February 2004

by Rafael Hernandez on February 13, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has some information about ATI’s upcoming graphics chipsets in the form of roadmaps and other ancillary information tossed in. Huge increases in memory clock speed and transistor counts as well as PCI Express interfaces will make cards based on…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 13, 2004 · 0 comments

X-bit labs is covering NVIDIA’s upcoming dual processor capable chipset for AMD’s Opteron processor, the nForce3 Pro 250. IWILL seems to be the only one with public plans for the chipset so far but it’s bound to pick up more…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 13, 2004 · 0 comments

The Tech Report got its hands on one of the beefier video cards available, the Abit Radeon 9800 XT. Its onboard 256MB of video memory gives it some staying power in the gaming area….

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 13, 2004 · 0 comments

Some rather disturbing news brought to you by InfoWorld and a myriad of other news sites, the source code for Microsoft’s Windows NT and 2K operating systems has been leaked. What this means in practical terms is anyone’s guess….

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 12, 2004 · 0 comments

DigiTimes has a bit of info on Intel’s forthcoming Grantsdale chipset, which is meant to pair up with the recently launched Prescott processor. Seems the boards will carry quite the price premium if motherboard manufacturers decide to push DDR2, but…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 12, 2004 · 0 comments

t-break has gathered together some of the latest Intel 865PE based, Pentium 4 motherboards and ran them through a series of tests. A rather extensive article with lots of pretty pictures, useful if you plan on a P4 PC in…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 12, 2004 · 0 comments

Intel will be showing off a little something they like to call Wireless USB 2.0 at next week’s Intel Developer Forum. While the naming scheme seems odd since we’re used to USB devices using cables they can call it whatever…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 12, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has reviewed the slick-looking Asus DigiMatrix, a pseudo multimedia PC in a A/V component form factor. Getting it to fit into your home theater setup shouldn’t be a problem and with its feature set it may come in handy…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 11, 2004 · 0 comments

Microsoft has had what could be construed as a major setback in its battle with Lindows over the company’s name, which MS finds to be too similar to its “Windows” trademark. internetnews.com has the full story….

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 11, 2004 · 0 comments

Digital Photography Review has some PR news from SimpleTech which just announced an 8-Gigabyte CompactFlash card. That’s some serious storage for all of those CF supporting devices out there….

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 11, 2004 · 0 comments

eWeek is currently running a lengthy article on how NASA’s Mars Rover “Spirit” communicates with Earth, and how NASA was able to get the rover working again after its brief work-stoppage a few weeks back. Some interesting information….

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