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20" LCD Monitors Roundup. Part V

[ 12/21/07 | by Oleg Artamonov]

This article continues our series of reviews of 20” LCD monitors. Today we are going to discuss 9 models from Acer, Asus, Dell, Samsung and NEC using mostly TN matrix technology. Let’s find out what the market prospects of TN matrix in general are and how successful the reviewed models turned out to be.

ATX Power Supply Units Roundup. Part VIII

[ 12/11/07 | by Oleg Artamonov]

This roundup covers power supply units for midrange and entry-level computers. Such models start from a modest wattage of 300W and a price of $20. We have also included a few powerful PSUs available at affordable prices. All in all we will talk about 17 models from HEC (Ascot), FSP, In Win, Tsunami, Hiper and PC Power & Cooling.

ASUS WL-500W Super Speed N Multifunctional Wireless Router Review

[ 11/27/07 | by Platon Scheblykin]

This article continues our series of reviews of network equipment that supports the draft 802.11n standard. Today we are going to talk about the WL-500W router that represents a successor to the previously tested WL-500g Premium. We will see what the differences from the previous model are and what improvements have been made in it.

Topower Power Supply Units Roundup

[ 11/07/07 | by Oleg Artamonov]

Topower is a popular manufacturer. Besides making a wide range of PSUs for such brands as Tagan, BeQuiet, Mushkin and OCZ, the company is promoting its own brand, offering boxed PSUs of varying wattage and functionality. Today we are going to review 9 solutions from Topower ranging from 500W to 800W.

LCD Monitors Buyer's Guide: Fall 2007

[ 10/30/07 | by Oleg Artamonov]

This article is intended to serve as a guide. Without delving into technicalities and features of each monitor we go through the list of currently available models, pointing out the most interesting offers. Hopefully you will find our advice alongside with the links to corresponding reviews in this Fall 2007 Guide helpful.

24" LCD Monitors Roundup

[ 10/23/07 | by Oleg Artamonov]

We’ve covered almost each and every existing diagonal in our LCD monitor roundups, from now-obsolete 15" models to newest 27" and 30" giants, but 23-24-inchers have remained out of our focus for some reason. Today we are going to make up for this omission by offering you a detailed review of 8 eight 23" and 24" monitors including solutions from Acer, Apple, Dell, LG, Samsung and ViewSonic.

PCMark Vantage: New Complex System Performance Benchmark

[ 10/18/07 | by Doors4ever]

Futuremark Corporation announced today the release of PCMark Vantage- hardware performance benchmark for PCs running 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows Vista. Our today’s article will be devoted to the peculiarities of the new benchmarking suite, installation and usage techniques as well as the results of three platforms on AMD and Intel processors tested in it.

19" LCD Monitors Roundup. Part VIII.

[ 10/11/07 | by Aleksey Meyev]

Another article in our 19-inch roundup series will be devoted to 12 monitor models from such well-known brands as ASUS, BenQ, HP, LG, NEC, Samsung and Viewsonic. Besides discussing their features we will also dwell on the details of brand name image-enhancing settings offered by the monitor makers these days.

Wireless D-Link DSM-G600 NAS Review

[ 10/10/07 | by Platon Scheblykin]

We decided to get to test some NAS solutions. The first one to get into our lab was D-Link DSM-G600. This device is especially interesting because besides traditional file access it also supports streaming media data transfers. It also can work wirelessly. Find out what was so interesting about this D-Link solution and what drawbacks should eb taken into consideration when working with it.