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• Maxtor DiamondMAX Plus 9 SATA Review @ XtremeNews

  Published: Tuesday, July 1, 2003 | By: Dennis

  I've been a fan of Maxtor drives since my very first 540mb beast back in the "olden days". Anyhow for us English speaking peeps you might need a secret translator ring for this one.

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• Aero 7+ Review @ PC Abusers

  Published: Tuesday, July 1, 2003 | By: Dennis

  "It seems new heatsinks never stop coming out. But also it seems processors always get hotter and hotter. Then for those of us who overclcock, well, we always want the best or something at least cool looking that also does a good job at cooling the cpu. Enter the unique Coolermaster Aero 7+ and it's fan. Yes, that fan. What has taken the people who make these fans so long to make one like this:"
  Copper heatsink and a big blower, what more could you ask for? Here is our review of the Aero 7+ for comparsion.

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• DFI LanParty NFII Ultra Review Posted

  Published: Monday, June 30, 2003 | By: Dennis

  The LanParty NFII Ultra is the newest addition to the LanParty series from DFI. The board features the nVidia nForce2 Ultra 400 chipset, a plethora of onboard and included features, and the ever-popular UV reactive expansion slots.

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• Asus P4P800 Deluxe Review @ Digital-Daily

  Published: Monday, June 30, 2003 | By: Dennis

  I don't normally post Asus board reviews but this Springdale enabled board looks kind of fun.
  "This board is the first in the new AI series (stands for "Artificial Intelligence"). This motherboard offers powerful expansivity options as well as quite interesting "Hyper Path" mode that gives a considerable system performance boost. "
  I hope the board is better than the movie.

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• Block-0-Reviews

  Published: Monday, June 30, 2003 | By: Dennis

  increase airflow to your PSU @ Tech Juice
  Cobalt3 Pyramid V Fan Silencer Review @ TwistedMods
  JMC Phoenix 60 Review @ ohls-place
  Nexus NXP-205 Review @ PC Abusers
  
  And a little pimpage for.. well.. me

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• Corsair Hydrocool Review @ NordicHardware

  Published: Monday, June 30, 2003 | By: Dennis

  NordicHardware has posted their review of the new watercooling box from Corsair called "Hydrocool". Personally I'm not a fan of the external watercooling units but I hear they are actually pretty easy to use.
  "The point of using HydroCool is that you won't have to cut or make a fuss with your chassis to get water cooling, and the constructers have really done a fine job in making this possible. The whole system is built inside a relativily small box which is set next to the computer."

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• Abit IS7 Review @ Intelforums

  Published: Monday, June 30, 2003 | By: Dennis

  " We chose to use the Speed Racer setting for testing the 'high-end' GAB performance, as the F1 mode refused to run stable on our system. Instability including random refusals to boot, fsb's being reported at half of what they were set to in the bios, and general Windows instability. To ensure it wasn't the RAM, we tried different memory modules, and the results were the same. Perhaps F1 stability is something that will be addressed in future bios revisions?"
  Go speed racer go!. Check out our review of the Abit IS7 here.

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• DFI LanParty NF2 Ultra Review @ ModFathers

  Published: Monday, June 30, 2003 | By: Dennis

  "The Packaging however is a different kettle of fish. The box is very big, nearly twice the thickness of a normal motherboard package. Its green with a lame picture on it, but who cares, its what inside that counts."
  Lame picture huh? Well despite their comments this is a very solid motherboard. I'd suggest that you check back a little later today there might be some "eye-candy" fer ya.

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• Inexpensive SCSI RAID @ A True Review

  Published: Saturday, June 28, 2003 | By: Dennis

  It's true SCSI does rox. Wide data pipes and loud "chugga chugga" sounds give SCSI drives the Harley sound of the computer room, match 2 or more in a RAID config and it only gets better.
  "I prefer SCSI because of the quality of the disks. I recommend SCSI over IDE even if you pay a few extra dollars. Even with RAID I would rather have a disk that will last twice as long than a disk that will fail quicker and need replacing. Remember any time data needs to be restored you will lose time if nothing else"

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• EPoX EP-4PCA3+ Review @ HardwareZone

  Published: Saturday, June 28, 2003 | By: Dennis

  HardwareZone has some sweet Canterwood goodness from Epox.
  "The feature that got everyone talking about is probably the inclusion of the HighPoint HPT374 RAID controller. That controller alone will support eight Ultra ATA-133 devices. That's not all, the controller also comes with support for various RAID configuration - something that rivals all other on-board IDE RAID offering from Promise Technology and ITE."
  Gotta love onboard RAID 5.

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