February 2004

by Rafael Hernandez on February 5, 2004 · 0 comments

bit-tech slapped a pair of AMD Athlon 64 3200+ and 3400+ into some motherboards and ran them through a nicely mixed set of benchmarks. They also throw in comparative numbers to some other mid-range to high end CPUs also from…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 5, 2004 · 0 comments

Mercury News brings us the story of IBM’s disturbingly massive, internet gobbling technology called WebFountain. Their software tools and hardware download massive portions of the web at a time and runs it through programs that attempts to pick up trends…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 5, 2004 · 0 comments

Microsoft released a trial version of their Windows XP 64-bit version for consumers that own compatible processors, which at the moment is only AMD’s Athlon 64 and Opteron. One interesting tidbit is Microsoft’s inclusion of Windows on Windows 64, or…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 5, 2004 · 0 comments

1up has a rather lengthy article on what what could be a big sticking point for future Xbox 2 purchasers, backwards compatibility with current Xbox games. The biggest hurdles overall seem to be technological problems and intellectual property concerns….

Read more Xbox 2 Backwards Compatibility Musings

by Rafael Hernandez on February 5, 2004 · 0 comments

gameindustry.biz brings news of a raid, by police, at Crytek’s offices in Germany. Crytek is the developer of the very spiffy looking Far Cry video game. They were raided on suspision of using pirated development tools….

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 5, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech got a chance to spend some quality time with AOpen’s, Athlon 64 powered, AK86-L motherboard. It features a BIOS that would make any PC tweaker drool as well as sensible features such as Serial-ATA and Gigabit LAN….

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 4, 2004 · 0 comments

Legit Reviews gathered a few cooling solutions for Intel’s Prescott processor and has some nifty charts to show for it. One thing is certain, the Prescott core pumps out some sick heat which requires some extreme measures to cool down,…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 4, 2004 · 0 comments

TechTV was lucky enough to get their hands on one of Apple’s new iMac’s which features a 20-inch LCD display, giving it a much larger viewing area than the previous 15-inch iMacs….

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 4, 2004 · 0 comments

LinuxHardware.org put top Intel CPUs and a single high end AMD CPU through the wringer and came up with some performance figures under a Linux operating system. It would have been interesting to see how the Athlon 64 FX-51 (dual…

Read more High End Chips Running Linux

by Rafael Hernandez on February 4, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has put together a massive comparative review between 23 mid-range to high end video cards. Some good info if you’re in the market for a new gaming card….

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 4, 2004 · 0 comments

Both IBM and Sony are preparing to launch slimmed down versions of some of their notebooks, allowing for considerable weight savings. While they won’t break any speed records they’re sure to lessen the burden on user’s arms. CNET News has…

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