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Thermaltake Silent Pure power 480W

Simon Crisp — 2004-07-28T11:30:36.000Z

Simon Crisp, PC Magazine, Wednesday 28 July 2004 at 11:30:36

This cooling fan from Thermaltake supplies both power and less noise.

It's been a challenge for many of the manufacturers of power supplies to square the usually incompatible needs for more power and less noise.Thermaltake' Silent Purepower 480W scores well on...

Gigabyte 3D Cooler Pro (PCU21-VG)

PC Magazine Team — 2004-07-09T09:45:17.000Z

PC Magazine Team, PC Magazine, Friday 9 July 2004 at 09:45:17

A CPU cooler from Gigabyte.

There is a trend at the moment for CPU coolers that can fit both Intel's socket 478 processors and AMD's Sockets 754 and 940 chips.One of the latest CPU coolers,...

HEC PowerOP (PFC475W)

PC Magazine Team — 2004-07-02T09:30:54.000Z

PC Magazine Team, PC Magazine, Friday 2 July 2004 at 09:30:54

A power supply in a glossy black case.

With a case full of drives, power hungry CPUs and greedy graphics cards, the need for big power supplies has never been greater, but big supplies usually need large cooling...

Vantec Vortex

Simon Crisp — 2004-06-08T11:45:48.000Z

Simon Crisp, PC Magazine, Tuesday 8 June 2004 at 11:45:48

Hard drive cooler from Vantec.

Some of today's large hard drives tend to run hot, which can shorten their life span. It's fine if you have a case with front fans housed in front of...

Thermaltake Silent Boost K8

Simon Crisp — 2004-06-02T11:16:19.000Z

Simon Crisp, PC Magazine, Wednesday 2 June 2004 at 11:16:19

A CPU cooler that looks and feels well built.

If you want to replace the stock cooler for the Athlon 64, or want to overclock one, then the Silent Boost K8 from Thermaltake is worth serious consideration.The unit looks...

SeaSonic Super Silencer 460

PC Magazine Team — 2004-04-02T10:06:07.000Z

PC Magazine Team, PC Magazine, Friday 2 April 2004 at 10:06:07

This power supply gives lots of power without lots of noise.

The most commonly overlooked - and one of the most critical - items in any PC is the power supply....

Beantech BT-9023 Plus 7-in-1 Card Reader

PC Magazine Team — 2004-02-09T13:16:54.000Z

PC Magazine Team, PC Magazine, Monday 9 February 2004 at 13:16:54

A pocket sized internally mounted card reader.

Nearly every PC we've seen lately comes with some form of card reader built in. Beantech's BT-9023 internally-mounted reader has an advantage over all of these - it has a...

Proxim Orinoco AP-600 Access Point

Alex Arias — 2004-02-04T10:53:41.000Z

Alex Arias, PC Magazine, Wednesday 4 February 2004 at 10:53:41

Enterprise features at a lower price.

Proxim, an established wireless networking company, has released a single radio access point available as an 802.11a, 802.11b or 802.11g product....

Linksys WMA11B Wireless-B Media Adapter

Manek Dubash — 2004-01-22T15:27:33.000Z

Manek Dubash, PC Magazine, Thursday 22 January 2004 at 15:27:33

Home multimedia Wi-Fi solution.

There's no longer a need to clutter your living room with a noisy PC. Instead, you can plug the Linksys WMA11B Wireless-B Media Adapter into your stereo and TV, add...

NavMan GPS 4400

Kelvyn Taylor — 2003-12-09T11:59:07.000Z

Kelvyn Taylor, PC Magazine, Tuesday 9 December 2003 at 11:59:07

A navigation solution with Bluetooth compatibility.

To date, Bluetooth hasn't overwhelmed the world as a ubiquitous, short range cable replacement technology. Although many devices are Bluetooth-equipped, there's a distinct lack of compelling applications and compatibility problems...

Navman ICN 630

Kelvyn Taylor — 2003-11-14T15:01:47.000Z

Kelvyn Taylor, PC Magazine, Friday 14 November 2003 at 15:01:47

One for the road.

NavMan's iCN 630 standalone GPS car navigation system tries to address many of the problems associated with aftermarket GPS installations - first and foremost, the cost....

Zalman ZM-NB32J Northbridge Cooler

PC Magazine Team — 2003-11-12T11:56:44.000Z

PC Magazine Team, PC Magazine, Wednesday 12 November 2003 at 11:56:44

A component with a talent for peace making.

So you've got a quiet CPU, case and graphics card fan, but your system still makes a racket. If you have a motherboard that uses an active cooling solution for...

VTEC 1GB V-Drive

PC Magazine Team — 2003-11-11T12:44:11.000Z

PC Magazine Team, PC Magazine, Tuesday 11 November 2003 at 12:44:11

A Flash drive from VTEC with 1GB of storage.

The VTEC V-Drive USB Flash drive is one of the latest offerings in this rapidly growing market segment. This new model provides a massive 1GB of storage at a very...

Vantec Stealth PSU 470W

PC Magazine Team — 2003-11-05T14:08:33.000Z

PC Magazine Team, PC Magazine, Wednesday 5 November 2003 at 14:08:33

A small power station from Vantec.

Vantech's Stealth 470W PSU is another small power station masquerading as a power supply. It comes in the middle of the Stealth range with 420W and 520W models also available.It...

Polycom ViewStation FX

Roger Kirkwood — 2002-10-11T12:01:18.000Z

Roger Kirkwood, PC Magazine, Friday 11 October 2002 at 12:01:18

A fully featured video-conferencing solution with Lan/PC integration.

Polycom's ViewStation FX is a video-conference solution that mainly uses ISDN connections to link two or more meeting rooms together.This is just its most basic implementation, though - it has...