PCSTATS compares Buffalo Technology’s FireStix PC4000 DDR memory with some of the other high speed choices in the market. The bright orange/red heatspreaders are eye-catching and the memory does perform moderately well on Intel based systems but is somewhat weak…
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Games Domain has an early look at EA/Dice’s upcoming sequel to the insanely popular Battlefield series, which happens to include BF:1942 and Vietnam. Battlefield 2 features a highly polished graphics engine as well as a ton of modern weaponry making…
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ExtremeTech has an article that focuses mostly on NVIDIA’s loss of market share and how it is now in a tie with rival ATI. The company didn’t lose the market share to ATI, rather, they lost it to Intel and…
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The Tech Report ran the hottest program in the gaming world on various cards and have some performance numbers for everyone to mull over. They also provided some screenshots at various quality levels to compare the output of the different…
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HotHardware has a look at the Sapphire Toxic x800 Pro ViVo which ships with an interesting array of extras. The card itself uses a rather large heatsink and fan to keep the high performance board cool and relatively silent. They…
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Sony plans to drop a Blu-ray compatible drive into its upcoming gaming console, the Playstation 3. The system will use all sorts of new technologies for processing and rendering games and will be able to use the large storage space…
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Gateway has a few new systems they plan to launch next month that take advantage of the BTX specification, which is heavily promoted by Intel. The spec would place the processor much closer to intake case fans giving it first…
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CNET News has the details on a possible delay to the launch of Microsoft’s Service Pack 2 for their Windows XP operating system. Just another delay which have dogged the security minded release but this one seems to be relatively…
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AnandTech has tested how well DOOM3’s performance scales on various processors. Interesting results that so far see AMD’s latest and greatest pulling a few frames per second lead over Intel’s top Socket 478 chips. Sadly no LGA 775 and DDR2…
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InfoWorld writes of a new 1.8″ 60GB storage drive from Toshiba which will no doubt become popular with many MP3 player manufacturers. The drive is smaller than 2.5″ drives usually found in notebooks meaning more space for larger batteries and…
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gamesindustry.biz found out, by way of a German financial publication, that Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates is still interested in purchasing Nintendo. While Microsoft does well by its acquired game studios such a merger would surely be detrimental to…
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