September 2004

by Rafael Hernandez on September 17, 2004 · 0 comments

The Inquirer has reason to believe that AMD has begun shipping a die shrunk version of its Athlon 64 chips. The 90nm version of the chip means more chip per wafer and, eventually, higher clock speeds from their CPU lines…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 17, 2004 · 0 comments

Legit Reviews has wrapped up its building of their very own custom laptop with part 3 of “Building a Whitebox Notebook”. They cover some of the finishing touches and tweaks necessary to get the most out of a notebook one…

Read more Whitebox Notebook Saga: Part 3

by Rafael Hernandez on September 17, 2004 · 0 comments

TechSpot has a review of an interesting LCD display, the LG 2320A. The monitor sports a 23″ widescreen viewing area and a media station box which accepts all of the video, and some audio, sources you can muster reducing the…

Read more LG Flatron 2320A LCD Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on September 16, 2004 · 0 comments

Gamers Depot has the skinny on Seagate’s newest Barracuda hard drive. This 160GB, Serial-ATA unit sports Native Command Queuing feature which allows the drive to access data out of order which gives it a bit of a performance boost. A…

Read more Seagate S-ATA Barracuda Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on September 16, 2004 · 0 comments

ATI is jumping into the fray with their very own PCI Express capable chipsets which will go by the internal names of RX480 and the RS480 which will feature an integrated graphics core. Interesting to see so many PCI-E solutions…

Read more More Athlon 64 PCI Express Chipsets

by Rafael Hernandez on September 16, 2004 · 0 comments

GamePC has a look at the snazzy new Viewsonic VP912B 19″ LCD display. Beyond its sleek casing the monitor offers up some snappy response rates which performance enthusiasts swear by, as well as the ever useful tilt screen support for…

Read more Viewsonic VP912B Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on September 16, 2004 · 0 comments

bit-tech has a look at a new entry in the very popular small form factor PC barebones line from Shuttle, the SB81P. They manage to cram in tons of features and support for high power CPUs and graphics cards into…

Read more Shuttle Intel LGA 775 SFF Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on September 15, 2004 · 0 comments

Microsoft and Mozilla have a few serious flaws affecting their software. First up is a JPEG interpreter flaw in various Microsoft products which could lead to compromised systems and flaws in Thunderbird, Mozilla, and Firefox applications. Get to patching….

Read more Vulnerabilities Galore

by Rafael Hernandez on September 15, 2004 · 0 comments

DigiTimes has a bit of news from ATI and their predictions for sales of their PCI Express based video products. The bulk of those sales will be to large system builders and in the form of budget cards. Everyone else…

Read more ATI PCI-E Shipments to Pick Up

by Rafael Hernandez on September 15, 2004 · 0 comments

GamePC has the details on Shuttle’s SN95G5 small form factor PC. This time around they’ve taken to supporting AMD’s Socket 939 Athlon 64 which offers some adder performance over previous generations. As always a quality product and certainly not the…

Read more Shuttle Socket 939 SFF Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on September 15, 2004 · 0 comments

DigiTimes writes of plans by VIA and SiS to begin ramping up production of their respective PCI-Express capable northbridge chips as early as next month or perhaps a little later. The possibility exists that board makers will be able to…

Read more PCI-E Athlon 64 Boards Sooner than Expected?