Computer Reviews

When we first pulled this monitor out of the box to attach it to our new G4 server, the first thing one office member said was, 'Well, the mother ship has arrived.' This monitor has an interesting design--ours came in smokey gray (to match our G4) and looks very professional on the desk. It has a unique three-pronged base, which allows for a conservation of desktop space (particularly as the CPU is a tower model which sits under the desk)--we can keep papers and other items under the monitor, or slide the keyboard and mouse underneath when not using the computer (like that ever happens!)

Likewise, the three-pronged base has a great swivel-range, limited only by the cables running into the monitor--thus we can pull something up and show it around the office by turning the monitor without undue strain on the base or the desk.

The monitor itself is crisp and clear, which great colour resolution. It has a flat screen that minimises glare, and that is good in an office with high windows. Resolution is good: for the techies out there, resolution is from 640 by 480 pixels which refreshes at up to 85 Hz to 1,600 by 1,200 pixels which refreshes at up to 60 Hz; scanning rates 30 to 85 kHz (horizontal) and 48 to 160 Hz (vertical). It connects via a 15-pin mini D-Sub VGA connector. System requires G3 or G4, System 8.5 or higher.

One of the key advantages of a monitor this size is the ability to have open multiple windows of reasonable working size (say, Quark and Photoshop simultaneously with usable windows for each without too much overlap). Another is the ability to see a two-page spread in size enough to make design decisions. Likewise, this monitor shows video from the G4's DVD drive (and CD multimedia sections) with a good clarity and reasonable refresh speed.

Perhaps best of all, this monitor was affordable. The literacy foundation for whom this was purchased is non-profit (even if it were for-profit, it would be non-profit, if you get my meaning)--so, this was a great option for a great monitor at an acceptable cost.

For those who are cost and quality conscious, this is the monitor for them.

While this Apple power adapter way not be anything fancy or elegant by Apple's standards, it is very useful. Aside from its job of powering up your laptop, it has built-in extending arms to wrap your power cord around. This helpful feature reduces clutter.

Toner cartridges work as well as original Apple units and prints more than twice as many pages at about half the price. Slight problem with shipping, but Toner Connection answered my eMail within hours and straightened out the problem immediately. Will buy from this dealer again.

This stand makes your life easier. Who knew that being able to turn your computer without messing all of the wires, etc. could make such a difference? Also, to be able to adjust the height of the computer so your visual is comfortable is a must. No more neck cricks!

Holly on Hollywood's minidvd audio of positivetalkradio.com/mcclure' s dialogues logbooks would do Johnny just great so what are the pric ing of gold plated minidvd audio and of blue nile diamond plated min idvd audio for the wealthy buyers eh, thanks, ttyl... bye...PS: How about a minidvd audio recorder for both either for grundig satellit 800 radio or for E1 XM - AM/FM/Shortwave Radio by preset timer without using the desktop neither nor the hard drive as it's just for the satellite radio audiorecording studio only so eh, thanks,tt yl, bye...

Whenever I build a new system (like the dual Opteron server I just finished), I always reach for the arctic silver to help with heat CPU heat dissipation. I have read enough studies and reviews to know that artic silver is the best thermal epoxy available.

As a result, I've never had a processor shutdown because of thermal overload, even in less than optimal environments.

Although it barely nudges out the second best thermal epoxy, artic silver is still the best.

I purchased this item based on very little information, and was pleasantly surprised at its function. First of all, it has the S-Video option. With most TVs and Receivers only having a few inputss for S-video, it was nice to use a selector with one. Second, all inputs and the output are on the back. This makes for a nice look instead of having multiple cables lying around.

But the best part of this selector is the fact that it is automatic. Once you turn on the device plugged into one of the inputs, the selector automatically switches to that station. Instead of remembering if your Gamecube is plugged into input three or four, the selector switches for you.

Pros:
S-Video
4 inputs
Great Price
Input/Output on Back

Cons:
Only one device on at a time
Always on and searching for signal

All in all this selector is the way to go for the price and the function.

this is the best video card available to the date with no doubts..
yes its pricey ! but buying it garantee you enought 3D power for at least 2 years! if bundled with a good cpu memory and everything this thing can run even most demanding DX 9 games at even 100 fps... imagine playing half life 2 with all efects enabled at 70 to 90 fps average wow! amazing for me!.

