August 2005

by Rafael Hernandez on August 9, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a mini review of EVGA’s so called KO GeForce 7800GTX. The card is wrapped with a number of heatsinks and cladding which make it look a bit more streamlined, and improve cooling, which allows the board to hit…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 8, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech has information on Nvidia’s latest nForce 4 chipset. The SLI X16 version will support 16 lanes to each graphics card in an SLI setup, previous versions were limited to 8 per slot. The increase in transfer rates may help…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 8, 2005 · 0 comments

HardwareZone has AMD’s Athlon 64 X2 4800+ on their testbench. The chip is AMD’s top dual core chip for the consumer market coming in with 1MB of cache per core and a 2.4GHz clock rate. A speedy CPU in both…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 8, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at the Lian Li F1 desk. The company that is better known for their popular, all aluminum, PC enclosures had their engineers design a rugged computing friendly desk. A nice product but with a pricetag coming…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 5, 2005 · 0 comments

Laptop Logic has a review of Toshiba’s Sattelite M45 notebook computer. It’s the usual Intel Centrino fare which offers great battery life and good performance but Toshiba chose to stick with the system chipset’s integrated graphics which is not the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 4, 2005 · 0 comments

CNet News has the details on a new security hole in Microsoft’s Windows 2000 operating system. It appears to be of high severity but MS doesn’t have a response for it yet as they haven’t had a look at the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 4, 2005 · 0 comments

BIOS has a look at the DViCO TViX-M3000U digital video jukebox. The device is like a portable digital audio player but it’s designed to hookup to your favorite TV to display your videos or play your audio files. An interesting…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 3, 2005 · 0 comments

bit-tech has a look at the early beta of Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system. The OS has been discussed for years and it’s now in the hands of eager testers. Its new GUI is of interest but most of its…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 3, 2005 · 0 comments

A True Review has the details on the AcoustiFan No Dust fan kit. Their packages included the usual fan which has been modified with a sheeth around the motor hub to prevent dust from making its way in, silicone gaskets…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 3, 2005 · 0 comments

GamePC has the dirt on AMD’s high-end enthusiast chip, the Athlon 64 FX-57. The chip is loaded with 1MB of cache and a 2.8GHz clock rate giving it enough kick to power through your favorite games but single core chips,…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 3, 2005 · 0 comments

The Tech Report attempts to measure NCQ performance in some disc intensive scenarios. Native Command Queuing can improve performance in some situations but your tasks have to make constant use of a drive to get any benefit so the majority…

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