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APPLE iPOD

By Staff Writers, Bennett Ring | 00:00 Dec 5, 2003 | Comment Now

Systems

Shuttle MN31N

By Darren Ellis, John Gillooly | 00:00 Dec 5, 2003 | Comment Now

Although this board is fairly small on features, such as lacking SATA and FireWire, it does offer a space-saving platform for building a first PC or for upgrading your current ...

Systems

Toshiba Satellite 5220

By John Gillooly | 00:00 Dec 3, 2003 | Comment Now

John Gillooly discovers that for notebooks, blue is one screamin’ colour.

Systems

MSI MEGA651

By John Gillooly | 00:00 Dec 3, 2003 | Comment Now

Is it a hi-fi? Is it a PC? John Gillooly takes out the rubber gloves.

Peripherals

Accent HT100G

By John Gillooly | 00:00 Dec 3, 2003 | Comment Now

After an almost wholesale abandoning of the desktop form factor over the past few years it’s strange that it has returned, with slight tweakage and a new role. This new ...

Graphics Cards

Albatron FX5600EQ

By John Gillooly | 00:00 Dec 3, 2003 | Comment Now

With 256MB of RAM, John Gillooly finds a heavy Albatron hanging round his neck.

Peripherals

Jazz JS9938 5.1 speaker system

By Simon Peppercorn | 00:00 Dec 3, 2003 | Comment Now

The Jazz JS9938 comes in an ‘A’ and ‘B’ series. For this review, we looked at the A series. The only difference is the external appearance, and if you check out the Sato ...

Peripherals

VideoLogic ZXR-750 7.1 speaker system

By Simon Peppercorn | 00:00 Dec 3, 2003 | Comment Now

The ZXR-750 is the latest from VideoLogic’s range of surround speaker systems. This isn’t a significant upgrade from the ZXR-500 and ZXR-550 systems -- after all they do ...

Peripherals

KISS DVD Player DP-450

By John Gillooly | 00:00 Dec 3, 2003 | Comment Now

Thanks to the boom in broadband there’s been an equally huge explosion in the amount of sharing of home movies on the Net, so much so most people have a few gigs of memory ...

Peripherals

Mambo X P353SD

By John Gillooly | 00:00 Dec 3, 2003 | Comment Now

You can pick up a 64MB MP3 player for fairly cheap these days. You can then down sample your MP3s so you can fit more than a handful onto the player and listen to the alright, ...

Peripherals

Polyview CMV 1515 TFT

By John Gillooly | 00:00 Dec 3, 2003 | Comment Now

Generally, TFT monitors have been renowned to be disgustingly expensive flat items that display a nasty blur, most of which also have low colour depth and are ridiculously over ...

CPUs, Motherboards & RAM

Albatron KM18G Pro

By John Gillooly | 00:00 Dec 3, 2003 | Comment Now

Over the past year a quiet revolution has been going on in the motherboard world. The Micro ATX form factor has always been tainted by the inevitability that it would be an ...

CPUs, Motherboards & RAM

DFI LANPARTY KT400A

By John Gillooly | 00:00 Dec 3, 2003 | Comment Now

DFI has come a long way in a relatively short time. It’s always been known for making decent, if poorly featured, budget motherboards.

CPUs, Motherboards & RAM

Intel Pentium 4 2.4C

By Bennett Ring | 00:00 Dec 3, 2003 | Comment Now

Let’s cut straight to the chase. If you’re looking to upgrade your CPU, you need to send out the bloodhounds immediately to sniff out the nearest retailer of the 2.4C Pentium ...

Peripherals

Mustek DV3000

By blank blank, Staff Writers | 00:00 Dec 3, 2003 | Comment Now

If you’re in the market for a digital camcorder you could probably only afford a tube of thermal paste with the change left over from a few grand.

Graphics Cards

NVIDIA Quadro FX3000

By Ivon Smith | 00:00 Dec 2, 2003 | Comment Now

The Quadro FX3000 is based on the same NV35 core that powers the latest GeForce FX 5900 cards, but with a few new additions to cater to the professional market. Compared to the ...

