September 2004

by Rafael Hernandez on September 14, 2004 · 0 comments

Legit Reviews has written up their impressions of this year’s Fall Intel Developers Forum and they toss in a small sample of some of the products that were on display. Tons of neat gear and future technologies were presented at…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 14, 2004 · 0 comments

Sony is ramping up production of a 3.8″ OLED screen which will make its way into a new Clie PDA device. OLED screens require less energy to operate because it doesn’t require a backlight and also takes up a bit…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 14, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a fresh look at the very much alive and kicking AMD Athlon64/Socket 754 segment of the market. The Socket 939 chips brought about many doomsday calls for the older platform but this look at three new motherboards points…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 14, 2004 · 0 comments

PC World walked the show floor at this year’s Custom Electronic Design and Installation (CEDIA) Expo where all sorts of gear was displayed. Big screens seemed to be a large focus for the event, then again when aren’t they. In…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 13, 2004 · 0 comments

hardCOREware has tested three versions of the AthlonXP 2500+ AMD has floating out there. Each of the chips has different characteristics that make them more or less favorable to the computer enthusiast. Judging by the insane speeds many are achieving…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 13, 2004 · 0 comments

Legion Hardware treads in budget territory with a look at how the integrated graphics cores of Intel’s 915G and ATI’s RS350 chipsets perform. Both products are designed for the Pentium 4 and while neither can outperform even low budget add-on…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 13, 2004 · 0 comments

Ars Technica had their usual detail oriented writing style in mind with their latest article covering Intel’s shift to the dual-core CPU approach. Many great points and observations in this article which will make for some exciting times ahead for…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 13, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech tests out Intel’s top Xeon processor against AMD’s current top (dual capable) Opteron in a handful of database tests. Some very nice results this time around from Intel’s top chip which manages to at least stay in the same…

Read more Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron Head-to-Head

by Rafael Hernandez on September 12, 2004 · 0 comments

Hardware Zone stuck around for day 3 of the Intel Developers Forum where there was talk centering around the future of the internet, new memory interfaces and configurations for the server world, and snapshots of a few products in the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 12, 2004 · 0 comments

ExtremeTech has a little coverage on what’s going on with the HD Audio specification Intel has been pushing with its latest generation of chipsets. It seems Dolby Labs is jumping into the fray with their very own certification program and…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 11, 2004 · 0 comments

SharkyExtreme takes a look at the PNY Verto GeForce 6800 Ultra. The company is known, mostly, for its memory modules but its video card lines have been getting accolades for the past few years so the expectations run high for…

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