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• Albatron GeForce FX5700P Turbo Review @ 3DXtreme

  Published: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 | By: Dennis

  "A closer look at the video card itself shows a pretty normal design on a blue PCB. Albatron has provided a nice looking cooler for this GPU and ram sinks to keep things cool. As mentioned in the introduction, this video card is designed around a 6 layer PCB which helps to decrease noise and increase the stability of operation."
  Two pages of video card review goodness, how much you wanna bet that the majority of readers only read 3 lines.

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• Radeon X800 Pro/XT Pre - Review

  Published: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 | By: Dennis

  The forum thread is in German but I think everyone can read the numbers on the charts. I have no idea if this stuff is real but I have a feeling that someone will come forth with the truth fairly soon.
  
  If what is being shown is true, the NV40 might be dead before its even on the shelves.
  
  If you have comments feel free to send them in.

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• AMD to introduce 32-bit K8

  Published: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 | By: Dennis

  "Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) aims to strengthen its position in the entry-level processor market by introducing a 32-bit CPU, codenamed Athlon XP Paris, in the third quarter of this year, according to sources at Taiwanese motherboard makers.
  
  The 754-pin Paris will be targeted for the desktop and will be fully based on the K8 micro-architecture, with 256KB of L2 cache, but will not support AMD64, i.e. x86-64 technology, said the sources.
  
  With the introduction of the Athlon XP Paris, AMD’s existing Athlon XP Socket A/462 processors will be gradually phased out, the sources said."

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• NL: Review Block - Trimmed Edition

  Published: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 | By: Dennis

  Been awake too long, need sleep...
  
  Memories - huh?
  - Geil Ultra PC3200 Review @ FastLaneHW
  - GeIL Ultra Platinum PC4400 @ Envy News
  Video
  - ATI Radeon 9600XT All In Wonder Review @ Ascully
  - Galaxy and Gainward GeForce FX 5900XT Reviews @ Beyond3D
  Case Stuff
  - SilverStone SST-TJ04 PC Case Review @ ShortMedia
  - Fanless Water Cooling System @ CustomGinun
  - Lighted ATA Cables @ Raptor-Mods
  - Evercool SCP-A Fan Controller @ HardwareHounds
  
  Don't forget who hooked you up.

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• Asetek Antarctica WaterChill Review @ OverclockersClub

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

  "he Waterchill package is pretty darn big, about 2 feet in length, in fact. Made from a plastic corrugate (I believe) the package itself is fairly side, and all of our components are nestled securely inside wedged between two thick pieces of foam. Everything arrived safe and undamaged. "
  I can attest to that, the box and WaterChill package is pretty big but works great.

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• Interactive L Bridge Painting @ ocinside

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

  Here is a fun little utility written in Javascript to help you when it comes to painting the bridges on the Athlon XP.

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• Intel blames motherboard manufacturers for broken socket 775s

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

  I had a feeling something like this would happen.
  " Intel has ordered manufacturers to use this new 775 socket and this time you have to place the CPU on top of the pins praying that all 775 pins actually touch the right connection on the 775 points of the Prescott.
  
  It you do this correctly then everything is fine and dandy, but if not you can damage either the board or the CPU or both, we have learned."

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• Demonic XTC Waterblock Review @ Water-Cooling

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

  " I feel that these imperfections could be fixed with some light lapping. The Top plate is engraved with "Demonic XTC" in quite a clean readable font but one or two of the letters are a bit messy, and there are a few light scratches around the edge of the letters."
  Just about everything in this review I can agree with though some of the complaints seem to be a little extreme. Check out our review of the same block for comparison,

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• Cooler Master Hyper 6 Review @ MetkuMods

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

  "I like the Cooler Master's way of including two options to mount the potentiometer. Some of us like to install it to the front of the case for constant adjustment but there are users that prefer to leave it at the back of the case, not to be seen."
  This is one big ass cooler.

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• nVidia Overclocking with Coolbits

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

  "Everybody's overclocking these days. Every Nvidia user should have and know Coolbits! If you're searching for it, it's on the first page right here for you. Not only do I have coolbits but I have the lines to give you the AGP settings panel and the refresh rate override panel. Late edition was the Additional info tab which was submitted by Krick. Thanks man for letting me know about this additional hidden tab."
  Coolbits is actually an old hack that is still used today by many overclockers and mfgs. For instance the Gainward overclocking utility installs the Coolbits hack so that you can run the card in "Enhanced" mode.

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