ExtremeTech has a “small” guide on how you can build your very own Mini-ITX server, or at least how they went about doing it. Most people use such solutions to host digital audio files throughout a house or digital video…
Read more Micro Home Server Build Guide
The Tech Report ran a few tests on performance with different audio solutions on the Source game engine, from the fine folks at Valve Software. The results aren’t surprising, hardware acceleration will be faster than software most of the time…
Read more HL2: Source Audio Affect on Performance
AnandTech checks out the methods ATI and NVIDIA use in dealing with overscan on HDTV displays. With home theater PCs growing in popularity and growing adoption of HDTV capable displays topics such as this merit some closer scrutiny if proper…
Read more How NVIDIA and ATI Handle HDTV Overscan
PCSTATS has outlined how to go about flashing/updating the BIOS of video cards. For the most part this is something 99.95% of the population would never need but there are a number of sites built around this “hobby” which can…
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Ok, the last DOOM3 mention ever here unless some incredible news pops up at some point in the future. X-bit labs has tested DOOM3 against a wide array of CPUs from Intel and AMD. Predictably the higher priced processors tore…
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CNET News has the story of plans, by the major music labels, to introduce discs which contain an audio CD portion on one side and a DVD layer on the other allow the companies to add some extra content, perhaps…
Read more Record Labels Ponder Dual Format Discs
bit-tech has a review of the Lian Li PC-V1000 all aluminum case. The chassis has a somewhat different design with a WTX setup for the motherboard, which theoretically allows cooler air to hit a PC’s process first but Lian Li…
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Hexus.net takes a look at the OCZ 2GByte PC3200 Performance Series Dual Channel Kit. The company is known for its high-speed memory with incredibly low latency timings but this memory set is designed strictly for consumers that have huge amounts…
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X-bit labs continues its power draw measurements of modern day graphics cards. This time around they take a look at a NVIDIA based lineup of boards and compare the results with their ATI numbers. It would appear that both companies…
Read more Graphics Card Power Consumption: Part 2
Legit Reviews did a bit of researching on the general lack of high performance cooling options for Intel’s latest line of high speed and high temperature CPUs. The comments they did get from company reps some to point to a…
Read more LGA 775 Confounds Cooling Manufacturers
DigiTimes has a small tidbit on why it may be harder to find AMD’s Athlon 64 and Sempron processors overseas. It seems the company’s recent price cuts have led to a rise in sales making their more sensibly priced chips…
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