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28 Oct 2003, 06:05pm
<b>Ding ding round 2!</b>

"The versatile 9670 is great at what it does but comes with a high price tag. We had a tough time deciding exactly what environment (business, home office or personal) this printer would fit into. HP states that the 9670 is great for businesses, creative professionals and photography
enthusiasts."
<a href="http://reviews.designtechnica.com/review693.html" target="_new">HP DeskJet 9670 Wide-Format Printer @ DesignTechnica</a>

"All in all a decent improvement on the earlier GeForce FX 5600 Ultra which now puts Nvidia basically on a level playing field as such with ATI in the all important mainstream or mid-range graphics cards. "
<a href="http://www.a1-electronics.net/Graphics_Cards/GeForceFX/GeForceFX_5700Ultra.shtml" target="_new">Nvidia GeForce FX 5700 Ultra @ A1 Electronics</a>

"GeForce FX 5700 is the mainstream refresh of GeForce FX 5600 Ultra. The refresh is the mainstream equivalent of NV30 to NV35 in that the basic configuration stays the same but the main thrust being that the integer shader units have been replace with small floating point units, there have been optimisations for the Intellisample image quality options and the addition of UltraShadow. Although the pixel pipeline configuration remains the same as NV31, albeit with the replacement of the integer units for float ALU's, the entire vertex engine from NV30 / NV35 has been lifted and included in the NV36 chip for GeForce FX 5700."
<a href="http://www.beyond3d.com/previews/nvidia/nv36/" target="_new">NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra Preveiw @ Beyond3D</a>

"This utility program is a powerful collection of tool for enthusiasts with nForce2 or nForce3 motherboards. (There is no support for nForce motherboards). In short, NVSU lets you tweak and change various settings within a windows interface to eek out the performance overclockers crave. NVSU will let you overclock FSB, tweak voltage settings (including CPU, AGP, and RAM), even some memory timings, or even change fan speed on the fly within a windows session thereby negating some tweaking through the BIOS. The utility changes some of the settings without writing to the BIOS and thus leaves the BIOS intact."
<a href="http://www.nvnews.net/reviews/nvidia_system_utility/" target="_new">NVIDIA System Utility Preview @ nV News</a>

"The VIA mini-ITX form factor has taken the world by storm and that’s no mean feat. The latest iteration is the EPIA CL, which is not a direct consumer product as such, but rather something geared towards a more specialized market. The reason for this is that the EPIA CL board features dual 10/100Mbit LAN as well as support for up to four serial ports."
<a href="http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=105" target="_new">VIA EPIA CL @ Trusted Reviews</a>

""This article will not only be a review, it will discuss the discrepancies found from the label on your DDR, to the chipset claims of bandwidth. As Overclocker's (Enthusiast's), we can be an overly demanding and fickle bunch. We are insatiable when it comes to hardware performance, and whether it be DDR, Graphic's, or CPU's, we plug them in and immediately begin seeking the performance ceiling."
<a href="http://www.madshrimps.be/gotoartik.php?articID=113" target="_new">OCZ DDR PC-4200 Dual Channel @ Madshrimps</a>

"Mushkin has been operating its memory and components e-commerce site since 1994 and it is not hard to see how they have made it this far! We can clearly see that their DDR500 memory modules are some of the best on the market after looking at the majority of 512mb modules sold in North America...."
<a href="http://wwww.legitreviews.com/Reviews/mushkin4000_1.shtml" target="_new">Mushkin 1GB PC4000 Dual Pack Memory Review Review @ Legit Reviews</a>