<strong>Legion Hardware, Bjorn3D, TrustedReviews, InsaneTek, TweakTown, HardwareXL, HWZ, Driverheaven, Hexus, Madshrimps, Elite Bastards, TweakPC, Creativemods, NGOHQ</strong>

Legion Hardware - (Albatron GeForce 7800 GT)

"The GeForce 7800 GT is without a doubt going to be a tremendously popular high-end graphics card. That said, this Albatron product adds even more value to the GeForce 7800 GT, retailing for just $380 US ... The performance of the Albatron GeForce 7800 GT is amazing to say the least. The GeForce 7800 GT did well in games such as Doom 3, taking on the big guns from ATi."

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ECS Editors' Day Coverage @ Bjorn3D

"ECS was kind enough to invite us to its recent Editors' Day event in California. I was the lucky one who got to go and enjoy some interesting presentations from ECS and some of its partners, including ATi, NVIDIA, AMD and Intel. The purpose of the event was to introduce the the press to the 'new ECS.' It didn't take this event for me (and many of you no doubt) to realize that ECS was in the middle of a change. As I recognized in my ECS KN1 Extreme motherboard review, this company is trying to and succeeding in catching the attention of enthusiasts with its Extreme line of motherboards."

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DFI Lanparty UT nF4 SLI-D Motherboard @ TrustedReviews

"From this it’s clear that DFI didn’t follow the nVidia reference design and further proof of this is that the little piece of PCB that most SLI boards use to change between SLI and none SLI mode is missing. Instead DFI is using six blocks of jumpers that have to be moved to change to SLI mode. The problem with this is that the jumper blocks are quite hard to remove, even with the included tool. As the tool hasn’t been specifically designed for removing jumpers - it is a BIOS chip removal tool - it takes time and patience to remove the jumper blocks. However, re-fitting them is easy enough and it’s not a task that you’ll perform more than once or twice in the lifetime of the board anyhow - unless you review graphics cards for a living."

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SilverStone SG01 @ InsaneTek

"SFF systems are becoming increasingly popular for LAN gamers. SilverStone's SFF case solution may be quite pricey, but it is definitely worth the money. There is room for almost everything you can put in."

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1600DPI Gaming Mice from Logitech and Razer @ TweakTown

"Swinging away from the usual hardware, today we're looking at two of the latest and greatest gaming mice from Logitech and Razer. In the left corner we have the Logitech MX518 and in the right corner we have the Razer Diamondback Plasma Edition. Both offer impressive features such as on-the-fly sensitivity adjustments and 1600 DPI accuracy. Which is the best for your gaming rig? Read on and find out our thoughts!"

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Zalman CNPS9500Cu-Led CPU Cooler Reviewed at HardwareXL

“COMPUTEX, already in its 25th year, was held in Taipei World Trade Center (TWTC) in Taiwan from May 31 to June 4, 2005. Zalman Tech occupied a 6m x 6m booth in Hall 1 showing brand new products such as the CNPS9500 LED. Now 3 months later I get a chance to have a look at the Zalman CNPS9500Cu-Led cpu cooler. CNPS9500 LED, with its unique design, weight of less than 500g, and performance that is comparable to water-cooling was the talk of the event among many experts. It's smaller than the 7700Cu, but boy can it handle heat ;-)"

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Shuttle XPC SN26P (nForce4 SLI) @ HWZ

"Just a tad larger than existing P-series XPC machines, Shuttle's newest entrant defies all previous expectation with its performance shattering results. Based on an nForce4 SLI platform for AMD CPUs, dual GeForce 6800 GT cards and other fine components, this is a breathtaking machine."

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DHzer0point Nvidia 0.7803 Released! @ Driverheaven

"-Based on the Nvidia 7803 Beta Drivers
-Unified performance, set the performance slider where you prefer for performance, the set defaults to HIGH Quality.
-Tweak base rewritten and enhanced, older cards should experience a performance boost as well as the newer cards
-SLI problems should be fixed (let us know if this isn't the case we're in need of an SLI beta tester)
-7800GTX/GT Support
-PCI Tool Included
-Doom3 Optimizations completely rewritten, up to an 11% performance gain reported
-Source Engine Optimizations redone, performance gains up to 5% reported in some instances
-Full Mobility Support
-Negative LOD bias Allowed
-Shimmering on 7800GTX Cards should be gone (thanks to Nvidia on that one)"

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HEXUS.reivew :: NVIDIA ForceWare 70 and 75 MIP Boundary Shimmering with GeForce 7800 GT and GTX

"Join me as I discuss how anisotropic texture filtering works, before moving on to investigating what's up in the current drivers, followed by a look at what NVIDIA has done in a very recent driver build to fix one of their user-selectable quality modes. Finally, I'll round things off with a chat about NVIDIA's filtering choices and what to expect in the future from the major IHVs."

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AMD Athlon 64 heatsink roundup summer 2005 @ Madshrimps

"The new school year is about to begin, and every student will feel the urge to buy a lot of things, because "I need it for schoolwork". How about using this excuse to buy new CPU cooling ? This article should give you a little help in the right direction."

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Elite Bastards preview: Intel's next-generation CPU architecture

"Intel's next-generation architecture will feature 14 pipeline stages, compared to the 12 stages which can be found on existing Athlon 64 designs. This should improve performance considerably alone; although the side effect of this is that we most likely still won't be seeing a 4GHz CPU from Intel any time soon."

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TweakPC on Tour: ACON5 - Looking back

"This year ABIT an severel sponsors present the ACON5, a gaming event. Ittook place in the first chinese capital called X'Ian (chi-an"), where about100 gamer from 16 nations met to play Warcraft III and Half-LifeCounter-Strike against eac other to find the best one amongst them. We wereon location and have some nice things right up online."

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Creativemods Review: Casebuy PSU Tester

"There is no doubt that your power supply is an important part of your computer. The folks at Casebuy.com know this and developed a product called the EZ Power Supply Tester 2 to quickly test your power supply. The tester's main selling point is how quickly it can test PSUs (I was able to test my PSU in a matter of minutes). A multimeter can be used for more accurate readings, but using a multimeter isn't nearly as fast. If you are interested in this PSU diagnostic device, please read on."

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AGP is far from fading away @ NGOHQ

"We realize that AGP is far from fading away, according to our survey, almost 83% of the voters are still using AGP and only 17% are using systems with PCI-e."

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Sennheiser PC155 vs Icemat Black Siberia @ TrustedReviews

"Both headsets have a single cable running from the ‘phones into a volume control with the Icemat's being detachable. Small things differentiate the two products here: the Sennheiser's volume control is basic but functional, with its mic on/off switch and volume dial, whilst the Icemat with its reflective black box is stylish but overly minimalist with its lack of a visual indicator for the volume level."

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