ECS has a good idea going with its ECS PF88 Extreme motherboard. At first glance it appears to be another Intel Pentium 4 LGA775 supporting motherboard, which it is, but their proprietary connector allows the user to drop in an…
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Microsoft had their (rather weak) MTV display for their upcoming Xbox 360 console yesterday thankfully it is smaller than the previous Xbox and some impressive titles are in the works. A few sites sum up the info and hardware specs…
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BeHardware has a pair of 23″ LCDs and a lone 24″ on their testbed today. The displays are all widescreen and offer up plenty of display area and resolution for work and entertainment. There is some work to be done…
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Bjorn3D has a look at the Sapphire Radeon X800 XL Ultimate PCI Express graphics card. The board is based on ATI’s popular mid-range chip which balances good performance and a reasonable price-tag. A great card for playing today’s popular titles….
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HardwareZone has a review of the PalmOne Treo 650 PDA/cellphone combo. The gadget packs in quite a number of features which has made it popular with those who have one too many electronics vying for space in their pockets. A…
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GamePC compares SLI performance on Nvidia’s nForce4 SLI chipsets. Their testbeds include both an Intel EE and AMD FX55 chip run under a number of graphically intense gaming titles. Good numbers on both platforms, although, with newer cards being announced…
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Silent PC Review has a look at the Antec Phantom 500Watt Power Supply. Low-noise/Silent computing is turning into a profitable niche where units such as this can demand quite a price premium. The PSU is mated with a slim fan…
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The Tech Report has a beefy roundup consisting of three dual AMD Opteron motherboards. The server boards all feature the Nvidia nForce Pro 2200 with the Tyan product going overboard with the addition of a nForce Pro 2050 daughter-chip. A…
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AnandTech runs their batch of tests on the new Asus P5WD2 Premium motherboard. The board features Intel’s 955X chipset which supports their dual-core CPUs and offers up a pair of PCI-E 16x slots which may or may not support SLI….
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SimHQ has a look at Microsoft’s Windows XP Pro x64 Edition under the very critical game benchmarking category. They test out a number of flight simulators, which are notoriously computing power hungry, and toss in an FPS for good measure….
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Computerworld has the skinny on Microsoft’s latest semi-monthly patch updates for its various operating systems. There isn’t much major on the XP/2003 front but there is a serious exploit patched for Windows 2000 flavors. Windows Update/pester your admin/do what you’ve…
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