ATi All-In-Wonder 9700 Pro:
The flagship of the All-in-Wonder series finds its way into our labs. Featuring the Theater 200 and the R300, this could very well be the best all round video card available.

ABIT NF7 meets Granite Bay
NVidia’s dual channel DDR nForce 2 chipset is currently the undisputed performance leader for Athlon desktop systems. Unlike its predecessor the nForce 2 chipset is well performing and easy to overclock.

Daily Snacks
Albatron's KM18G Pro motherboard @ The Tech Report
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 200GB HDD @ HWZ
XtremeDDR 400true RAM @ 3DVelocity
OCZ Dominator 2-Cu HSF @ OCModshop
CoolerMaster CoolDrive3 HDD Cooler @ A1Electronics
MSI Ti4800SE-VTD8X @ Bjorn3D
Antec TrueControl 550w PSU @ The Tech Zone
Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2 Platinum @ OCPrices
FragBox Aluminium Lan Case @ AusPCWorld  

Here is another AMD Opteron Processor Preview

Three arrested over alleged $60 million music piracy case
Three students have been charged with copyright offences over an alleged $60 million music piracy operation.

Microsoft and AMD jointly developed Hammer chips

The first refrigerator with built-in GPS receiver.
Remember the days when you woke up, opened the fridge and guessed where in the world you were? Well, that's history...

Duel of the Titans: Opteron vs. Xeon
Hammer Time: AMD on the Attack. The mood in our labs was thick with excitement - there was barely a week to perform detailed tests on a total of four platforms. AMD had sent in a server with Dual Opteron processors for testing with little time to spare before launch. And it quickly became clear who its rival would be: an Intel Dual Xeon, the 3 GHz version. This article describes the results from our duelling test systems.
We had to take an entirely new approach to test the 64-bit architecture of the Opteron both as a server and as a workstation. We used the brand new Suse Linux Enterprise Server 8 (SLES) with its latest kernel 2.4.19. A total of 30 server and workstation benchmarks were used in this review to fathom the performance of AMD's new Opteron processor.

Extreme PC3500 Roundup
The current ram market is bloated with a plethora of different products and choices. However, more and more products are being produced and aimed at the enthusiast crowd: the overclockers. With this in mind, many companies have set out to create “The Ultimate Overclocking Ram"

Plextor PX-504A DVD+RW
Plextor’s name and reputation has traditionally been synonymous with performance and quality. This time however, Plextor’s new PX-504A DVD+R/RW drive is lacking their usual refinement.

If I had a million dollars: Selling AMD
Unless you are looking for AMD…AMD isn’t easily seen. You can’t go more than 50 feet without tripping over an Intel ad in newspaper, radio or television. Can you hear the Intel jingle in your head? Do you remember the dancing lab workers dressed in shiny costumes looking like a toxic chemical “phat” crew on their way to American Bandstand? The reason is that AMD does not have a vault the size of Uncle Scrooge’s complete with diving board and piles of coins and bills to fund this pop culture marketing of processors.

Wahoo P4 Stratagem Review
See how this monster rig from Wahoo Computers stacks up. The most powerful system in the universe? Read to find out.

Optimize Windows XP System Settings for your Gaming Machine
If you are a hard core gamer then the below tweaks are for you.
This is a list of windows services that you can disable to get better performance out of your system only use it after you have created a hardware profile for gaming. If you do not know how to do that, refer to our tweak on how to Create a Hardware Profile to free up System Resources by clicking here.

Is AMD being coy with its clockspeeds?
C'mon, don't hide behind that fan! WITH OPTERON now officially set to debut at 1.6 and 1.8 GHz clockspeeds (and no 2 GHz model as initially hoped) discussions have resurfaced as to how well AMD is able to scale the Hammer architecture.

Whoops, CNN makes a deadly mistake
The newswire is alive with giggles and snarls after CNN accidentally gave the public access to a number of "mock up" obituaries prepared for famous individuals who are, in fact, still alive. Unaware readers may have been convinced, however briefly, that figures such as Ronald Reagan, Fidel Castro, Pope John Paul II, and Nelson Mandela were all dead. Also included in the mock-up is Dick Cheney, the "loyal pointman for two Bush presidencies." Apparently CNN expects him to drop at any moment. And since the Internet is a Beautiful Thing™, the pages are all cached for your viewing enjoyment on a non-CNN site. The Smoking Gun managed to catch the pages, so have a look if your morbid heart so desires.

