappointed that the latest hardware renditions that ATI released didn't take the GTX performance crown, they tend to forget that the money is in the mid to low range cards, not the top end. This is a market that is still held pretty firmly by ATI with their x1950 Pro cards. Today I have Sapphire's version of the series which has proved itself time and time again; let's see how this one fairs against new challengers from the 8600 series.
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