April 2005

by Rafael Hernandez on April 21, 2005 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has almost too much fun with AMD’s Dual Core Opteron processors. The CPUs will be making their way into servers and workstations over the coming months and by looking at the chip’s performance in their batch of…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 21, 2005 · 0 comments

HotHardware has a look at the Epox 5LWA+ i925XE motherboard. The 5LWA+ uses Inte’s current top-of-the-line chipset offering the highest front side bus speeds for their Pentium 4 LGA775 CPUs. A good looking board with tons of features and top…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 21, 2005 · 0 comments

X-bit labs has a look at the S3 GammaChrome S18 Pro GPU. The card they tested had an, unfortunately, early set of drivers which made it difficult on them to compare it against other graphics boards but it looks like…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 20, 2005 · 0 comments

SystemCooling has a review of the Cooler Master Vortex TX heatsink. The CPU cooler features an all copper radial fin design and supports a wide range of CPUs from the older SocketA/370 all the way to 940/LGA775. Decent performance but…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 20, 2005 · 0 comments

The Guru of 3D has a review of the Lian-Li PC-V1000 PC enclosure. The all aluminum case uses a modified WTX-like setup which has the powersupply flipped to the bottom of the case as well. A very large case with…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 20, 2005 · 0 comments

SFFTech has a look at the AOpen EZ855-II XC Cube small form factor PC. The pearly white mini-barebones uses Intel’s Pentium M processor which is a high performance/low heat output CPU which makes it a perfect fit for SFF PCs….

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 20, 2005 · 0 comments

Hexus.net has a chat with Michael Robertson, CEO of Linspire. The Linspire people attempt to bring the Microsoft Windows look and feel to the Linux operating system with varying degrees of success. Interesting read on a variety of topics ranging…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 20, 2005 · 0 comments

GamePC has a look at the Hitachi 7K400 and the Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 hard drives. The drives have SerialATA interfaces but only the Seagate is a native SATA drive with Native Command Queuing support. Seagate has quite the product on…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 19, 2005 · 0 comments

A1 Electronics has a look at the EverCool PT03-9232CP CPU cooler. The heatsink is an all aluminum radial fin design for Intel’s LGA775 CPUs that performed pretty well compared to the competition but I could see it performing better with…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 19, 2005 · 0 comments

DigiTimes stumbled on some pricing lists for AMDs upcoming dual core Opteron processors. The Opteron CPU line is most commonly found in servers and high-end workstations which fetches them quite a bit of a price premium. The new processors should…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 19, 2005 · 0 comments

DriverHeaven has a look at the Asus P5RD1-V motherboard. The P5RD1-V is decked out with ATI’s Radeon Xpress 200 chipset for Intel CPUs which features reasonable performance from its integrated video. A well-rounded Pentium 4 solution that sticks with the…

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