Just added the WHQL Certified 40.72 Drivers for Win9x, Win2k, & WinXP to the downloads section... all files are mirrored locally... enjoy!

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SiSoftware Sandra 2003 Released: The new Sandra has been released. Here is a detailed breakdown:

- Gauge overall system in a flash with the combined performance index wizard to quickly gauge overall system performance and compare and contrast upgrading options.

- Supports the latest technologies (AGP 3, Hyper-Threading), chipsets (Intel 7500, 845GL/GV/GE/PE; SiS 648, 655, 746; VIA KT400, P4X400), controllers (SiS 963; VIA 8233A/C, 8235/L), Clock generator ICs and devices on the market.

- Detailed context sensitive help for Tips/Warnings/Errors. Detailed technical definitions.

- Extensive reference results: over 50 different reference results from legacy to cutting edge systems. Can save you own and combine with your own results.

- Burn-in wizard: improved monitoring options, can see in real-time the changes in system state as burn-in progresses. Can program terminate conditions in case of out-of-range conditions.

- Cooling system information: Can estimate thermal resistance to determine the performance of the cooling system, thus ensuring proper cooling for the processor (s).

- Multi-platform: Both ANSI (for legacy systems) and Unicode (native for Windows 2000/XP/.Net) versions included in a single improved installer.

- Improved graphing options: users can compare the results in log, or inverse mode as well as standard linear mode.

download here @ Common Grounds

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"The unit we have in the OCA Secret Labs is the QPower system built around the MCW462-U with the MCW40 graphics GPU water block, or what Swiftech affectionately calls the FS020-H20-C-W40. Said a bit easier, it's a PC case preassembled and stuffed with everything you need to water cool your CPU and video card processor. The QPower system comes pre-primed and bled, filled with 90% water and 10% of Swiftech's cooling fluid, which is basically antifreeze."



http://www.ocaddiction.com/reviews/water/qpower/

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"You modded your PC? You modded your Monitor? Your mouse and even your Soundsystem? Well what about your keyboard? Using this guide you can make the spaces between your keys glow blue (green, yellow, red, whatever you want). Enjoy!"



http://www.pc- max.de/index.php?sel=04a24a
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Carbonite is one of the web's most popular and most used online back-up services. The Carbonite client software runs quietly uploading your data to Carbonite's web servers to make sure it's secure in case something happens to your pc. Carbonite can instantly backup songs, documents and email and other files (even though it manually backside up video), and grants or loans you access to those documents as well as your records on your smart phone. Carbonite supports House windows and Operating system X (although its Home Additionally and Home Premier programs only support House windows), making rebuilding your files as easy as support them up. Your off-site files are encrypted to ensure they are safe from prying eyes, and all of their plans consist of limitless storage space for your supported files. Carbonite's Home Plus strategy extends its features and enables you to backup exterior hard drives and not just documents on your computer, and allows you to back up complete system images. If some thing awful occurs, the Home Premier strategy consists of both these features and provides automatic backup of your video files, and a courier recovery services that gives you backups on the hard drive for you As soon as possible.You can also find the best Carbonite offer code and deal options from here
By offering really limitless cloud storage and a wide variety of document administration capabilities, Carbonite makes its positive reputation. Winner of our Top Ten Reviews Precious metal Honor for best information backup services, Carbonite Fundamental is really a remedy that provides a reliable system, great security and the ability to access your files from distant locations using your smart phone.
One of the key features of Carbonite that enhances its worth would be the fact you get a limitless amount of cloud storage space. Once you install the Carbonite software program, the program goes to function instantly to determine which files on your pc to backup. Even though Carbonite will not publish files larger than 4GB by default, you can easily override this by selecting larger documents personally. After you have, those documents will back again automatically later on.
The unlimited online back-up that is included with Carbonite signifies that you never need to worry about not having enough room. Most importantly, you will also not have to pay additional for additional storage space if your account exceeds a mentioned limit. An abundance of efficient backup and restore features, coupled with outstanding customer service and powerful security steps, can make Carbonite Fundamental a worthy choice for the home user seeking a simple and automated way of support up essential electronic information.
Carbonite is a wonderful option if you only want to backup your PC files for the occasional situation. It stands out within the crowded online backup space with its simplicity of use, unlimited storage space, and continuous backup. My only cavils about this at this point are its a single-PC restrict, lack of support for exterior disks, limited revealing features, and brief time period erased files are stored. If these are issues, you're better off using one of PCMag's Publishers Choice online backup services-SOS On the internet Backup because of its super speed or IDrive for its wealth of features at an inexpensive.

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Check how Final Fantasy XI runs on your system... download the official benchmark here @ Common Grounds... just click on the link below...

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While we're still sorting things out, you might want to download some files on our downloads section... the following are what we initially offer...

- nVidia Detonator 30.82, 40.72, 41.03
- ATi Catalyst Drivers & Control Panel
- Benchmark tools like 3DMark, PCMark, Dronezmark, Sisoft, etc...
- Utilities like Motherboard Monitor, wCPUID

All files were directly mirrored from their official websites so I can guarantee you that these are genuine and virus free... If you would like to see some utilities added to our list, pls feel free to email me your suggestions... Enjoy!

