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Got MX?

Another title could be “Everything you should know about the MX but nobody took the time to tell you”. The real title should be “The variables affecting the frame rate of Quake 3 timedemo demo001 using the GeForce MX video

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Geforce 3 Extreme Cooling

Most folk would be pretty happy with a brand new, state of the art, £300 Geforce 3. The thought of strapping on a water cooler, peltier element and soldering resistors to it would have them crying “Void Warrantee”. Well, maybe

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More Is Not Always Better

There’s a bunch of reviews on Tualatins, but they can be summarized in two sentences: Tualatin is pretty good at mainstream applications. It’s not so good for gaming or rendering or other applications where memory bandwidth is important. We’ll talk

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Memories . . .

Before you go looking at Tualatin benchmarking (or for that matter, any new ones), there’s something you should know: The SiSoft Sandra memory benchmark is being modified (it’s still in beta, but some benchmarking places are using it). You can

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PIII vs. PIV Deathmatch

I’ve tried to avoid using wrestling terminology in comparison for a few reasons. One big difference between a wrestling match and a product comparison is that the first is fixed, and you would hope the second isn’t. But here, the

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The Worst of All Worlds?

Just wondering if others run into this, too. I end up upgrading equipment fairly frequently, so I end up taking lots of little jumps. What I’ve found doing this is that perception of speed turns into a one-way street. I

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Left Hand, Right Hand

I spoke a little less than two weeks ago about my travails finding out whether and when I could get cable modem service. Some of you strongly suggested I go to an office and find out what was really going

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What I Want For Christmas

First thing I have to do is move Christmas. Santa can’t deliver what I want by December, besides, you always get better deals off-season. 🙂 So let’s move Christmas to sometime next summer. That’s enough rest for Santa. What do

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Dynatron DC1206BM-O

SUMMARY: A very efficient all-copper heatsink that rivals the Thermalright SK6, using a technology that literally “shaves” fins out of the copper base. I found the Dynatron DC1206BM-O through an ad banner on this site – I guess sometimes these

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ATI Radeon Cooling

Finally, I made my decision to go get a Radeon. Now let me tell you that the system I am using at present is an old PIII @450 MHz, o/c to 558 MHz on an Intel 440 Bx motherboard equipped