Systems

SHUTTLE XPC SN85G4

By Staff Writers, Nathan Davis | 00:00 Dec 2, 2003 | Comment Now

Shuttle is a bit of a pioneer in the world of barebones PCs, and is one of few manufacturers to have a range of systems on offer and not just a couple of basic units. Its also ...

Systems

SOLTEK Qbic EQ-3401M

By Staff Writers, Nathan Davis | 00:00 Dec 2, 2003 | Comment Now

The Qbic's front panel is covered in an attractive, although not totally flattering, mirrored surface that conceals all the drives and inputs.

CPUs, Motherboards & RAM

Albatron PX865PE Lite Pro

By Nathan Davis | 00:00 Dec 2, 2003 | Comment Now

Powerless to withhold his de-Lite, Nathan Davis bounds about like a crazy mofo

CPUs, Motherboards & RAM

Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz Extreme Edition

By Nathan Davis | 00:00 Dec 2, 2003 | Comment Now

Intel whips out new Pentium 4. Nathan Davis discovered minus daks.

Systems

Shuttle XPC SN62G2

By Nathan Davis | 00:00 Dec 2, 2003 | Comment Now

The ability to have a sexed-up high-powered beast confined to spaces as small as a gerbil's home is incredible. Very few manufacturers can lay claim to such design ingenuity as ...

Networking

MINITAR - MNGSSW-5 10/100/1,000 Ethernet Smart Switch

By Simon Peppercorn | 00:00 Dec 2, 2003 | Comment Now

This Gigabit switch proved a challenge to test. One of the limitations facing PCI is one of bandwidth. That being, it is limited to a 33MHz bus, which is 132 MB/s of available ...

Peripherals

Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro

By Simon Peppercorn | 00:00 Dec 2, 2003 | Comment Now

Creative's Audigy series is unrivalled. With each new iteration, Creative adds a little more goodness to an already tantilising package.

Peripherals

CREATIVE i-Trigue L3500

By Simon Peppercorn | 00:00 Dec 2, 2003 | Comment Now

We rave about their gear so much, we must sound like a bunch of Creative fan boys. But they continuously surprise us with new releases so we can't help but gush.

Peripherals

KLIPSCH - Promedia GMX A-2.1

By Simon Peppercorn | 00:00 Dec 2, 2003 | Comment Now

The question here, is 'how loud is loud enough?' Surely these speakers from the Kilpsch Promedia series, would answer that question. The package screams 'bad ass', from the ...

Peripherals

Antec Minuet

By Nathan Davis | 00:00 Dec 2, 2003 | Comment Now

Also a slow type of dance, 'Minuet' is derived from Old French, meaning 'small and dainty'. To us that's just a blatant misspelling of 'minute'.

Modding & Cooling

Cooler Master Jet 7

By Nathan Davis | 00:00 Dec 2, 2003 | Comment Now

The new Jet 7 appears to have been ripped directly off the side of a Lear Jet, shrunk and then screwed onto a heatsink. Cooler Master' s horizontally mounted design adds to the ...

Peripherals

Sony Network Walkman NWMS70D

By Nathan Davis | 00:00 Dec 2, 2003 | Comment Now

Sony has gone ahead and made a very sexy Walkman -- the titanium bodied Network Walkman NWMS70D. When seated in its dock, it appears as a light phaser from Star Wars ready to ...

Peripherals

Hercules XPS 2.100 speaker system

By Nathan Davis | 00:00 Dec 2, 2003 | Comment Now

Hercules brought us the impressive XPS-210s and XPS-510 speaker sets. These represented quality sound at decent prices. Now we see the XPS-2.100 with the XPS-5.100s soon to ...

Systems

Emagen Vitesse P4X

By Nathan Davis | 00:00 Dec 2, 2003 | Comment Now

Prebuilt machines don't often find their way into the pages of Atomic. Unless, that is, they're extra special. Boxed in an admittedly plastic-looking silver-coloured case, ...

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