January 13, 2005
Crucial Radeon X800 Pro @ XtremeResources
“Enthusiasts and gamers alike always want to have a high end gaming system. The heart of any gaming system as you can imagine is the VGA card. Today I will take a look at the Crucials X800 Pro 256MB video card, which is based on ATi’s R420 GPU core. The X800Pro is one of the fastest video cards out there, although not the fastest one since the introduction of the X800 XT PE and the NVIDIAs 6800 Ultra video cards, but it surely is far from leaving the top cards chart yet. Crucials offering appears to offer probably one of the best price/performance ratio for such a card at the time being, with a price of $449.99 at USD and 410,9 (including UKs 17,5% VAT) within Europe, as of December, 2004.”
SilenX 400w 0dBA Luxurae PSU Review @ OCModShop
“This particular Luxurae Series power supply provides a 400w output and is totally silent. Meeting ATX 2.10 specifications and having support AMD and P4 systems this power supply should be able to handle a fair load. The SilenX website says that this power supply can to operate for 100K Hours @ 25C MTBF (mean time between failures) which basically means the average time before the device fails. The lifespan of this system will be lower in most situations since your temperature is normally going to be higher than 25C. Some features added to protect your system include: Short-Circuit Protection on Outputs, Over Voltage Protection (3.3V/4V 5V/6V 12V/14V), and Over Power Protection (105%~150% of max load). Along with these nice features this power supply uses a passive PFC (Power Factor Control). There are two methods used, active and passive. Passive uses the AC line frequency to poll and regulate the line. Active costs more and regulates the lines at a higher frequency than the AC line.”
Altec Lansing MX-5021 @ Overclockers Online
Microsoft Internet Keyboard @ eXtreme Hardware
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