PCSTATS has a look at the AOpen n250a-FR motherboard for AMD’s older socket 754 Athlon 64s and Semprons. The board makes good use of the Nvidia nForce3-250 chipset and performs well compared to the socket 939 based chips/motherboards. An inexpensive…
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Controlled-Insanity has a review of the Silverstone LC04 enclosure. The case’s layout lends itself to HTPC usage for which they toss in riser adapters for a pair of add-on cards which includes the AGP slot. A nice clean layout that…
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AnandTech has a closer look at the addition of SSE3 to the AMD Opteron CPU line. The new revision of the chip should trickle down to consumer processors sooner or later with other enhancements enthusiasts have been drooling over for…
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The Tech Report has a look at an inexpensive Nvidia nForce 4 based motherboard from Foxconn. The WinFast NF4UK8AA features most of the modern features nForce 4 boards are known for but some enthusiast friendly options are notably missing. A…
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Ars Technica has the various goings-ons at the LinuxWorld Expo being held in Boston. Their Day 1 coverage is lite on details but it lists some of the major players at the conference. Let’s hope their Day 2 coverage has…
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AMD has demonstrated its dual-core Opteron processors at Linuxworld Boston. The chips were shown off in various configurations ranging from a supercomputer on down to a dual CPU workstation. Dual-core Opterons should be showing up in the middle of this…
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AnandTech put the Apple Mac mini to work as a video media centric PC. They cover the pros and cons of the computer in such tasks as DVD playback and DVR roles and encounter mixed results. Future revisions of the…
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Microsoft has come around to the idea that a security focused web-browser is in its best interests. Internet Explorer 7 should begin testing in the summer and will be one of the more sought after applications to be released by…
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AnandTech grabbed a handful of small form factor barebones PCs and tested them against each other. Intel and AMD are represented, although, all of the test systems use older chip lines from both companies keeping things on equal footing. They…
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HardwareZone has a look at 7 different video cards based on ATI’s Radeon X800 Pro chipset. A wide array of features in this batch with differences in software bundles and cooling solutions. There’s also a pair of boards that support…
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ExtremeTech has a look at the Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW display. The monitor is a 24-inch widescreen display which comes in at a very attractive price-point compared to its competitors. Low response time and DVI/Component/S-video/VGA in give it a good amount…
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