October 2005

by Rafael Hernandez on October 10, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech does some light testing on a laptop sporting Nvidia’s GeForce Go 7800GTX chipset. Mobile graphics chips have, usually, lagged their desktop counterparts by up to a year, Nvidia’s new chip comes in only a few months behind their sister…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 7, 2005 · 0 comments

ViperLair has a review of the asetek VapoChill Micro heatsink. The heatsink is a massive mound of copper heatpipes threaded through aluminum fins which offers large amounts of surface area and a convenient location to place a 92mm fan. A…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 7, 2005 · 0 comments

MADSHRIMPS has a look at the Antec Sonata 2 PC case. Antec is well known for its enclosures which have, normally, been packed with several small fans to get the heat out which creates quite a bit of noise. The…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 7, 2005 · 0 comments

3DXtreme has a look at the Arctic Cooling NV Silencer 5 rev. 3. The cooler is capable of mounting on the fancy new GeForce 7800 graphics card line making it a great match for the hot-running cards. Great performance but…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 6, 2005 · 0 comments

Legion Hardware tests the theory that more memory is better for gaming. They test a number of titles with 1GB and 2GB of DDR2 memory which showed very little change. On the other hand when things go on in the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 6, 2005 · 0 comments

OCIA has a review of the Enermax CA3030 Pandora PC Case. The enclosure is your run of the mill all steel product but it offers up plenty of room inside to work in, integrated fan filter, stealthed drive covers, and…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 6, 2005 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has the details on AOpen’s upcoming small form factor PC for AMD’s Turion mobile CPUs. The Turion is similar to the desktop Socket 754 chips but require far less power to run at similar clock speeds which…

Read more AOpen Preps Turion SFF

by Rafael Hernandez on October 5, 2005 · 0 comments

PCSTATS takes a crack at the current high-end in gaming graphics, a pair of MSI NX7800GTX-VT2D256E cards in SLI. The two cards are rarely leaps and bounds faster in newer titles than a single card but as resolutions and image…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 5, 2005 · 0 comments

Techgage has a look at the Titan Robela case with built-in water cooling. They pre-mount a good sized radiator on the side panel of their chassis and toss in CPU and GPU water blocks in this case all for a…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 5, 2005 · 0 comments

ATI’s X1300, X1600, and X1800 cards get some attention today from many of the major review sites. Their next generation card offers up great image quality and good performance but these batch of reviews are just plain confusing. A few…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 4, 2005 · 0 comments

hardCOREware has a review of the Leadtek WinFast PX7800 GTX graphics card. Nvidia’s 7800 series has been a great performer and features impressive image quality but Leadtek has taken it a bit further with heftier cooling and a clock rate…

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