May 2006

by Rafael Hernandez on May 19, 2006 · 0 comments

HotHardware has their final look at last week’s E3 with their Day 3 coverage. The “winner” of the show was a certain console company but it’d be easy to overlook a ton of the other great titles coming up. One…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 19, 2006 · 0 comments

DailyTech has the news of Dell’s change of mind on AMD CPUs. The company will begin using the Opteron CPUs in some of its servers, more than likely some of its higher end hardware. A good day for AMD and…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 18, 2006 · 0 comments

The Firing Squad has a look at the Sapphire Radeon X1900GT graphics card. The card comes in at the upper end of the mid-range price point while still offering a healthy chunk of the features its bigger brother, the X1900XT,…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 18, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a review of the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB hard drive. The storage capacity the perpendicular recording will allow is mind-blowing with this being an early example and we can only expect much larger sizes in the future. A…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 17, 2006 · 0 comments

AMD has a new mobile chip on the way in the form of the Turion 64 X2. As you can guess it’s designed for notebook PCs and the like bringing 64-bit support and dual channel DDR2 to the party. It’s…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 16, 2006 · 0 comments

ars technica has some info on Apple’s latest mobile PCs. The new MacBook line brings along Intel Core Duo CPUs in a smaller 13″ widescreen notebook. The usual white version is available in addition to a much darker black motif…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 16, 2006 · 0 comments

DailyTech has the details on Sony’s UMPC product named the VAIO UX. It’s one of the slicker looking UMPCs with a slide-up screen that reveals a keyboard underneath. The Sony nametag bumps up the price to 1800USD but it is…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 16, 2006 · 0 comments

HardOCP has the skinny on the BFGTech GeForce 7600 GT OC graphics card. The middle of the graphics market has seen some nice products come its way with all of the image quality benefits of their bigger brothers at some…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 15, 2006 · 0 comments

ThinkComputers has a look at Corsair’s latest GPU and motherboard chipset waterblocks. These should be interesting to those looking into water cooling and when combined with the company’s Nautilus external cooling rig it’s a powerful cooling trio for your system…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 15, 2006 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a look at a segment of the graphics market that gets very little press, the budget boards. ATI, Nvidia, and even S3 have put in some good performance and features in the low end and while…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 12, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a review of the Asus 7600GS and 7800GT Silent graphics cards. As their name would suggest the boards use passive coolers which can be good for media PCs although the cooling duty is then passed on to your…

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