February 2005

by Rafael Hernandez on February 8, 2005 · 0 comments

Designtechnica has a review of the Gateway 7200XL series powerhouse of a PC. The computer line is one of the first consumer level BTX computers on the market which comes equipped with Intel’s Pentium 4 processor and assorted options including…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 7, 2005 · 0 comments

PC Stats has a 20 page long stroll through Gigabyte’s manufacturing plant. Tons of graphics cards and motherboards are produced by Gigabyte each day and it takes a large number of robotic and, surprisingly, human hands to produce the PC…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 7, 2005 · 0 comments

Yahoo! News has the details on IBM/Sony/Toshiba’s collaboration, the Cell processor. Impressive technical specs although it makes no mention the rumored 65-nanometer versions of the chip. All that’s required now is specifics on how Cell equipped gadgets will network together….

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 7, 2005 · 0 comments

NewsFactor has the details on a number of patches for Microsoft products which should be showing up tomorrow. Nine OS patches are on the plate for Windows users, although they don’t mention if they apply to every modern version of…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 7, 2005 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a review of the Shuttle XPC SB86i small form factor PC which employs a BTX-like design. The new design is somewhat larger than previous designs although it’s necessary to handle the thermal load of Intel Pentium…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 7, 2005 · 0 comments

Intel has announced the first production run of its dual-core CPUs has been completed. Initial dual-core chips appear to be destined for their Extreme Edition line which demands a large price premium when compared to their regular chips. Hyperthreading also…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 4, 2005 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a review of the Sapphire X800 graphics card. This PCIe card has quite a bit more memory than a standard X800 configuration and it packs in a decent software bundle for the price. Interesting video card…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 4, 2005 · 0 comments

Nvidia has released a new set of drivers for its nForce4 system chipset bringing them to version 6.39. The drivers feature a number of bug fixes and should work on any nForce4 based motherboard. You can grab versions for Windows…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 4, 2005 · 0 comments

HotHardware has a round-up of 5 DVD burners capable of writing to dual layer discs. Dual layer discs are capable of holding almost twice as much data as a regular DVD but most early drives featured slow write speeds to…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 4, 2005 · 0 comments

GamePC has a look at Sapphire and Asus’ graphics cards based on the (so far very rare) ATI Radeon X800XL GPU. The cards are meant for mid-range setups but they provide very good performance and image quality which will make…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 3, 2005 · 0 comments

Driver Heaven has a look at the MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum motherboard for the AMD Athlon 64 (s939) CPUs. PCI Express has been a popular feature touted by board makers with new nForce 4 based products to hawk but this…

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