X-bit labs has the details on Sapphire’s plan to use a supposed Liquid Metal cooler on a graphics board. The technology is said to improve heat transfer from the graphics chip allowing it to run cooler and at lower noise…
May 2005
AnandTech had a chance to take a closer look at Microsoft’s upcoming Xbox360 console. The “hardware” was just for show but it does show off some of the important features of the console including the removable harddrive and its new…
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Hexus.net has a mini-review of the MSI Megabook S250 notebook computer. The laptop is a slim device with a small 12″ LCD screen and weak graphics adapter but a plenty powerful Intel Pentium M CPU. A nice portable system for…
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AnandTech tested out their hunch on a few budgets graphics boards and different memory timings. ATI’s HyperMemory and Nvidia’s TurboCache both rely on PCI Express’ quicker access to the system memory in order to support the meager, or non-existent, memory…
GamePC has a review of AOpen’s i915GMm-HFS motherboard. The board brings Intel’s i915GM mobile chipset to the desktop bringing along its DDR2, PCI Express support, and, naturally, support for Pentium M processors. Impressive looking board but a comparison with the…
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CNET News has the details on Samsung’s large 40″ prototype OLED display. So far OLEDs have been limited in size so this is big (pun) news and since it doesn’t require a backlight the displays can remain very thin. A…
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AnandTech has a small guide on what’s available, processor wise, in the market. Things can get confusing with both AMD and Intel using different sockets within their own chip lines and different code names for each cache size. The guide…
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AnandTech took a stroll around Microsoft’s corner at this years e3. They have their own thoughts on Microsoft’s newest console, the Xbox360, with impressions on its new controller and the lack of actual playable hardware. Things are looking bright for…
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bit-tech has a look at Nvidia’s SLI technology using both 6800Ultra and 6800GT based cards. A bit of time has passed since it was initially launched giving them time to work out driver and game issues and, so far, it…
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Yahoo! Finance has the details on Asus’ agreement to create add-in cards using AGEIA’s Physics Processing Unit. The “PPU” is quite a powerful physics chips a few developers are looking at supporting in their upcoming PC titles. It should increase…
Read more Physics Chip Finds Board Maker
ATI has released the latest version of its Catalyst driver suite for its Radeon line of graphics cards. The update brings it up to version 5.5 which offers a number of bug fixes. Windows 2k/XP/XP Pro x64 versions are available…
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