AnandTech has done a bit of performance enhancing on AMD’s Athlon 64 X2 3800+ CPU. They managed to push the 2GHz dual core CPU to a peppy 2.6GHz which, not surprisingly, also improved application performance. A not so interesting set…
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Frosty Tech has a review of the EKL V8 heatsink/fan cooler. The heatsink can handle most modern Intel Pentium 4 and AMD Athlon 64 CPUs and has a very distinctive design with a huge mass of aluminum getting airflow from…
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GamePC has a look at the Asus A8R-MVP CrossFire capable motherboard. The board uses ATI’s Radeon XPress 200 chipset and ULi M1575 southbridge that doesn’t exhibit those pesky USB2 performance issues and, as a whole, manages to keep up with…
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Nordic Hardware has pushed an ATI X1800XT and Nvidia 7800GTX 512 to extremes. They stested the card’s overclocks with simple air cooling then move up to the ever so extreme liquid nitrogen. Some water cooling results would have been nice…
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Elite Bastards have some thoughts on Microsoft’s latest console, the Xbox 360. They tested quite a number of launch titles and seemed to have a generally positive experience with it. Here’s hoping the console finds its way under plenty of…
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AnandTech has tested ATI’s CrossFire multi-card rendering technology. The X1800 line is their current flagship and adding another card should give a boost to performance which we can cleerly see is indeed the case. An impressive, if tardy, showing from…
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AnandTech has a deeper look at Intel’s mobile Yonah CPU. The dual core Pentium M based chip has great performance in multi-tasking and multi-threaded applications in a cool running CPU. A nice chip that should get wide acceptance in mobile…
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bit-tech has more on ATI’s Avivo video technology that recently got a shot in the arm due to the company’s upcoming holiday “gift” driver set. It’s an X1X00 only feature set for the moment but its video quality improvements have…
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Hexus has a guide on Microsoft’s Xbox 360’s dashboard. The UI has received ravings (from lunatics) but it does appear to be a slick way to access multimedia content and other assorted goodies from their Live marketplace. If you weren’t…
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HardwareZoom has a look at the Sapphire Radeon X800 CrossFire Edition graphics board and Pure CrossFire Advantage motherboard. The motherboard is, of course, CrossFire capable and their review makes it seem like it also supports Nvidia’s SLI while the CrossFire…
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AnandTech has a look at Intel’s dual core Xeons in a few tests against AMD’s Opteron. The Opteron has been the faster chip for quite some time now making a mockery out of Intel’s workstation/server solution but their latest batch…
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