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D-Link’s Broadband Router Aims to End Latency
Any serious gamer these days probably has a broadband connection that is often shared by multiple devices. With the help of a small broadband router, which usually has four ports, a gamer can have online access on several computers or game consoles simultaneously. Your connection speed or hardware isn’t necessarily your biggest problem in online…
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ATI’s Radeon X800 XL: The latest of a Growing Family
Between midrange and high-end graphics cards lies a barren wasteland where products known as “tweeners” go to die. Historically, there have been two main price-points for 3D cards: $200 and whatever else the market would bear for the top-end, bragging-rights-be-mine “glory SKU.” Squeezed from both sides, products in the $250–400 price-range rarely, if ever, have…
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Xandros Desktop OS 3 Deluxe Edition
The Sum of the Parts We frequently get the same question from our readers in the ExtremeTech forum: I want to get rid of Windows, so which Linux distribution should I try? Now we have a definite answer: Get Xandros. With the release of version 3, the Xandros folks have finally come up with a…
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Review: $200 Graphics Showdown—GeForce 6600GT vs. Radeon X700 Pro
High-end graphics cards get all the glory. A card like a GeForce 6800 Ultra or Radeon X850 can cost over $500, but not many users are willing to shell out that kind of money. In fact, these extremely high-end cards probably account for only 1% or 2% of all graphics cards sales. Where do people…
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Mozilla Takes Aim at E-mail with Thunderbird 1.0
Based on our initial impressions, the new open-source e-mail client from Mozilla, called Thunderbird, is well worth exploring. It seems to work quite well, both on Web-based mail like Gmail and on POP3 accounts. It also supports IMAP for connecting to Exchange and other servers, but we didn’t test that feature. Outlook Express users should…
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More Power to You: nVidia’s nForce 4 SLI is Fastest
SLI. Those three little letters conjure up memories of a bygone era. If you wanted the biggest, baddest 3D performer for gaming, you’d have not one, but two 3dfx Voodoo2 cards in your system. And since Voodoo2 didn’t do 2D, you’d need a third graphics card to run Windows or DOS 2D. That system would…
