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28 Nov 2003, 07:21am
" As with our comments on the Abit KV8-Max3 if you are looking for a decent top quality AMD Athlon 64 motherboard and do not mind the limitations imposed by the Via K8T800 chipset then this ASUS K8V-Deluxe motherboard should be on your list. For those of you looking for an overclocking to the hilt motherboard then you should look at motherboards using the nForce3 150 but you have limited HyperTransport speed."
<a href="http://www.a1-electronics.net/AMD_Section/Mobos/K8T800/ASUS_K8V-Deluxe.shtml" target="_new">ASUS K8V Deluxe AMD Athlon 64 motherboard @ A1</a>
"The hardware specification for the Amilo D8830 is pretty impressive for a notebook, but it’s worth remembering that this is a chunky machine and it weighs a cumbersome 3.6kg. But if all you need is a machine that you transport between to office and your home, you’d have a hard time finding something much more powerful."
<a href="http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=149" target="_new">Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo D8830 @ TrustedReviews</a>
"I have looked at these fan grills for some time with interest, it goes against convention to have them made out of plastic but we have plastic cases now and they look great. A fan grill for some time had only one function to guard various objects from the fan, I have heard stories of stitches needed after a run in with a 120mm delta, and I have been known to get on the painful side of a fan"
<a href="http://www.rbmods.com/Articles/Sunbeam/Ledgrill/1.php" target="_new">Sunbeam Counterstrike led fan grill @ Rbmods</a>
"The Bytecc ME-350US ships unassembled, and so it take five or ten minutes to install the hard drive (which you must provide separately, no drives are included in the kit) from scratch. Installation is dead simple; the hard drive is connected up to the 80-pin IDE cable and molex power connector, and the entire assembly is slid into the one-piece aluminum chassis. With everything inside the unit all snug as a bug, a set of dovetailed covers slide into place on either side of the aluminum enclosure"
<a href="http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1493" target="_new">Bytecc ME-350US USB2.0 HDD Enclosure @ PCStats</a>
"Today we take a look at the latest offering from Thermaltake with their pre-modded PurePower Butterfly 480 Watt Power Supply.
"<a href="http://www.techtastic.ca/reviews2/butterfly.html" target="_new">Thermaltake PurePower Butterfly 480 Watt Power Supply @ TechTastic</a>
"There are problems with current external CD burners; they are big. They are big and bulky that it seems they are not portable. Most likely all that they are is internal drives that are put in an enclosure. You can carry around the bulky external drive around. But that is a hassle. Well Nu Technology has an external drive. But this one is capable of being a burner and plays DVD's. Better yet, this one is slim. Probably one of the first reviews of the Nu Technology SBW-242US External Slim COMBI USB2.0 24x24x24x8 Optical Drive."
<a href="http://www.modsynergy.com/Review%20111.htm" target="_new">World Exclusive Review: Nu Technology SBW-242US External Slim COMBI USB2.0 24x24x24x8 Optical Drive</a>
"ATI has done a fine job in tweaking their 9600 series, and for the money, I really don't see any reason why anyone should look elsewhere when shopping for a sub-200$ video card."
<a href="http://www.viperlair.com/reviews/video_graph/ati/radeon/9600xt/" target="_new">ATI Radeon 9600 XT @ Viper Lair</a>
"Plextor has raised the ante on DVD +R writing speeds, but this is by no means an indication that you are forced to buy yet another single-technology drive. The latest drive from Plextor is not only the first to offer DVD 8x +R recording, it also offers DVD-R and CD-R/W functionality! Throw in some name-brand well known mastering software and you are well on your way to being an Optical Storage expert. Can all these technologies coexist in one 5¼ drive unit?"
<a href="http://www.cluboverclocker.com/reviews/drives/burners/plextor_708A/index.htm" target="_new">Plextor 708-A DVD±RW CD-R/W Drive @ ClubOverclocker</a>
"The hardware community has been speculating about the possibility that the NVIDIA nForce3 may not have a locked PCI bus. But no one knows for sure if the nForce3 really did not lock the PCI bus. Maybe it did. Who can tell for sure?"
<a href="http://www.rojakpot.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=64&pgno=0" target="_New">Editorial on The NVIDIA nForce3's Unlocked PCI Bus @ RojakPot</a>
"We've taken a look at several different thermal compounds over the last couple years, but all of those have been product made by Arctic Silver or NanoTherm. Today we'll break that trend and take a look at a product by company that you probably don't associate with Thermal Compound, CoolerMaster. Those of you familiar with CoolerMaster probably know them from their heat sinks like the XDream, Aero 7+, or perhaps even their Neon Case Fans, today we'll get to know their Premium Thermal Compound (PTC). "
<a href="http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/cm_premium_thermal_compound.php" target="_new">Coolermaster Premium Thermal Compound</a>
"Yeah, most sites had their Comdex reports up within a day of returning from Vegas. However we decided to sober up a bit first ;)Really, there wasn't much to talk about this year - Comdex itself SUCKED. The only thing we could salvage were private meetings with several companies who probably wouldn't be there had they not booked their suites in advance."
