Kristopher Kubicki
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Dell UltraSharp 2001FP Preview: Gaming LCDs for the Masses
It's been a little while since we had a recent LCD review, so we are coming back at you strong with something special. Dell recently unveiled its 2001FP LCD as an exclusive bundle with the Dell XPS workstations. Inevitably, this will be the replacement of Dell's existing 1600x1200 LCD, the 2000FP. Although these units will not be available for retail sales until Q1'04, we have been assured that… → Read More
Price Guides November 2003: CPU and Motherboards
Its been a another exciting week for price guides as many of you may already know, Intel and AMD both made huge price cuts on CPU’s with the exception of the Athlon 64 line. We saw enormous cuts about a week before this happened right after our last guide for the CPU’s. Below is our plot of AMD prices: This is what we like to see! Excellent cuts in the Opteron models with moderate cuts in the XP… → Read More
Price Guides December 2003: The Year in Component Prices
It was about this time last year the Pentium 4 2.4GHz 533FSB chip became the Intel chip to own. Funny enough, the 2.4GHz 533FSB and 800FSB CPUs continued to dominate the sub $200 price range for the majority of 2003. Only recently did the 2.6GHz 800FSB chips fall into the ~$170 market. It is very easy to imagine the 2.8C will fall into that sub $200 category very soon; our price analysis has… → Read More
Price Guides November 2003: Video Cards and Memory
The last couple weeks have proven necessity for another price guide. With COMDEX announcements, new NVIDIA graphics card introductions and various official and unofficial price cuts, the video card market has changed completely in 3 weeks. As always, remember you can track our prices and weekly deltas via our in house RealTime Price Engine. The largest obvious news was the introduction of the… → Read More
Holiday Shopping Roundup: Eight Dual Format Recordable DVD Drives
The upcoming holiday season has us swamped with recordable DVD drives. In the past few weeks, we have seen recordable devices from just about every major player in the optical storage forum. Typically, only about 5 or 6 unique devices exist in the market, making the life of a hardware journalist fairly easy. Unfortunately, right now, there are literally dozens of devices based on dozens of… → Read More
COMDEX 2003 Display Coverage: Prelude to a CES
It isn't much secret that COMDEX turned out to be extremely disappointing this year. The close proximity to Computex, the low attendance rate (under 40,000) and new management all contributed to what could be the last COMDEX Las Vegas for some time. Fortunately for us, COMDEX did act as a prelude for CES (Consumer Electronic Show), which will kick off in January. This gave us a wonderful… → Read More
Price Guides December 2003: Holiday CPU & Motherboard Guide
Another week, another price guide. This week we have information on our particular favorites; Motherboards and CPUs. On the heels of Derek’s excellent low budget CPU article, we have our recommendations and picks for the whole assortment of AMD and Intel products. As always, do not forget to check our RealTime Price Guides for daily deltas and product listings updated by the minute! There has… → Read More
Nu Tech DDW-081: More DVD+R madness
Perhaps most of us are not that familiar with Nu Technology (aka Nu Tech New), but virtually everyone has heard of their parent company, Quanta Storage Inc. QSI is one of the larger and older optical OEM producers for several US based system builders. Unfortunately for QSI, selling to retail stores and OEM clients began to infringe on their system components, and thus, Nu Technology was born. Nu… → Read More
Price Guides October 2003: Video Cards
A couple days ago we had the opportunity to look at CPU and memory prices. Fortunately, today we are going to take the opportunity to look at the prices of our personal favorite subject, video cards. As Anand likes to say, don’t buy a video card now for a game you want to play in 3 months. Generally speaking, if you follow the volatility of the GPU prices, you know that’s a good ideatm. This… → Read More
Price Guides October 2003: CPU and Memory
Welcome back to another fun filled Price Guide. As you may know, we took a couple weeks off for Computex and midterms, but we are back in full swing. Of course, many of you probably recall the particular processor launch from late September, but what changes did we see on pricing? This week we look back again at CPU, Motherboards and Video Cards to see what surprises this week holds. As always,… → Read More
