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AND SO THE NEWLY-BUILT Nangang Exhibition Hall on the outskirts of Old Taipei falls silent.

The shiny new kit has been handed out as samples to wannabe customers, or screwed by unscrupulous hacks.

The dancing girls have packed up their multi-threaded thongs and quad-core knickers and headed home to mum, followed in a couple of instances by salivating German businessmen proferring endless supplies of memory sticks.

With battles fought, dragons slayed and dollar bills promised with a handshake and an order on the back of a business card, this - sweeping backwards through time - is what we made of it all:

Shuttle doesn't slow down

Tyan has a new look

Thermaltake Rotation shows its class

Biostar shows off 790GX boards

Asetek shows next-gen VGA

Lasso becomes XGP

NVia announces Mini-ITX 2.0

Kingston goes native in Taipei

Powercolor is now a mobo company

Supermicro gets 2.5 inch drives

Cyberlink wires up the world, inside and out

Intel Atom shortage confirmed, denied, confirmed

Lian-Li makes an XBox360 case

6.07GHz clocked on an Abit X38 board

Gigabyte packs in the tech

ATI 4850 pictured

Thecus has eight- bay NAS

Foxconn overclocking and Intel steppings

Enermax touts 82 efficient PSUs

HD arrives for virtually every home, finally

Asus sounds out the competition

AMD lets the cat out of the bag

A-Data's got a thick pipe

OCZ does 3GB memory kits

Intel Nehalem heatsink pictured

Intel goes to the drawing board, comes back as VIA

Sapphire shows off 56 inch quad 1080p monitor

Abit shows off more new MIDs

Albatron pushes the envelope

SuperTalent wraps flash well

Abit has first new idea at Computex

Thermaltake compressor ready to roll

Great Wall of Nehalem

Corsair shows off 2.0GHz 4GB kits

Centrino 2 gets an outing but stays under wraps

Zalman improves almost everything it's got

Asus launches next-gen Eee PC, the 901

Small is now beautiful at Computex

Computex gears up for biggest year yet