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This article includes a brief overview and some benchmarks for Intel’s latest desktop offerings – the 945G Express chipset, Pentium 4 Processor 670 (3.8GHz, 2MB L2), and dual-core Pentium D Processor 820. Check it out!

You are used to seeing Gigabyte video cards and motherboards. But did you also know they make CPU coolers? Today we look at their flagship cooler, the Gigabyte G-Power Cooler Pro (GH-PDU21-MF).

Sapphire, like other video card companies, isn’t forgetting about the AGP users out there. The flagship X850 XT Platinum Edition card is now available in both PCI Express and AGP flavors. Read this article to see just how well Sapphire’s flagship AGP card performs relative to an X850 XT PCIe …

What can I say? The card is a beast and power hungry one indeed. With 16 pipelines and remarkable performance no gamer will stray away from getting one of those unique VGA boards. Even though the X850XT is last year’s refresh part it is here to compete with NVIDIA’s offering …

Read this article to learn a little about Sapphire’s X300SE HyperMemory card and Leadtek’s 6200 TurboCache card. Both use system memory to increase the amount of memory used by the video card. Take a look at some benchmark charts to see which technology edges out the other or if they …

After releasing several stand-alone DVD recorders over the past couple years, Lite-On finally graces store shelves with a HDD recorder as well. Check out the features and performance of the 160GB LVW-5045 in this review.

Check out this review to see how well Point of View’s GeForce 6600 GT performs. Point of View includes a nice bundle to accompany the good performance of this mid-range solution.

Sapphire improves on its already impressive X800 XL offering by making it nearly silent by employing a Zalman VPU cooler. This new card carries the “Ultimate” moniker and offers all of the performance of the standard X800 XL but at a much lower noise level.

Converting music on cassette tapes to digital music (or back) no longer is a complicated matter of hooking up your cassette deck to the PC. Instead BTO comes to the rescue with the Plusdeck 2, a product that gives you the flexibility of a cassette deck inside your PC.

Overall, Sunbeam’s Samurai case is a well designed low-budget project. If you are looking for cheap yet fancy case, you should give Samurai a try. Although a power supply is not included in this unit, you are free to choose any ATX power house you like.

In this article, we take a look at Seagate’s latest consumer-level SATA hard drive – the 7200.8 SATA NCQ. Read the review to see how well two 400GB 7200.8’s perform in RAID 0 and RAID 1 and how well a single 7200.8 performs by itself.

There are a lot of power supplies on the market these days. Some are good; others a pure junk. PC Power and Cooling’s offerings are in the good group, kind of like junk being a 1972 Ford Pinto and the 510-SLI being a Porsche Carrea GT. And just like the …

Modding has come a long way from when I first put in a window in my case a few years ago. A.C. Ryan is a company that has tons of nice items for any serious (and causal for that matter) modder, and we’ve taken a look at some of those …

Gigabyte has added another video card to its Silent-Pipe family. It features a Radeon X800 chip, 256 MB of GDDR3 memory, and a PCI Express interface. Read this review to see how it stacks up against both a GeForce 6600 GT and 6800 GT.

So how does a heatsink designed for an FX-55 run on lower speed AMD 64 chips? It works very well, should let you do some good overclocking on lower speed CPUs.