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The Year in Review: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly*
Friday 8 December 2006 – 03:21

Barry Gerber talks about key events in a busy year for technology enthusiasts. He covers HDTV, Windows Vista, exploding batteries, the need for mobile phone standardisation, spam, CPUs and portable music and video players.

The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful: 17" LCDs Reviewed*
Tuesday 23 November 2004 – 06:00
Since our last review, LCDs have gotten cheaper, but not necessarily better. We put the screws to eight 17" LCD monitors to see which ones came out on top with wares from both new and veteran vendors. Some pleasantly surprised. Others didn't.

The HP iPAQ hx4700 Takes the Luxury Business PDA to the Next Level*
Friday 18 February 2005 – 06:00
HP's iPAQ hx4700 is a tiny PC with top-of-the-line features: a 4" VGA display, integrated touchpad and WLAN/PAN functions. Can HP's luxury PDA make a place for itself against the competition, despite its high price?

The Revolt of the Munchkins: 2.5" 5,400 and 7,200 rpm Hard Drives*
Wednesday 13 August 2003 – 07:00
Vendors are increasingly latching onto the 2.5" hard drive concept. New 2.5" hard drives with speeds of up to 7,200 rpm are becoming available that also offer viable power consumption specs. We take a look at Hitachi's Travelstar 7K60, the Momentus from Seagate, and the MK8025GAS from Toshiba.

The King of the Heap: 4 Chipsets for the Athlon64*
Monday 5 January 2004 – 06:00
NVIDIA and VIA were the first Athlon64 chipset vendors on the block; now, ALi and SiS are also mixing it up. Except for their layouts, the four chipsets are technologically identical. But how do they perform in real life? We give you the low down in a comprehensive round up.

The Battle Of The Consoles: From Atari's 2600 To Microsoft's Xbox*
Tuesday 4 December 2001 – 06:00
A quick and dirty history of electronic gaming: console Vs. PC and back again. And who stands to make more from this battle: ATI or Nvidia?

The Return of the Jedi: Cyrix and IBM's 6x86MX CPU*
Friday 30 May 1997 – 07:00
Since in the beginning of April almost the whole computer world was looking at AMD, when the glorious K6 CPU was launched

Couldn't Decide Between the e310 and the e740? Well Here's the e330!*
Friday 28 February 2003 – 06:00
According to its specs, the e330 includes the best of the e310 and the e740. New Intel processor, MediaQ graphics chip, reasonable price, extra-slim body ...

Separating The Wheat from the Chaff: The Latest DDR2 Modules Tested*
Monday 24 January 2005 – 06:00

Thanks to Enhanced SpeedStep, an ever-increasing number of versions of Socket 775 Pentium 4 systems are becoming attractive. Plus, due out soon is the 600 series with 2 MB L2 cache. We took a look to see which memory modules are worth the nod for these super-fast P4 systems.

The SiS, VIA and Intel Showdown at the Performance Chipset Corral*
Monday 15 December 2003 – 06:00
At the beginning of next year, Intel will launch faster Pentium 4 processors based on the well-known Socket 478. This should unleash a fresh round of debate about what is the best performance chipset, since a fast processor should also have the support of a platform that's as speedy as it can be. The newset product vying to unseat the Intel 875P is the 655TX from SiS. We also pitted it against the production version of the VIA PT880.

Testing The E-Class: 9 Pentium 4 Motherboards With The 845E Chipset*
Monday 8 July 2002 – 07:00
In tandem with the recently launched Pentium 4 CPUs for 133 MHz FSB, the first compatible motherboards have hit the market. The features offered by this batch are quite a step up from the previous generation. But is that also true for performance and accessories? We put nine motherboard newcomers under the microscope.

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The DX1: Is This THE Solution To Every Gamer's Problem?*
Tuesday 8 March 2005 – 06:00
Every once in a while a product comes along that changes everything. Not because it is an idea that no one has thought of before, but because it is finally the realization of an idea everyone has had before, but has been unable to implement.

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