September 2004

by Rafael Hernandez on September 21, 2004 · 0 comments

Games Asylum has the details and photos of the shrunken down Sony PlayStation 2 which may or may not go by the name PStwo. The redesigned console is much smaller than its previous version due to chip making processes, that…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 21, 2004 · 0 comments

Planet GameCube has a press release straight from Nintendo detailing their launch for their newest handheld gaming system, the Nintendo DS. The portable will feature two screens, wireless play capability, and voice chat functionality which should appeal to both young…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 21, 2004 · 0 comments

HardOCP has an early look at ATI’s upcoming Radeon X700XT GPU/video card. It will be a direct competitor to NVIDIA’s GeForce 6600GT which has impressive performance for its price range but is, unfortunately, still not available to consumers….

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 20, 2004 · 0 comments

GameSpot touches on some of the rumors surrounding Sony’s PlayStation 2 and a possible redesign which will make it a smaller/sleeker version of its former self. It could certainly use a bit of a shrink but another console would benefit…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 20, 2004 · 0 comments

DigiTimes has word that AMD expects to ship 600,000 Athlon 64s and Opterons this quarter and may top 1.5million in the next quarter. That’s quite a quick ramp up for the 64-bit chips which will, hopefully, bring down prices for…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 20, 2004 · 0 comments

HardOCP has tested four video cards based on ATI’s X600XT chipset which features a native PCI-Express interface. The card is sure to be popular with many Intel based PC builders since it offers “decent” performance for the price, that is…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 20, 2004 · 0 comments

Yahoo! News has the story of Samsung’s recent breakthroughs in memory technology for both their flash memory and RAM lines. The “new” techniques deal with density, or how much they were able to cram into a space compared to old…

Read more Samsung Develops Pair of Memory Breakthroughs

by Rafael Hernandez on September 20, 2004 · 0 comments

NewsFactor reports that Spansion, a joint venture between AMD and Fujitsu, has the largest piece of the flash memory market share with a total just shy of 25%. A nice showing from the number two CPU maker so far this…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 19, 2004 · 0 comments

Monster Hardware has a review of the Thermalright XP-120 heatsink which absolutely dwarfs most common cooling devices on the market. It can natively host a 120mm fan so there’s the option of a slower spinning fan which would still move…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 18, 2004 · 0 comments

DesignTechnica has a look at the MSI NX6800 128MB which hosts NVIDIA’s GeForce 6800 (non-Ultra/non-GT) GPU yet still boasts a $400 MSRP. The insane cost of the board may be due to its game and application bundle but I bet…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 17, 2004 · 0 comments

Trusted Review has a review of the external ATI TV Wonder USB 2.0. The TV Tuner manages some very nice image quality for an external device and it is a perfect use for the high-speed USB 2.0 interface. An interesting…

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