Ho ho ho

It is times again. Christmas is coming and the year coming to the end. And like many others also is it every year before the unpleasant decision, what to write on the wish list. In view of the diverse selection, the problem is quite understandable and normal. To make perhaps a little easier the decision you, we want to make once again our test winner out briefly reviewing the past article from computer base and as a small conclusion, there is still a little insight into his own reasoning around IT products under the Christmas tree from each editor of our team. Computer base close to the skin, so to speak;-)

Overview of our award winners

First of all, we pay us a small overview of our award winners categories categorized in the last few months. Test only on special product, which is only a small brief description.

Mainboards

MSI K8T neo-FIS2R vs. shuttle AN50R – Socket 754 boards: in search of the elect

• The competition for the Socket 754 had begun. In the direct performance comparison, slight advantages – particularly in the SpecPerf view benchmark – for the MSI K8T neo-FIS2R drew off with VIA K8T800. Shuttle, however, has created a stable, but hardly extravangantes Board, provides excellent OnBoard features for the price of only 140Euro.

SK8N Asus vs. MSI K8T Master1-FAR – are we not all a little server?

• After our major review of the Athlon 64/FX-51 we looked at finally two “desktop-enabled” Serverboards for the Athlon FX-51 us. Because we could give any recommendation for the Athlon FX on the consumer sector due to the dilemmas by the socket 940, remains to be noted that with the MSI K8T800 an extremely fast, absolutely reliable and well thought-out server mainboard almost on all along the line has convinced us. In addition to the computing power in particular, the performance of the SATA interface of VT8237 has to convince us.

KT600: MSI KT6 Delta – nForce2 shaken and not stirred?

• First a few words to the VIA KT600: VIA has caught up while to nVidia in the performance, but not obtained. In the one or the other test must plug in VIA continue to clear, can eternity contact however for the first time since a half quite well once at the top. MSI has once again succeeded to develop a solid platform for socket A with the KT6 Delta FISR2. In the performance you had to while the competition be beaten, for it boasts to the Board layout and in the facilities. A good piece of hardware, with almost all important features that you can, ask which is available for around 100 euros in trade.

Canterwood Roundup – six boards with the i875P in the test

• And even after this test we can not say again once what motherboard for now is the best. Individual needs and preferences of the customers are too different, that we here can make a blanket statement. Ultimately the Abit IC7-G and the ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe earned a power hammer each and Gigabyte GA-8KNXP, as well as the MSI had a hardware hammer 875P neo-FIS2R for their exceptionally good quality award.

Springdale Roundup 2 four circuit boards with the Intel i865 test

• That the here tested Springdale boards was the best for now? Even after 15 pages and very elaborate and time-consuming tests, we can say this isn’t exactly. Fact is, however, that 865PE Neo2-FIS2R – thanks to two boards – Gigabyte GA-8PENXP and MSI their good deliverable or the extensive BIOS settings to the hardware hammer have brought. The abit IS7-G surprised by the low price and the offered performance and earned the price hammer and the power hammer.

Processors

Intel Pentium 4 extreme Edition with 2 MB cache – the Lories thanks to huge cache?

• In this preview we have seen us “short” the fastest Pentium 4 made by Intel and then more again in the drawer disappear. Too little information about prices and availability were given, and even today the euphoria to this particular piece is hardware is rather limited. Far too high, the price for the alleged increased output of 2 MB is cache. It may already be over 1000 €…

Athlon 64 FX-51 and Athlon 64 3200 + – the magic of the AMD64 architecture

• We had the great honour to look at the brand new AMD Athlon 64 and the high-end variant FX-51 in one of the most comprehensive reviews in the history of the computer base. Just under 60 pages with a total of 15,000 words we went on almost every detail and carried out a comprehensive performance test. On the occasion of these innovations, also our new benchmark course celebrated its premiere, which will serve as of immediately more frequently for motherboard and processor test. But now to the actual main characters:
  The beginning made the Athlon 64 3200 +, which caused us some headaches in advance – as mentioned, since AMD had done everything up to the launch for a test to expose this CPU. Has however not quite works;-), so we can the conclusion good in the end announcing again full of Inbrünstigkeit that AMD has found a worthy successor to the Athlon XP 3200 + with this processor. The Athlon 64 FX 51 can pass by in four of the five ratings on Intel’s top product and must be beaten only in the field of media encodings. Overall, he is the fastest consumer processor (in our rating 4% before the P4C 3,2GHz)!

Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz and HyperThreading – the last “Northwood” core Pentium

• With the 3.20 GHz Pentium 4 processor on basis of 0, 13µm of manufactured Northwood core with a 512 kB L2-cache, HyperThreading support and a 800 MHz has fast frontside bus Intel no doubt – despite the appear of the Pentium 4 extreme Edition – found a good conclusion for the current Pentium 4 core. This processor was awarded the coveted power hammer due to his good performance applications, as well as games and thanks to his power barely increased compared to the 3,00GHz.

Drives

LG GSA-4040B super multi DVD writer – the wool milk sow legend eggs?

• LG has really managed to produce the “egg-laying wool milk sow”. Of all a bit and even not even bad. The burning services agree and also read performance of the device is neat – though not outstanding. Here it could have quiet bit more for a performance award. If you look at the current rates (bulk, approximately 124 euro retail determined 107 EUR bulk and 144 euro retail at alternate at skinflint or currently 129 euros), so you get NEC, Traxdata and friends for money over at the competition from the House.

Four DVD multi-format burner – competition of the DVD-ALLROUNDER

• Overall one can say that the MSI DR4-A is drives to speak of the “test winner” drive of the four offers DVD multi format, where the recently tested Sony DRU 500A drive, apart from the HD-burn equivalent or the detection time even better is function.

Iomega and Maxtor traveling – four external hard drives compared

• In this test, the Iomega HDD 250 GB FireWire and USB2.0 could. 0 enforce connection in almost all performance comparisons and get annoyed often even the colleagues from the internal section. By low weight, is well equipped for mobile use and offers a huge space.

Sony DRU-500A vs NEC ND-1300A – competition of the DVD-ALLROUNDER

• Its direct competitors in this test, the DRU-500A drive from Sony, can the drive from the House of NEC as a whole with 3-1 points defeat, with but everyone itself must decide what important is the appropriate test for the buyer.

Complete systems

Dell Inspiron 8600 – Dell’s “multimedia flagship” on great ride

• With the Dell Inspiron 8600, we had a quite exceptional notebook with us in the test. The notebook could convince thanks to his strong 1,7GHz Pentium M processor and the integrated GeForce FX5650Go graphics especially in performance. Unfortunately, we can certify only a limited mobile operational capability to the notebook and the sound quality was also a little lacking. Nevertheless the Dell Inspiron is due to its excellent facilities such as e.g. a DVD burner and WiFi a good desktop replacement that may also see the world from the outside.
  Price: 2685Euro

Low-noise living room PCs – the two concepts

• To draw a conclusion was not easy, both systems but different as day and night. Both systems have their advantages and disadvantages – for its size, this is VIA EPIA M10000 system quite powerful and recommended. The SILENTstar of low-noise worthy of its name and offers also a versatile system that has grown all tasks.

Cases & cooling

Tagan power supply TG380-U01 – small, strong and black

• Since you it barely better and more compact can formulate, only an excerpt from the conclusion: < blockquote > originally posted what remains in the face of established properties over the tagan to say? It looks chic has a well-thought-out design, is high-quality processed, provides ample power, load stable, remains always whisper-quiet and is has on an excellent efficiency. In short: The best power supply, we had ever available. Only the missing AUX connection and the well intentioned but pretty impractical cap on the power switch of negative. Not for nothing the PSU earned a performance and a price hammer.

Chenbro gaming bomb – attract attention at any cost

• The gaming bomb case is generally suited to daily use, good equipment can be seen on the schwächelne processing across. Weight and design the housing lend the suitability for every LAN-party. There are a quite sophisticated, well-equipped housing, leaving a few wishes for approximately 60 euros.

32 Fans under the wings looked – Windmänners

• To call a winner, it was not possible in this test area. To the requirements of each user are much too different. One places emphasis on performance, the other on the deliverable, the third would like to hear not only his fans. Every reader can seek his desire fan out on the basis of the abundant results themselves, we had the “Légende eggs wool milk sow” fans in the test field.

Peripherals

5 USB sticks compared – it is even faster!

• TwinMOS USB 2.0 mobile stick as best USB stick from our test out. It brings together both the fastest read and write speeds in the entire test field as also very good software. As a reward, he rightly deserves Awards – namely hardware hammer and hammer price equal to two computer base. Also, the Sharkoon USB received a price hammer 2.0 Flexi drive and the Plextor Plexflash PX-F512 was able to enjoy a power hammer.

