Wednesday, October 22, 2003

Daily mailbox: Madshrimps, JSI Hardware, HWZ, Designtechnica, EOC, Tweaknews, NVISION — Cormac @ 16:17 

SystemGuide Autumn 2003 @ Madshrimps

"Summers gone and so is the sun... This means you will have plenty of time to sit behind your computer :wink: If you´re feeling uncomfortable with your ´old´ pc we, here @ [M] we offer you 4 systems that fit right into your needs or budget..."

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Actiontec Wireless Cable / DSL Router Review @ JSI Hardware

"I was given the opportunity to review this Router courtesy of www.actiontec.com. The delivery was fast, I did not need any technical support for this product, as it was very simple to install. "

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HWZ review: ABIT IC7-Max3 (Intel 875P)

"Apart from the few setbacks, the ABIT IC7-Max3 is indeed quite a well equipped board as it comes with Gigabit LAN, IEEE 1394 support, SATA RAID 0, 1 and 0+1 and a Secure IDE adapter. The board´s design and BIOS options are definitely made for overclockers, although its options are still not as radical as what the MSI 875P Neo-FIS2R offers. Still, it did manage to hold its performance well with a pretty average score in all of the tests thrown at it. However, when it comes to loading the board with a full set of PCI cards, it did not managed to hold its stability as applications kept exiting for no reason."

Read more at HardwareZone.

Designtechnica reviews the iRiver SlimX iMP-550 CD/MP3 player

"The quality and features of the iRiver SlimX 550 really stand out. It´s "the" CD/MP3 player to get. The form factor is perfect with the ease of control, great battery life, great sound, and numerous features that put it ahead of anything else out on the market. iRiver continues to achieve excellence in the SlimX line. With a relatively low price point of $179.99, we believe you will not find a better similarly equipped CD player than iRiver´s SlimX iMP-550 today."

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Steelpad 4D Mouse Pad @ EOC

"Today we are going to look at the newest release from Steelpad, the Steelpad 4D. If you are a serious gamer and don´t want to lose a frag under any circumstances, then you really need to make sure you have the right equipment to get the job done. Steelpad thinks they have made what you are looking for in a high performance mouse pad. So let´s see what the Steelpad 4D is made of, and run it through a few tests."

Read more at EOC.

Highpoint Rockethead100 SATA Convertor & AC Ryan EL SATA Cable Review @ Tweaknews.net

"Several weeks ago, I picked up two 120GB Western Digital HDDs… the 8MB cache specials. My plan was to span them and use them for storage. My wife remarked that there is such a thing as too much storage space.

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Cards with good price? — GeForce FX 5600 @ NVISION

"We looked at 19 (sic!) cards which based od NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra chips. This is one of the biggest review we can find on other sites (and of course the biggest that look at GeForce FX 5600 cards)."

Read more at NVISION.