GeCube GC-R9550GU-C3 Extreme

Advantages: Cheaper than good brands
Disadvantages: not competitive enough

...of buying it, for an extra £30 I could have got a card that would still be good today. My advice for people who are not sure about graphics cards, keep to the well know brands, pay attention to the core speed, memory speed, whether its ddr/ddr2/ddr3 and how many pipelines it has(think of it as traffic on a 2 lane motorway is slow but then 2 more lanes open and traffic goes faster, the more lanes the less bottlenecking). If you have to save money maybe think about buying a card from a good brand but with less features or smaller amount of memory. Don't know if it's just me being unlucky or it's the GeCube brand use cheap PCB and chips even though the core is ATI.... Read review

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Advantages: Quick to set up, Mac & PC compatible, good range
Disadvantages: Issues with the 802.11n draft compatibility with other brand PC Wireless cards.

...I have owned and used every version of the Apple Airport systems over the years and even though I had a fully working dome shaped Airport Extreme (the previous generation) I decided to buy the new one when I bought my new PowerBook Pro Laptop as it used the n draft connect (more on this later). In the box... you get a the airport base station, CD with AirPort Utility (Mac and Windows), 802.11n Enabler for Core 2 Duo and Xeon-based Macintosh computers (except 17-inch 1.83GHz iMac, and new Mac mini (1.83Ghz and 2.0GHz), Bonjour for Windows, power cable/pack. Your computer needs to be running: Mac OS X v.10.4 or PC with Windows XP. To connect wirelessly to the Station you will need a computer containing a Mac Airport Extreme Card or a PC with a wireless 802.11a/b/g/n card installed (more one this later). You can connect older... Read review

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Advantages: Array of Features, Overclocking and many more.
Disadvantages: Price

...Ethernet controllers. * The motherboard has got a decent 8 Channel surround sound sub-system. * It also has two Firewire ports. * It has got 10 High Speed USB ports. * It has got six SATA ports, having RAID capability. * It also features two e.SATA ports. ASUS SPEACIAL FEATURES: * Array Mic * Noise Filter * ASUS EZ Flash 2 * MyLogo3 * Music Alarm * Stack Cool2 BUNDLE: * ASUS Striker Extreme Motherboard * Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter * 3Dmark06 Advanced Edition * Kapersky Anti-Virus * 6 SATA cables * 3 SATA power cables (6 SATA devices supported) * 2-port USB 2.0 bracket * 1-port Firewire bracket * SLI Bridge * IDE Cable * FDD Cable * Q-Connector COOLING: The board comes with a cooling solution that ASUS names as Stack... Read review

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