Graphics cards

5950 Ultra/5700 ultra against 9800XT/9600XT – rendering to the Underweighted

• In a truly great round-up (the largest in the history of the computer base) saw we the current top models and the respective mid-range chips of the two manufacturers nVidia and ATi. So one or more Radeon 9600Pro/XT, 9800Pro/XT, GeForce FX 5700Ultra and 5950Ultra found one at the end of different makes cards with us. In addition to the pure equipment and performance comparison, we threw an explicit view on image quality when activated anisotropic filtering levels and discovered with mixed feelings, that here the nVidia cards provided but a significantly worse image with the current Detonator driver as the Radeon. Due to the abundance of participants, we take short us here:
  From the nVidia test field, the cards of Leadtek WinFast A380 ULTRA TDH and MSI GeForce FX 5950Ultra got a hardware hammer. At the ATI cards, the ASUS Radeon 9800 XT boasts a hardware hammer, the PowerColor Radeon 9800 XT and the Sapphire Atlantis Radeon 9800 XT one power hammer and the Sapphire Atlantis Radeon 9600 XT Fireblade Edition got only show in the entire test field awarded a price hammer.

GeForce FX 5900 – Roundup – Tech at an affordable price?

• Despite the thicket in the performance tables, we could announce a winner at the end. The MSI FX5900 SP VTD256 is the quietest of all test candidates and offers the üppigste accessories. It also has whopping 256 MB RAM, VideoIn and is not excessively expensive with around 325 euros. All makes them in our eyes the test winner, even if you are closely on the heels of the other six contributors. The two maps of Leadtek – Leadtek A350TDH LX and Leadtek A350TDH MyVIVO get the computer base Award for the best price / performance ratio.

I watch Inno3D personal cinema FX – TVau

• Rarely, it was so easy to watch TV on the PC, or record TV shows. The NV31 GPU with DirectX 9 is fully capable of playing, FPS hunters should take a look at the larger model personal cinema FX 5900 of Inno 3D tornado. To recommend to everyone, which in addition would like to see a TV card along with a new graphics card.

ATi Radeon 9800 Pro Roundup – purchase advice in the superclass

• Recommend we can in our view the Sapphire Atlantis Radeon 9800 PRO 128 MB of texture memory. You relatively few 340 euros and offers the largest delivery in comparison. Is in the future but also Sapphire play Tomb Raider – Angel of darkness with the own graphics cards market. Also good is the PowerColor Radeon 9800 PRO 128 MB. It costs just as much as the competitor of Sapphire, but provides the newer game with Tomb Raider – Angel of darkness.

nVidia GeForce FX5950 ultra – silent update

• Since it was only a preview of the reference model from nVidia, there is no great description at this point. Nevertheless, a trifle was noted in this article:
  Give us finally paying customers the opportunity to get the full, technically possible image quality again!

ASUS V9560 video suite – DirectX 9 and CineFX for the masses

• Rarely, we have seen so much facilities in a cardboard box as in the V9560 video suite. As the name may already suggest it, the focus is naturally on video editing and other features. The performance of the show was however rather mixed and can compete only in the Qualitätssettings to the Testpartner – GeForce 4 Ti4600 and Radeon 9500 Pro-. Those looking for a good graphics card with much potential in video editing, but can strike at the V9560 without any problems.

Radeon 7500 – 9800 Pro – meeting of the generations

• Since this was more to do with a comparison of different generations, there is no real winner at this point. For those who are still undecided, but necessarily once again in which performance areas they want to violate, or whether a switch is worth from his current graphics card should take look at this article.

Memory

Memory for the Athlon 64 FX and Opteron – DDR333 and DDR400 registered compared

• In our first comparison for ECC and registered modules, the candidates have beaten all wacker. As clear performance winner have the CMX512R 3200LL modules from the House of Corsair Memory out crystallizes. We would also like to given a price hammer on the competition from the House of Samsung, but due to lack of retail prices, the joy remained unfortunately granted us.

