April 2006

by Rafael Hernandez on April 17, 2006 · 0 comments

MVKTech spent a little time with a NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GX2 Quad SLI graphics card setup. The graphics rig is the fastest around topping pretty much every benchmark available and it offers up some impressive anti-aliasing options. A great product…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 14, 2006 · 0 comments

The Tech Lounge has a look at the XFX GeForce 7900GT XXX Edition graphics card. The board has much higher clock rates than the stock settings and only a slight bump up from XFX’s own Extreme version. A great performer…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 14, 2006 · 0 comments

Viper Lair comes in with a review of the low-end MSI GeForce7300 GS graphics card. The board won’t win any speed contests but its half-height design is the perfect fit for a media-PC or other miniature computer. Decent performance in…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 11, 2006 · 0 comments

Elite Bastards has a look at the Chuck driver patch for ATI X1xxx series cards running Bethesda Softwork’s latest title, TES:Oblivion. The game has some impressive visuals already but one of ATI’s employees found a way to enable anti-aliasing while…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 11, 2006 · 0 comments

HotHardware has a look at the Sapphire Blizzard Radeon X1900XTX graphics card. It would be a run-of-the-mill X1900XTX except for the single slot water-cooling rig they managed to attach to it. An impressive package that should run a bit quieter…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 10, 2006 · 0 comments

HardwareLogic has a look at the MSI K8N Diamond Plus motherboard. The board comes with a pair of 16X PCIe slots for full bandwidth SLI fun and on-board Creative Audigy audio which is a better option than the usual integrated…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 10, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech has an early look at the AMD’s Socket AM2 performance. The new socket moves AMD to DDR2 memory which offers a bit more memory bandwidth which is a good thing when you have to feed two hungry cores more…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 6, 2006 · 0 comments

Legit Reviews has a look at the Abit AN8 32X motherboard. Abit, the old enthusiast stand-by, has been quiet the past few years while it was going through all sorts of financial and legal oddities but those seem to be…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 6, 2006 · 0 comments

X-bit labs has some supposed details on a number of refresh parts for ATI’s current crop of Radeon graphics cards. A number of updates/newer chips will be hitting late this summer at many different price points the most interesting of…

Read more The Great Radeon Refresh

by Rafael Hernandez on April 5, 2006 · 0 comments

Bjorn3D has a look at the Patriot PDC2G3500LLK 2GB DDR memory kit. The larger memory capacities have been difficult to find with lower latencies but this set offers up good performance at stock speeds and a little bit of headroom…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 5, 2006 · 0 comments

joystiq has the current rumor-mill/slip-of-the-tongue information on the Sony PlayStation 3’s pricing. The console may come in at 499 to 599 Euros or $613 to $736 and this is supposed to be a good price for a “blu-ray compatible playback…

Read more PS3 to Cost a Bundle?