Axis 5500

Advantages: Cheap, Simple, Does it's job, Clear enough...
Disadvantages: ...Not HD quality, Kinda small, not incredibly vibrant colours

...So Still sat in the Uni Library (see the COMPAQ Evo review), and I though I'd review the monitor that's sat inches in front of my bored and sad little face. It's a startling silver colour (imagine a silver ps2/ps3 if you would) on the front, with a dull black casing away from the front panel. The product name is at the top of the monitor just above the screen) with COMPAQ in red to the "viewers" left and "5500" in black to the right. Theres three buttons in the centre (menu, - and +) with an on/off switch to the right...all pretty bog standard really. The size, 15" isn't really upto much, I'd feel much more "at home" (my house PC, not laptop is 19") with a larger screen but I guess it's acceptable if nothing else. The quality is possibly off todays standards of HD ready 1080i monitors, but it's again an acceptable standard. However... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap
Disadvantages: None

...Being an online gamer i decided to go out and purchase a headphone set so i could talk in person to my fellow gamers instead of typing into the games chat all the time (which often resulted in me letting my team down as i would get shot whilst typing) The main criteria for my purchase was... 1. Needed to be hands free with a mic attached to the headset. 2. Needed to have a long enough cable to reach my sound card without being streched. 3. Needed to be cheap, i didnt want to pay silly prices for something i would only use 3 times a week!!. Enter the Labtec axis 301, it is all of the above, it was simple to setup and came provided with a 2.4 metre cable which is ample for me. The product also supports speech recognition although i havnt had the oppturnity to test the accuracy of this feature yet and a 1 years manufacture... Read review

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Advantages: Very fast, Awesome Image Quality
Disadvantages: they don't give them away for free!

...The Voodoo5 5500 has to be one of the best cards on the market. This card has all the speed that a hardcore gamer needs. It also just happenes to produce some of the best looking graphics that i have ever seen. The image quality is simply amazing, due to its FSAA. This is the ability to remove jagged lines from the edges of objects. This will improve the graphics in any 3D game. If you have never noticed the jagged lines, then you must be blind! They are there, no matter what res your running at. I have been playing games with this baby for a few months now, and it still impresses me. I often play CounterStrike for HalfLife. I have the FSAA turned on full (4x filtering). At this setting im still getting great frame rate, but also getting simply awesome image quality. There was loads of talk about the Voodoo5 5500 not been... Read review

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