PC Stats tortured the Asus eXtreme EAX600XT quite a bit and came up with a review of this mid-range, PCI-Express card. The board sets itself apart from the pack with native component out and a core cooling system as well…
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LostCircuits went back to its Intel 925XE/1066MHz bus speed testbed and found some quirky issues in their setup. It appears that a clock generator onboard their system was inflating scores in some programs leading to some fantastic, albeit, false performance…
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The Inquirer has some supposed details for ATI’s product refresh parts using the Radeon X850 GPU. Usually such product refreshes have some redesigned elements in order to get better yields or clock rates out of the chips and sometimes fix…
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Hexus.net has an interesting look at the details of NVIDIA’s SLI technology. Their multiple card rendering approach is not new to the market but few video chip builders have gone with a similar solution due to costs. Despite the sticker…
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Phoronix has a review of the Spire VertiCool SPA49B0 heatsink designed for the good old AMD Athlon XP line. As is becoming popular this cooler uses a pair of heatpipes attached to a number of fins as well as some…
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GamePC has tested the XFX GeForce 6800 GT board with a PCI Express interface. NVIDIA has finally shipped its NV45 core, previous versions of which happened to be AGP only, that kept the board out of the PCI-E market for…
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AMDZone has a look at the EPoX 9NDA3+ AMD Athlon 64 (socket 939) based motherboard. This board houses the very versatile NVIDIA nForce 3 Ultra chipset which has received quite a bit of praise since its launch. Loads of features…
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NeoSeeker revels in a good roundup of six Intel Pentium 4 processors tested across a few different motherboards, well ones that could support them. The results are intriguing and shows that the old i865/875 platform with DDR is still a…
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ExtremeTech has a review of the Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 4 Pro. The card shows up with a few, minor improvements over their previous line yet manages a higher overall pricetag. The mesage is quite clear, not worth the…
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Intel and NVIDIA have struck some sort of licensing agreement which may see an nForce system chipset for Intel’s processor lines. Interesting prospects for this agreement although NVIDIA will have to overcome many of its development issues and provide something…
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The Tech Report has an informative look at the Hitachi Ultrastar 10K300 SCSI based hard drive. This 300GB Ultrastar has the common SCSI introductory spin speed of 10,000RPM giving it mid-range performance which makes it, from the looks of things,…
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