LostCircuits risked a brand new, ATI based, ASUS Radeon X800 Pro in order to eek out some speed gains and test to see how a non-available (to them at any rate) XT PE would theoretically run. Interesting to see that…
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modtown got around to compiling a list of the various products that Vantec was showing off at this year’s Computex. More fanbuses and accessories, of course, and now it appears that they’ve entered into the PC chassis market with the…
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Yahoo! News has word of a U.S. Congressional subcommitte’s approval of a bill that would force U.S. based software makers to inform people if spyware is being installed onto their system. The bill has a ways to go before it’s…
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Designtechnica has a mini-guide with some information on how to secure your home/small business’ wireless network from all but the most persistent of “hackers”. The four easy steps shouldn’t take all that long to implement, although WEP keys have been…
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Microsoft has some anti-virus software in the works for its various Operating Systems, which it will sell separately from its OS products. On the one hand if it was bundled with Windows they’d be sued for anti-trust violations by other…
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kernelthread has a bit of BIOS history and a look forward to its successor: Extensible Firmware Interface, or EFI for short. This is a long overdue step forward which will make PC setup and trouble-shooting much easier and will hopefully…
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TweakTown grabbed a trio of ATI Radeon X800 Pros and ran them through a standard set of gaming tests we should all be familiar with. There isn’t a huge difference in the performance of each card so it all boils…
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AnandTech played around with the 64-bit drivers both ATI and NVIDIA have released for their various graphics boards for the Windows XP64 OS. They tested both company’s latest high-end boards. Of course neither the drivers nor the OS are final…
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HotHardware has a review of the new Plextor PX-712A DVD+/- R/RW drive capable of 12X DVD+R burn speeds. As always this drive’s feature set is huge as Plextor is about the best consumer optical drive maker out there. There’s also…
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GamePC pulled some strings and have a review of two new Intel Pentium M processors previously code-named “Dothan”. The 745 and 755 (great naming scheme Intel!) are 1.8GHz and 2.0GHz parts respectively each sporting 2MB of cache which gives the…
Read more Visiting the Dothans (Again)
Sudhian Media ponders where the mid range choice for PC peripherals has gone. The argument has some merit, companies are not releasing mid-range versions of their latest products anymore, instead they choose to target the different markets with completely seperate…
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