February 2004

by Rafael Hernandez on February 21, 2004 · 0 comments

Sharky Extreme compares two motherboards featuring the current high end chipsets from the top two AMD Athlon chipset makers. The AOpen AK77-600 Max using the VIA KT600 chipset and sporting Gigabit LAN support on one side and the MSI K7N…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 21, 2004 · 0 comments

The busy people over at AnandTech have got another review up, this time they take a look at the Samsung SyncMaster 213T LCD Monitor. This stylin’ piece of equipment features a 21.3-inch viewable screen which will provide more than enough…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 21, 2004 · 0 comments

Best Data, better known for its modems, had picked up the Diamond Multimedia trademarks a while ago and is now producing a line of video cards under the brand name. Hot Hardware just so happens to have a review of…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 20, 2004 · 0 comments

Microsoft is working on a few new features for its Xbox Live online gaming service according to Forbes. The article does feature some interesting spectulation on what they’ll be rolling out but no solid evidence so far….

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 20, 2004 · 0 comments

X-bit labs brings us interesting news about ATI’s appearance at the Intel Developer Forum. They, apparently, showed off a prototype version of their upcoming R420 chipset which will, supposedly, deliver amazing performance….

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 20, 2004 · 0 comments

By, well, Silent PC Review. The Mappit A4F PC contains absolutely no fans so it does a good job of keeping the noise down. With that in mind it isn’t the most powerful PC out there so it’s better suited…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 20, 2004 · 0 comments

Another day at the Intel Developer Forum has passed and AnandTech has some great coverage of the goings-ons of the second day at the conference. Hexus.net also brings news of an interesting Intel “tweaking” session where they showed attendees how…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 19, 2004 · 0 comments

HTPC News put together a PC around the Accent HT101S microATX case and gives you the skinny. The cases is modeled to look like a serious piece of home theater gear so it’ll fit in with the rest of your…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 19, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has tortured a set of Corsair and OCZ DDR550 (PC4400) DDR 1GB memory kits. They were able to coax the ram to some impressive clock speeds so if you’re into all of that PC tweaking it’s a good read….

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 19, 2004 · 0 comments

ByteSector has a short review on the rather large Maxtor DiamondMax 300GB hard drive. The drive’s large capacity and slow rotational speed make it perfect for media PCs and for those pesky massive archival projects….

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 19, 2004 · 0 comments

InformationWeek has gathered up some dirt on Intel’s upcoming “Dothan” Pentium M processor. The chip will feature a sick amount of cache, 2MBs worth, and when coupled with the later arriving “Sonoma” chipset, notebooks will see a heck of a…

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