Epinions Recent Reviews for CyrixDes

Asus CUSL2: Best S370 board but it will cost you

Sun, 31 Dec 2000 13:12:05 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CyrixDes - I have just reviewed what in my opinion is the best available Socket A Duron/Athlon board in the ABIT KT7, so I thought it was only right for me to look at what in my opinion is one of the best S370 boards, for those wanting to go through the Intel...

Great choice for Athlon/Duron

Sat, 30 Dec 2000 11:01:09 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author CyrixDes - This motherboard in my opinion, is the best possible choice that anyone can make when they are looking for a solution for Socket A Athlon and Duron processors. The great thing about AMD's latest offerings is that people can upgrade from old PII/K6-2/MII...

Siemens Nixdorf C35: Great if you want to get online

Tue, 19 Dec 2000 16:07:10 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CyrixDes - Here we have a sturdy, reasonable looking addition to the Siemens line up of mobile phones. It is the big brother to the successful Siemens C25 (read my opinion on this to find out if I liked it), and unfortunately this is where the similarities end,...

Siemens Nixdorf C25: Stylish but you'll find better

Tue, 19 Dec 2000 15:56:58 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author CyrixDes - When I first saw this phone I was suprised at it's size. It is a remarkably small phone and weighs quite a little at just 135g. I think that this phone is a quite cute and good looking. It is also available in 2 colours depending on the network that you...

Great board but older architecture

Sat, 16 Dec 2000 16:39:47 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CyrixDes - This is one of ABIT's older offerings, being a motherboard for the original Athlons (i.e. in slot format and not the socket Thunderbirds).

This has all the specs on it's side and in my experiance is a very solid, stable and good performing...

Best of the bunch of Savage 4 cards

Thu, 7 Dec 2000 01:23:47 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CyrixDes - The Savage 4 chipset has been pushed hard by Diamond particularly since S3 and Diamond merged, with S3 making the Savage 4 chipset it is obvious that they would stick with this. Diamond have released 2 cards with the Savage 4 chipset, the Diamond Stealth...

Creative Labs 3D Blaster Annihilator 2 MX: For the price you can't go wrong

Wed, 6 Dec 2000 00:17:20 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CyrixDes - Our trade supplier has just started selling these and we have just started stocking them a week or so ago now. These cards offer good value for those gamers who require good performance but who don't want to splash out on a full GeForce 2 or a Radeon and...

Leadman Electronic Co. FIC AZ11: Worlds first "baldy" computer component!

Tue, 5 Dec 2000 23:12:47 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CyrixDes - The FIC AZ-11 is FIC's latest offering to support the new AMD Athlon Thunderbird processor and the AMD Duron.

The first thing you will notice about this board is that it is a little strange looking. It is similar looking to it's older...

Best SS7 board available

Tue, 5 Dec 2000 00:18:17 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author CyrixDes - Here we have a belting motherboard. It was always my ambition to get rid of my poor PCChips motherboard and buy one of these boards because I had heard so many good reports about it and I had always trusted in FIC products in the past. However when it...

Up there with the best

Fri, 1 Dec 2000 16:25:51 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CyrixDes - The Radeon has been a brilliant addition to ATI's lineup, equalling the performance of the current joint top GPU, the GeForce 2 GTS. The good thing about the ATI lineup is it's release of both 32 and 64 Mb versions and the fact that both are...

CashWars: Earn your Akzhars

Wed, 15 Nov 2000 07:42:04 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CyrixDes - CashWars is a really good fun new game on the internet. The idea is that you have your own little base and you move around a map looking for other people. When you find someone you can spy on them to find out something about them or you can walk on by...

A little revolutionary in it's own way

Wed, 15 Nov 2000 07:28:34 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CyrixDes - This video card was a little bit revolutionary when it was first released, not because of it's performance or benchmarks, but because it was the first video card to be released with dual processors on. ATI had the right idea that this was the way to go,...

Athlon Thunderbird

Mon, 13 Nov 2000 11:46:29 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author CyrixDes - It's good to see a processor company not willing to rest on their laurels and looking to improve their products very quickly. AMD have done this with the Athlon Thunderbird.

