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Mark's PC Hardware / Reviews Blog June 2003 Archive

By Mark Kyrnin, About.com Guide to PC Hardware / Reviews since 2002

Latest Net Reviews (6/30/03)

Monday June 30, 2003
An extremely long list of reviews posted up over the weekend with a wide variety of products reviewed. Many people are switching from desktops to notebook systems as their ... Read More

Enermax/Wavesonic CS-7181CBX Review

Monday June 30, 2003
Premodified cases have become very popular over the last year. They save the user a lot of time and money from having to add items such as side panel ... Read More

Enermax/WaveSonic EG651P-VE PSU Review

Monday June 30, 2003
As power supplies get higher and higher wattage ratings, noise from the cooling fans in them keeps increasing. One of the latest developments to try and combat the noise ... Read More

Latest Net Reviews (6/27/03)

Friday June 27, 2003
A good number of reviews of various mid-range video cards on the list today. The most interesting review is a comparison of 5 performance power supplies from TweakTown. ... Read More

Latest Net Reviews (6/26/03)

Thursday June 26, 2003
A good overall mix of reviews from around the net today. The most interesting of the reviews is a comparison of seven sub-20ms 17" LCDs by Tom's Hardware. ... Read More

Three New Tutorials

Wednesday June 25, 2003
As I mentioned before, I'm in the processor of putting together a system to review some components. During this process I'm trying to fill in the gaps that exist ... Read More

Latest Net Reviews (6/25/03)

Wednesday June 25, 2003
Yesterday was a fairly light day of reviews posted on the net, so I held off posting the list till today and boy did a lot os reviews get posted. ... Read More

Motherboard Installation Tutorial

Tuesday June 24, 2003
Today I've completed another "do-it-yourself" tutorial for those individuals interested in building or upgrading their own computers. The tutorial covers the proper installation of a motherboard into a personal ... Read More

ATI Releases Catalyst 3.5 Drivers

Monday June 23, 2003
ATI has released their latest 3.5 version of its Catalyst unified video driver. This version corrects a large number of compatibility issues with a wide range of 3D applications. ... Read More

Latest Net Reviews (6/23/03)

Monday June 23, 2003
There were a large number of reviews from over the weekend to create a very large list. By far the most interesting review I spotted was on exotic wood ... Read More

Intel Pentium 4 Speed Bump

Monday June 23, 2003
Today marks the release of the latest Pentium 4 processor from Intel, the Pentium 4 3.2 GHz. To put things in perspective with this release, there is no new ... Read More

Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro Review

Sunday June 22, 2003
Looking for a video card that doesn't cost a lot and still has good 3D performance ? Sapphire's Radeon 9600 Pro offers this for under $200, but just how well ... Read More

Corsair XMS3700 Announcement

Saturday June 21, 2003
For all you people out there who just have to get the most out of your computer system but PC3500 memory is not quite enough, Corsair has announced new TWINX ... Read More

ABIT Game Accelerator Tested

Friday June 20, 2003
First ASUS released their Hyperpath optimizations for their i845PE motherboard followed quickly by ABIT's Game Accelerator. ABIT's Game Accelerator is available for both its i865PE and i876P boards though. ... Read More

Latest Net Reviews (6/20/03)

Friday June 20, 2003
A very light day in terms of reviews on the net. The most interesting of them is a review of the Radeon series graphic cards from Gigabyte. The ... Read More

Notebook Hard Drive Competition

Thursday June 19, 2003
The market for laptop computers is growing quickly and it looks like choices for the 2.5" notebook hard drives is also starting to heat up. Most notebook hard drives ... Read More

Promotions Update

Thursday June 19, 2003
The weekly update for my compiled special offers and promotions page has been uploaded. Several new offers of note posted in the last week. Dell has switched their ... Read More

Latest Net Reviews (6/19/03)

Thursday June 19, 2003
A fairly slow day for the reviews from the net. Most of the reviews on today's list are on video cards. The most interesting review comes from Hexus ... Read More

Latest Net Reviews (6/18/03)

Wednesday June 18, 2003
Not many people have heard of Averatec. It is a fairly new company that specializes in low cost thin and light notebook systems. Many of their systems are ... Read More

Latest Net Reviews (6/17/03)

