June 2004

by Rafael Hernandez on June 8, 2004 · 0 comments

Yet another Samsung reviewed today, this time the folks at GamePC have the details on the company’s 910T 19″ LCD monitor. The large display has a nice thin bezel, certainly pleasing to the eye. The only drawback seems to be…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 8, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at Samsung’s latest 17″ LCD, the 172X. The display features a 12ms response rate and a sleek casing making it a monitor dreams are made of, if it can truly live up to its spec sheet….

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 7, 2004 · 0 comments

CNET News has a bit about the new Sempron line of low-cost CPUs AMD will be releasing. The article makes no mention of specifications or even what core the CPU is based on but if it’s inexpensive enough and uses…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 7, 2004 · 0 comments

X-bit labs has a few details on a USB2 video adapter being marketed by a company named Telegnosis. It’s an innovative product that should fill a few niches here and there but USB2 is very CPU intensive and dual monitor…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 7, 2004 · 0 comments

PC Unleash has a guide on how to, supposedly, modify an ATI X800Pro to and X800XT using some conductive paint, toothpick, and nail polish. The performance gains are nothing to scoff at if you manage to get it modded, although,…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 7, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech pits the newest (relatively) Western Digital Raptor 74GB, 10kRPM hard drive against its older sibling, the 3GB version and five other popular drives available at a retailer near you. The Raptors tear things up, of course, although the 7200RPM…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 7, 2004 · 0 comments

LostCircuits goes into the details, lots and lots of detail, of DDR-II and GDDR3. DDR-II is set to become the new memory standard for high speed processors while GDDR3 is designed for memory bandwidth starved video chips. It does have…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 6, 2004 · 0 comments

Hexus.net has a few details and pictures of the Silverstone TJ-06 PC chassis that appears to use a WTX-like form factor where the motherboard is flipped giving the CPU first shot at incoming cooler case air. Innovative design and an…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 5, 2004 · 0 comments

Sudhian has a review of the IWill ZMAX-AP Intel Pentium 4 based small form factor PC, not to be confused with the ZMAX-dp dual processor SFF that has gotten a lot of buzz recently. It looks like a good start…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 5, 2004 · 0 comments

GamePC has access to the nicest toys as evidenced by their review of the Intel Pentium-M 735 CPU, formerly code-named Dothan. The 735 is a 1.7GHz processor with 2MB of cache designed for laptops and based on the old Pentium…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 4, 2004 · 0 comments

Yahoo News has the story of the highly lucrative, high-end gaming PC market which the larger PC makers have recently targeted. The $2 billion a year in sales is a little surprising but I suppose it makes sense when these…

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