March 2004

by Rafael Hernandez on March 18, 2004 · 0 comments

MetkuMods has a review of the Shuttle AN50R Athlon 64 based motherboard. It sports an NVIDIA nForce 3 150 chipset and almost every single peripheral connection available on board including Gigabit LAN which is powered by Intel. I don’t know…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 17, 2004 · 0 comments

HTPCNews has a review of an interesting remote control package made by the fine folks at X10…yeah those guys. The remote uses RF technology so line of sight isn’t a problem making this a good product for controlling a home…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 17, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a review of the sleek SilverStone Nimiz Temjin III PC chassis. Quite an impressive piece of aluminum with enough front panel ports to make any gadget junky happy and more than adequate cooling and expansion options as well….

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 17, 2004 · 0 comments

I Am Not A Geek has a few tips and tricks on how to improve the performance of your Microsoft Windows XP installation. A lot of these tips are undocumented features which can really give your system a bit more…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 17, 2004 · 0 comments

EEDesign covers some crazy ideas being bandied about by the fine people at SiliconPipe. They’re proposing connecting chips to each other directly from the chip’s core instead of the usual “through the printed circuit board” method. Interesting idea being proposed…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 16, 2004 · 0 comments

SystemCooling takes a look at the Koolance EXOS water cooling solution. It’s an ingenious package which includes everything you need to cool off your CPU and video card without the need to hunt around for parts to build your own…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 16, 2004 · 0 comments

Tech Report did some digging around and came up with news of Shuttle’s plans to offer complete XPC computers. Their mini-PC line has been very well received with a pre-built line sure to be a hit as well….

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 16, 2004 · 0 comments

HardwareHell has a short article featuring this year’s lineup of Cooler Master PC case products. Their previous cases have been sleek works of art made out of aluminum, so far these cases haven’t impressed me at all, except for the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 16, 2004 · 0 comments

Envy News got in some testing time with a pair of SMC Networks antennas designed for 802.11x wireless networks. They take a look at both directional and omnidirectional flavors which can boost a wireless signal quite a ways but depending…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 15, 2004 · 0 comments

Epiacenter has a review of the VIA EPIA MII 10000 a miniscule Mini-ITX board designed for computing in tight spaces or duty as a home theater PC board. It really is amazing how they cram so many features onto a…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 15, 2004 · 0 comments

CNET News has a run down of the new CPUs AMD will be releasing soon. Half the cache and a higher clock speed seems to be a decent tradeoff if they do in fact bring these new chips in at…

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