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• SATA Hard Drive with a Kick: Western Digital's Raptor Put to the Test*
  Thursday 1 May 2003 – 07:00
  Although it only serves up a meager 36 GB, it offers a lot more than you'd normally expect from an IDE hard disk drive. The Raptor, alias WD360 is a new hard disk drive that is attracting considerable attention to itself due to two major new features: it spins at 10,000 rpm and comes complete with Serial ATA. The highlight: it's supposed to be good enough to stand up against SCSI in the lower and middle server segment. Our test demonstrates whether this really stacks up.
• Does AMD's Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Have Any Kick Left?*
  Tuesday 20 February 2007 – 01:58
  A new Athlon 64 X2 top model launches, squeezing 3.0 GHz out of AMD's 90 nm silicon. It cannot end Intel's Core 2 Extreme supremacy, but AMD's aggressive pricing fuels the price war, making the 6000+ somewhat affordable.
• Intel's Big Kick Off: 925XE Chipset and P4EE 3.46 GHz*
  Monday 1 November 2004 – 06:00
  While the latest Extreme Edition P4 Processor is fairly well-known, the big news today is Intel's accelerated 925XE chipset at FSB1066, which many people consider to be the next BX. We put some final motherboards to the test.