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Written by Mikhail Ivanenkov
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Friday, 15 June 2007 |
Have you built or thinking about building a home theater PC but don’t want to put the computer next to your TV? If so, today’s review might be of interest to you; Geeks.com, popular online retailers, sent us a Linksys Wireless Media Center Extender for review. This nifty device acts as a bridge between your TV and your HTPC, allowing streaming video via a wireless network without any extra computer parts. Is this product as useful as it sounds, or does it cause more headache than benefit? That’s what we’re here to find out.
Computex 2007 event coverage at HotHardware:
One of the more interesting items MSI had to show at Computex wasn’t even on the show floor. MSI had a back room showing of a new technology product they are calling Luxium. The idea behind Luxium is pretty simple, it is essentially an enclosure that houses an external PCI Express x16 slot and is connected to your PC through an external PCI Express interface (ExpressCard in case of notebooks). As you may have guessed, Luxium’s value proposition is to bring high end desktop graphics capabilities to computers without much graphics horsepower, which amounts to a large majority of the notebook market today.
P5B Premium Vista Edition from ASUS is a high-end socket 775 motherboard based on the Intel P965 chipset, coming with several extra features compared to other Intel P965 motherboards, such as two x16 PCI Express slots, two Gigabit Ethernet ports and, what is really unique on this model, a LCD display, called ScreenDuo, a remote control, called AI Remote, and a good-quality array microphone. Let’s take a look on the features and performance of this model from ASUS.
Corsair HX620w PSU at XSReviews:
The bottom (or top depending on how you look at it) of the HX620 is dominated by the large 120mm fan in its centre. This fan is covered in a matt black grill like the rest of the PSU and has a red Corsair logo at its centre.
Corsair Voyager GT 4Gb USB flash drive at Dan's Data:
Even though they're not made of metal, the Voyager drives are still pretty tough - not that there's much to break in any Flash drive. The Voyager GT range looks exactly the same as the rest of the Voyager range apart from the colour of the rubber bits (red on the GTs, blue on the standard Voyagers), but the GTs also have higher read/write speed specifications. The GTs also only come in sizes of up to 8Gb; the standard Voyager range includes a 16Gb whopper.
They are one of the few companies with direct touch heatpipe coolers. There is a tower variant with such a design, calles ZikaRay. It utilizes 3 heatpipes to keep the CPU cool. The second is called "Square Advance" and utilizes a 12 cm, 20dbA fan to cool the three large heatpipes. Both of these also use some very solid mounting mechanism. Zaward is using springloaded screws instead of plastic clips.
The black cover is held on by a few thumbscrews and easily slides off. With windows on both sides and the top, there will be plenty of views for friends to check out that new hardware that you have been bragging about, putting to the test your cable management skills. There are also unfiltered vents on both sides of the cover, and with the black case, believe us, those dust bunnies can become visible pretty quick, so keep a can of compressed air handy.
The tour started in the drilling station, which is where large copper sheets (motherboards)have all their mounting holes drilled out. Since ECS makes motherboards for various companies and markets they have dozens of these machines running at the same time. The Hitachi PCB Drilling Machines that ECS was using are recent ND-Ne models that are equipped with full range spindles that can operate between 125,000 and 200,000 revolutions per minute. Each one of these drilling machines can drill ten sheets of PCB at once! Let's take a look inside a couple of these machines.
A closer look at the side panel reveals it multi part structure, the main body is made from hard plastic, with colored insert at the outside and light grey metal at the inside to help the side panel sturdiness as well as block sound from escaping the case.
The first thing to note is that XFX’s card is clocked appreciably higher than the reference clocks, with the core clock increased from 612MHz to 650MHz, shader from 1500MHz to 1605MHz and memory from 2160MHz to 2260MHz. These are quite impressive increases, but the card isn’t clocked quite as high as EVGA’s e-GeForce 8800 Ultra Superclocked that we reviewed at the end of last month. Having said that though, this isn’t XFX’s flagship GeForce 8800 Ultra – that title goes to XFX’s XXX Edition, which is clocked at 675MHz core, 1667MHz shader and 2300MHz memory for the time being.
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