Inside Elitegroup Computer Systems: From Taipei to Shen Zhen
Getting down to the politics of the situation, the partnership between PC Chips and ECS is actually slightly complicated. For those of you who don’t quite know the situation between China and Taiwan, let us take a crash course in Chinese politics. China technically considers Taiwan as a “rogue state,” and thus, it does not allow Taiwanese citizens and companies the same rights as Chinese. The PC… → Read More
ASUS DRW-0402P/D: ASUS joins the dual format fray
When dealing with computers, an entire industry can change in less than a year. It was just less than a year ago that virtually all DVDR drives were only capable of writing to one format at 1X and 2X speeds. Nine months after the 4X DVD-/+R standards were finalized, we started seeing some 8X DVD-R drive sampling from Plextor. Companies like Sony, NEC, ASUS, Pioneer Mitsumi, BTC, and Gigabyte all… → Read More
Plextor 708A: First exclusive look at 8X DVD+R
For years, Plextor took an approach to optical storage that was only duplicated by a few manufacturers. 8MB buffers, extra features and rock solid performance put Plextor on the high end of CDR and CDRW drives. Today, Plextor sent us a drive that truly claims to revolutionize DVDR burning for at least the remainder of the year, and probably some time into the next. Back in July, Philips (DVD+R… → Read More
Kingwin KT-424 Aluminum Case
Kingwin’s KT-436 cases drew more than just a little attention to the small case company. Since November, we have received dozens of questions regarding this case, and more frequently, when will the next revision unveil itself? Today, we bring you one of the first looks at Kingwin’s next generation Aluminum chassis. Kingwin’s design has changed significantly from the KT-436. We commended Kingwin… → Read More
Price Guides August 2003 Part II: Hard Drives and Memory
Introduction For those of you not familiar with the guides here is a brief overview on how we construct them: We select vendors to appear in our Price Guides based on two requirements: solid consumer feedback and having the lowest possible pricing. You'll notice that these vendors aren't paying us to be listed here; we do not accept requests to be listed here. We have tried to eliminate vendors… → Read More
Price Guides August 2003: CPUs, Motherboards, Memory and Video Cards
Introduction For those of you not familiar with the guides here is a brief overview on how we construct them: We select vendors to appear in our Price Guides based on two requirements: solid consumer feedback and having the lowest possible pricing. You'll notice that these vendors aren't paying us to be listed here; we do not accept requests to be listed here. We have tried to eliminate vendors… → Read More
CR52-M: CDRW ramps up to 32X
CDRWs might be a dying animal, but two Tier 1 manufacturers continue to breathe life into the market. Particularly, Lite-On and MSI still seem to justify R&D in the CD based optical media sector. MSI’s commanding market share has kept them in a good enough position to continue their reign as the optical storage leader. To add one more product to their already dizzying optical line, the… → Read More
LCD – For the Novice and the Expert
While browsing the forums, we noticed there were an unusual number of LCD questions. It’s been a while since we posted any new LCD news, so we are going to go look at LCDs both on the novice and expert level. It is our intention to keep this article up to date with new changes, but it requires the feedback of our readers in the forums. Among all of the hardware sectors, displays have risen to… → Read More
2003 Power Supply Roundup Part II: Better Faster Cheaper
Introduction The power supply market has certainly changed a bit over the last 18 months. Several months ago, we took a quick cross section of where the power supply market was going, with samples from Antec, Enermax, ThermalTake and Vantec. Because this represented such a small cross section of the market, almost immediately we began working on a larger, more thorough examination. Directron.com… → Read More
Samsung SyncMaster 192T: A New Look for 19'' LCDs
One of the most anticipated LCD releases ever came and went with the April 22 announcement of the Samsung 192T. Many of you recall our July 2002 review of the 191T. Since then, we have received hundreds of emails and forum posts inquiring about both the 191T and 192T. Fortunately, Samsung was able to get us a sample model early. As a result we are able to bring AnandTech one of the first reviews… → Read More