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Wed Feb 09 2005, 07:41
CHRIS CONNOLLY'S GamePC compares the Sapphire X800XL against an Asus card featuring the same chip. As one reader pointed out though and a Chris points it rightly. The $299 MRSP is pretty useless and plays again the X800XL comparison to the 6800GT.

Even more X800XL reviews, this time from Singaporean website VR Zone. They have had a go at the Powercolor X800XL with its 256MB of DDR3 memory, twin DVI ports and a sizeable HSF. Overclocking amongst others are evaluated.

It's the paranoiac geek's dream come true. the Lexar Jumpdrive Touch guard can store 10 different thumbprints and 200 password combinations and doubles as an AES-encrypted flash drive. It does cost more than similar drives but your information will no longer be at risk.

The Arctic Cooling silentium T2 case get a review at atruereview. What separates this case from others is the level of noise, which the reviewer says is quite impressive.

The Corsair Flash Voyager USB drive has been reviewed elsewhere but the Xtremeresources review brings even more images and the same conclusion. A good memory drive but nothing much to shout about.

Chris Tom from AMDZone reviews the 60GB version of the Hitachi Travelstar This is a hard disk laptop equivalent of a Rolls. Equipped with 8MB of cache, it spins at 7200rpm to offer top desktop performance for your laptop.

Some pages away at the same site, there is a Leadtek Winfast PX6800GT GT TDH. Apart from the design and the game bundle, there is nothing to distinguish it really from the others.

PCW orld reviews the Ultimate M5-64 from ABS. This computer is amongst the fastest one tested by them and features some awefully powerful components including Aquagate liquid CPU.

Still another networking product reviewed is the Linksys Wireless-G Expander WRE54G which is a quality and low-cost way to enhance your wireless network.

From the same reviewer, Biosmagazine explores the new realms of Wireless audio servers. One model from Terratec, the Noxon is under review. While it comes with a remote and supports internet radio, there is no image and digital audio support.

Chinese website GZeasy revisits the i915G chipset and compares six motherboards including one from a little known company called on-Data, in a bid to see which one of the is the bests. Use worldlingo to translate the simplified chinese version.

Asrock is positionning itself more and more as a reckless solution provider. After the socket-754 > 939 upgradable motherboard, they came forward with a motherboard offering up to five display output. The Asrock P4Dual-915GL uses its internal onboard video, combined with one AGP and one PCI-e slot, each supporting two video outputs. OCworkbench got more here. They have also reviewed the Foxconn Winfast NF4UK88AA8EKRS here. This nForce 4 Ultra mainboard should help piling up socket 939 processors and sell them cheap. The other review is that of the Jetway A210PDAG which comes with the ATI Expres 200P chipset and uses the ULIM1573 as south bridge, bringing some good things like NCQ and Azalia to the AMD platform.

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