March 2004

by Rafael Hernandez on March 15, 2004 · 0 comments

FastLaneHW throws caution to the wind and their warranties out the window with some serious tweaking done to their motherboard and equally sick cooling in order to push a mobile AMD Athon XP 2400-M to disturbing new heights. Going from…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 15, 2004 · 0 comments

HTPCnews put together a list of the most popular hardware choices when it comes to building a home theater PC. Quite the informative guide with pictures and links to their reviews of some of the products and where you can…

Read more Build a HTPC Guide

by Rafael Hernandez on March 14, 2004 · 0 comments

I Am Not A Geek (who are they kidding) is covering some of the changes Microsoft’s upcoming Windows XP SP2 patch will bring about. They lay out some of the lesser known changes which other SP2 articles passed over, some…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 13, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has some news on Intel’s purported change in processor naming. Up until now it was useful for them to just label their processors at its clock rate, for example P4 3.2GHz, but with upcoming architecture changes seeing something like…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 13, 2004 · 0 comments

Digital-Daily had a bit of free time on their hands so they’ve compared twenty different video cards ranging from the lowliest GeForce2 MX to the mighty FX5950s and 9800XTs. Some image quality comparisons would have been nice but what are…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 12, 2004 · 0 comments

New Scientist is covering the controversy over Verisign’s Waiting List Service which could seriously hamper efforts by regular folks to get expiring or expired domain names. The silly part about all of this is you aren’t even guaranteed to get…

Read more Getting Squeezed Out of Domains

by Rafael Hernandez on March 12, 2004 · 0 comments

X-bit labs has a bit of inside info on Intel’s future chipset plans for its Xeon line of processors. It seems the company will be moving away from a two chip platform to a three chip solution with the memory…

Read more Mix and Match Chipsets

by Rafael Hernandez on March 12, 2004 · 0 comments

CNET News has a bit of info concerning web-radio and the fees they would have to pay to broadcast RIAA member music. The terms seem reasonable which will hopefully help get a few more stations started on the “air”….

Read more Web Broadcasting Royalty Rates Set

by Rafael Hernandez on March 12, 2004 · 0 comments

ExtremeTech has been extremely (cough) busy with a batch of video codecs encoding and capturing frames from popular movies to show off their ability to compress video and its resulting quality. An interesting read if you’re into archiving your movie…

Read more Compression Compared

by Rafael Hernandez on March 11, 2004 · 0 comments

gamesindustry.biz is into some supposedly leaked details for Nintendo’s upcoming DS portable gaming system. In addition to the two LCD screens it may feature touch screen input, 802.11 wireless connectivity, and a bit of 3D acceleration. These are of course…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 11, 2004 · 0 comments

Designtechnica has the details on Plextor’s newest drives, the PX-712SA and PX-712A DVD±R/RW with the former supporting SerialATA connections and the latter regular old ATA. These drives sport 12X DVD+R and 8X DVD-R writing speeds as well as 4X DVD+RW…

Read more Plextor Speeds Up +-