July 2005

by Rafael Hernandez on July 15, 2005 · 0 comments

Hot Hardware has a review of the Asus W5G00A ultra-portable notebook. The sleek laptop has the usual list of Centrino-esque components tied to a 12.1″ LCD display all in a light-weight chassis. A nice choice if your perfer portability over…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 15, 2005 · 0 comments

ExtremeTech looks at one of the Nvidia 7800GTX features which improves image quality in one of the more nagging issues in a game. Their Transparency Adaptive Anti Aliasing can handle flat-plane surfaces which are there to just display a texture….

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 14, 2005 · 0 comments

Yahoo! News has the details on Sharp’s LCD TV technology which can display different shows depending on the viewing angle. An interesting technique which could be combined with headphones or, when it finally becomes feasible, some sort of directed audio…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 14, 2005 · 0 comments

As is the norm ATI has released the latest version of its Catalyst driver suite for their Radeon line of graphics chips. The new drivers claim some major performance improvements on cards that have 128MB or less video memory on…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 14, 2005 · 0 comments

HardOCP tests out Abit’s Fatal1ty AN8 SLI motherboard. The gamer/tweaker oriented line features their usual over-the-top BIOS options as well as some added cooling to the crucial power regulation areas possibly improving stability under load. A nice-looking option if you’re…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 14, 2005 · 0 comments

DigiTimes writes on Intel’s latest program to get more PC builders to get on the clone building market. A large number of laptops are rebadged/barebones to begin with so it seems they want to standardize designs over the whole market…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 13, 2005 · 0 comments

Guru3D has a review of the Point of View GeForce 7800 GTX graphics card. The Nvidia designed chip on the board has well known performance potential which is able to handle titles at high speeds with great image quality. As…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 13, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at the ULi M1695 chipset designed for the AMD Socket939 CPUs. The chipset is the first to fully, and safely, support both PCI Express and AGP graphics cards and, perhaps, SLI. A nice new choice that…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 13, 2005 · 0 comments

GamePC got around to testing out AMD’s lineup of dual core Athlon 64 X2 CPUs. The chips drop into most existing 939 motherboards (with the exception of at least one unlucky VIA chipset) and with a simple BIOS update it…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 12, 2005 · 0 comments

Hexus.net has a look at PowerColor’s RADEON X800XL 512MB graphics card. The board is strapped with a large amount of fast memory which may be useful in future games that add a ton of textures and content on the screen…

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by Rafael Hernandez on July 12, 2005 · 0 comments

The Tech Report tested a hunch on why Nvidia’s GeForce 7800GTX GPU performs so well at high resolutions. A little bit of background info on Hierarchical Z, a number of graphs comparing the new card against ATI’s X850 XT PE…

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