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" The KT4 Ultra is proudly billed by MSI as the very first AMD certified KT400 motherboard. Here, we take a closer look at what this board has to offer and how effective the VIA KT400 chipset is in this boards performance lineup."



http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MzY5

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"The Geforce 4 was an amazing product at its launch, and it continues to be even now. As the mighty flagship Ti4600 model even now is out of reach of most consumer's budgets, nVidia scaled it a few notches, which you all know as the Ti4200. The Ti4200 retains all technological benefits of the Ti4600, the only difference being that it was a little slower, and subsequently, cheaper. With the exception of Gigabyte, who crossed nVidia a while back, practically every video card maker jumped onto this Ti4200 bandwagon. Now the problem is, Ti4200 specifications are really tight, and almost every manufacturers end product is the Geforce 4 Ti4200 reference design, with slight differences within the parameters of colour and HSF / Ramsink design. What we have today is a black sheep, the Albatron Medusa Ti4200 Turbo. This video card is a hybrid of the Ti4200 and Ti4400, and as such, rises above the competition."



http://www.ocprices.com/index.php?rev_id=96
http://www.ocaddiction.com/reviews/video/albatron_Ti4200p/

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"A while ago now some bright spark came up with the idea of hiding the fronts of their CD drives by using the blanking plates that came with their case, it didnt take long for the idea to catch and now it seems like a case mod isnt complete without having stealthed drives ..."



http://icehw.net/article.asp?id=118

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"The block's dimensions are 50 x 50 x 20 mm, connections excluded, and it weighs 274g with water and 260g without.
The base is entirely made of copper, its size is 50 x 50 x 10 mm; the face in contact with processor is well polished and without any scratches that could compromise the heat exchange."







<http://www.alltechbox.com/reviews/next_cool_watercube_gt3_water_block_eng.php3

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"Today I'm looking at the Ati Radeon 9000Pro. This is ATI's challenge to the budget computer market. The card that has the latest technology onboard, and packed with enough power to play UT2003 at 1024x768 everything high, without any problems. This card has been around for a couple of weeks now and has already made quite an impact...."

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"Its DX9 ready, Smoothvision, HyperZ, and TruForm have been improved (you can run AA, and ansio comfortably now) and VideoShader just rocks. It makes streaming video smooth, and actually watchable now. Plus you get the old stand bys of multi monitor support (I couldnt go back to using a single monitor now), DVI for LCDs, and TV out if you wanted to hook it up to your multimedia center. ATI has also introduced HDTV support on the 9700."



http://www.ocaddiction.com/reviews/video/r9700/
nice job on the layout Mack!

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"Not everyone can afford top of the line processors like the Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz, but processors like the P4 2.4B are now clearly one of the best "value" Pentium 4's out there. Offering a good mix of price and performance, we'll be taking a look at whether this processor is "the one" to get.With a street price of around $330 CDN ($184 US) the P4 2.4B is not inexpensive, but when you compare that to the price of higher end P4's, $330 is actually quite a bargain."

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1256

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"XFX Graphics is a relatively new combatant in the fierce competition of the video card manufacturing, however from the performance perspective you never would have known that they were new. The secret to their success? They already have a lot of experience in the game of making top-notch components and cards as the company is a subdivision of Pine Technologies. In this review we are looking at XFX's Geforce 4 Ti4200 64MB, we will be examining all aspects of this card, and whether it is a card worthy of your purchase."

http://www.techwarelabs.com/reviews/video/xfxgraphics_gf4ti4200/

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"A quick glance at the hardware features shows us that the P4GS is a pretty well rounded motherboard, it has onboard 10/100 LAN, 5.1 audio, IDE Raid, Serial ATA, support for memory stick and secure digital cards. There are five PCI slots should you find the need to upgrade a part of your computer, a 4x AGP (1.5V lock) slot and USB 2.0 comes native thanks to the ICH4 southbridge. As you probably noticed, there are only two DIMM slots which can support 2 GB PC1600/2100 memory (PC2700 unofficial support). The Iwill P4GS is a pretty compact motherboard that uses a rather odd layout.The first thing that stands out is the odd placement of the IDE RAID controller connectors but we'll get to that a little later."

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1255

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"I recently had the opportunity to test this RAM in a more suitable test system. This rig consisted of a 2000xp chip (unlocked), Epox 8K5A2+ Motherboard, ThermalRight SLK800 HSF, 420watt PSU, GF4 Ti 4400, Win XP Pro, etc... We were able to attain a max stable FSB of 210. To get this speed, we had to lower the multiplier to 8.5 and raise the DDR voltage to 2.8 as well as the CPU core voltage up to 1.85 This gave us an overall speed of 1785 MHz. All RAM timings were set to their most agressive values."

http://www.ocia.net/reviews/xms3500/xms3500.shtml

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"Koolance EXOS External Water Cooling : Koolance is a name we've all come to associate with OEM style cooling on the cheap. Now, you can take that cooling on the road, from system to system and case to case...without a single modification to your current case."



http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=Mzc2

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"...ATI is introducing the Radeon 9500 Pro and Radeon 9500 (non Pro) to the performance mainstream market in the $179 to $199 price range. This directly competes against the GF4 Ti 4200 GPU..."



http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=Mzc0
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1735
http://www.bjorn3d.com/_preview.php? articleID=71

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"What do you get when you cross a die-hard overclocker with the need for an insanely powerfull cooling solution? The Thermalright AX-478. With an 80mm Delta screaming away at 5700 RPM (producing nearly 70dB of noise), the end result is one hell of a loud heatsink boasting top of the line thermal performance for the Pentium 4. Don't forget for a second that tha fan can dice through finger tips like a blender! You can test this for yourself if you don't believe me, but I'd really suggest investing a few bucks into a nice wire grill to cap off the Delta fan used in this review."

http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1246

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