13 Barebones Reviewed Are Anything But Square
The
small cube-shaped barebone PCs continue to emerge in a growing number
of living rooms as sleekly designed personal video recorders (PVR) and
DVD players. However, loud fan noise pollution is too often a necessary
evil. THG reviews a baker's dozen for home entertainment capabilities
versus noise levels.
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Desktop Graphics Ambitions: ATi Mobile Radeon 9800
ATi's
high-end mobile graphics processor, the Mobility Radeon 9800 (M18), on
paper, offers superior specs on all fronts. With eight pixel pipelines
and a 256 bit memory interface, will ATi's latest close the performance
gap between laptop and desktop 3D graphics?
VGA Charts Part III
This year's THG VGA
charts feature performance tests from ten different games and
benchmarks, including an overview of 46 different graphics cards from
ATi, NVIDIA, Matrox, S3 and XGI. We also included tests gauging
anisotropic filtering and FSAA and a ranking of the cards by a
price/quality ratio. As always, some of the results should surprise.
65 CPUs from 100 MHz to 3066 MHz
After 300 hours of
testing in the Tom's Hardware labs, we bring you a comparison of 65
CPUs - from the Pentium 100 to the latest Athlon XP 3000+. It's a
monster review with 13 different CPU platforms.
 | mainboards: asus, shuttle, abit, gigabyte, biostar, msi, aopen | cpus: amd, athlon, intel, celeron, opteron | ram: corsair, kingston, samsung, crucial, ocz | storage: ibm, western digital, firewire, seagate, archos, cms | graphics cards: ati, radeon, all in wonder, nvidia, geforce fx | monitors: flat panel, viewsonic, nec, samsung, philips, benq | cases: chenbro, cooler master, thermaltake, chieftec | digital cameras: canon, sony, olympus, nikon, fuji, minolta | pdas: palm, sony, handspring, hewlett packard, compaq |  |
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