Sound blaster PCI64

Advantages: Extra bundled software utils
Disadvantages: none

...Yet another great product from a well known company. Creative labs have been around now for years and always seem to top the market with well priced software and hardware that you can trust. Not only do they supply everything in the software bundles but they offer full support via their web site with tons of downloads and upgrades and with one on one tech help if required. When I bought my sound blaster PCI64 it was quite a recent product and much sought after by those who love quality music and good sound reproduction. It came complete with a CD that contained drivers for just about every model of computer operating system and loads of extra utility stuff like Creative Audio software, Wave Lab, Creative CD, sound lab for microphone use and more. The wave lab is about the most popular one for me as I often like to make my own mp3s...

Trev1000 19.03.2001 · Read review
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Review of Creative Labs Soundblaster 64 PCI  

PCI128 What A Bargain

Advantages: Very Cheap For Something That Should Cost A Lot More
Disadvantages: I haven't Found Any Yet

...I've only had this PCI128 Creative Sound Card for a few days, and wow!!! It was so easy to install, and the software that came with it is excellent. The software can play anything that can be played. For example, if you have a DVD Rom, it can play movies, regular audio CD's, MP3's and loads more. For something that is so cheap, you wouldn't expect a lot from the soundcard, but in my opinion, it should be priced a lot higher than it is. I purchased this soundcard, as I needed a full-duplex card, as the one built-in to my motherboard wasn't really any good for video conferencing. Anyone who needs a soundcard, but is on a low budget should purchase one of these cards. I'd recommend the Creative Soundblaster PCI128 to anyone who need excellent quality sound, but doesn't want to spend a fortune....

Barningham2 25.12.2000 · Read review
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Review of Creative Labs Soundblaster 128 PCI  

Belkin Wireless PCI Card

Advantages: Simple setup, manages itself
Disadvantages: Very occasional low signal

...Following on from my review of the Belkin wireless router, this is the piece of kit at the other end of the link. The PCI Desktop Card is whats required to allow the PC to communicate with the router. This product cost me £25 when I bought it. I was interested in the Belkin wireless router, so I played safe and used the same manufacturer for both items that would allow the router and my PC talk to each other. --Whats in the box-- On opening the box, there were no real surprises. There was the PCI card, the antenna, a quick installation guide and a CD which contained the drivers and a full manual. --Installation-- On reading the quick installation guide, it was apparent that the software had to be installed before the card was plugged in. The reason for this was because, when the hardware was detected, the software would...

craggybuk 21.05.2007 · Read review
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Review of Belkin Wireless G Desktop Card F5D7000

Easy to install USB 2.0 PCI card

Advantages: Easy to install
Disadvantages: None

...I have bought this PCI card a week ago. Reason: I have got a MSI K7T266Pro2 motherboard that only offer USB1.1 ports (1.5Mbytes/s maximum transfer rate). Since I have got devices that uses USB2.0 and without breaking my piggy bank to upgrade my computer, the most economical way is to install a PCI card that offers USB2.0 connections (up to 480Mbits/s or 60Mbytes/s, 40X faster than USB1.1) for 1 internal port and 4 external ports. Before you buy a USB2.0 PCI card, make sure that your motherboard got version 2.2 PCI slots which are USB2.0 compatible. If your motherboard hasn't got version 2.2 PCI slots or higher, don't bother. You need a motherboard upgrade. Also, your operating system needs to be windows 2000 service pack 4 or windows XP which provides appropriate drivers to support USB2.0. For the other operation systems...

volcano 08.11.2004 · Read review
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Review of Archos PCI USB 2.0 PC Expansion Card

Great PCI

Advantages: Easy to install...all my needs fufilled!
Disadvantages: Becoming outdated.

...AGP is whats in now........and there are not many PCI cards that are going to be coming out in the future. So I am glad I laid my hands on perhaps the last great PCI card! This card fufills all my needs and I couldn't ask for anything more! It was a cinch to install...took me the best part of 20 mins.......goes up to a great resolution, was cheap......a cool £50 from Gameplay! There i really nothing more I could ask for a card with my current system..........sure, if i upgrade I might be inclined to go with nVidia....but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it!...

Navajo 27.08.2000 · Read review
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Review of 3Dfx Voodoo3 3000

No strings attached.

Advantages: Good software and support, works well, good signal strength.
Disadvantages: Price.