Crucial DDR400 twinpack – Samsung against Micron

• The crucial Micron have completely convinced us modules. In “normal” regions, shine it through good timings, you go to the overclocking, they are distinguished by a high bar. With a FSB of 260 MHz, pronounced DDR520, the modules have beaten excellently. The good performance was rewarded by us with a power hammer.
  Price for a 256 MB module: ~ 42Euro

For overclockers: Two DDR466 modules compared – duel far outside the specifications

• The tested Corsair TWINX512-3700 showed very heartbeat strong compared and survived even torture in DDR500 operation and SPD timings, were inferior but with sharper timings the OCZ RAM. Those could shine with good timing and achieved a measure of DDR490 after all. OCZ EL DDR PC-3700 dual channel gold received from us a power hammer. The ties of Corsair went up by way of exception once empty.

14 DDR400 memory modules compared – part 2: Intel i865PE to its limits

• In one of the most zeitaufwendigsten, we looked at 14 current memory modules of different companies. Was the test field both from absolute Highclass-as well as more low-cost – participants. At the end, the Corsair TWINX512 3200LL bar and the Kingston HyperX PC3500 could bring a power hammer. The tested Kingston HyperX PC3500 are available for the TWINX512 3200LL in performance in nothing and so also the “Turbo” mode in the BIOS settled in the HyperX enable. A price hammer got the Moduler from TwinMOS and takeMS. Two manufacturers, you already get good DDR400 RAM for just times around 160Euro 2x512MB. The modules resemble roughly in the performance. Very attractive price in both cases.

Monitors & displays

LG Flatron L1710B – the perfect mix?

• With the LG L1710B, we received a very interesting TFT monitor, which, as well as his predecessor of test – shows very well the performance potential of the modern equipment and is an equally worthy representative of this species. Every ambitious players with not the highest standards of image quality can we put the LG L1710B warmly to the heart and solemnly awarded him the coveted hardware hammer for extremely good performance in all areas.

ViewSonic VP171b – middle-class or upper class – that is the question here

• As our previous test candidates already have shown it, a very interesting TFT monitor from the House of ViewSonic we received with the VP171b. A really strong opinion about the today’s test candidates wanted to and wanted to be present not with us. So we got into a strong dichotomy, because the VP171b connects like no other monitor before Sun and dark side. While the response time, the design and the variety of connection at the highest level, the image quality in contrast to the somewhat more favourable EIZO FlexScan L557 could not fully convince us. The monitor would be more convenient, he would receive the price performance hammer from us. Unfortunately the quite happ-560 euro undergo purchase price this project a stroke the Bill.

EIZO FlexScan L557 – EIZOs 17 “-TFT in the everyday”

• Similar to like at the conclusion of the Samsung SyncMaster 172T it was difficult not us, to give the coveted hardware hammer FlexScan L557. So the offered properties satisfied ourselves eventually fully, so we like to ignore the few negative properties. EIZO has defended its reputation as a Ferrari under the TFTs with this monitor, and also presented this model to a Kampfpreis who is looking for the due performance of his peers.

Multimedia

MP3 player for your Pocket – Zwergenaufstand

• In our recent comparison, we paid us four MP3 player for everyday use. At the end, there was also a unique winner: the creative MuvoNX, which has been awarded a hardware hammer only. Price made the iMX-100 InnoAX the race and gained a the price hammer award.

TerraTec Aureon 5.1 USB – movie fun with a laptop

• The Aureon 5.1 USB leaves a fairly ordinary impression with us – in hindsight. A very good sound quality and a comparatively affordable price make the Aureon 5.1 USB a recommended solution universal, to enjoy DVDs and games with surround sound on the laptop.
  Price: ~ 99Euro

In the Middle instead of only doing – full shot part III – creative and TerraTec 7.1 sound cards in direct comparison

• The air as top is thinner. TerraTec is sealed off, but only off and not over in any case. The excellent performance and quality, the Audigy 2 ZS receives our hardware and performance-hammer.
  Price: 99,00Euro

iPod 15 GB – the first against the third generation

• Who on the shortened battery compared to the first generation don’t mind that, since the smaller dimensions and reduced weight twice make up for this shortcoming, and has the money, which receives the 3rd generation with the iPod probably once again with the best equipment of his Guild. Hardware and firmware as well as the scope of supply are of the highest quality and also another feature beckons more than before with this MP3 player: the iPod is and remains lifestyle in person. A Catcher who magically looks on itself. The price on the Bill but also.

