November 2004

by Rafael Hernandez on November 19, 2004 · 0 comments

Seattle Post-Intelligencer would like to remind us that the Nintendo DS portable gaming system will be released this coming Sunday in the U.S. They cover the basic details of the machine, some finer gaming market points, and other tidbits of…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 19, 2004 · 0 comments

OCModShop caught an early bad-break with some bent fins but managed to straighten things out and wrote down their thoughts on the Thermalright XP-90 heatsink. The cooler has a whole lot of surface area to work with and can mount…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 19, 2004 · 0 comments

HotHardware takes a look at yet another small form factor PC this time from one of the market’s great trailblazers, Shuttle. The SB77G5 XPC is jam-packed with features such as Firewire, Gigabit LAN, on-board RAID support, and uses DDR(not 2)…

Read more Shuttle SB77G5 XPC Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on November 18, 2004 · 0 comments

The fine folks over at PC Perspective has a look at the performance of various video cards in Valve Software’s hot new FPS title Half-Life 2. The game performs very well on modern hardware with all sorts of high quality…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 18, 2004 · 0 comments

hardCOREware has a look at one of the fancier cases available, the Antec Sonata mid-tower PC enclosure. The high quality fit and finish of the case combined with its usage of a quiet single fan system has made it a…

Read more Antec Sonata Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on November 18, 2004 · 0 comments

The fine folks over at HotHardware have come up with a review of the Sapphire Radeon X800 XT PCI Express based video card. The card puts up impressive numbers, as expected, in a variety of gaming titles and bundles in…

Read more Sapphire Radeon X800 XT Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on November 18, 2004 · 0 comments

GamePC has a look at AMD’s Athlon 64 4000+ processor, one of the current top of the line chips the company offers. The CPU apparently runs a tight race matching the Athlon 64 FX-53 in many tasks with a price-tag…

Read more Athlon 64 4000+ Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on November 17, 2004 · 0 comments

TweakTown tried out the Abit AA8 and AG8 motherboards which support the LGA775 series of Intel Pentium 4s. The boards carry on the Abit tradition of PC enthusiast focused feature sets and BIOS options while giving everyone else a solid…

Read more Intel P4 Boards Compared

by Rafael Hernandez on November 17, 2004 · 0 comments

Bjorn3D has a review of the Lite-On SOHW-1633S dual-layer capable DVD burner. The drive features a peppy 16X DVD-R burning speed and support for +- formats all at a very reasonable price. Given such rock-bottom prices for DVD burners currently…

Read more Lite-On SOHW-1633S Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on November 17, 2004 · 0 comments

ComputerWorld has the low-down on a new 400GB SerialATA drive from Seagate which makes use of native command queuing (NCQ). A shiney new massive storage drive which uses performance enhancing techniques is always a good thing….

Read more Seagate Launches New Hard Drive

by Rafael Hernandez on November 17, 2004 · 0 comments

PC World may have found out Tokyo’s secret, nifty hardware and gadgetry on store shelves way before anyone else on the planet. To their credit they gathered a nice list of stuff with the obligatory picture and information on the…

Read more Tokyo: The Electronic Wonderland