Weekend Reviews

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The Bang for the buck tradeoff on the ASUS EN7900GT is excellent. At a MSRP of $299 the EN7900GT TOP can hold its own with the latest games and is ready for today's demanding applications. The next iteration of Microsoft operating systems, Microsoft Vista is due to release to the consumer early next year, and to big businesses later this year. Vista will bring a new GUI (Graphics User Interface) called Windows Aero Glass. The 7900GT and other Shader Model 3.0 parts are fully ready for the new GUI. Vista will also bring the next iteration of Direct3D, Direct3D10.

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Please join me today as we determine if LeadTek's quality of words captioned above stand tall and are transmitted into actions with one of their newest products, the LeadTek WinFast WinFast PX7950 GX2 TDH.

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Recently we had the chance to review the HIS X1600 Pro and after finishing the review we were pleasantly surprised by how well it performed against the competition. So today we are pitting the HIS X1600 XT IceQ Turbo against the same cards to see how well it stacks up against them and to make thing a bit more interesting we have also included the some scores using the two cards in CrossFire mod.

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Today we have the last card in our HIS X1300 series of reviews; the X1300 dual DVI 512MB PCI Express. Unlike the previous two cards, this X1300 does not feature the IceQ cooler and instead uses a passive cooling solution. This is most likely because this card is not a part of the "Turbo" line of HIS cards meaning that it has received no overclock and comes at the normal X1300 speeds right out of the box. The core and memory speeds on this card are the typical 450MHz and 250MHz (500MHz effective).

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FOXCONN has done a good job with the NF4SLI7AA-EKRS2 motherboard. The board supports CPUs up to the 8xx series, with the 9xx series requiring a nForce 5 for Intel board instead or a 975 board from Intel Otherwise, for the street price of $119, the NF4SLI7AA-EKRS2 is an excellent buy for people wanting an SLI motherboard and a Intel CPU of the 8xx series or prior. Performance on the NF4SLI7AA-8EKRS2 is exemplary in most respects.

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The Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe is one of the first Socket AM2 motherboards to make it into the PCSTATS labs, and it's one motherboard with a lot of expectations attached. Coming out of the box, the ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe is extremely user friendly; in the hardware layout on-PCB, inside the BIOS, and with respect to its tweaking software. The Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe supports 940-pin socket AM2 AMD Athlon64/X2/FX and Sempron processors and is based on the flagship nVIDIA nForce 590 SLI and nVidia MCP55PXE chipsets.

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The SyncMAX PC2-5300 Express memory has been certified to run in a dual channel configuration at speeds of 667 MHz with CAS latency timings of 4-4-4. The memory can also be run at 533 MHz (PC2-4300) with tighter CAS 3-3-3 timings if one so chooses. The SyncMAX PC2-5300 Express that passed through the PCSTATS test labs today were good if you keep the target audience in mind.