Avision DS 310F

Advantages: 90 degree pivot tilt, should be very cheap to buy
Disadvantages: Slow response time, only 15 inch

.... The monitor also comes equipped with an auto tune button which will configure your monitor to run with the optimum settings. The home resolution for this monitor is 1024 x 768 which is standard for any 15 inch monitor. You can, of course change this but the quality of the text will not be as clear so I would avise against it. The base of this monitor has been cleverly designed with desktop ergonomics in mind. There is a space in the base for you to pass all your cables through to save you having trailing wires all over the desk. The monitor does come with some driver and utility software though this is not necessary to get the monitor working. I would advise that you only install this software if you are having problems which should be a rare occurance. To summarise, this is a quality monitor. The fact that I am still using a 15 inch... Read review

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Advantages: Great connectivity, features, design
Disadvantages: needless design change

...In my opinion, a docking station is a must if you own a laptop that resides on your desk for a big proportion of its working life. Hence my title, the umbilical of life. With both my current and old HP laptop, i have owned a matching docking station and the only critisism would be the fact that the older docking station is not compatible with the newer laptop even though there is only a matter of a year or so between. After all they are the same manufacturer! With that aside, the rest of this review is nothing but praise for my docking station! Looks. Matches the laptop superbly in colour as both are finished in the graphite black /grey plastic. More block like that the previous Docking Station (DS) the shape and style of it lends itself to supporting a monitor. The old DS simply had the laptop covering the entire item. The new DS... Read review

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Advantages: Supports Quad Core, All Solid Capacitor Design, Good Overclocker
Disadvantages: Has issues with certain RAM

...The GA-965P-DS3 is Gigabyte's medium range Motherboard supporting all of Intel's Current processors as of 08/2007. The board was created using the Intel P965 Express North bridge and ICH8 South bridge chip sets. The ICH8 South bridge chip set has one drawback which is that it only supports SATA devices, with no support for IDE which is kind of a downside although SATA Hard Drives can be bought rather cheap nowadays and are much faster than IDE Drives. Since it is using the P965 Express chip set, the motherboard supports all Socket LGA775 type processors, DDR2 RAM modules operating in Dual Channel mode up to 800MHz which is 6400, although you can use UNSUPPORTED 8500, you just need to power up the motherboard with some low voltage RAM first, as well as PCI-E X16 graphics cards in single card mode. Another point of interest... Read review

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