..., there are not worries about accessing the internet over the network at full speed using one of these cards. Network equipment using 802.11g is compatible with equipment using 802.11b as they both use the same protocol (802.11) at the same transmission frequency, although 802.11b is approximately a fifth of the speed of 802.11g. At just over £50, I have to say that it's not cheap, and is priced at the expensive end of the spectrum (I had seen other cards priced from £30 upwards), but at least postage was free from Amazon. Installation was a breeze, thanks to the clear instructions. For once, I decided to read them through before installation, and this proved to be lucky as Netgear instruct you to install the software first before physically inserting the card into an available PCI slot in your PC. If you've done this before, then this...

TheDuke 20.03.2004 · Read review
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Review of Netgear WG311 54 Mbps Wireless PCI Adapter

Probably one of the Cheapest and Best TV PCI Card

Advantages: Watch Analgue and Digital Freeview TV on your PC, Record TV
Disadvantages: Need to OPEN PC to slot in PCI card, Need a free PCI Slot

...WHY BUY A TV AND A FREEVIEW BOX WHEN YOU CAN USE YOUR PC I didn't have a tv in my room since there wasn't any room for even a small one. I thought how would I be able to view TV in my room. Buying a Flat Screen TV (which probably is the only TV that would have fit into my small room) would have cost my A LOT of money that I didn't have. I also would have had to buy a FREEVIEW Box.. More money expenses. Having searched on the INTERNET I came across many different TV PCI Cards. I FINALLY came across the WinTV-HVR-1100 PCI Card. Having visited the Hauppauge website and reading reviews on this product I couldn't believe how good and cost effective this PCI card was. I brought the PCI Card for around £45.00. You get an Instruction Manual with the PCI Card so even the novice computer Hardware person (like me) is able to...

qasem121 12.07.2007 · Read review
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Review of Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1100

One of the few remaining PCI cards

Advantages: PCI (an advantage for me anyway)
Disadvantages: Huge!

...I bought the PCI version of this graphics card because I somehow managed to damage the AGP slot on my computer. Actually, not `somehow` - I know it was the torch I dropped on the thing that did it! I`ve since bought a new motherboard, but I decided to keep the PCI card because I`m very impressed with it`s performance. The card itself is massive, and it has two fans on it. It actually requires power from the power supply through the leads that you usually use to power your hard drive. Something I`m not used to, and made me panic when I forgot to plug the thing in and it didn`t work. Doh :-) The huge size means that people with smaller cases may not be able to fit it in - I have a full tower case, and, because of the arrangement of my motherboard, there is only one PCI slot that it would actually fit in to. This is a little...

booknet 09.12.2001 · Read review
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Review of 3dfx Voodoo5 5500

PCI Modems - get the facts

Advantages: a hardware modem doesn't take CPU power
Disadvantages: a hardware modem will cost more

...I've just read one of the posts about PCI modems, and how they are all 'software' based - i.e, they use the computers CPU to run... Well, a lot do, but you can buy a PCI modem that doesn't. It's called a hardware modem. If you have a very powerful PC, then a modem that uses the PC's CPU is fine, but with an older PC you will really need a hardware modem. They aren't expensive and I have used several with good results. I would recommend an ESS/Retail Plus model for example. You should be able to be one for around £25. To be honest, most users won't notice any difference between a hardware and modem that borrows the CPU to work. Very cheap systems will nearly always have the latter....

m.holmes 28.07.2000 · Read review
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Review of Member Advice on General Computing Issues

Currently fastest card for PCI?

Advantages: Fast, reliable card from reputable company
Disadvantages: Quite big! Check it will fit your machine!

...The reason I bought one of these boards was because I wanted the most powerful board I could get but one which was made in PCI specification as my computer has no AGP slot. The Voodoo4 4500 uses a single 32Mb 3dfx VSA-100 chip capable of 333 Megapixels per second and running at 350Mhx, 2.5 times quicker than my old Voodoo3 2000. And it is certainly noticeable! I won?t go into all the technical stuff, cos you can read that at http://www.3dfx.com/prod/voodoo/v4-overv.html, but I will end by saying that games certainly fly with this card, and is a big improvement over my old one. Although this card is not as fast as a GEFORCE2 or similar, it will match a TNT Ultra, and if you have to have a PCI card (like me) it?s a great card at a cost of £150....

Bluecat 24.08.2000 · Read review
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