Foreword Like every year the company Symantec from sunny California presents a new version of well known antivirus Norton antivirus in the us this year 2001. We have seen us therefore advance more a beta version of the honorary worthy successor. Surface The new version of Norton AntiVirus maintains the well structured and clearly designed surface, although it once again has left no stone on the other. The main server box is because in a...

Introduction Easy one is provided, it is difficult to answer it adequately: questions to speakers, sound cards, and everything, what so can take place in between, accumulate associated again and again in the help forums such as the to computer base. Here, the main problem seems initially simple: do I need a sound card or not? What speakers should I buy for my money? Is a multi-channel system preferable to stereo speakers? And what cables do I...

Introduction QNAP has managed to make a name among the manufacturers of network storages (NAS) in a relatively short time. The QNAP TS-409 Pro Turbo NAS offers the Taiwanese company a further, designed for Gigabit Ethernet network storage, which is intended not only for demanding home users, but is also small and medium-sized companies in the line of fire. In addition to four 3, 5 inch SATA additional information for hard drives with a total...

Foreword After RAM chip sets SiS735, ALi MAGiK1, VIA KT266 and AMD760 in our past the GDR reviews a more or less hard and narrow struggle for the top position in the benchmark rankings have delivered and are in effect the SiS chip before the competition from AMD, VIA and ALi place could we received a Board now with the “2nd revision” of KT266, the KT266A. Three months ago, we had taken the KT266 on the basis of the Board of 8KHA...

Introduction NEC has a special monitor on offer with the 24WMGX³: this at least 598 euros expensive equipment relies on an A-MVA panel and is expected to reach maximum perspective not only on paper. By OverDrive technology support, response times are nevertheless achieved just six milliseconds, which makes attractive to players. In addition a sensational variety of connection the film and console friends contrary to is likely coming and...

Introduction At first glance a DDR2 module looks like a since eh and ever known memory bolt. A little over 13 cm long and approximately 3 cm high. However, not only internally much has been done. The inconspicuous 240 contacts which connect the new ties with the motherboard make the start – at a second glance. Thus, the previous DDR socket – is seen purely from the mechanical side – died already for the new standard. In...

Introduction The brand “Sound Blaster” manufacturer’s Creative Labs enjoys a reputation of high quality in the PC-audio range since the introduction of the first sound cards in this series. So far, just the members of the Audigy family were considered standard for highest musical enjoyment. But Intel moved with the passage of high-definition audio standard and enabled the same acoustic quality, as they reach the relatively...

Introduction At the beginning, everything was easy in SLI. Who is wanted to build a dual-GPU system, needed two identical graphics nVidia cards as well as a motherboard with the nForce 4-chipset by nVidia and could already start the fun. When the competing technology from ATi, namely CrossFire, the market reached, the whole situation was already more complicated. At ATi, it not enough to buy two equivalent ATi graphics cards and a CrossFire...

Introduction With version 3.2 the KDE project, one of the most popular graphical user interfaces for Linux and other UNIX derivatives has made a huge leap forward. While with version 3.1 today everyday features such as tabbed browsing have kept moving into KDE, version 3.2 has a lot of really new. Often accused free software to create, but only abzukupfern no innovation. If you read the following sections, will see that this argument can not...

Foreword Anyone who dual hears the word and thinks of two processors, believes now, he would have the double performance of a system with only one processor. This is only partially true. With a dual processor board, the two processors share the resulting work, the operating system automatically splits the tasks on the two processors. In other words, a dual processor board does many works that must perform a system with only one processor at a...

Introduction Soon, one year after the launch of the double-graphics card solution called SLI by nVidia also ATi has finally like in the portfolio. The 26.09.2005 was finally officially unveiled the ‘ CrossFire ‘ technique and distributed model of the international press. We have already devoted an article to the performance of graphics cards, but also the CrossFire motherboard offers some news from the House of ATi. In addition to...

Foreword In the summer of this year, Carsten Albrecht read the exciting news that AVM and the Deutsche Telekom a field test for new DSL hardware start and would for this search still reliable beta tester – the tested product should be the brand new and still officially not on the market AVM Fritz! DSL card be. He was lucky and made it into the select circle of the tester. In the following article, which he has kindly made us available,...

Introduction Sapphire works very closely with ATi for years. So it’s surprising the with the pure CrossFire A9 RD580 more or less for the launch of the ATi Xpress-3200-chipset for a motherboard for the market available stand Socket 939 hardly. Only Asus was at that time faster and already distributed some motherboards to the present press on the launch event in Seville, Spain. So, we just in time could present a practical test to...