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8 Oct 2003, 07:06 AM
Morning, evening or afternoon!

Middle of the week and reviews are pouring in. Lots of new reviews going up in the weeks just past Athlon 64 fever!

"The drive was fairly quiet and had a slight ‘hum’ to its operation. With the side of the case back on you could barely hear the drive, drives used to be notorious for noise and some drives are well known that the noise is a downside to the faster speeds."

<a href="http://www.pchardware.co.uk/maxtor200gbsata.htm" target="_new">DiamondMax Plus 9 200GB SATA @ PCHardware.co.uk</a>

"Recently AMD introduced its new durons. We bought one of them, the 1.6 ghz version. The most interesting part of this cpu is its core voltage, only 1.5 V. This cpu begged to be compared with an Athlon XP, dlt3c (known for reaching speeds up to 2700Mhz!). Is the new Duron an equally good overclocker ? Maybe even better ? Find out in this review.."

<a href="http://www.madshrimps.be/gotoartik.php?articID=106" target="_new">AMD Duron Applebred vs. Athlon XP Thoroughbred @ Madshrimps</a>

"The Samsung SCX-4016 Multi-Function Laser Printer is a 3 in 1 Laser Printer, Digital Copier, and Color Scanner. Perhaps aimed towards more for home use, we can't see why small or even medium sized businesses would not look into purchasing it. Looking at its specs we can say they are pretty impressive."

<a href="http://www.explosivelabs.com/reviews/samsung_scx4016/" target="_new">Samsung SCX-4016 Multi-Function Laser Printer @ ExplosiveLabs</a>

"The case has an awesome black paint job that I have fallen in love with. I have jarred, moved, scraped, and banged this case around already and have yet to notice a mark on it. Not only is the outside painted, but the entire inside of the case is coated with the exact same paint job. Very cool to say the least."

<a href="http://www.bjorn3d.com/_preview.php?articleID=351" target="_new">Kingwin K-11-BK-WM Aluminum Case</a>

"As our video cards get more powerful, heat becomes a real issue to dispense with properly. As we have seen with the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800 fiasco, engineers are faced with a real challenge to get heat away from these new VPU cores, and in many cases even out of the system. However, careful and engineering and design of a high-performance cooler does not have to lead to the creation of a monster heatsink and fan assembly."

<A href="http://www.envynews.com/index.php?ID=559" target="_new">Vantec Iceberq 4 VGA Cooler @ EnvyNews</a>

"I've tested the mouse and transmitter with a clear line of sight and they actually still work at 2m. However, if the transmitter is blocked by a table, the range will be shorter. I have tried to turn on my wireless router, wireless PCMCIA adapter, bluetooth mobile phone and bluetooth headset, but all these wireless devices does not affect the operation of the mouse."

<A href="http://www.hardwarezoom.com/viewcontent.jsp?ReviewID=170" target="_new">Microsoft Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer 2.0 @ HardwareZoom</a>

Nice lot to start the day off. Now for some toast.