Speaker Soundcheck full shot part II – 6 current speaker systems / farewell to the Indrik cube

• A hard duel in the reference class, provided that the concept E Magnum with the creative MegaWorks THX 5.1 550. The creative system was ultimately just as it was not-so-level proof, such as the Devils system. Also the very spatial sound impression and the harmonious coordination with the subwoofer are slightly better sounds the devil system. A small, acoustic surprise delivered the digital 2.1 system by creative, which could shine also by a good value for money. From the article are unfortunately out of date. In particular the two Devils are systems to have in the meantime for half. Devil had cleared the Commons a few weeks ago to make way for a new production series. Who ordered now, gets the latest version definitely.

Personal recommendations of the team

At the end of each active member of the team will present now, as promised, shortly sublicensee Persönliche(n) Liebling(e) or wish for this Christmas. While this is not limited to hardware that we had invited to a test.

Carsten

My Christmas recommendation is to buy as possible nothing more for the PC from mid-November. Because it is not stupid but also from the dealer, then again beautiful surcharges be but horny stingy, and then the holiday shopping season starts is due. The situation normalized experience has shown that from mid-January, when the 14 days to Exchange periods, and you can strike again.

You 10% of the euro so saved please transfer to the following account…;-)

If you would like to buy something because but yet still necessarily, should take a closer look on the GSA 4040B-Brenner by LG I think after time. So can you really go wrong at all, even if contrary to expectations but still DVD-RAM should prevail.

Would be a further look, even if it is contrary to the trend to S-ATA as well as to “Higher faster next”, important the Samsung for me SpinPoint SV1604N, which both run very quietly and very cool and almost predestined as a storage area for large amounts of data, which is important because of “only” real time availability not as to the speed.

Christoph

As already manifested the colleague Jan, it is hardly possible in conjunction with Apple’s iPod to let emotions. This not quite everyday MP3 player too much impressed the inclined Editor, who will introduce his ultimate Christmas gift at this point. He is OK, not really cheap and polarised as well, yet he has conquered the heart of here today calling the editor in the storm. Between 420 and 450 euro cost the version with 20 GB disk space and brings in addition to the comforting feeling to have one of the arguably the best portable music player in the world, even some more tools to. But now back to the objectivity, inasmuch as this is at all possible.

For the suggested retail price of 449 euro for the 20 GB version, Apple offers a very good program to create and manage the own playlists customers with iTunes. The carrying case with clip protects the iPod from damage, the cloth bag from any scratches, which themselves can creep on the chrome shiny back quickly. With the cradle not only music from PC to iPod transfer, it recharges it at the same time. However, the prerequisite is a six-pin FireWire 400 port. Power supply, headphones and wired remote control round the deliverable skillfully off. Everyone for themselves must ultimately decide whether all this is worth the price. The handle to the smallest iPod 10 GB space the responsible editor can not recommend, however, this provides but not the wide range of accessories of the two major variants.

There is more information about the iPod either at Apple or in our detailed review of the iPod 15 GB.

Frank

After it no longer had managed the TFT for Christmas and then in the summer was introduced on my desktop, my computer must settle this Christmas with other hardware. The choice for the TFT fell by the way, the Belinea 101920, which is equipped with a Samsung PVA Panel and 19 “, 25ms my old tube in particular in the areas of contrast and sharpness to lengths exceeding response time. A CRT monitor comes to me in any case no longer in question. Certainly, since the PC is used anyway hard to play.

But now to the Christmas wish, which this year probably a S-ATA hard drive will be. The choice here falls on which model, is not yet clear. High in the course, the Maxtor diamond Max but is 6Y160M0 with 160 GB and 8 MB data buffer. May manages to land but also the Western Digital WD1200JD with 120 GB and also 8 MB data buffer instead of the Maxtor on the Underweighted.

Hapelo

On my wish list for the PC sector, Gothic III ranks above a matter of course. Because I was but businessmen last year just before Christmas with the second part of this ingenious PC games, I can hardly expect on his show.

Da mein something angegrauter 21 “-CRT monitor shows first deficit, replacement in the form of a Samsung TFT is to find the way across my desk.” The model not fixed it yet.

Jan-Frederik

After a long time back and forth a hotly desired TFT monitor will be probably this year finally sending the glimmering vacuum tube retire. However, that is the experience of the past, will fall prices until after Christmas noticeably. Thus, it remains to be hoped that the Christ child by looking a second time in January.

