October 2005

by Rafael Hernandez on October 13, 2005 · 0 comments

SFFTech has a review of the Coolermaster C Media 260 PC case. Its desktop form factor and styling lend itself to the HTPC crowd which is exactly who CM is targeting this at. A good looking option but it is…

Read more Coolermaster C Media 260 Case Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on October 13, 2005 · 0 comments

Overclocker Cafe has a look at the Thermaltake Silent Water liquid cooling kit. The cooler comes pre-assembled and ready to install on most modern CPUs which cuts down on the hassle of putting it together yourself. A great performer and…

Read more Thermaltake Silent Water Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on October 13, 2005 · 0 comments

Hexus.net had a nifty tweak/piece of software delivered to them by ATI which, apparently, improves performance when anti aliasing is enabled. The tweak appears to work in OpenGL titles, most notably Doom3, and should be included in their next batch…

Read more ATI Works on AA Tweaks

by Rafael Hernandez on October 12, 2005 · 0 comments

Think Computer’s “Dracos” wonders where the support is for his 64-bit CPU. A lack of hardware drivers has put a damper on the latest and greatest CPUs but it was well known that they wouldn’t get proper support and attention…

Read more What Windows XP 64 Support?

by Rafael Hernandez on October 12, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a review of the Gigabyte GA-8N SLI Quad Royal motherboard. The board is designed for Intel’s LGA775 CPUs and supports Nvidia’s SLI technology and some additional tricks allow it, with some Gigabyte branded graphics boards, to drive up…

Read more Gigabyte GA-8N SLI Quad Royal Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on October 12, 2005 · 0 comments

CNET News has the story of Apple’s product launches today with the most attention going to the new video iPod. Its 2.5″ screen is a little on the small side but it does what it says it does and the…

Read more Apple Launches Video iPod

by Rafael Hernandez on October 11, 2005 · 0 comments

2CPU paid a visit to one of Intel’s campuses for a round of show and tell. A number of product roadmaps and things the company is working on were displayed which makes Intels future very bright if they can deliver…

Read more Intel Workshop 2005

by Rafael Hernandez on October 11, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a trio of dual channel memory kits on their testbench today. The more memory crammed into a DIMM the slower its timings and performance compared to lower density memory. This roundup has shown that memory makers are getting…

Read more High Speed 1GB DIMMs Tested

by Rafael Hernandez on October 11, 2005 · 0 comments

Hexus.net has a review of the ASUS Extreme N7800GT Dual graphics card. It isn’t your run-of-the-mill 7800GT, instead Asus packed two of the chips on one large PCB doing all of the SLI action on-board. A very large and very…

Read more ASUS Extreme N7800GT Dual Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on October 10, 2005 · 0 comments

PC Perspective has a review of the BFG 7800 GT OC Water Cooled graphics card. BFG set it up so their 7800 GT core gets cooled down properly allowing for even higher overclocks but the added speed doesn’t translate into…

Read more BFG 7800 GT OC WC Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on October 10, 2005 · 0 comments

TweakTown has a look at the Gigabyte i-Ram “solid-state” drive. The device allows you to install your DDR memory then plug it into an available S-ATA port which allows for some seriously fast transfer rates to and from the psuedo…

Read more Gigabyte i-Ram Reviewed