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Raptors on I95

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Holiday Shopping Roundup: Eight Dual Format Recordable DVD Drives

Now that recordable DVD drives are breaking the sub $200 (and sub $100) level, virtually anyone who has ever made an optical product is pushing their recorder to be...

Off to take my exam

Image Quality Analysis Fall 2003: A Glance Through the Looking Glass

Nearing the end of the first generation of DX9 graphics cards, we take a long look at what's happening under the hood and how it pertains to how our...

The new Raptors have arrived

Asus P4S800D-E Deluxe & Gigabyte 8S655TX Ultra: SiS 655TX Challenges Intel's Best

Since the introduction of the 800FSB Pentium 4 processors, the Intel 875/865 chipsets have dominated the motherboard market with their outstanding performance. The SiS 655FX didn't cut it...

The miracle of grading

Price Guides December 2003: Holiday CPU & Motherboard Guide

This week was a flurry of news; we will touch on Intel's Prescott announcements, Pentium 4 Extreme Edition's REAL pricing, ATI's AMD core logic announcement, and SiS's return to...

Saturday afternoon on campus

Entry Level Pen Tablets: Making the Artist's PC-Life Easier

So it's time to get rid of the pen and paper and stop scanning in your artwork. With entry-level pen tablets as close as the nearest Best Buy or...

2004 Storage Benchmarks

Ouch, those poor Celerons

Budget CPU Shootout: Clash of the 'rons

Both AMD and Intel offer a large selection of budget CPUs. With the holiday season upon us, we take a look at 10 processors for less than $100. What...

Elite PC Titan FX: Setting New Standards in Gaming

Elite PC is producing a full-blown Athlon64 FX gaming system built around a Dual-Processor Socket 940 motherboard. Loaded with top-of-the-line components, we look at how the Titan FX...

COMDEX 2003 Display Coverage: Prelude to a CES

Since Computex Taipei was only 6 weeks ago, and CES Las Vegas is only 5 weeks away, COMDEX turned out to be mildly disappointing for show goers and vendors...

Price Guides November 2003: Video Cards and Memory

Over the last couple weeks we saw the retail debut of GeForceFX 5700 and 5950. Today we take a full analysis of how the new IBM manufacturered GPUs...

SiS755 Reference Board: Athlon64 from SiS

SiS introduces a new Athlon 64 chipset with both 800 HyperTransport speed and AGP/PCI lock. This combination of features is not available from either VIA or nForce3-150. ...

Voodoo Envy M:855 Part 2 - Take Two

We are back with the second installment of the Voodoo Envy M:855, a powerhouse desktop replacement notebook of the likes we have not seen before.