Overclocker Cafe has a review of the HIS Radeon X1900XT IceQ3 graphics card. The board would be your standard setup if not for its Arctic Cooling Silencer-like heatsink/fan assembly. A quiet alternative to the other boards that use the reference…
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The Tech Report has an Ageia PhysX board on their testbench and has some thoughts on the first consumer oriented Physics Processing Unit. The chip has stirred up quite a bit of excitement but few titles are taking advantage of…
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Legit Reviews has a look at 8 power supplies and how they handle the stressful task of powering ATI CrossFire and Nvidia SLI rigs. Quite a bit of load placed on the PSUs and it’s nice to see a number…
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PC Perspective has a preview of the Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 “Conroe” CPU. The chip is still a little over a month away but we’ve been inundated with its performance capabilities for months now. A killer chip for sure…
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SilentPCReview has a look at the AOpen i975Xa-YDG motherboard. The board supports Intel’s Core Duo mobile chip which is quite the performer and a power miser. A feature-packed board but with Intel’s “Conroe” a month away it might be better…
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ExtremeTech seems to think that Microsoft will be adding Physics functionality to their DirectX environment. With it there could be many future titles coming out with improved interactivity but it remains to be seen if they’ll use GPU processing power…
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LostCircuits has a look at a number of BIOS settings you might find in your AMD Athlon 64’s setup screen, now updated with some Socket AM2 entries. A great source of information on the inner workings of those options and…
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Overclockers Online has a review of the Patriot 2GB PC2-5300LLK memory kit. This rather inexpensive set of DDR2 memory is designed for a run of the mill machine at its stock speeds but with relaxed timings it can be pushed…
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Phoronix has a look at some FB-DIMM memory modules and what it means for you. In all likelihood it means nothing for your home PC but the next generation of server hardware will be relying on it to bump up…
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SilentPCReview has a look at the Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB hard drive. The current market is chock-full of high-capacity drives but you can be sure SPCR takes a look at it from a very different angle. A quiet drive…
PCSTATS has a review of the AOpen miniPC MP915-B Super Multi System. It’s a fancy name for their Apple mini clone PC which packs in Intel Pentium M support and a host of other goodies. A very nice system, hopefully…
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