March 2005

by Rafael Hernandez on March 22, 2005 · 0 comments

GamePC has the Tyan Thunder K8WE nForce 4 Pro based board on the test bench today. The motherboard supports two AMD Opteron processors and uses a pair of nForce 4 Pro chipsets which enables it to offer a pair of…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 21, 2005 · 0 comments

CNET News writes of the various possible functions of Sony’s PSP portable gaming console which is to launch in North America this Thursday. It’s capable of quite a number of entertainment functions but several other gadgets perform them much better…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 21, 2005 · 0 comments

HotHardware has a look at the HIS IceQ II Radeon X850XT and X800XL graphics cards. The two cards represent, respectively, the high-end and mid-range of ATI’s graphics chip offerings. The snazzy cooler strapped on to each board allows for some…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 21, 2005 · 0 comments

Hexus.net has a look at the DFI 855GME motherboard paired with an Intel Pentium M 1.7GHz processor. The performance and thermal properties of the chip are well known which help it keep up with faster competitors while pumping out very…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 21, 2005 · 0 comments

HardwareZone has a review of the slim MSI S250 notebook computer. The laptop features a 12.1″ LCD screen and uses the Intel Celeron M CPU coupled with a SiS system chipset. The combo has some shortcomings in power consumption and…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 21, 2005 · 0 comments

AMDGamer has the details on the Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 400GB hard drive. Besides its obvious massive storage size the drive uses the much more widely adopted (now) SerialATA connection with native command queuing thrown in. A solid drive mixing good…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 18, 2005 · 0 comments

PC World has the details on Sony’s moves to make its PSP portable gaming system a popular movie player. The company has seven titles lined up for their gaming device, besides the Spiderman 2 movie it shipped with early models,…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 18, 2005 · 0 comments

Silent PC Review has a writeup on the Intel Developer Forum and the various technologies demoed there. Quite a bit of new and exciting gear on the horizon from Intel’s labs including dual-core processors for both desktops and mobile computers….

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 18, 2005 · 0 comments

HardwareZone has a review of Abit’s KV8 Pro motherboard. The board is one of the few to take VIA’s K8T800 Pro chipset and bring it to AMD’s Socket 754 based Athlon 64s. There are faster options available for the 754…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 18, 2005 · 0 comments

Ninjalane has a review of the Asetek KT03A-SL35 Extreme WaterChill water cooling kit. The kit makes use of a large radiator capable of accepting three 120mm fans and a fancy waterblock design. They managed to keep their temperatures low on…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 18, 2005 · 0 comments

Viper Lair has a look at the Club 3D Radeon X800XL graphics card. The mid-range board shares many of the features the its higher powered XT brothers feature although it runs at a reduced clock rate. Interesting board with its…

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