June 2005

by Rafael Hernandez on June 27, 2005 · 0 comments

FiringSquad pushes the Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX to even higher speeds in their look at its overclocking prowess. They’ve tested it in single and SLI modes on a wide array of titles and got a rather large clock bump from…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 27, 2005 · 0 comments

Legion Hardware has a look at the integrated graphics performance of ATI’s Radeon Xpress 200 and Intel’s GMA900 graphics cores. A growing number of systems are relying on integrated graphics which can handle the usual dekstop tasks just fine but…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 27, 2005 · 0 comments

GamePC has tested MSI’s brand of GeForce 7800 GTX graphics card. Nvidia’s new GPU is quite potent in today’s graphics intensive titles and has some new techniques that makes all the eyecandy even nicer. A nice upgrade choice, if you…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 27, 2005 · 0 comments

AMD’s got another high end consumer chip on its hands and all of the regulars have an early look at the chip. The Athlon 64 FX-57 clocks in at 2.8GHz and features 1MB of cache, quite a bit more than…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 24, 2005 · 0 comments

Big Bruin has covered the basics with their Introduction to Case Modding. They list a number of tools that are helpful in starting off what can be a time-consuming hobby. A few nice examples of complex mods but those pre-built,…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 24, 2005 · 0 comments

OCZ finds new ways to speed-bin memory and tack on more names with their EL PC-3200 Gold VX DDR memory. The memory kit is for those that enjoy low latencies at high clock speeds but it requires a bit more…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 23, 2005 · 0 comments

BetaNews has the details on Gateway’s latest desktop PC line, this time it’s a home theater PC focused on Microsoft’s XP Media Center Edition. Its pricetag is quite agreeable with surprisingly powerful components for the money. A nice (from the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 23, 2005 · 0 comments

Designtechnica has a review of Samsungs sleek YH-820 digital audio player. The device can hold 5GB of data and can display pictures on its color screen all in a package that’s smaller than Apple’s iPod mini. It seems it’s suffering…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 23, 2005 · 0 comments

bit tech has spread out their Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX coverage (for some unknown reason) into a two parter with some supplemental material: 7800 GTX Architecture 7800 GTX Performance 7800 GTX and Serious Sam 2…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 23, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech has some fun with AMD’s dual core Athlon 64 4200+ processor. The CPU offers good performance in multi-threaded applications and in general multitasking so the gang decided to push the chip, using simple air cooling, with great results….

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 22, 2005 · 0 comments

EETimes has the skinny on ClearSpeed’s 64-bit floating point coprocessor product. The company announced some flawed performance potential figures for the chip last year but they’ve finally got a product, at reduced speeds, but it should still give a sizable…

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