CDRinfo does what they do best, tests out the top of the line Sony DRU-710A. This burner is capable of 16x DVD+R burn speeds and 2.4x dual layer writing making it one of the more feature packed burners on the…
Read more Sony DRU-710A DVD+-RW/DL Reviewed
Business Week has a look at some of the future challenges Intel has ahead of them from obvious competitors and their own stumbling over the past few years. Lots of missteps and pressure from many sides has bruised them up…
Read more Intel Faces Hurdles
SystemCooling has an in-depth look at the SilverStone Lascala LC03V, which is designed to look like an A/V piece of gadgetry, that they then go about modding up a bit, with good results. The case is roomy, capable of taking…
Read more SilverStone Lascala HTPC Case Reviewed
Hardware Analysis has a short guide on how they went about bringing down their Intel “Prescott” based PC overall system temperature. The Prescott core is a 90-nanometer version (with some enhancements) of Intel’s classic Pentium 4 CPU which runs a…
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OCWorkbench has a two video card roundup featuring the XGI Volari V8 and the S3 Deltachrome S8 chipsets battling it out with better known GPUs. It’s not a pretty sight for one of the cards due to some hairy driver…
Read more Battle of the Little-Known Video Cards
X-bit labs has the goods on the ASUS SCB-2408-D external CD-RW/DVD combo drive. Its specs aren’t the greatest with a max 24X CD burn speed and 8X DVD read with no DVD writing capability at all but it more than…
Read more ASUS Slim External Combo Drive Reviewed
Sudhian Media measures the heat output of the new 90 nanometer, die shrunk AMD Socket 939 Athlon 64s on the market. In general these early die shrinkings turn out to be a nightmare for cooling as you have less surface…
Read more Athlon 64 90nm Thermal Performance
hardCOREware has put three motherboards with integrated graphics processors to the test in their mini-roundup. The ATI and Intel integrated video solutions aren’t the fatest available, downright offensive to a gamer at any rate, but they do make for a…
Read more IGP Trio Tested
GamePC delves into Microsoft’s latest release of their Windows XP Media Center Edition. The operating system is designed for media centric PCs but it can still be used as a regular run of the mill OS as well. Looks like…
The Tech Report has another grand roundup of products, this time they have a look at 8 different power supplies from various manufacturers. The PSUs range from the low end in pricing and performance to the high end modular supplies…
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PC World has the specifications of the Sony Vaio VGX-X90P which is a very capable media centered PC with a very hefty pricetag. The computer is able to record up to 7 video channels simultaneously and can be configured with…
Read more Sony Vaio X Details
