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PCinsight has posted a review on the ATi Radeon equipped with 64MB along with Video-in/Video-out capabilities.

Though aimed to take the NVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS head-on, the Radeon still lags behind by 434Mpixels/sec and approximately 500Mtexels/sec in terms of fill-rate. However, the area in which the Radeon excels in is its availability of memory bandwidth where the Radeon offers a staggering 5.9GB/sec of bandwidth as against 5.3GB/sec-- what the GeForce 2 GTS provides. As we have seen time and time again, at higher resolutions and colour depth, memory bandwidth requirements increase dramatically and is easily considered to be the most prominent restriction of high frame rates under the circumstances.
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Athlonmb.com has posted a review on the Thermaltake Super Orb cooler.

In the first cooling review here at Athlonmb.com in a long time, I have taken a look at the Thermaltake Super Orb. This cooler is a sleek looking, top of the line performer, and goes pretty much toe-to-toe with the Socket A Alpha heatsink. The only downfall being the size restrictions it has on some of the Socket A motherboards. But there is a fix for that...
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ViaHardware has posted their review on the MSI K7T Pro 2 mainboard.

The AMD 760 chipset, for the AMD Duron/Athlon processors, was released just this week. Despite this new chipset, which adds DDR memory support, I suspect their will still be a fairly large demand for the VIA KT133 chipset, for quite some time. Although DDR platforms from AMD, and soon VIA, will outperform the current VIA KT133 chipset, the market for the KT133 chipset will remain for quite some time because of the PC100/133 standard.
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