X-bit labs has a review of the stylish ASUS V9999 Gamer Edition graphics card. The card features NVIDIA’s GeForce 6800 GPU clocked a bit higher than the normal operating specs. The end result is great performance at a somewhat reasonable…
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DigiTimes has a write-up on why it’s been difficult to find the latest mid-range video cards from NVIDIA and ATI in the market. It would appear their substrate supplier wasn’t able to produce enough chip substrates due to a water…
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HotHardware tries out a reference design of S3’s upcoming OmniChrome graphics card/TV Tuner combo. The card isn’t a screamer when it comes to today’s latest games but the tuner functionality coupled with a, supposedly, lower price tag should make it…
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X-bit labs went through the whole product line (well almost) of a new memory manufacturer which goes by the name of Patriot. Everything from run of the mill DDR to high speed/low latency solutions was looked at. Some decent performance…
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The AMD side of the desktop computing world has been missing some key features for future upgradeability and performance scaling, namely the lack of PCI Express. NVIDIA has launched its new nForce 4 chipset for the Athlon 64 line of…
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A potential licensing and pricing nightmare may be over for companies who were waiting on Microsoft’s word on whether or not upcoming dual-core processors, from both AMD and Intel, would count as two seperate CPUs in their licensing terms, which…
Read more MS Says: Two Cores = One Chip
It’s amazing how many reviews simultaneously pop up once companys announce a new product line and it’s no different with AMD’s launch of the Athlon 64 4000+ and FX-55 processors. The two new chips offer up some great performance which…
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CNET News has a hunch that AMD will be releasing some new Athlon 64 chips this week which will the raise performance bar, and pricetags, as well. The Athlon 64 FX-55 and Athlon 64 4000+ will occupy the top two…
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GamePC grabbed seven of the lastest video cards, featuring PCI-Express interfaces, and tested them in a widerange of benchmarks. They have cards from the mid-range, high-end, and even an NVIDIA Quadro card which are designed for workstation/3D heavy applications….
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Microsoft Watch has a status check on Microsoft’s upcoming R2 platform beautification project for their Windows Server 2003 Operating System. There’s word of some features being pushed back for release along side Longhorn server but the company is confident in…
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Short-Media went about testing the now widely released Service Pack 2 for Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system to see if it slows down PC speed. The early results point to yes but with the number of fixes the Service Pack…
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