Price Guides, April 2005: Video Cards
Did you get a fat IRS refund? Isn't an X800 XL the best $300 gift that you could give yourself?
41 by Kristopher Kubicki on 4/23/2005AMD's dual core Opteron & Athlon 64 X2 - Server/Desktop Performance Preview
It's not always best to be first to release something, and AMD shows Intel exactly why with their comprehensive dual core product line. We benchmark both the new...
144 by Anand Lal Shimpi, Jason Clark & Ross Whitehead on 4/21/2005Seagate Barracuda 7200.8: 400GBs with NCQ
Seagate brings on its 400GB 7200.8 Barracuda mammoth with Native Command Queuing a year after Hitachi's 7K400 and Maxtor's MaXLine III with NCQ. Take a look at how the...
44 by Purav Sanghani on 4/20/2005AMD's Sempron 3300+: 90nm Budget Computing
AMD's first Socket-754 Sempron in almost a year offers a 200MHz increase in clock speed, but half the cache of last year's model. We look at the mixed...
53 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/18/2005Dual Core Intel Platform Shootout - NVIDIA nForce4 vs. Intel 955X
Now that there's at least one reason to look at Intel CPUs, what's the best chipset for dual core processors? We compare NVIDIA's nForce4 SLI Intel Edition...
96 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/14/2005MCE TV Tuner Roundup: Featuring ATI's Theater 550 & NVIDIA's NVTV
We rounded up 6 MCE-compliant TV tuners and compared them to find out which one, if any, works its magic the best with a SD cable signal.
61 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/12/2005Value RAM Roundup: Computing On a Budget
We compare 7 low-cost memories, and even a new value BH5. Do any of these, at $90 to $195 per GB, stand out from the crowd?
102 by Wesley Fink on 4/11/2005Price Guides April 2005: Motherboards
nForce4 for Intel isn't shipping yet, and probably for good reason. Also, we look at nForce4 on Socket 754. Intel 945 and 955 boards ship real soon - is...
22 by Kristopher Kubicki on 4/10/2005Patriot DDR400 2-2-2/DDR533 3-4-4: Performance AND Value
Patriot introduces a new memory rated at both DDR400 and DDR533. How does this new Samsung TCCD memory compare to the best memory that we have tested?
23 by Wesley Fink on 4/8/2005