Iwill P4HT-S i845PE Motherboard Review
PCStats :: Wednesday, December 04, 2002
“Red is the colour of roses, fast cars, and in this case an i845PE motherboard from the folks at Iwill. In celebration of the overwhelming use of the colour red on this motherboard, we here at PCStats.com just felt compelled to write this entire review in red. Red, red, red! IWill want to catch your attention as you browse around the store shopping for a motherboard, and by colouring the PCB this bright colour they have built one of the flashiest motherboards around – I mean even the PCI and AGP slots are red! Based on Intel’s i845PE chipset which supports 533MHz HyperThreading Pentium 4 processors, the P4HT-S offers a good value to consumers looking to move up to speeds of 3.06GHz now or in the future”
etched 8-Ball Window Kit review
OCIA :: Wednesday, December 04, 2002
“I took a few pictures of my modded case and created a small Geocities website to show off my work. My case went over well in the small “community’ and the website grew, which lead me to create another site – but that is another story. The point of this article is to focus on the window. While at the time a window in a PC was revolutionary, there is no hiding the fact that it was a “simple” mod. I just slapped up a piece of plexiglass behind the window, put on some window molding around the edges and was done. I suppose I was so intrigued by the window that I didn’t see the plainness in it. It was not until a bit later that case lighting became all the rage. Shortly thereafter, window appliqués started making an appearance on some case windows. Now, Case-Mod has taken things one step further by taking a case window and laser etching a design into it, thus creating the 8-Ball Window Kit we are looking at today.”
Lian Li’s PC6089A Review
ReviewNation :: Wednesday, December 04, 2002
AMS G-Mono Mid Tower Case Video Review
3dgameman :: Wednesday, December 04, 2002
“The AMS G-Mono Mid Tower Case has to be the coolest looking case on the planet in its very affordable price range. With a Firewire, USB2 and audio connections at the front, and an amazing high gloss paint job it has buy and mod me written all over it. Watch the Video to find out more…”
New Interview: Rob “linear” Arnold.
ABIT :: Wednesday, December 04, 2002
Rob “linear” Arnold: The Invisible PC and more. In the December 2002 issue of Maximum PC magazine Rob “linear” Arnold was awarded the Coveted back page that is the home to the “Rig of the Month”. In true Pheaton.com tradition we subjected him to some questions so that we could find out a little about the man behind the project known as the Invisible PC.
ABIT AMD 333 Contest!
ABIT :: Tuesday, December 03, 2002
ABIT AMD 333 Contest! From December 2 to December 22, 2002, they are giving away 3 ABIT AMD motherboards, 3 Siluro VGA cards, and 3 AMD Athlon XP 2700+ CPUs with 333FSB support every week for (3) three weeks! To enter head over to their website and enter!
Mouse Pad Roundup
ViperLair :: Tuesday, December 31, 2002
“Nowadays we have mouse pads that are specifically designed for optical mice – and even though it might seem a bit silly, the market for mouse pads has gotten quite big. In this review, the [H]ardOCP’s RatPadz, PCXMods’ X-Trac, M3’s Precise Mousing Surface, and a common mouse pad are all put to the test – for optical and ball mice.”
Albatron Ti4680P-Turbo GeForce4 Ti4200-8X Review
PCStats :: Tuesday, December 31, 2002
“For half of the price of nVIDIA’s high-end GeForce4 Ti4600 videocard, you can grab yourself 90% if its performance with a GeForce4 Ti4200 based card. There’s really no argument about which GPU has been the best value in 2002; the GeForce4 Ti4200 sits on that thrown, and rightly so. Now if you ask any computer enthusiast which GeForce4 Ti4200 to get, you’d no doubt hear the name “Albatron” mentioned more than once. Albatron’s original Ti4200P-Turbo videocard took the hardware community by storm. The card combined a Ti4400/4600 PCB and 3.3ns memory so well that many enthusiasts could overclock it well past Ti4600 levels. We played with the Ti4200P-Turbo in September ’02 and were equally taken with its performance qualities. With nVIDIA rehashing their Ti4200\Ti4600’s to incorporate 8x AGP technology, it was only inevitable that Albatron would redo their very successful Ti4200 Turbo’s as well!”
How-to on Ultra-thin Video modules
GruntvillE :: Tuesday, December 31, 2002
“Now seeing as I chose to mount the module into my front Antec door, one of the main selling points of this unit is “19mm in Depth”. If you take a look at some of the other modules available you’ll see the depth quickly shoots up to 40mm……….. but I suppose if one wanted to, you could also mount them else ware in the case. With all the wires extended and hooked back up to their respective places, its time to put a switch inline with our modules power. I chose to use a toggle switch salvaged from an old blacklight to give me control over the modules power. This isn’t a necessity but it should extend the life of the unit dramatically if you turn it off when not in use; especially if your computer runs for days on end without anyone in front of it.”
SAMSUNG SYNCMASTER 241MP 24INCH TFT LCD MONITOR review
Tweaknews :: Monday, December 23, 2002
Iiyama 18.1″ LCD Monitor Review
Tech-PC :: Wednesday, December 04, 2002
“When using my TV card, which gets its picture from a Sky Digital Box, the monitor was easily able to cope. This is the part I really liked, it dawned on me that what I have in front of me is not only a monitor, it was a space saving monitor. Not only did it display a PC image, it displayed a television image, meaning that for people stuck for space you can buy a TV Card for your computer and save an enormous amount of space. Take the size of a television and a monitor and compare that to the size of this TFT, quite a saving, I’m sure you’ll agree.”
ATI R300 Package: Thermal Problems Caused by the Shim
Frosty Tech :: Wednesday, December 04, 2002
“To put it bluntly, there is problem with the ATI R300 processor package that impacts just how well heatsinks can cool on the Radeon 9700 Pro. With the area around the R300’s silicon core populated by ultra small capacitors and resistors, the manufacturer has placed something there for protection. That protection comes in the form of a 4mm wide band of copper which runs around the perimeter of the 40mm square package. It helps to prevent the tiny components from getting crushed, or the core from being chipped. This copper shim is glued to the surface of the PCB, and if it were installed flush to the height of the silicon core, it would actually be very useful.”
