January 2005

by Rafael Hernandez on January 20, 2005 · 0 comments

GamePC has a review of the Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 Nvidia nForce 4 based motherboard. This particular board sports a slightly crippled nForce 4 “4x” chipset, a name Gigabyte presumably came up with, but even with a slower HyperTransport link the board…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 19, 2005 · 0 comments

Adrian’s Rojak Pot has a look at a pair of notebook computers which feature Intel’s Sonoma mobile chipsets. The new chipset platform can support most of the modern expansion ports on a desktop in a mobile form factor as well…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 19, 2005 · 0 comments

t-break wondered how SLI setups of the Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT and 6800 Ultra compared on a mid-range and high-end CPU. The 6600 GT rig doesn’t seem to scale all that well with a faster CPU but those 6800 Ultras…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 19, 2005 · 0 comments

Guru3D has a 15 page long review of the ATI Radeon X800 XL video card. The board is aimed at the mid-range gaming segment but it offeres up most of the features offered up in their faster products. Its specs…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 19, 2005 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a review of the Trigem Kloss KL-I915A barebones PC. This new entry into the small form factor PC field supports Intel’s LGA775 CPUs and tosses in some HTPC friendly controls and a remote. It’s some welcome…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 18, 2005 · 0 comments

Gamers Depot has a review of the HIS Radeon X700 Pro IceQ graphics card sporting a beefy cooling solution. The card comes strapped with an Arctic Cooling-like (most likely is) heatsink which keeps noise down and keeps temps low, useful…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 18, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech has done a bit of investigating and some “hacking” and may have come up with a method to turn an nForce 4 Ultra chipset into an nForce 4 capable of using Nvidia’s SLI technique. Interesting methods and some excitement…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 18, 2005 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a look at Nvidia’s SLI graphics technique with a pair of mid-range GeForce 6600GTs. The technology is interesting, as always, but when you’re dropping a relatively large chunk of change on hardware to support an SLI…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 18, 2005 · 0 comments

MadShrimps has run a total of nine(9) sets of high performance DDR dual channel memory kits through their AMD Athlon 64 Socket 939 based system and came up with many a graph to show off their performance. Speedy benchmark numbers…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 18, 2005 · 0 comments

GamesIndustry has a press release from Microsoft listing the more than 230 cars which will be featured in their upcoming Forza Motorsport video game for their Xbox console. The game is destined to compete with Sony’s highly popular Gran Turismo…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 17, 2005 · 0 comments

eWeek writes of Intel’s plans to create five different platform groups to handle specific portions of its business. Their platform bundle approach worked well for them in the notebook market with their Centrino product line, they seem to be hoping…

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