AMD already had a slight lead in terms of speed over the Intel PIII when...

S3 Savage 4 Accelerator: Not a bad little performer

Mon, 13 Nov 2000 08:11:46 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CyrixDes - This card has taken a bit of stick along with its chipset, S3's Savage 4 but this is actually a very solid performing card particularly for its age and if you can find one will make the ideal replacement for that Voodoo 2 or Banshee with significant...

Overpriced & Overhyped rubbish

Mon, 13 Nov 2000 08:06:33 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author CyrixDes - How anyone can buy an Intel Pentium III I really do not know. They have been humiliated in every benchmark by the AMD Athlon and eventhough im not an AMD user I can still see that the PIII gets thrashed in every area. I dont use AMD because I feel that I...

3dfx Voodoo3 2000 AGP: Not bad for people with older machines

Mon, 13 Nov 2000 08:02:47 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author CyrixDes - The Voodoo3 2000 was the basic 16 Mb version of the then new offering from 3dfx, the Voodoo 3. The distinguishing features between the different models of the Voodoo 3 range ie 2000,3000,3500 were basically a quicker chipset as you move up and also the...

Good game but is it worth the upgrade

Mon, 13 Nov 2000 07:53:30 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CyrixDes - I havent played the original Sims game apart from seeing it now and again round my mates house so I cant really comment on if its worth the upgrade to this the new release called "The Sims - Livin' It Large". Because i've never played the...

Warcraft 2 Battle Chest for Windows, Mac: Peon's versus Peasants

Mon, 13 Nov 2000 07:44:57 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CyrixDes - Warcraft 2 is my favourite LAN game of this style. Theres no better computer game to sit for several hours locked in a battle with your mates than on this. Its the sort of game where careful planning is needed and a good strategic brain is required to...

Yahoo! Search: Yahoo - My personal preference

Mon, 13 Nov 2000 07:36:25 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CyrixDes - I have to say that whenever I want to search the web for anything, Yahoo is the search engine that I choose. I find them to offer a good search facility that always gives me decent results and keeps the useless pages to a minimum. As for layout its a...

Lycos Search: Good search engine plus free SMS

Mon, 13 Nov 2000 07:31:27 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CyrixDes - Lycos wasnt my first choice of search engines but i gave it a crack once because i went to check out there free SMS service. What can I say about the actual search engine section? Well it certainly gets the job done solidly and always gives a good amount...

ATI Radeon 64MB DDR: Brilliant Card (3dfx read it and weep)

Mon, 13 Nov 2000 07:21:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author CyrixDes - ATI have always had a reputation as the nearly boys of the video card market. They have always been able to produce reasonably cheap video cards, with excellent DVD playback and TV Out facilities, in fact the best video cards for DVD playback are ATI...

Unreal Tournament for Windows: This games really Unreal

Mon, 13 Nov 2000 07:10:19 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author CyrixDes - I have 3 main stock first person shooters. These being Half Life, Quake 3 and Unreal. All have different features and pros and cons. Half Life for me, is a LAN/internet multiplayer game, ive never really seen much in the single player game of Half Life...

Half Life for PlayStation 1: Gordon Freeman

Mon, 13 Nov 2000 06:58:04 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author CyrixDes - This has to be the King of first person shoot em ups. There are loads of titles around in this genre like Quake III and Unreal but all vary slightly. Whereas Quake and Unreal are quicker blast everyones head off type games, Half Life is much more...

Diamond Multimedia SupraExpress 56e PC: SupraPerformance, SupraExpress

Mon, 13 Nov 2000 06:52:01 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author CyrixDes - In my opinion and in a few of m friends opinions, you really cannot beat this modem. Diamond are recognised as the worlds leading modem manufacturers, that's why they sell more modems than any other company. This is the pinnacle of their modems...

ICQ: Best Instant messenger going

Mon, 13 Nov 2000 06:37:20 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author CyrixDes - ICQ is an absolute God send of an invention as far as im concerned. It allows me to speak to friends and contacts (and ignore them when neccessary!!) without any hassle at all. Especially for myself when I play a lot of online games, its easy to arrange...