Say Hello to our new cyberfriend >>> Cyber Wizard Pit

Iraq's former PR spinner gets job with Microsoft
THE MINISTER OF DISINFORMATION for the former Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq appears to have surfaced again, this time working for MS.:-)

Latest Windows fix can cause slowdown
Too many patches on the wheel

One of our readers send us an update to the ASR article
Edward Green : "I was excited by your automated recovery article (for Win XP Pro) - how ever there is a tweak that will allow this procedure to work on Windows XP home as well : http://windows.about.com/library/weekly/aa020203a.htm "

Radeon 9600 Pro: Another Brick in the Wall
High end 3D cards get all the glory. They're the rock stars of the 3D world, and are the source of graphics companies' bragging rights untill now.

The New Face of Knowledge Management
According to SearchCRM.com, a knowledge worker is anyone who works for a living at the tasks of developing or using knowledge. In addition, the site states that the term is also frequently used to include people outside of information technology, such as lawyers, teachers, scientists of all kinds, and also students of all kinds. That's a pretty broad definition.

Seen anything different here lately ? Yes you guessed it , we got a new logo design and cleaned up the structure a little . Hope you like it :-)

Unlocking the AMD Thoroughbred or AMD Barton is very simple .

Prepare to Meet Thy Doom
John Carmack's game engines set the standard for PC graphics -
and legions of gamers and the industry love him for it.
Now he's brought the world to the brink of Doom III.

MSI K7N2G-ILSR: MSI pulls no punches with their flagship nForce 2 motherboard.
Featuring almost every conceivable technology available for motherboards, they're doing everything they can to standout on paper. Let's see how it does in reality.

Abit's BH7 motherboard
Rekindling an old flame
by Geoff Gasior AMONG ENTHUSIASTS, Abit's BH6 is probably the most revered motherboard of all time. The BH6 was an overclocker's dream in its day, and even today, many original BH6s are purring happily along, a testament to board's robust BX chipset and unwavering stability.

nForce2 Dethroned? VIA's KT400A Chipset Reviewed
Recently, VIA released a new Athlon chipset. But it is no silver bullet that could take down the Pentium 4 and its brand-new 875 chipset. No dual-channel memory interface, no faster FSB speeds. Still, VIA claims to reach dual-channel performance with only one memory module. Let's look at the evidence.

ABIT Introduces IC7-G Gigasystem Mainboard
ABIT has introduces its long awaited offering for the Intel 875 chipset. The IC7-G, according to ABIT is engineered to meld high-performance workstation stability and power.

FBI Nabs Russian Hackers with Employment Scam
A Russian hacker wanted by the FBI for high-tech computer crimes was lured by the FBI to the U.S. using a job interview ruse. The FBI created a phony company known as "Invita," and solicited several Russians suspected of computer crimes against the U.S. to travel to Seattle, Washington for job interviews. The invitees were tasked with scanning an Invita computer network and finding and identifying its vulnerabilities as part of their skills qualification.

ATI's Radeon 9600 Pro GPU
HIGH-END GRAPHICS CARDS like NVIDIA's GeForce FX 5800 Ultra and ATI's Radeon 9800 Pro attract all manner of adoring fans and groupies, but only a select few can really afford to drop a fistful of Benjamins on these pricier upgrades.
Hard-core gaming enthusiasts may always want the fastest available graphics cards, but for the rest of us, more reasonably-priced mid-range graphics cards can still offer buttery smooth frame rates in today's games.

Dual-Channel DDR Comes of Age: Intel's 875P (Canterwood) Chipset and 800 MHz FSB

Xbox 007 Linux hack laid out for all to see
No mod chip and the process is getting easier

And YES finally AMD and Intel prices spiral downwards towards reality

Q2 traditionally starts slow and processor manufacturers know this. To encourage a bit more pace in an already slow market, AMD and Intel are both cutting prices.
Intel is dropping the price of its 3GHz P4 400/533MHz FSB processors down to US$401 as soon as the 800MHz FSB version comes off hold and starts shipping. It will also drop the prices of other 533MHz FSB processors when their 800MHz FSB versions are available. The 2.8GHz will drop to US$262 and the 2.6GHz will go down to US$193.

The biggest surprise is on the 3000+, a processor that AMD released at the same price as Intel's 3GHz processors before and now its price has plummeted to $335(Aus$670)considerable less than its Intel 3Ghz Rival $495(Aus$1100). AMD might be heading back to form as the cheaper alternative.

Here is another review of that strange Cooler Master Aero 7 CPU Cooler

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