Hot Hardware has an informative article that explains just what PCI Express is and how the two popular video chip makers, ATI and NVIDIA, will implement support for the new high speed connection. ATI’s approach sounds better on paper but…
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Microsoft Watch has some rather biting remarks from Doug Burgum, Microsoft’s senior VP of their Business Solutions division, towards the European Commission. Most companies stay quiet when under legal action so this is a departure from the norm….
Read more MS VP Rips on EU
Bjorn3D took a look at a monstrous 20″ LCD monitor, the NEC Multisync 2080UX+. Besides its large viewing area it features a vertical display mode and 16ms response times which should cut down on the “ghosting” that plagued earlier generations…
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AnandTech picks apart (figuratively) the nForce3 250, NVIDIA’s newest chipset for the AMD Athlon 64 platform. Impressive features built in this time around, their previous chipset, the nForce3 150, was seriously lacking value compared to VIA’s offerings….
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EPIACenter has some info and photos of the first cases, and some prototypes, that will take VIA’s recently announced Nano-ITX motherboard the EPIA-N. Stylish, sleek, and small; a winning combination….
Read more First Nano-ITX Cases Revealed
InfoWorld brings news of competition regulators in the EU agreeing with the European Commission’s fine proposals against Microsoft. The figure and terms of the fine haven’t been released and regulators are being tight-lipped before the Commission’s final ruling is held….
Read more Microsoft's EU Fine Agreed Upon
MobileMag has some pictures and information on the Archos AV500, a PDA and an audio/video player rolled into one. They seem to have built a compact enough product which will make gadget lovers happy, the support for a wide range…
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Beyond3D wandered around CeBit 2004’s show grounds in search of all things graphics card related. They have info on most of the major players at the show with PCI-X being the hot new interface they’ve slapped onto their offerings….
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Intel is launching a pair of new processors both of which are Pentium 4s running at 3.4GHz but one is based on their previous generation “Northwood” core and the other their newer “Prescott” design. Both chips vary in features so…
CNET News has a story on how RealNetworks argued (successfully?) to the European Commission that Microsoft’s XP Embedded OS, used in cash registers and slot machines, was proof that the software giant could indeed strip Windows Media Player without crippling…
Read more Slot Machines MS' Bane in EU?
SimHQ deals with mostly heavily CPU intensive simulation games so who better to test AMD’s top-end consumer CPU the Athlon 64 FX-53. Very impressive scores and a viable alternative to Intel’s beast of a CPU the 3.4GHz Extreme Edition….
Read more AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 Review
