June 2006

by Rafael Hernandez on June 16, 2006 · 0 comments

TrustedReviews has a look at the massive storage potential of the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB hard drive. Its one of the largest drives available thanks to its perpendicular data storage method. A good performer and plenty of capacity for your…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 15, 2006 · 0 comments

t-break has tortured Intel’s “Conroe” Core 2 Duo E6600 CPU. The chip is still several weeks away but its early performance numbers has been grabbing attention for a while now. A good bit of competition for AMD which will make…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 15, 2006 · 0 comments

PC Perspective has a look at the Asus N4L-VM DH motherboard. Asus has put together a MicroATX board with support for Intel’s Core Duo CPU. The mobile chips perform very well and, of course, runs cool so it’s perfect for…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 15, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a final look at some of the gear they saw at this year’s Computex. A large batch of motherboards and notebooks on their plate with plenty of weird and wacky designs that should suit almost everybody. ASRock is…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 14, 2006 · 0 comments

Techgage has an early look at the way Windows Vista Beta 2 performs. It’s a bit early to be doing such tests as the OS is still running some supposed debug code, which can hinder performance, but it will appreciate…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 14, 2006 · 0 comments

PCSTATS takes a look at the current AMD and Intel battlegrounds and has some insight one which to chose. It’s the most jam-packed 4 pages that boils down the main concerns when chosing either platform now as in a few…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 14, 2006 · 0 comments

Guru3D has a review of the PowerColor Radeon X1900 GT graphics card. The board is an attempt at a mid-range entry for the X1900 GPU line so you can expect some performance tradeoffs but its image quality and video features…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 13, 2006 · 0 comments

Overclockers Online has a review of the Foxconn 975X7AA motherboard. Intel’s top end chipset offers quite a few expansion options and this board brings it in at a reasonable price. A nice option if you’re going Netburst but at this…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 13, 2006 · 0 comments

HardwareZone has a review of the Palit GeForce 7900 GT Sonic 512MB graphics card. The board does a few things differently, namely its two slot cooler and the 512MB of memory on board. Odd looking setup but its performance figures…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 13, 2006 · 0 comments

EETimes has the details on some challenges in Nvidia’s path. The company has lost a source for its AGP bridge chip which allow their natively PCIe graphics cores to run on the older bus and are reportedly sitting on quite…

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by Rafael Hernandez on June 12, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech had a look around the Computex show floor and brings a number of multimedia PCs/gadgets and plenty of memory to go around. A bit of competition coming up for Shuttle’s M*000 HTPC line and some seriously high performance memory…

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