May 2004

by Rafael Hernandez on May 5, 2004 · 0 comments

Shacknews brings, well, news of Gearbox Software’s release of Halo Custom Edition for the PC version of Microsoft’s popular game. The unsupported “expansion” features game performance improvements as well as a new content creation tool which game modders will appreciate….

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 5, 2004 · 0 comments

OCWorkbench has a good old time with the EPoX 8KDA3+ motherboard powered by NVIDIA’s nForce3 250Gb chipset. The big green board features a whopping 6 SerialATA ports, Gigabit ethernet, and a large number of tweaking options in the BIOS which…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 5, 2004 · 0 comments

Internet Week reports that it looks like Sasser hasn’t spread much from initial observations. The internet worm was feared to spread quickly due to the very short OS patch to exploit time frame but it hasn’t had the “teeth” other…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 4, 2004 · 0 comments

SFF Tech has a look at one of the more innovative small form factor PCs available, the ASUS Terminator 2. The system has a more vertical design than other choices in the market but it gives you that much more…

Read more Terminator 2 (The SFF) Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on May 4, 2004 · 0 comments

Ars Technica has coverage of a research report that states AMD CPUs were in 52% of the desktop PCs sold at retail for the week ending April 24th. Is it a trend of broader AMD brand recognition or people just…

Read more AMD Tops Intel in Desktop Sales…for a Week

by Rafael Hernandez on May 4, 2004 · 0 comments

ATI has responded to NVIDIA’s GeForce 6800 with its very own Radeon x800 line of video cards. While the NVIDIA boards were impressive ATI’s latest batch is doing quite a number on the new GeForce. Here are some of the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 4, 2004 · 0 comments

Hexus.net has an article that lists most of the major processor and assorted chip logic releases that should occur in the current quarter. While it’s somewhat late to go releasing an article like this most of the product launches are…

Read more Second Quarter Preview

by Rafael Hernandez on May 4, 2004 · 0 comments

HARDiNFO digs into what the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra is capable of in their review. There’s the astounding performance we’ve all come to expect from the card and the article goes into some of the details on what new features…

Read more GeForce 6800 Ultra In-Depth

by Rafael Hernandez on May 3, 2004 · 0 comments

X-bit labs has it, from its sources, that AMD may delay its launch of Socket 939 64-bit CPUs. The new chips feature dual channel memory support as well as higher clock rates but 512KB of cache instead of the previous…

Read more Socket 939 May Face Slight Delay

by Rafael Hernandez on May 3, 2004 · 0 comments

Yahoo News has info on a particularly nasty worm that’s propagating across the web and causing quite a number of headaches. This worm has been dubbed Sasser and it just may become one of the worst spreaders out there since…

Read more Sasser on the Loose

by Rafael Hernandez on May 3, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at ATI’s latest system chipset for Intel’s Pentium 4 processor. Since they are one of the larger graphics chip makers they’ve decided to place a decent video solution into the chipset as well as all of…

Read more RS350 Chipset Reviewed