X-bit labs has a look at the Zalman ZM80D-HP passive cooling heatsink for video cards. The large mass of aluminum and heatpipes isn’t the best cooler on the planet but with no fans it’s certainly the quietest. Its performance does…
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A new chip and new subsystem brings out a ton of reviews from all over. This time the “exciting” new chip is Intel’s Pentium 4 3.46GHz Extreme Edition CPU with the brand spanking new 1.066GHz quad-pumped bus speed. Just imagine…
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MadShrimps has a comparison of 13 different heatsinks for Intel’s “old” Socket 478 Pentium 4 processors. Tons of different cooling methods are represented with heatsinks of all shapes and sizes. Impressive results from some of the lesser known brands proving…
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AnandTech had a chance to toy around with NVIDIA’s SLI feature on an nForce4 based motherboard recently. Extremely impressive numbers for the GeForce 6800GTs although the 6600GTs are anemic performance wise, most people are better off purchasing a single 6800…
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PC World writes about an advancement by Materials and Energy Research Institute Tokyo in fuelcells which could see us powering up laptops or other portable gadgets with sodium borohydride as early as 2006. An interesting option for powering gear but…
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Gateway has made a cautiously optimistic comeback with earnings above what market analysts were expecting. Not the largest profits ever seen by a company which used to be one of the largest PC builders in the U.S., but it’s a…
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One of the lesser known motherboard manufacturer’s gets the star treatment from AnandTech today. The Soltek K8TPro-939 comes in at a nice price-point but it still offers all of the great features an AMD Athlon64 board is expected to deliver…
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InfoWorld has news on VIA’s plans to put two chip cores on one CPU package. Just to make things clear both cores aren’t in the same silicon chip, it’ll be two seperate cores on one package. The approach is strange…
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Guru3D has a look at the NVIDIA powered Galaxy GeForce 6600. The card is aimed at the lower end of the market but it packs respectable performance in both today’s titles and games out of the past. It’s interesting how…
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HardOCP has a look at the latest 1.3 patch for Crytek’s popular FarCry FPS. The lastest patch includes Shader Model 2 and 3 support, which has been a point of contention between ATI and NVIDIA fanatics, and some nifty High…
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CNET News has word that Sony will be launching their PSP portable gaming system mid-December at a lower pricetag than many analysts were predicting. The new price will no doubt be very enticing and may make many forget about its…
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