For which model I finally will choose, not fixed currently still. Yes, not even the diagonal seems clear. Rich 17-inch, to replace the 19 inch tube with an equal flat screen? Or it may be then 19 inch TFT and thus almost 21 inch CRT? On the one hand the already quite reasonable price entices high-quality 17 “models. On the other hand, reason is exactly the thing that are difficult in check at a time of such purchase. If already, because already… (I see that as some considerations will flow down the Valley, until then well but the larger model against disproportionately more cash in your own four walls…; found his new home o)

Marcus

Since my current “miserliness is awesome!” Power supply the love long day where my rake servant of his work done, the whole room and, when the door is open, even that which is behind it, sound (and that far too scarce), I don’t begrudge the super quiet tagan TG380-U01 PSU, whose sound-level values promptly after the reading of the review after below fold my mouth let me for Christmas. In addition, the efficiency and the cost established by Hans Peter, and I would rather not want to know the efficiency of my current power supply in this context convinced me.

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In my thoughts I had drawn the purchase of a DVD burner into account. But here I decided to wait a little for me, since I believe that prices will fall significantly after the release of the first 8X-Brenner. In addition a small revolution is in the next year probably in this area in the House, because then the first drives that support the DVD + R9 has yet to be adopted standard, are to come on the market.

Michael

For me there’s finally a new notebook for Christmas this year. Was this on the Acer TravelMate 803LCiB, so a notebook with Intel Centrino technology. With his 1,6GHz Pentium M, impressive battery life of partially up to 5 hours are possible. Also, it is inaudible quietly and thus the best companion for my training. Thanks to its own the integrated ATi Radeon Mobility M9 with 64 MB graphics memory and the large 15 “display with a resolution of 1400 x 1050 pixels must not stop this device even before demanding games. The 40GByte large disk and ordinary 512 MB RAM provide sufficient reserves.

As additional features, which offers Acer TravelMate 803LCiB four USB2. 0 ports, a FastIR interface, BlueTooth, 10/100Mbps LAN (Broadcom), FireWire, a PCMCIA slot and an integrated modem. As optical drive, a DVD/CD-RW is a combination of Panasonic. DVDs can be read with 8facher speed, for CD-R(W)s the performance data read 24x10x24x as follows. For the acoustic background an AC’97 sound chip from Realtek is responsible, the two stereo speakers are located in the front of the device. Optionally, Acer offers include additional memory, larger hard drives, drawer, and a multi format DVD burner.

A smart card reader and preparing for a Kensington lock anti-theft device to protect the notebook from unauthorized use. As operating system, Acer Windows XP Professional provides.

At a price starting at around 2000 euro, this laptop however belongs to the somewhat more exclusive Christmas gifts.

Ralph

Because DVD burners have now established themselves on the market, father’s youngest at Christmas has also one of those afforded, namely the LG GSA4040B.

Arrived he is already, but the time has so far prevented a fit. After the promising review of Tobi, however I am all the more for my purchase. Missing formats, only shifted spindle by blanks in all times to test whether they then work to describe in the stand alone DVD player.

And quite obviously I am not alone with my decision to this Christmas wish in the editorial colleagues. Obviously probably TFT displays and DVD recorders are also here with us quite in the course.

Rudolf

Am still missing a few euros, but after Christmas I will buy a nVidia personal cinema multimedia card me, because I so that television, music, video, photos and DVDs, view, edit, archive, and you can play. With the cinema staff let to burn TV shows, home movies, or content of any other video sources directly on DVD or CD, or save to disk.

The old VCR in the living room is discarded, the DVD player has no function for cost reasons, and a standalone DVD recorder is too expensive to me.

So I can record TV shows, I can’t see due to time constraints, without any problems, or in my work as an editor at the same time a bit FormulaUno or MotoGP can look and oversee at the same time still the evil Boardys on Forum base.

Simon

At long request, my laptop wireless LAN will be finally able. After long consideration and a view of the price lists, but the faster IEEE 802.11 g standard has made the race. Wireless LAN adapter for the notebook comes a LevelOne wireless LAN 802.11 g PCMCIA card with a transfer rate of up to 54Mbps per second. The card is fully backward compatible to the IEEE 802.11b(+) standard and supports 64/128 bit encryption by WEP. For data transmission of the channel is searched automatically, on the most reigns at least traffic. The frequency band ranging from 2.412 ~ 2.484GHz. It is also possible to emulate a fully fledged access point via SoftAP. To use wireless LAN also comfortably at home, I signed up for the D-Link DWL-2000AP + AccessPoint decided, the integrated via the LAN in the existing network connection. The DWL-2000AP + offers also an of maximum 54MBit / s transfer rate using the 802.11 g Standard and encryption of up to 256 bit 64/128-bit WEP and WPA.

