August 2004

by Rafael Hernandez on August 23, 2004 · 0 comments

Virtual Zone has a review of the HIS Excalibur X800 Pro IceQ II VIVO which sports and Arctic Cooler which was mentioned earlier today. The card also bundles in some decent game titles and features some compelling tweaking options, if…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 23, 2004 · 0 comments

X-bit labs gathered up a few tidbits on the upcoming ATI RV410 chipset which will probably make its way into X700 branded boards in the near future. The chip will be a slimmed down version of the R400 found in…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 23, 2004 · 0 comments

InsaneTek has a look at the new video card cooling line from Artic Cooling. The new Silencer lineup covers most modern video cards in a wide variety of configurations and all boast better cooling potential than most stock heatsinks and…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 23, 2004 · 0 comments

Elite Bastards do their own thing with a copy of a stress test put together by Valve, makers of Half-Life 2, using their new Source graphics engine. The numbers are a but different than other comparisons floating around due the…

Read more More HL2:Source Benchmarks

by Rafael Hernandez on August 23, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a rather exhaustive list of info on popular CPUs going back a few years with specifications, code-names, and commentary. Quite an interesting list to look back on and it sure does show the rapid-fire of product launches both…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 22, 2004 · 0 comments

Burning Issues has a look at the highly capable Iwill DK8N Dual AMD Opteron motherboard. The board sports NVIDIA’s NFORCE3 Pro/250 and when paired with a proper OS to make use of its features it displays some monsterous performance numbers….

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 22, 2004 · 0 comments

BleedinEdge has a review of the budget priced Chaintech VNF3-250 motherboard which can be host to a Socket 754 Athlon 64 processor. The board is lacking, somewhat, feature wise, but for the price, it’s pretty tough to beat the board’s…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 21, 2004 · 0 comments

Short Media decided to test out the benefits of 64-bit capable PCs over the 32-bit realm with a fine piece of software called The Panorama Factory. They do have a good grasp on why the move to 64-bit is important…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 21, 2004 · 0 comments

Digital Reviews has the scoop on the PowerColor X800XT Platinum Limited Assassin Edition video card powered by ATI’s latest high end chip. The board looks like most other X800XT based boards except for its first person shooter bundle. A nice…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 20, 2004 · 0 comments

Crucial’s new Ballistix line of high performance memory has been receiving favorable press. Seeing as it’s from one of the most reliable memory vendors out there it’s not surprising. PCSTATS has a look at the company’s speedy DDR2 memory….

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 20, 2004 · 0 comments

GamePC has tested Microsoft’s latest beta build of its Windows XP 64-bit Edition on 64-bit processors from both Intel and AMD. There are no consumer level benchmarks to be found but looking at the performance from server level chips it…

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