AnandTech has an early look at ATI’s OCUR CableCard/HDTV technology. It’s a collection of hardware that’s capable of displaying HD cable TV content on your PC via a USB2 port. It appears limited to Vista but it should finally fix…
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GamePC takes a look at ATI’s Radeon X1800 Crossfire master card. The board makes multi-GPU gaming goodness possible on ATI’s Crossfire motherboards. There’s a little ways to go to catch up with Nvidia but it looks like a much smoother…
Storage Review has a look at the Western Digital Raptor WD1500 hard drive. Normally a 150GB drive is not all that impressive but the Raptor drive line has the benefit of a 10,000RPM spin speed making it one of the…
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Elite Bastards has tried out two patches for id’s Quake 4 and Activision’s Call of Duty 2 that improve performance in multi-core and hyperthreaded CPUs. Quake 4 managed some nice boosts at lower resolutions while the CoD2 patch shows the…
HardOCP has a guide on how one might get going, if they’re so inclined, to adding liquid cooling to their Microsoft Xbox360 console. It’s purely for bragging rights and their solution is less than pretty but they had some tremendous…
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The Tech Report has some thoughts on the best and worst goings-ons in the computing world in 2005. The year was full of high powered hardware and painful, wallet crippling, lessons to be learned but their list sums up the…
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Hexus.net spent some quality time with the Intel Xeon “Paxville” dual-core processors. Their quad-core testing rig is somewhat impressive but they seemed underwhelmed by the sub-systems, most notably the memory controller, that was attached to the chip. A bit weak…
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AnandTech has three Nvidia nForce 4 equipped motherboards on their testbed today. The SLI technology has matured nicely over the year and these boards all offer up similar performance although the Asus “premium” board is the one to consider if…
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