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Tennmax Lasagna CPU Cooler

SUMMARY: Very quiet, but very subdued performance; Lasagnas are great coolers for GPUs and Northbridge chips but needs serious steroids to be of real interest as a CPU overclocking cooler. TennMax makes a great little CPU/chip cooler called the TennMax

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It Is A Good Day To Die 2501

I’ve been having continued slow-motion breakdown of Win2K on the A7V133; I’ve had failures to boot, and rather substantial chunks of my Outlook Express files vanishing for a while. Thank you all for your suggestions. Right now, there is a

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It’s The GPU

Somebody asked me about “bang-for-the-buck” comparisons between video cards. “Bang-for-the-buck” works well when improvement is linear. You’d be happy if I gave you $100, and twice as happy if I gave you $200. However, most of the time, at some

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It Is A Good Day To Die

Finally got the email from somebody “defending” the free market system I’ve been looking for. The consumer *MARKET*, not Nividia, killed the S3, 3dfx, etc. competition by buying the hell out of TNT and GeForce cards. And now the market

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Vantec Socket A Heatsink: FCE62540D

SUMMARY: Vantec’s latest Socket A heatsink is another credible alternative to consider. The good folks at Vantec were kind enough to forward their latest Socket A entry, the brilliantly named FCE62540D; the name alone just conjures up incredibly cool images.

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GeForce3 and the XBox

I had been looking for a place that had a definitive run down on the issues of this board, and finally found it the day after I hosed my bios. Shortly after the release of the MSI K7T Pro2, Anandtech

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GeForce3 MX?

I have been reading up on this, and outside of two areas, there is little current benefit to this card. Those two areas are nice-to-haves, but they don’t justify the cost. Those areas of improvement come from tweaks and tricks