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To recap, not only is your PCstats Newsletter giving away a bundle of brand new high-speed MSI wireless networking gear to ten lucky winners, but we've also managed to get a 10% off* coupon for everyone who takes a moment just to fill out the Quiz and Enter!*

Once you've taken the Newsletter Quiz, I think you'll find our review of the Soltek SL-K8AN-RL motherboard pretty interesting. If video cards are more your thing, the Asus Radeon 9600XT offers up a lot of value for the price. Seasonic are probably not the most familiar company to most of us, but their new 400W Super Tornado PSU strikes new ground for those of us with aspirations of low noise PCs. After that, PCstats latest Beginners Guide deals with the subject of Optical Drives (CDROMs) and Recording Formats. What the title lacks in adrenalin, the Guide makes up for in clear explanation of the differences between CD-R, CD-RW, and the dozen or so different recordable DVD formats .

Asus Radeon A9600XT Videocard Review

Asus' mainstream Radeon A9600XT comes packing 128MB of Samsung memory, and includes a DVI connector and DVI-to-analog converter. These little DVI-to-analog converters always come in handy, especially if you want to configure dual analog monitors. If you've ever wanted to connect the PC to a Television, you'll be happy to know the Asus Radeon A9600XT videocard is also fully VIVO compatible! The software package that comes with the Asus Radeon A9600XT is also quite impressive, and oh, I almost forgot to mention that the Asus Radeon A9600XT also comes with a Half Life 2 coupon that will allow you to download the full game via ATi's website when it's released! Continue Here>>

Seasonic Super Tornado 400W Power Supply Review

Experienced enthusiasts know that a quality power supply can be the difference between a good overclock and a bad one. These days with computers facing larger power draws it's essential that you equip your PC with a steadfast PSU. Otherwise, you're just asking for trouble. Today we're going to be checking out the new Seasonic Super Tornado 400W power supply, which has refreshingly not adopted the ultra-tacky tacktic of gimmicky LED fans, fan controllers or aluminum housings. Rather, Seasonic rely on the stability of the powersupply, and large low-noise fan design. Continue Here>>

Clear Type

Search Dealtime Abit ASUS Gigabyte Intel iWill Soyo Super Micro More... AMD Intel More... SDRAM RDRAM DDRAM More... Albatron ATI PNY MSI More... Clear Type Font Smoothing is one feature that's suppose to help make text more readable on LCD and low resolution monitors in WindowsXP however, it's disabled by default. If you have problems reading the text on your monitor perhaps this will help. We're going to have to edit two registry values the FontSmoothing and FontSmoothingType string values. First load up regedit (Start -> Run -> regedit then press OK) and follow this path HKEY_Current_User -> Control -> Desktop and locate the two strings and change the values of both to 2. After that's done save and reboot. Now the text that is displayed should be a lot cleaner and smoother for those of you who thought the text in WindowsXP was lousy. If you have some spare CPU cycles why not Fold for Team PCStats! You're not just helping us out, you're doing your part to cure the diseases around the world!

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Beginners Guides: Optical Drives & Recording Formats

The first of two parts; Everything from the differing optical media recording standards, read/record speeds to selecting the best recordable DVD format is covered.

In a way, the current computer market mirrors the conditions of a few years ago when the CD-R drive, like email, became a driving force behind home computer sales. Except this time the emerging technology is DVD writing. DVD drives are dropping in price, the media is easily available, and the idea of them has been absorbed by the public. Or, at least by those consumers with more than a passing interest in computers, digial music, movies, or whatever. In this article, PCstats will attempt to clear away some of the fog from the issue of writeable DVD media standards, as well as explaining how DVD and CD writing technology actually works, and much much more. In the second half of this beginners guide, PCstats will explain how to burn a CD-R, create an ISO image, and several other fundamentals for burning your data to recordable optical media. Continue Here>>

AMD Athlon64 3200+ 32/64-bit Processor Review

With the K8, AMD has even more ambitious goals than in the past; they're simply trying to revolutionize the computer industry. The K8 will be the first 64-bit desktop processor which is fully compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit software! With 64 bit software obviously the way of the future, the Athlon64 processor allows users to migrate their software over to 64-bit when they're ready. This contrasts pure 64-bit processors which translate into expensive purchases of new hardware and new software. With the Athlon64 processor capable of running 32-bit software now, you can even still use your favorite 32-bit applications under a 64-bit OS later. Continue Here>>

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