May 2004

by Rafael Hernandez on May 10, 2004 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a review of the brand-new NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400Gb chipset for the “old” 32-bit AMD Socket A processors. This appears to be the last major chipset release for one of the longer running desktop CPU platforms,…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 10, 2004 · 0 comments

Yet another review of ATI’s fantastic new video card, the Radeon X800 XT, but this one is done by the fine folks at Digital-Daily so it’s worth a look over even if you’ve seen all of the other reviews. A…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 10, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech takes a gander at the Foxconn 755-A01 AMD Athlon 64 motherboard that sports the SiS 755 chipset. The board keeps up very well with the best that other board makers and chip producers have to offer which is impressive…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 9, 2004 · 0 comments

This past friday AMD snuck in price reductions on a few of its server CPUs according to X-bit labs. The largest drops are seen in the high end Opteron 64-bit processor line but there’s also a small drop on a…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 9, 2004 · 0 comments

TheTechLounge has a review of the Nu Technologies DDW-081 DVD+R/RW 8x burner. While the drive is marketed and sold as a mere + drive with an appropriate price tag, but the manufacturer has released a beta firmware which can turn…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 8, 2004 · 0 comments

Yahoo News covers a conference of various international newspaper editors and publishers which blame cell phone text messages for drop in readership among the young. That may be a problem overseas but it seems more likely that web based news…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 8, 2004 · 0 comments

MSNBC is keen to point out that E3 is coming up (although their article says this week when it’s actually next week). So expect a flood of information on a bunch of new gaming titles and hardware that will be…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 7, 2004 · 0 comments

Wired has written up an article on just what *ware software is and the toll it takes on people’s PCs. I’d have to whole-heartedly agree with the article about the absolute pain and security nightmare that adware and the like…

Read more Spamware Getting More Attention

by Rafael Hernandez on May 7, 2004 · 0 comments

X-bit writes of a new graphics memory standard being developed by JEDEC and its member companies that will push memory clock rates to new highs. While current high end cards are only now shipping with GDDR3 memory they are close…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 7, 2004 · 0 comments

Since Intel has dropped a major desktop CPU line named “Tejas” they’ve got to fill the void somehow so they’re doing it with some dual-core magic according to CNET News. It’s an impressive turn around for the company which had…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 7, 2004 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a review of VIA’s latest Athlon 64 chipset, the K8T800 Pro. They appear to have made some minor improvements to the HyperTransport support and PCI/AGP clock locks in preparation for AMD’s Socket 939 CPUs which are…

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