September 2005

Gizmondo

Posted 08/24/2005 at 12:48pm | by

We’ll get right to the point: The Gizmondo handheld gaming system is not worth your gaming dollar.

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Hitachi Deskstar T7K250

Posted 08/24/2005 at 12:41pm | by

Like the Western Digital WD2500KS we reviewed recently, Hitachi has taken last year’s 7K250 drive, added a SATA 3G interface, and renamed the new model the T7K250.

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Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW Widescreen Display

Posted 08/24/2005 at 12:03pm | by

It’s as though someone took a rolling pin to our beloved Dell 2001FP 20-inch LCD and extended its proportions.

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Firegraphic 8

Posted 08/24/2005 at 11:41am | by

If you’ve got Mac envy, you’ll dig Firegraphic 8’s sleek, handsome appearance. Dig those gradients! Savor those dusky grays! And then you’ll go back to using a more stable image-browsing and editing application, such as ACDSee 7.

Having said that, Firegraphic 8 remains a huge leap forward from version 7, which had all the speed and reflexes of a heavily medicated mental patient.

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XFX GeForce 7800 GTX

Posted 08/24/2005 at 11:23am | by

It’s no contest: If you want the absolute fastest videocard, and money is no object, you want a board—or two—powered by nVidia’s GeForce 7800 GTX.

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AKG K 28 Noise Reducing Headphones

Posted 08/24/2005 at 11:14am | by

AKG manufactures some fabulous headphones, but we’re disappointed with the company’s noise-reducing model K 28 NC.

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Cooler Master Hyper 6+

Posted 08/24/2005 at 10:48am | by

The towering Hyper 6+ weighs in at almost two pounds. It sports a hulking copper base, six copper heat pipes, a field of saw-tooth aluminum fins, and a 100mm fan.

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Monarch Nemesis

Posted 08/24/2005 at 10:16am | by

Although Monarch Systems has been in the PC-building business for a long time, the company is best known for its small-formfactor machines.

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Battlefield 2

Posted 08/24/2005 at 9:55am | by

The first Battlefield game (that’s BF:1942, for those of you keeping count at home) only reached its defining moment when a group of intrepid modders hacked modern weapons and vehicles to replace the WW2-era weapons the game shipped with.

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Western Digital WD2500KS

Posted 08/24/2005 at 8:28am | by

We reviewed Western Digital’s 250GB Caviar SE drive in January 2004. Eighteen months later, WD has taken this same drive, added a SATA 3G interface and another 8MB of cache (for a total of 16MB), and relaunched it as its new top-of-the-line desktop entry.

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