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• VIA Unveils Their First DirectX 9 Graphics Core

  Published: Thursday, January 9, 2003 | By: Dennis

  Microsoft makes the world go round, and all this time I thought it was money. Go figure.
  "Developed by S3 Graphics, a joint venture between VIA and SONICblue (formerly S3), the Delta Chrome supports Microsoft’s DirectX 9 application interface using HLSL (high level shader language)."
  But will it play Quake?

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• Gigabyte GA-8PE667 Ultra Review @ Active Hardware

  Published: Thursday, January 9, 2003 | By: Dennis

  A picture is worth a thousand words, so what do you do if you have no pictures? Write a thousand words. Active Hardware has posted another motherboard review and this time the focus is on the Gigabyte GA-8PE667 Ultra.
  
  The board isn't as colorful as previous Gigabyte boards.

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• Crucial voted best place to buy RAM

  Published: Wednesday, January 8, 2003 | By: Dennis

  "For the second year in a row, Crucial Technology has been voted the "best place to buy RAM" by readers of Computer Shopper magazine, a premier technology magazine in the US. "
  Yeah! The best part is that the warehouse is like totally just down the street from me.
  
  If you feel the urge to buy some ram click on the Crucial banner located above ^ and to the side -> (if the are missing just hit refresh a couple of times.)

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• Gigabyte GA-8PE667 Ultra2 Review @ Target PC

  Published: Tuesday, January 7, 2003 | By: Dennis

  Gigabyte has been on a "color" thing lately and it doesn't have anything to do with unified colors. Despite this we still have the same feature packed Gigabyte board we have grown to enjoy.
  "We at TargetPC have been trying to get our hands on a Gigabyte motherboard for over a year. Recently at Comdex 2002 we sat down with Gigabyte and arranged our first review with them. "
  Funny I didn't see Gigabyte there, then again I guess we missed a lot.

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• Hercules DigiFire 7.1 Review @ Maximum3D

  Published: Tuesday, January 7, 2003 | By: Dennis

  This is one of the strangest sound card combos that I have ever seen but I'm a purest when it comes to add-in cards. From a sound-processing standpoint the DigiFire is a Fortissimo III 7.1 with the unique feature being the two Firewire ports.
  "PC audio performance has truly come of age in the past two years. What was once a simple system speaker beeping, is now a full-featured surround sound system with input and outputs to satisfy even the most tech savy gamer."
  Hey I remember that beeping, it was cool.

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• Cooler Master X-Dream Review @ RadiativeNZ

  Published: Tuesday, January 7, 2003 | By: Dennis

  We have been kicking this heatsink around the labs for the past few months and it has yet to dissapoint.
  "Christmas is also coming up, so today I went to the RNZ labs and saw what DiscoSanta had left in my stocking.
  
  Something brand new... something Coolermaster. The Coolermaster HAC-V81 "XDream"."

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• RoydRage's Prometeia / Lian-Li Build

  Published: Tuesday, January 7, 2003 | By: Dennis

  This is one of those case mods where once you have it built you're not going to want to move it, you will have to check out the mod to see what I mean.

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• PC Instability Remedies

  Published: Tuesday, January 7, 2003 | By: Dennis

  We all have troubles with our computers and what fun is it to build the perfect PC if you don't get to troubleshoot issues as their occur? Well WinHQ has a list of 7 things to be sure to check the next time your PC gives you trouble.
  " Compressed air is also extremely useful for removing dust and caked in PCBs. Are you a smoker? Smoke is the worst substance for damaging PCs. I spent a whole night at an uncle's house just cleaning the gross tar from the case! "
  Word to your mother.

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• Single Standard Wi-Fi Losing Ground

  Published: Monday, January 6, 2003 | By: Dennis

  This trend has already started to take place and really makes more sense in the big picture. The only bad part is that 802.11a is the only one of the new standards that operates on a different frequency range from 802.11b/g so despite it being a little more secure and not interfering with your phone it might be on its way out.

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• Users Do More Than Surf

  Published: Monday, January 6, 2003 | By: Dennis

  According to the chart of the people surveyed people spend most of their time chatting with instant message programs and trading files.
  
  I wonder what that will do to people that develop websites for a living, hummm

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