I just did my first professional build with the Athlon64 processor and coupled with this motherboard, it couldn't have gone any better. This board has about any feature you could possibly want and then some. Along with the great features it is easy to install and use. GREAT OC on AMD64 3200+, I was able to O/C my AMD64 at 2.0GHz stock to 2.3GHz with stock cooler with a near 50°C at load! and low or mid 40s in idle! But wasnt quite stable at 2.35GHz and it was over 50°C idle so in the end I settled at 2.25GHz since the idle is LOW 30s! GREAT motherboard and awesome look to it.Highly recommended.

The Asus P4C800 deluxe provides the support for the new Intel 875 "Canterwood" chipset (Intel 875P MCH north bridge and Intel ICH5 south bridge). ASUS provides support for the new 800MHz front-side bus, 2*200MHz DDR memory (PC3200), hyperthreading and serial ATA drives. So far, the only chip available that exploits all of this power is the 3.0MHz Intel P4 "Northwood". I have two of these boards and built two machines, one with the 3.0MHz P4 with 800MHz FSB and one with a 2.4MHz P4 with 533MHz FSB, and both installed and booted with no problem.

The deluxe version of the ASUS board foregoes the Intel chipset's support for RAID, replacing it with a Promise 20378 RAID controller, which is a bit beefier and frees the chipset up for other work. The Promise controller supports RAID 0 or RAID 1 for two serial ATA drives and/or two UltraATA drives (or both, but who knows what'll happen if you mix drive speeds to create a RAID 0/1 configuration). I went with RAID 0 and two Seagate Barracuda drives for optimal speed. There's room for 2 more serial ATA disks, as well as four more UltraATA disks. Installation of the RAID was the only tricky part, as Windows XP required the drivers to be burned onto a floppy and inserted in the midst of the OS installation.

The board also provides the 3COM 3C940 Gigabit LAN controller, which worked perfectly as soon as the driver was installed, though I'm only using it in 100Mbit mode. The board also includes the Analog Devices AD1985 AC '97 CODEC, with S/PDIF (coaxial digital) output. This is great, as you get full surround sound out of DVDs played on the computer and you can decode it with a home-theater receiver (I'm using the Harman Kardon 325, and the sound is great). Rounding out the extra chips on the board is the VIA 1394 IEEE1394 controller (aka firewire). In total, the back panel has 1 parallel, 1 serial, 1 PS/2 keyboard, 1 PS/2 mouse, 1 S/PDIF (digital audio), 1 analog audio I/O, 1 IEEE1394 (firewire), and 1 RJ45 (LAN). There's additiaonl support for an additional 4 USB 2.0 and 1 IEEE1394 front-case ports. It also includes 2 UltraDMA, 2 serial ATA, 1 IDE, and 1 floppy cable.

The AMI BIOS and installation were quite easy to navigate. In fact, I'd never built a computer before, and between the case's manual and the motherboard's manual, I was able to build everything with almost no other reference material (though I can highly recommend the 14th edition of Scott Mueller's "Upgrading and Repairing PCs" if you want deeper knowledge of machine internals).

I used 4 sticks of Corsair 512MB PC3200 memory (CMX512-3200C2), and it works great. The memory must be installed in pairs of the same type for the DDR DIMM slots on this machine. In my second machine, I used two sticks of Kingmax PC3200 MPXB62D, which also worked just fine.

One other concern I had is the northbridge heatsink. In early photos, it was shown mounted on a diagonal. On my model, it is mounted square to the rest of the board. This is good, because I'm using a giant Zalman heatsink on my Radeon graphics card, and if it were on a diagonal, they might hit one another.

Including WinDVD 4.0 is a very nice touch. The quality of DVD playback through my computer and Radeon 9700 card is fabulous, and the digital-analog decoding for sound is done through the audio-visual receiver.

The P4C800 (non-deluxe) is a stripped down version of this board, though I have not seen it for sale anywhere.