SM-Bot
13 Oct 2003, 08:24 AM
<b>Monday morning, here we go! Alot of good reviews coming into the mailbox today</b>...
"After the intial 'slowness' the drive has performed very well, it certainly imporved my overall system performance and allowed for faster installing and ripping of data. The odd knock still ocured but it isnt constant and might happen once a hour or once a evening. The noise can be loud on boot up but once it is spinning the sound is reduced to a gentle hum."
<A href="http://www.pchardware.co.uk/hitachideskstar250.htm" target="_new">Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 250GB Hard Drive @ PCHardware</a>
"It's hard to cut it in the jungle of aftermarket Pentium 4 heat sinks. Intel provides such a very large, attractive, effective and easy to install heat sink that your average computer user and even many of the performance minded have little incentive to replace it. Even overclockers can easily manage with the stock heat sink."
<a href="http://www.subzerotech.com/index.php?module=sz_reviews_display&id=156" target="_new">QuietPC Nexus PHT-3600 @ SubZeroTech</a>
"Notice the power supply up top. This initially caught my eye because of the mesh screen instead of the normal fan grill that I am used to seeing. The reason for this became apparent on closer inspection as I realized that there is no rear exhaust fan for the PSU. It has a single 120mm intake fan mounted on the bottom pulling air up into it and out the rear. I was a bit concerned about this at first until I powered it up. The oversized fan that the PSU uses is not only effective in pulling air from inside the case, but it's also fairly quiet as well."
<a href="http://www.overclockercafe.com/Reviews/cases/AOpen_A600/index.htm" target="_new">AOpen A600 Midtower Case @ OverClockerCafe</a>
"The Chaintech Apogee FX71 could probably be the most awesome looking GeForce FX 5600 ultra graphics card around. Sporting VIVO functions, good accessories, video-editing related software and some other extras, it was an almost perfect product. In this review, you'll get to know more about this card and the complete low-down on the FX 5600 Ultra's performance and a few other attention-grabbing details."
<a href="http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/articles.hwz?cid=3&aid=855" target="_new">Chaintech Apogee FX71 (FX 5600 Ultra) @ HardwareZone</a>
"Zalman is well known for its silent cooling device. Unlike other cooling solutions, Zalman emphasizes on keeping systems cooled while keeping noise levels low. All the way from Korea, they have made pretty good publicity themselves for their Zalman CNPS and their previous ZM80A-HP VGA Heatpipe Cooler."
<a href="http://www.myworldhardware.com/v3/review.asp?ID=73" target="_new">Zalman VGA Heatpipe ZM80C-HP @ MyWorldHardware</a>
"For the lighting; you have an (on / off) switch which is really nice since you don't want this thing glowing when you don't need it to. You don't have to put it into an external power source either, as the PS2 port supplies the power needed. One thing to note. When the backlight is illuminated there is an annoying high pitch noise that comes from the keyboard."
<a href="http://www.viperlair.com/reviews/misc/other/xoxide/ledkb/" target="_new">Xoxide Black PS/2 Illuminated Keyboard @ Viper Lair</a>
"Overall, the MPIO-DMK is the perfect player for those on the go. We say this because the DMK is so tiny that you will hardly notice it on you.
The DMK is perfect when working out both in the gym and on the street.This is the easiest mp3 player to use and anyone can learn its functions in a matter of minutes; it is an mp3 player for the rest of us so to speak."
<a href="http://reviews.designtechnica.com/review22.html" target="_new">MPIO-DMK MP3 Player @ DesignTechnica</a>
"You may be wondering, what the heck is a Cubig. The Cubig Group is a large manufacturer/Distributor that is leading the way in high quality digital products. Today we will be looking at the CVR-H130: A digital voice recorder and MP3 Player on steroids."
<a href="http://www.futurelooks.com/display.php?i=210&p=1" target="_new">CUBIG CVR-H130 MP3 Player and Digital Voice Recorder @ FutureLooks</a>
"After the intial 'slowness' the drive has performed very well, it certainly imporved my overall system performance and allowed for faster installing and ripping of data. The odd knock still ocured but it isnt constant and might happen once a hour or once a evening. The noise can be loud on boot up but once it is spinning the sound is reduced to a gentle hum."
<A href="http://www.pchardware.co.uk/hitachideskstar250.htm" target="_new">Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 250GB Hard Drive @ PCHardware</a>
"It's hard to cut it in the jungle of aftermarket Pentium 4 heat sinks. Intel provides such a very large, attractive, effective and easy to install heat sink that your average computer user and even many of the performance minded have little incentive to replace it. Even overclockers can easily manage with the stock heat sink."
<a href="http://www.subzerotech.com/index.php?module=sz_reviews_display&id=156" target="_new">QuietPC Nexus PHT-3600 @ SubZeroTech</a>
"Notice the power supply up top. This initially caught my eye because of the mesh screen instead of the normal fan grill that I am used to seeing. The reason for this became apparent on closer inspection as I realized that there is no rear exhaust fan for the PSU. It has a single 120mm intake fan mounted on the bottom pulling air up into it and out the rear. I was a bit concerned about this at first until I powered it up. The oversized fan that the PSU uses is not only effective in pulling air from inside the case, but it's also fairly quiet as well."
<a href="http://www.overclockercafe.com/Reviews/cases/AOpen_A600/index.htm" target="_new">AOpen A600 Midtower Case @ OverClockerCafe</a>
"The Chaintech Apogee FX71 could probably be the most awesome looking GeForce FX 5600 ultra graphics card around. Sporting VIVO functions, good accessories, video-editing related software and some other extras, it was an almost perfect product. In this review, you'll get to know more about this card and the complete low-down on the FX 5600 Ultra's performance and a few other attention-grabbing details."
<a href="http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/articles.hwz?cid=3&aid=855" target="_new">Chaintech Apogee FX71 (FX 5600 Ultra) @ HardwareZone</a>
"Zalman is well known for its silent cooling device. Unlike other cooling solutions, Zalman emphasizes on keeping systems cooled while keeping noise levels low. All the way from Korea, they have made pretty good publicity themselves for their Zalman CNPS and their previous ZM80A-HP VGA Heatpipe Cooler."
<a href="http://www.myworldhardware.com/v3/review.asp?ID=73" target="_new">Zalman VGA Heatpipe ZM80C-HP @ MyWorldHardware</a>
"For the lighting; you have an (on / off) switch which is really nice since you don't want this thing glowing when you don't need it to. You don't have to put it into an external power source either, as the PS2 port supplies the power needed. One thing to note. When the backlight is illuminated there is an annoying high pitch noise that comes from the keyboard."
<a href="http://www.viperlair.com/reviews/misc/other/xoxide/ledkb/" target="_new">Xoxide Black PS/2 Illuminated Keyboard @ Viper Lair</a>
"Overall, the MPIO-DMK is the perfect player for those on the go. We say this because the DMK is so tiny that you will hardly notice it on you.
The DMK is perfect when working out both in the gym and on the street.This is the easiest mp3 player to use and anyone can learn its functions in a matter of minutes; it is an mp3 player for the rest of us so to speak."
<a href="http://reviews.designtechnica.com/review22.html" target="_new">MPIO-DMK MP3 Player @ DesignTechnica</a>
"You may be wondering, what the heck is a Cubig. The Cubig Group is a large manufacturer/Distributor that is leading the way in high quality digital products. Today we will be looking at the CVR-H130: A digital voice recorder and MP3 Player on steroids."
<a href="http://www.futurelooks.com/display.php?i=210&p=1" target="_new">CUBIG CVR-H130 MP3 Player and Digital Voice Recorder @ FutureLooks</a>