<a href="http://www.hardcoreware.net/reviews/review-181-1.htm" target="_new">HCW does Comdex 2003</a>
<a href="http://www.a1-electronics.net/AMD_Section/Mobos/K8T800/ASUS_K8V-Deluxe.shtml" target="_new">ASUS K8V Deluxe AMD Athlon 64 motherboard @ A1</a>
"The hardware specification for the Amilo D8830 is pretty impressive for a notebook, but it’s worth remembering that this is a chunky machine and it weighs a cumbersome 3.6kg. But if all you need is a machine that you transport between to office and your home, you’d have a hard time finding something much more powerful."
<a href="http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=149" target="_new">Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo D8830 @ TrustedReviews</a>
"I have looked at these fan grills for some time with interest, it goes against convention to have them made out of plastic but we have plastic cases now and they look great. A fan grill for some time had only one function to guard various objects from the fan, I have heard stories of stitches needed after a run in with a 120mm delta, and I have been known to get on the painful side of a fan"
<a href="http://www.rbmods.com/Articles/Sunbeam/Ledgrill/1.php" target="_new">Sunbeam Counterstrike led fan grill @ Rbmods</a>
"The Bytecc ME-350US ships unassembled, and so it take five or ten minutes to install the hard drive (which you must provide separately, no drives are included in the kit) from scratch. Installation is dead simple; the hard drive is connected up to the 80-pin IDE cable and molex power connector, and the entire assembly is slid into the one-piece aluminum chassis. With everything inside the unit all snug as a bug, a set of dovetailed covers slide into place on either side of the aluminum enclosure"
<a href="http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1493" target="_new">Bytecc ME-350US USB2.0 HDD Enclosure @ PCStats</a>
"Today we take a look at the latest offering from Thermaltake with their pre-modded PurePower Butterfly 480 Watt Power Supply.
"<a href="http://www.techtastic.ca/reviews2/butterfly.html" target="_new">Thermaltake PurePower Butterfly 480 Watt Power Supply @ TechTastic</a>
"There are problems with current external CD burners; they are big. They are big and bulky that it seems they are not portable. Most likely all that they are is internal drives that are put in an enclosure. You can carry around the bulky external drive around. But that is a hassle. Well Nu Technology has an external drive. But this one is capable of being a burner and plays DVD's. Better yet, this one is slim. Probably one of the first reviews of the Nu Technology SBW-242US External Slim COMBI USB2.0 24x24x24x8 Optical Drive."
<a href="http://www.modsynergy.com/Review%20111.htm" target="_new">World Exclusive Review: Nu Technology SBW-242US External Slim COMBI USB2.0 24x24x24x8 Optical Drive</a>
"ATI has done a fine job in tweaking their 9600 series, and for the money, I really don't see any reason why anyone should look elsewhere when shopping for a sub-200$ video card."
<a href="http://www.viperlair.com/reviews/video_graph/ati/radeon/9600xt/" target="_new">ATI Radeon 9600 XT @ Viper Lair</a>
"Plextor has raised the ante on DVD +R writing speeds, but this is by no means an indication that you are forced to buy yet another single-technology drive. The latest drive from Plextor is not only the first to offer DVD 8x +R recording, it also offers DVD-R and CD-R/W functionality! Throw in some name-brand well known mastering software and you are well on your way to being an Optical Storage expert. Can all these technologies coexist in one 5¼ drive unit?"
<a href="http://www.cluboverclocker.com/reviews/drives/burners/plextor_708A/index.htm" target="_new">Plextor 708-A DVD±RW CD-R/W Drive @ ClubOverclocker</a>
"The hardware community has been speculating about the possibility that the NVIDIA nForce3 may not have a locked PCI bus. But no one knows for sure if the nForce3 really did not lock the PCI bus. Maybe it did. Who can tell for sure?"
<a href="http://www.rojakpot.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=64&pgno=0" target="_New">Editorial on The NVIDIA nForce3's Unlocked PCI Bus @ RojakPot</a>
"We've taken a look at several different thermal compounds over the last couple years, but all of those have been product made by Arctic Silver or NanoTherm. Today we'll break that trend and take a look at a product by company that you probably don't associate with Thermal Compound, CoolerMaster. Those of you familiar with CoolerMaster probably know them from their heat sinks like the XDream, Aero 7+, or perhaps even their Neon Case Fans, today we'll get to know their Premium Thermal Compound (PTC). "
<a href="http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/cm_premium_thermal_compound.php" target="_new">Coolermaster Premium Thermal Compound</a>
"Yeah, most sites had their Comdex reports up within a day of returning from Vegas. However we decided to sober up a bit first ;)Really, there wasn't much to talk about this year - Comdex itself SUCKED. The only thing we could salvage were private meetings with several companies who probably wouldn't be there had they not booked their suites in advance."
<a href="http://www.hardcoreware.net/reviews/review-181-1.htm" target="_new">HCW does Comdex 2003</a>