OverClock Intelligence Agency has a look at what is a pretty major design departure for Cooler Master. Their Centurion 5 case is basically a large sieve for air to flow through, with its included filters, it could work well as…
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Yahoo! News has details on Seagate’s planned entrance into the micro hard drive market which had been, for the most part, the sole domain of Hitachi’s (formerly IBM’s) hard drive division. Competition spurs innovation and pricing pressure, a good thing…
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Wireless: NewsFactor ponders if PDAs are a dead market. The current sales trends and lack of “excitement” would lead one to believe that it’s a slowly sinking ship. As they start piling on more powerful features I’m sure sales will…
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Hexus.net messed around with the Corsair TwinX1024-3200XLPRO memory kit which includes two 512MB sticks of some sweet, sweet memory. The RAM is rated to run at 2-2-2-5 settings making it one of the few high performance choices available which the…
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PC Perspective has some info and pictures from the ACON4 gaming tournament, which is sponsored by Abit, that was held this past week. They also took some time after the tourny to take a tour around Abit’s manufacturing plants. These…
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t-break had a grand-ol’ time with the Nu-Tech SBW-242 external combo drive which is capable of up to 24X CD burning speeds and 8X DVD read speeds. The device has a slick looking casing and, overall, performs admirably considering that…
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EE Times writes of a research project, at the University of Rhode Island, that has produced highly efficient antennas. The “distributed load monopole” design allows for shortened antenna lengths while maintaining the same signal strength, a boon to cell towers…
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Reuters has word that there have been arrests in a few countries in relation to the hacking/theft of the Half Life 2 source code last year which supposedly delayed the game’s release. So far there’s no mention of who or…
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Motherboards.org has a review of the ASUS A8V Deluxe WiFi, one of the first Socket 939 boards in the market designed for AMD’s latest batch of 64-bit chips. They’ve managed to include a large number of features in the board…
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Reuters reports that broadband growth rate in the U.S. was at 42% last year, according to the FCC, with more than 8 million new subscribers to various services over 2002. That’s a blistering pace for any service, with cable companies…
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GamePC, builders of fine PCs and quality review writers, has a look at the Sony DRU-700A, a dual-layer capable DVD +- burner. The quality of this Sony drive is impressive, able to keep up with Plextor’s comparable model all in…
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