Tuesday June 17, 2003
Today's reviews from the net seem to be very focused around motherboards. A few notables exceptions to that though. First is a review of the eMachines M5305 laptop ... Read More

Latest Net Reviews (6/16/03)

Monday June 16, 2003
Today I have a very long list of reviews posted over the Father's Day weekend. A large number of reviews on cooling solutions for the PC and a fair ... Read More

AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Review

Monday June 16, 2003
This week we have a review of the AMD Athlon XP 2500+ desktop CPU. Many retailers are now selling this processor for under $100, but does it make a good ... Read More

Latest Net Reviews (6/13/03)

Friday June 13, 2003
It's all about the motherboard today. Half the list is links to motherboard reviews. Of particular interest is a very large comparison of Intel i865PE/875P motherboards by Anandtech. ... Read More

Updated Promotions (6/12/03)

Thursday June 12, 2003
The collected special offers and discounts page has been updated with the latest from PC systems and component manufacturers. Dell has updated their weekly promotions and switched to a ... Read More

Latest Net Reviews (6/12/03)

Thursday June 12, 2003
Lots of reviews from around the net today. In particular there were a large number of reviews of power supplies from a number of sites. It looks like ... Read More

WD Announces 250GB SATA Drive

Thursday June 12, 2003
Want a lot of hard drive space? Need to used the latest technology available? Western Digital has been slow with their introduction of Serial ATA hard drives, but ... Read More

Benchmarking Dillemia

Wednesday June 11, 2003
Extreme Tech has posted an editorial article entitled The Murky World of 3D Benchmarking talking about the current state of benchmarking. Speaking as a reviewer who must evaluate video ... Read More

Latest Net Reviews (6/11/03)

Wednesday June 11, 2003
Fairly large list of reviews posted out on the net today. One of the interesting reviews is from Beyond3D on the Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro Fireblade video card. ... Read More

Latest Net Reviews

Tuesday June 10, 2003
With the new Intel i865PE and i875P chipsets, dual-channell memory is becoming extremely popular, but how does one know what the best memory is? Anandtech has done a very ... Read More

Latest Net Reviews

Monday June 9, 2003
A pretty slow weekend on the hardware front means a fairly short list for today. The big review of the day though has to be the Power Supply Comparison ... Read More

Top Performance Desktops

Monday June 9, 2003
For the month of June, I'm focusing on performance computing and today I've updated the Top Performance Desktop Computers list. All of the systems on the list use the ... Read More

Latest Net Reviews

Saturday June 7, 2003
Hopefully everyone is out enjoying a great summer weekend, but for those of you looking for some hardware reviews here is today's batch of links. A lot of motherboard ... Read More

Latest Net Reviews

Friday June 6, 2003
Another day, another short list of links. Most of the entries are in the video card category today. The most interesting review I found was of the Samsung ... Read More

Latest Net Review Links

Thursday June 5, 2003
Overall the list of links is fairly short today. Most of the links involve PC computer cases or modifications. One item of note is a review of the ... Read More

Dell's New Promotion

Thursday June 5, 2003
Dell has just posted their latest promotional offerings. This time around they are offering free memory and optical drive upgrades on most of their Dimension desktop and Inspiron portable ... Read More

Latest Net Review Links

Wednesday June 4, 2003
Most of the reviews on the net posted today are either about video cards and motherboards. Tom's Hardware did a preview of the ATI Radeon 9600 Mobility like Extreme ... Read More

Latest Net Review Links

Tuesday June 3, 2003
Today's list is very heavy on links for various cooling solution product reviews, but the really interesting links are in the video card section. Of note are the comparison ... Read More

ASUS P4P800 w/PAT Revealed!

Tuesday June 3, 2003
Since the news a few days ago about the ASUS claim to have enabled Perfomance Acceleration Technology on the ASUS i865PE P4P800 motherboard, a lot of specualation about whether it ... Read More

Latest Net Review Links

Monday June 2, 2003
Time to catch up with the backlog of reviews posted on the net over the weekend. Of interest from the reviews over the weekend are reviews of several higher ... Read More

Overclocking

Monday June 2, 2003
Maybe you have an older computer system that you would like to last a little while longer before replacing or you just want to get the most out of the ... Read More

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