January 2005

by Rafael Hernandez on January 25, 2005 · 0 comments

Overclockers Australia has a look at 6 heatsinks for Intel’s Pentium 4 (s478)processors. The batch they tested is on the smaller size of the cooler spectrum, compared to the massive heatsinks on the market, which threaten to break motherboards in…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 25, 2005 · 0 comments

Hexus.net has a review of the Tranquil PC T2.e/MCE2005 media center PC. The rig makes use of the VIA EPIA MII motherboard which allows the company to create a miniature PC. Interesting product although it looks like some software hitches…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 25, 2005 · 0 comments

Google has launched its video search service which allows you to search for specific words or phrases and brings up listings of shows which have used those phrases. The search engine covers a few U.S. network stations in the U.S….

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 25, 2005 · 0 comments

Adrian’s Rojak Pot has a look at the Zalman VF700-Cu GPU heatsink/fan combo. Today’s latest and greatest add-on boards pump out quite a bit of heat and employ rather noisy single slot cooling methods in order to keep the temperatures…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 25, 2005 · 0 comments

Sony has picked itself up a license for Transmeta’s LongRun2 technology which can raise and lower CPU clock rates and voltages on the fly allowing for more energy efficient and cooler running hardware. IBM/Sony/Toshiba’s Cell chip is one possible candidate…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 24, 2005 · 0 comments

The Inquirer thinks that Microsoft’s Windows XP 64-bit Edition will be hitting store shelves in April. It would be big news for AMD which has been touting its 64-bit chips for quite a while and it should also make Intel’s…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 24, 2005 · 0 comments

DigiTimes has a few details on Intel’s upcoming dual core processors as well as a their P4 processors which will begin to ship next month. Aggresive pricing planned by Intel for its new processors with the dual-core 820 coming in…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 24, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech goes indepth on Nvidia’s upcoming nForce Professional motherboard chipset. The chipset is targeted towards the workstation and server markets and features interesting scaling capabilities if a few more of their system chipsets are added to the board. Up to…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 24, 2005 · 0 comments

GamePC has a review of the Sapphire Radeon X850 XT video card. The board uses ATI’s current top of the line chip and comes on a fancy PCI-Express board all wrapped up in a dual-slot cooling system. The card is…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 24, 2005 · 0 comments

t-break has an early look at a motherboard sporting VIA’s K8T890 chipset. The chip can handle PCI Express devices but, so far, no SLI support from VIA. Good performance numbers out of the new chipset, keeping up with Nvidia’s nForce…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 22, 2005 · 0 comments

PC Perspective has a look at the Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI motherboard featuring Nvidia’s nForce 4 SLI chipset. All of the talked about features such as PCI Express, dual Gigabit ethernet ports, and of course SLI support are on board giving it…

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