TheTechLounge has a look at ATI’s X800 XT featuring a PCI-Express interface. Top notch performance and graphics from this board and one of the few available high-end cards for PCI-E boards. A product to consider if upgrading cannot wait, otherwise…
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GamePC has a look at the XFX GeForce 6600GT AGP video card, a sensibly price mid-range gaming solution. The board features the often discussed bridge chip which allows the native PCI Express enabled GPU to work on the AGP bus….
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Hexus.net has a review of a 90 nanometer version of the AMD Athlon 64 3000+ processor in the Socket939 variety. The chip has become a favorite of those obsessed with performance on the cheap who have pulled quite a bit…
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OSNews has a look at the LinuxCertified LC2430 Laptop PC loaded with a RedHat/Fedora flavor of Linux. The notebook shows up with the mobile-unfriendly Intel 2.8GHz P4 and somewhat dated ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 but it still manages to impress…
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CNET News has the details on AMD’s plan to bring its PowerNow technology to its server/workstation focused Opteron CPUs. PowerNow allows the host OS to scale down CPU clock speeds when very little CPU usage is occuring then speeds things…
Read more AMD to Cool Down the Opteron
Phoronix has the skinny on the ASRock K8 Combo Z motherboard which has both socket754 and 939 interfaces for AMD’s Athlon 64 lines. This is not some form of dual CPU board, rather, it gives you some options on which…
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ZDNet Australia shares their insight on what could stop Firefox from spreading into the corporate world. Many proprietary web apps companies use were made with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer in mind which could cause formatting/incompatibility issues with the relative new comer….
Read more Firefox's Biggest Adoption Foe
CNET News has the latest word out of Samsung, one of the larger LCD and memory producers, which believes prices on both ranges of products will fall next year. There should be some good deals to be had in the…
Read more Samsung Predicts: Lower Prices
Yahoo! News has some coverage on a pair of cases that the U.S. Supreme Court will be hearing over whether or not cable companys should open their private networks to ISPs. A messy subject, overall, which currently puts telephone companies…
DigiTimes has the scoop on Intel’s plan to create a few bundles featuring their motherboards paired with video cards based on NVIDIA’s designs. The program could save end-users a bit of cash and ease the frustration of finding PCI Express…
Read more Intel's to Bundle NVIDIA Based Cards
Mercury News has some tidbits of info on the Sony/IBM/Toshiba joint CPU project dubbed “Cell” which, apparently, has the new design capable of running at clock rates in excess of 4GHz. There aren’t many specifics on how the CPU IBM…
Read more Additional Cell Details Emerge
