December 2005

by Rafael Hernandez on December 7, 2005 · 0 comments

X-bit labs has a look at the ATI X1600 Mobility Radeon graphics chip. They go one further by comparing it against a number of desktop cards where it showed promising results in today’s games but, as with most mobile video…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 7, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at a trio of TV tuner cards. Two HD capable boards and an analog tuner, the first PCI-E capable one at that, is what they had a look at with varying degrees of success. If there’s…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 6, 2005 · 0 comments

HotHardware has an early look at ATI’s Mobility Radeon X1600 in a well equipped Asus A7G notebook. It’s been a bit slow in coming with Nvidia next-gen GPUs in the notebook space already but it does well in the mobile…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 6, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech takes some time to test the Asus P5WDG2-WS motherboard. Asus went with Intel’s new 975X chipset and piled on the features making it an extremely competitive and expandable board. A good choice to look out for if you’re in…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 6, 2005 · 0 comments

HardOCP has a look at the PC Club Enpower Nitro Extreme computer. The system is pre-built offering up an AMD Athlon 64 3200+, 1GB of RAM, and Nvidia GeForce 6600 SLI graphics setup. It looks like a solid system for…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 5, 2005 · 0 comments

Techgage has a look at the Turtle Beach Montego DDL sound card. There aren’t a whole lot of options if you’re in the market for a new audio board so a card with Dolby Digital support is bound to get…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 5, 2005 · 0 comments

GamePC pits ATI’s Radeon X1800XT against Nvidia’s 7800GTX 512MB. The cards are the current top end from each company so you can expect inanse performance and an even crazier price-tag. A good showing from both cards but Nvidia’s SLI option…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 5, 2005 · 0 comments

Elite Bastards has some conspiracy theories concerning Nvidia’s recent deal with a marketing group that goes by the name of AEG. They’ve come to think that this deal will have paid people visiting forums and other discussion boards and inserting…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 5, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech has tested a beta version of ATI’s next set of Catalyst drivers. The 5.12 version has a few dual-core optimizations that can, in some instances, improve speed. A minor boost in speed, overall, but any gain is a good…

Read more Catalyst 5.12 Performance Preview

by Rafael Hernandez on December 2, 2005 · 0 comments

DigiTimes has the details on ATI and Nvidia’s next chip moves which will take place in the 90nm die process arena. ATI’s next-gen GPU and Nvidia’s next mid-range and low end cards should be showing up early next year with…

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by Rafael Hernandez on December 2, 2005 · 0 comments

Frosty Tech has a review of the Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro Athlon 64 heatsink. The cooler mates an interesting fan onto an even more interesting heatsink and it all manages to provide good cooling results without the ear splitting…

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