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Future Looks has posted a review on the Archos 8x4x24 MiniCDRW

Think back to the days when CD’s first came out. What a novelty; suddenly vinyl was out and tapes were barely hanging in there. The plus to this new fangled technology was that it was “supposedly” impossible for the consumer to replicate. Of course what the industry SHOULD have said was “impossible to replicate for NOW” the operative word of course being now. Never ever put a challenge like that within ear shot of the general consumer market, the result? Home CD Burners. Of course the first generation CD burners were gloriously clunky devices that, much like the first CD-ROMs for computers, were pathetically slow. There was a time that burning an entire audio CD could take several hours…and this was considered fast?? Since then the technology has not only gotten faster, but more affordable to the consumer market. But what if you got a computer, be it home PC or lap top before the burning technology was available or affordable? A whole world of possibilities from CD mixes to exponential software back up would be denied to you. The solution? The Archos MiniCDRW 8x4x24.
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PCinsight has posted a review of Analog Devices´ SoundMAX with SPX Technologies.

SoundMAX 3.0 (officially dubbed "SoundMAX with SPX technology") is an AC97 driven solution which will be available only on Intel motherboards for the following 6 months. The fundamental difference between SoundMAX with SPX and other AC97 solutions is the driver set and sound quality. Since all of the "smart" work of a soundcard is done in the DSP, the driver of an AC97 codec is the most essential part. As we shall find out, the SoundMAX 3.0 driver set offers enhanced features found only in expensive sound cards and comprehensive support for all known operating systems.
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Overclockers Online has posted a review on the Abit TH7 Pentium 4 motherboard.

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I am Not a Geek has posted a review on the ThermalRight SK6 heatsink

Above the heatsink in the middle you can see a plastic bag which contains a thermal pad, you can just throw that out, no I am serious, throw it out and get yourself some silver thermal paste. I didn´t even bother testing the thermal pad on this heatsink. I was glad to see ThermalRight had the foresight not to ship it with the thermal pad on the heatsink it saves me the trouble of scraping it off.
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