14-July-04, 11:05 AM
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| |  Affiliate Reviews: Hardware Round-Up
-----Motherboards-----  | Quote: |  | | | | | | | | | | "ASUS has waved its deluxe wand over a socket-939 motherboard with encouraging results. Deluxe means a horde of useful goodies. ASUS obliges with Gigabit Ethernet, 54g Wireless, FireWire400, on-chip and discrete SATA and decent sound. Packaging and presentation is usual ASUS, that is, first class. We were also pleased to report that the board ran flawlessly with the strictest memory timings. Performance, as our graphs have shown, was excellent, so much so that S940 is firmly relegated into third place, behind our test Model 3800+ and the S939 FX-53." | |  | |  | | | | Quote: | | | | | | | | | | | "GA-8I915G-MF is a cost-effective solution for the latest LGA775 Intel P4 CPU with Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 - the fastest Intel integrated graphics engine ever available. Packed with features like PCI-Express, Gigabit LAN, Firewire and Intel High Definition Audio. GA-8I915G-MF will be the best choice for a mini-PC. " | | | | | | | | | Quote: | | | | | | | | | | | The Pro II really has potential since it has all the features I’d personally want as a LAN ! Party enthusiast such as 3Com’s Gigabit Network Card for the amazingly quick connections to our game servers, FireWire ports for capturing video from your digital video camera and some diagnostic tools that we just crave! You’ll notice BIOS Mirror has become almost standard from many companies but are often named just slightly differently such as Dual BIOS or something similar. If you’ve ever had the joy of accidentally screwing up upgrading your BIOS you’d understand the importance of having a backup. | | | | | | | -----Video Cards----- | | Quote: | | | | | | | | | | | "A few months ago this video card would have been considered top of the line or close to it, but with the emergence of the ATI X800 series and GeforceFX 6800 series it has been bumped into the mainstream market. As such, pricing for this video card is not much more than that of the NVIDIA 5700 or ATI 9600XT making it an even more attractive buy considering its performance." | | | | | | | | | Quote: | | | | | | | | | | | What I cannot recommend in this graphics card is for who to wantplay more advanced games like FarCry since it lags behind the Radeon, and in these games that runs at 30~40fps, extra frames can make the difference in the game experience. | | | | | | | | | Quote: | | | | | | | | | | | With more and more people looking a quiet solution to their computer needs we are still faced with the problem of having a large enough power supply to provide enough current to run all of the accessories so many people are demanding be installed in their computers. Coolmax has come up with a power supply that might help solve this problem. It's their 14cm Silent Cooling Fan Switching Power Supply (Model CR500B). With the adjustable speed 120mm fan, along with the option of letting the temperature circuitry control the fan you end up with a near silently powered system under normal operating conditions. | | | | | | | | | Quote: | | | | | | | | | | | "With a price of ~£40 inc VAT in the U.K. from a number of retailers, combined with respectable, if not earth-shattering, performance, the Hiper isn't a bad PSU by any means. The cheap is bad mantra in the budget PSU space doesn't apply here.
It's a quiet supply that should serve you well if 320W sustained and limited connectivity options are all you're looking for." | | | | | | | |
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