December 2004

by Rafael Hernandez on December 20, 2004 · 0 comments

ExtremeTech has a review of one of the largest desktop replacement laptops around; the Alienware Area-51m 7700. The system has a list of components that would put many desktops to shame with performance to match its large foot print. An…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 20, 2004 · 0 comments

PC Perspective has a look at the performance of NVIDIA’s PureView video enhancing technology. The company built-in some video processing functions into their GeForce 6200/6600 line of video chips and their latest drivers expose these features and improve DVD and…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 18, 2004 · 0 comments

GameSpy has put together its list of the best titles released this year covering every console platform as well as the PC. A ton of great titles were released this year, some of which aren’t even on this list unfortunately….

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 17, 2004 · 0 comments

Hexus.net spent a few moments with the upcoming ATI Radeon X850XT Platinum Edition video card. Being ATI’s high end product it, of course, features insanely fast performance with high quality settings enabled, all of which will be coming to a…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 17, 2004 · 0 comments

PC World has a short list of some of the zanier video games to be released over the past year. Often overlooked because of very little press and marketing budgets most of these games provide hours of entertainmet with weird…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 17, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at how ATI and NVIDIA have improved the performance of their drivers under Linux-based operating systems. The companies are putting more effort into the Linux drivers, as can be seen in their large performance increases, but…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 17, 2004 · 0 comments

The Tech Repoert has a look at the Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Serial ATA based drive featuring Native Command Queuing (NCQ). It’s one of the few drives on the market to support the feature which can give a bit of a…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 16, 2004 · 0 comments

ExtremeTech brings us the story surrounding MSI’s move to create a new product supply program and build to order division to service video game retailers as well as projects which will see the company release new media players, notebook lines…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 16, 2004 · 0 comments

PCSTATS has put together processor and video card roadmaps, created from widely known information, and has done a bit of guesswork on where both markets will be headed over the next year. Useful info if companies don’t face too many…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 16, 2004 · 0 comments

X-bit labs has a review of two notebook computers from Asus; model numbers A4B00L and A4S00G. The laptops are based on Mobile Intel Pentium 4s, which are very power hungry compared to the efficient Pentium M, paired with varying levels…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 16, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at the Foxconn Winfast 755FXK8AA sporting the SiS 755FX chipset. The northbridge/southbridge combo is designed for the AMD Ahlon 64 Socket 939 CPUs and supports all the great modern features other chipsets in its class handles….

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