June 2005

by Rafael Hernandez on June 14, 2005 · 0 comments

Legit Reviews pushes Mushkin’s Redline DDR memory to the limit. The company’s red heatspreader clad memory sticks are designed to run at low latencies at some high speeds but, unfortunately, require insane amounts of voltage (by memory standards) to reach…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 14, 2005 · 0 comments

HardwareZone got their hands on the Asus EN6800GT dual GPU graphics card. The board is one long device packing in the two Nvidia GeForce 6800GTs along with 512MB of memory, 256MB of it for each chip. A massive card which…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 14, 2005 · 0 comments

Beyond3D goes in-depth on the Xbox 360’s graphics chip code-named Xenos. Microsoft tapped ATI for their graphics chip requiring a whole lot of processing power to sustain the console system for its next 4-5 year life span. The crew pulls…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 14, 2005 · 0 comments

HardOCP tortures Shuttle’s tiny ST20G5 barebones computer. The SFF is one of the first to use ATI’s Radeon Xpress 200 chipset for AMD’s Athlon 64 bringing integrated graphics to the PC. A sleek design but the issues they ran into…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 13, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech has some interesting observations and information covering system chipsets and other assorted hardware. According to the motherboard manufacturers they talked to AMD based boards are a larger portion of their retail production, interesting news but a large chunk of…

Read more Motherboard/Chipset Market Overview

by Rafael Hernandez on June 13, 2005 · 0 comments

The Tech Report finally has their coverage of their trip to the Computex show. A bit of delay but it brings us some snapshots of interesting hardware you may not have seen before. A great overview of the hardware that…

Read more TR's Computex Report

by Rafael Hernandez on June 13, 2005 · 0 comments

SystemCooling has a look at the Thermalright V1 graphics card cooler. Their current XP line of CPU heatsinks have been popular because of their cooling performance due, in part, to the huge amount of surface area it provides for fans….

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 13, 2005 · 0 comments

Legion Hardware has a bit of fun with one of AMD’s Athlon 64 3200+. The Venice-cored version of the chip uses some refined manufacturing techniques to get a bit more performance at a lower voltage which seems to translate an…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 10, 2005 · 0 comments

Legit Reviews tests out ATI’s latest Catalyst 5.6 drivers on their 9600 Mobility. A new focus for ATI’s Catalyst program is bringing their Mobility products monthly driver updates, just like their desktop counterparts, if notebook OEMs sign up for the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 10, 2005 · 0 comments

bit-tech has a review of the recently released Guild Wars RPG. The title is a psuedo-massively multiplayer online game with large city squares to share with your fellow players and arenas to battle in. A mix of single player progression…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 10, 2005 · 0 comments

Digit Life has a look at an assorted batch of graphics card coolers. The usual contenders are in there as well as a few you may not have seen before, which also happen to be some of the better performers….

Read more GPU Cooler Roundup