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Gigabyte Radeon 9800XT Powered by ATI’s Radeon 9800XT GPU with 256MB DDR memory it is sure to give great performance for 3D gaming to digital and video cinematography. It supports the latest standards, AGP8x, Directx9.0 and OpenGL1.5.Read More >>>

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Finished in metallic silver and clam shell design, this phone has a small dimension of 80 x 40x 20mm in size and weigh only 70 grams. It has a dual colour screen, the internal UFB 65K (128 x 128 pixels) colours screen is bright and clear.

On top of that, 40 polyphonic channel ringtones can be personalised for specific phonebook entry. The ringtone is very loud and not only MIDI tones can be programmed, voice can be programmed into the ringtone as well using third party software like psmplayer. The ringtones are very loud and clear.

As more and more SATA HD appears in the market, it is time for you to decide which controller card or onboard integrated chipset SATA supporting chipset will you choose to have the best performance.

There are a few manufacturers of SATA supporting chipset. In this review, we are going to take a look at two of them and compare them in terms of performance. This would allow you to have an idea of the difference in performance levels of the chipsets in a non-RAID environment.

Corsair, one of the leading ram manufacturers are quick to respond to the demand of gamers and overclockers. As more and more users are into overclocking on the Dual channel DDR boards, Corsair introduces their TWINX series of ram modules. The TWINX series basically consists of two identical modules tested under stringent conditions for low latency, high performance and proven to work well under dual channel ddr systems like the nForce2 and Intel Granite Bay.

AOPEN AK79G Max features on board video with the capability of GeForce 4MX (8x). It also comes with dual channel DDR266/DDR333/DDR400 for maximum performance. It features other things like nForce Audio Processing Unit (APU), nVIDIA SoundStorm and Dolby Digital Compatible, 10/100Mbps network and integrate 1394 ports. AK79G Max also comes with SerialATA.  AOPEN AK79Max has included some very innovative and unique extra value onto the board. WINBIOS is one such exceptionally new invention which will bring you even more control of your system all from within Windows.

K7S8X has standard features as it aims to be a stable board with above average performance with a slightly lowly tuned ram timings. As the board does not come with important settings like RAS to CAS (2-2-5), it all depends on the manufacturer to tune it for maximum compatibility. Although this board does not have a multiplier control and voltage adjustments, the FSB range is amazing. You can choose from 100 ~ 248 at 1Mhz steppings.

M320 has one of the best standby time. We have been using the M320 in our testing for the past one month and we find that it can last for almost 5 days if we use it sparingly, e.g. a 5 minutes call a day. Battery type : Li-Ion, Battery capacity : 900 mA/h. In fact, we are impressed that the phone actually allows us to set a timer where it will auto-on and auto-off. We set it to turn on at 9am in the morning and auto shut-off at 11pm. We were initially skeptical about it but so far after using it for 1 month, it works flawlessly. This definitely helps to conserve power consumption. for calls, there are Integrated vibrator and you set call alert type selection : ring, silent, vibrate, vibrate & ring, vibrate then ring.

The board we received is the P4SDX Deluxe Edition. The Deluxe edition as its names implies supports lots of important features and they include HT support, Gigabit Ethernet, Serial ATA RAID (1 x ATA133 + 2x SATA connectors), IEEE 1394, AGP 8x. The package also comes with J-Panel, a 5.25″ front panel for you to connect to 2 x USB 2.0 and the S/PDIF Out + Mic in and Line out.

ECS L7S7A2 has included all the overclocking features that are not previously found on most ECS boards and they include FSB (1mhz), Vcore, VDimm adjustments, RAM timings. It supports AGP 8x, DDR400, 1394 on board, LAN, 6 x USB 2.0, 6 channel audio. In our tests, the SiS 746 has amazing CC Winstone scores (thanks to its IDE performance). Ok, let’s take a look at some specs first before we check out the gallery and the benchmarks.

AOPEN AX4C Max / i875 (21 Apr 2003)

ASUS P4C800 / i875 (14 Apr 2003)

ABIT NF7-S / nForce2 SPP (5 Apr 2003)

Shuttle MN31N / nForce2 IGP (31 Mar 2003)

EPOX 4PEA800 / Intel i845PE (29 Mar 2003)

Gigabyte 7VAXP-A Ultra / VIA KT400A (23 Mar 2003)

ABIT BH7 / Intel i845PE (20 Mar 2003)

AOPEN AK79G Max / nVIDIA nForce2 (5 Mar 2003)

ASRock K7S8X / SiS 746FX (1 Mar 2003)

ASUS P4SDX / SiS 655 (10 Feb 2003)

ECS L7S7A2 / SiS 746 (31 Jan 2003)

Gigabyte SINXP1394 / SiS 655 (23 Jan 2003)

AOPEN AX45-4D Max / SiS 655 (15 Jan 2003)

SiS 746FX Ref board / SiS 746FX (8 Jan 2003)

Shuttle SN41G2 SFF / nForce2 (6 Jan 2003)

MSI GF4 Ti4200-VTD 8X / nVIDIA GF4 Ti4200/8x (21 Jan 2003)

Gigabyte Maya II GV-R9500pro / ATi Radeon 9500pro (13 Jan 2003)

Corsair Twinx512-2700llpt (11 Mar 2003)

ECS L7S7A2 Guide

ECS K7S5A Guide

AMD Barton XP3000+ (400) vs Intel Pentium 4 3.0G (800) (29 Apr 2003)

ECS Desknote A980 (14 Apr 2003)

ThermalTake DuctingMod (19 Mar 2003)