March 2004

by Rafael Hernandez on March 11, 2004 · 0 comments

Asetek, known for its somewhat exotic cooling solutions, has launched a new product called the VapoChill LightSpeed [AC]. What separates this cooler from their other products is that you can, with some modifications, use this with most current PC cases….

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 11, 2004 · 0 comments

EE Times has the story on Matsushita’s plans to launch a Blu-Ray based recorder in a few months time. With high definition video soon to take off and few portable media products in the market place able to handle the…

Read more More Blu-Ray on the Way

by Rafael Hernandez on March 11, 2004 · 0 comments

Hexus.net was lucky enough to get a motherboard outfitted with NVIDIA’s nForce3 250, their latest chipset for the AMD Athlon 64 processor line. It boasts a huge lists of features and matches up quite well with VIA’s chipset offerings so…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 10, 2004 · 0 comments

Flexbeta gathered a few software firewall applications and probed for holes with various tools. With the large number of firewall choices available and the risk to system security for not running one so high there’s no reason to be without…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 10, 2004 · 0 comments

Hexus.net has a review on what will probably be the last major chipset release that will support the AMD Athlon (non 64-bit) platform. The VIA KT880 has a feature set on par with NVIDIA’s Nforce2 chipsets but to find out…

Read more VIA KT880 Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on March 10, 2004 · 0 comments

Sudhian Media has an informative, if short, article on the Rambus RDRAM memory technology and what lead to its demise in the PC market. A good read if you’re interested in knowing the sordid past of one of the more…

Read more RDRAM's Short History

by Rafael Hernandez on March 10, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a review on some innovative memory from Kingmax. The Kingmax DDR500 Hardcore Memory uses “Tiny”BGA memory chips which, theoretically, offer better signal and thermal characteristics than what we’re used to seeing from run of the mill TSOP memory…

Read more High Speed BGA DDR Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on March 10, 2004 · 0 comments

CNET News has the scoop on a drive Hitachi is set to announce this week, the Deskstar 7K400. The drive will have the capacity to store a massive 400GB of data and has a 7200rpm drive which should make it…

Read more Hitachi to Launch New Hard Drive

by Rafael Hernandez on March 9, 2004 · 0 comments

Quite a bit of press for S3’s upcoming graphics chips the DeltaChrome S8 and S8 Nitro today. Here’s a small roundup of sites with previews for the chip: AnandTech HotHardware The Tech Report…

Read more S3 DeltaChrome Previews

by Rafael Hernandez on March 9, 2004 · 0 comments

internetnews.com has the info on Microsoft’s latest batch of patches for its popular software. A total of three announced today but they don’t affect a large swath of users with the most widespread patch probably affecting Windows 2000….

Read more MS' Monthly Patches

by Rafael Hernandez on March 9, 2004 · 0 comments

It was only a matter of time before a company figured out how to effectively and easily label a CD and DVD by flipping them over and “burning” the label. HP will be one of the first to market with…

Read more HP's LightScribe Labeling