Since a few weeks ago for the first time one has gone me of my slightly older hard disks over Jordan, still a Hitachi HGST HDS22580 VLAT20 with 80 GB wanders as replacement capacity, 2 MB cache and 7200upm in the workstation.

Steffen

After we early September for the second time have tested some Flash, I became Proton drive attention to the Z-cyber. Him stand out totally different characteristics compared to the competition. He knows neither USB 2.0 and offers thus only relatively low data transfer rates, nor he tries to draw the attention of clients through a shiny exterior. No, he is characterized by its weight (~ 15 g), and in particular by its small size (50 x 21 x 3 mm)!

As you can see from the photo, he comes under easily in the wallets of each coin and thus is the ideal companion if you would like to leave sensitive data not unattended. Seen on the – from her storage capacity – largest version you can add 256 MB of data, which shows that its physical size does not necessarily have to go at the expense of storage capacity. The USB stick costs scarce 100 euros in the 256MB-Variante, the smallest execution (64 MB) goes for that amount in about three times over the counter.

Tobi

Well, what will probably put the Christ child under my Christmas tree? You can quickly answer the answer, because I no longer have to wait until the 24sten. My new DVD writer GSA-4040B tested also with us in a review, LG belonging to the genus of the super-multi DVD burner, which means he burns on a DVD + R / RW and DVD-R/RW media. In addition he can manage also DVD-RAMs a few writers as one. These are ideal for data protection. It is now not the video editing and archiving, backup still somewhat in the way.

Tommy

What’s worse than a loud system? A system that is loud! In this area, one must accuse manufacturers of components or even total systems failure. In favour of a fast system, simply take a greater noise in purchase. As for example nVidia has come up with the idea, the FX5800 ultra would with their monstrous cooling device (keyword: FX flow) of the Renner are par excellence, me remains a mystery to this day. This is unfortunately not a single example. Fortunately, at least some vendors have recognized this technological lag. This includes also AMD. The cool “n” quiet technology of Athlon 64 processors is undoubtedly forward-looking on the desktop sector. Keeps but “” cool one under non-stress of the CPU. Class! I am however with a current system fully to harmony, to with the tagan TG380-U01 power supply, a Thermalright SLK 947 U processor cooler with YS-tech 92 mm ultra silent fan, as well as two other case fans of the company of YS-Tech (80 mm ultra silent 120 mm ultra silent) a low noise system be created. At least the self-imposed target. I would prefer though been a small Barebone system for Christmas, but unfortunately these are still too loud due to lack of thermals.

Volker

Not so easy, this question. There are some things that this would have to be replaced in this computer (keyboard, mouse, power supply, speakers, monitor etc.).

The “started” costs even money, but can wait or falls off times along the way somewhere. In the first place on the wish list is therefore certainly a new monitor, which replaces the well earned, but now already five-year-old monitor – unfortunately damn little contrast. But since the decision on the mass of good TFTs is not so easy. We’re ‘ I still have a little while, then comes even a better – Yes the old song. That may be this long wait maybe that is wrong, well, but the new model is supposed to be so again five years here. And so a stylish 19-inch TFT by EIZO has since paid too:-)

Final word

Well, what remains to say at the end of this report? A summary of conclusion can be poorly run.

First, so a thick praise and thanks to the team, which has significantly contributed to the most diverse contents of this report by his Secretary. Not only by the abundance of reviews, which have seen the light of the world in the last few months on computer base, but also for the Bereiterklärung, go personal in this article with to incorporate.

If you look at the collection of articles, it is hopefully without exaggeration say, to have tested a very large range of different categories of hardware, performance, and price ranges. We welcome your positive feedback on an article, are grateful for factual criticism but also of course at any time. Without your feedback, we never knew what we could improve, you our experiences and results as close as possible to bring and to deliver the desired information about a product. The computer base is and remains a format for you, the readers!

We hope with this report, perhaps the or the decision of what is written on the wish list this year, others literally last minute to have facilitated little and wish you enjoy the Christmas present.