August 2005

by Rafael Hernandez on August 24, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech has the Jetway 939GT4-SLI motherboard on their testbench today. It uses the Nvidia nForce 4 SLI chipset ensuring SLI support for their graphics card lineup but they do things a little differently which may alleviate some dongle card/dip switch…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 24, 2005 · 0 comments

Phoronix has a look at the Antec Smart Power 2.0 500Watt power supply. The PSU looks like your run of the mill product but Antec brought along the great modular cable features from its NeoPower line and have added a…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 24, 2005 · 0 comments

bit-tech has a review of the AOpen i915GMm-HFS MicroATX motherboard. The board is designed for Intel’s Pentium M CPU bringing in PCI Express support with the newer i915GM chipset. Cool running, small footprint, integrated video and PCI-E coupled with a…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 23, 2005 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a few technical details on Intel’s next series of processors. They have plans to target several markets at once and are adding 64-bit capabilities as well as virtualization support with their dual core chips. A nice…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 23, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a few images from the first day at the Fall Intel Developer’s Forum. The bulk of the info consists of various timelines for Intel’s new CPUs and their power usage reduction hopes. Interesting, and functional, chip architectures being…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 23, 2005 · 0 comments

3D Velocity has a review of the Jetart NP6900 Folding Notebook Cooler. It’s a simple plastic gadget housing two fans designed to keep a notebooks hot bits off your lap or improve a DTR’s poor thermal performance. It’s not something…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 22, 2005 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a look at the Sapphire PI-A9RX480 motherboard. Sapphire has a good thing going with their ATI Radeon line of graphics boards so they’ve decided to branch out into the performance motherboard market. Quite the looker and…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 22, 2005 · 0 comments

GamePC has a look at the Asus and EVGA branded GeForce 7800GT graphics cards. They compare both boards in SLI and single card situations in today’s popular titles. Great performing cards, able to keep up with its higher priced GTX…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 22, 2005 · 0 comments

X-bit labs has a review of the Zalman CNPS9500 LED heatsink/fan combo. Zalman prides itself on creating low-noise cooling solutions which usually means a ton of surface area and larger, slower spinning fans. This time they’ve wrapped some heatpipes in…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 19, 2005 · 0 comments

PC Perspective has a short look at the Asus N7800 GTX TOP graphics card. The card features an Arctic Cooling like heatsink/fan/shroud combo that pumps card heat out of the back of your case but, in the process, takes up…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 19, 2005 · 0 comments

HotHardware has a look at the Winbook X530/X series of notebook computers. It probably won’t shock you to find out the laptop uses the Intel Centrino setup, with integrated graphics, but it shows up with a 12.1″ widescreen display making…

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