by Rafael Hernandez on July 2, 2004
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VR-Zone Hardware has a brief article with a picture of the new AMD Athlon 64 sporting the “Winchester” core. The new design is mostly a die shrink using the smaller 90nm process which will increase yields per wafer and, hopefully,…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 2, 2004
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TweakTown has the goods on four pairs of high speed DDR memory sticks from the likes of OCZ, Kingmax, Mushkin, and TwinMOS. Many current and future motherboards support dual channel memory which does give a nice performance boost so memory…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 2, 2004
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HotHardware has a review of the ASUS AX800 Pro which, as you may have guessed, uses the ATI Radeon X800 Pro chipset. This board would be just like any other X800 Pro board except for the rather large software bundle…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 2, 2004
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The Tech Report has a short guide filled with some cheap tips on how to cut down on the noise your PC may create. Most cases are not designed with low noise production in mind, rather, many designs want to…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 1, 2004
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AnandTech questions if RAID 0 is worth the money and effort on a desktop system. There have been a number of motherboard chipsets shipping with RAID functionality built-in and with storage prices as low as they are many have been…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 1, 2004
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Designtechnica has a review of the Sony Vaio U50, a sleek little portable PC more at home in a sci-fi flick. An intriguing gadget with all sorts of nicely integrated features but by looking at it I would have to…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 1, 2004
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Reuters has some info on Sony’s upcoming Network Walkman NW-HD1, the first portable digital audio player to sport the Walkman name from the company. It’s a great looking unit but the most noticeable problem with the product is it only…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 1, 2004
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CNN reports on another impressive feat the fine folks at NASA have managed to achieve. Seven years after its launch date the Cassini spacecraft is now in orbit of Saturn after some impressive maneuvers. It will spend the next 4…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 1, 2004
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Bytesector got a hold of some of Intel’s latest chips and hardware gear in the form of their latest and greatest P4 LGA 775 CPUs and a pair of boards featuring the i915/i925 chipsets. Good performance and features from Intel’s…
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