September 2004

by Rafael Hernandez on September 28, 2004 · 0 comments

GamePC has a look at the mammoth Sony SDM-P234/B 23″ widescreen LCD display. The screen touts a native resolution of 1920×1200 and a 16ms response time which is quite speedy for a display of this size. Overall a very impressive…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 28, 2004 · 0 comments

Gamers Depot dives into loads of smoothed over talk on the availability of top-end video cards from both ATI and NVIDIA. For the most part it’s difficult to find the cards which is a typical occurence surrounding radically new card…

Read more High-End Video Card Availability Investigated

by Rafael Hernandez on September 27, 2004 · 0 comments

PC World has the details on Toshiba’s planned usage of its 1.8″ thin, 60GB harddrive in their also slim Gigabeat MP3/WMA player. The device rivals the Apple Ipod in size although they have been limited to the Japanese market for…

Read more Toshiba Planning 60GB Portable Music Player

by Rafael Hernandez on September 27, 2004 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a look at Abit’s take on a proper Intel 915P chipset based motherboard. The AG8 shows up with DDR memory slots so many more people can make use of the more reasonably priced DDR memory instead…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 27, 2004 · 0 comments

Legion Hardware has a look at yet another CPU heatsink from Thermalright that goes by the name of XP-90. The cooler is designed for the AMD Athlon 64 and the Intel Socket 478 line of chips and features multiple heatpipes…

Read more Thermalright XP-90 Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on September 27, 2004 · 0 comments

ExtremeTech writes of Intel’s decision to cancel the much touted wireless 802.11x features of their newest desktop chipset line. They have valid points on why they should cancel the feature but it is a shame to lose what could have…

Read more Intel Nixes 915/925 WiFi

by Rafael Hernandez on September 27, 2004 · 0 comments

t-break has a review of the interesting Gigabyte G0-M1600B, a DVD reading drive with a twist. The device features a quasi car head unit, FM tuner/MP3 player and all, and attached to the drive which also set up to work…

Read more Gigabyte FM Tuner/DVD Drive Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on September 26, 2004 · 0 comments

Microsoft hosted a “Gifts that Click” mini-expo showing off products that use the company’s software or technologies and products that they themselves created. The focus of the show seemed to be portable media players, that just so happen to use…

Read more MS Gifts-that-Click Coverage

by Rafael Hernandez on September 25, 2004 · 0 comments

CDRinfO has a look at a CPU today (odd) from the fine people at AMD. The Athlon 64 3800+ comes in at the higher price range for Socket 939 processors and doesn’t disappoint when it comes to performance and bang…

Read more AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on September 24, 2004 · 0 comments

ZDNet has coverage on HP’s decision to drop the usage of Intel’s Itanium chip in its workstation lines. Not that they would have sold many to begin with and most people probably didn’t know anyone built workstations with the Itanium….

Read more HP Drops Itanium Workstation Line

by Rafael Hernandez on September 24, 2004 · 0 comments

Hexus.net has an early look at IWill’s ambitious ZMAXdp small form factor PC. They, somehow, managed to cram in a dual AMD Opteron based motherboard, and other not-so burly features, into an extremely small package. Fascinating product with great performance…

Read more IWill ZMAXdp Previewed