November 2004

by Rafael Hernandez on November 2, 2004 · 0 comments

HardOCP is all over Shuttle’s latest barebones PC, the XPC SN95G5. The system comes stocked with NVIDIA’s nForce3 Ultra chipset and can handle all flavors of AMD’s Athlon 64 Socket 939 chips. The performance out of this small box is…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 2, 2004 · 0 comments

TheNoiseReport is very interested in the future of PC audio so they had a lengthy chat with VIA’s audio marketing guru Keith Kowal. Lots of tidbits on future products and the company’s stance on issues. Their Envy line of chips…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 2, 2004 · 0 comments

BIOS has a look at one of those nifty Spyder2Pro monitor calibration tools. The gadget latches onto your screen and with the included software guide you in perfecting your display’s color output. The device is aimed at imaging professionals but…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 1, 2004 · 0 comments

ExtremeMHz has a look at SilverStone’s take on a heatpipe based cooler. The SST-NT01 Nitrogen cooler for the Intel Penium 4 uses a simple mounting plate with 3 moderately thick heatpipes to draw heat away from the processor to a…

Read more SilverStone Nitrogen P4 Heatsink Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on November 1, 2004 · 0 comments

CNET News has some details on a new Itanium 2 processor that Intel is set to launch next week. The new chip packs a larger mass of cache into their high end server oriented CPU, theoretically bumping performance when dealing…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 1, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a thing for optical drives, or at least you get that impression with their look at 8 DVD writing capable burners. They all support the major formats, which whittles choices down to price/performance/aesthetics. Now to track down similar…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 1, 2004 · 0 comments

GamePC sets their sights on a pair of Intel Xeon 3.6GHz workstation/server processors and pits them against a pair of AMD’s top of the line, dual capable, Opteron CPUs. A decent showing by Intel demonstrating that they can keep up…

Read more Intel Xeon 3.6GHz Reviewed