Short-Media has a review of the HP Pavilion dv8000t notebook PC. It’s an actual hardware purchase of theirs so it’s a bit better equipped than stock but the essentials are the same. A great looking notebook but you won’t be…
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AnandTech has a look at the new control panel for Nvidia’s 90-series graphics drivers. Gone are the days of a few mild choices such as bilinear or trlinear filtering and v-sync on or off, now there are enough settings, with…
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The Tech Report has a look at five graphics card outfitted with Nvidia’s 7600 series GPUs. Four 7600GTs and one GS are on their testbed and they all represent some of the better mid-range cards on the market. A great…
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Nvidia is gearing up, along with its board parters, on their Purevideo HD graphics card specification which is capable of playing back all of that wonderful 1080p Blu-ray and HD-DVD content. Unfortunately HDCP is a requirement which means all new…
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AnandTech has a look at the MSI K9N SLI and the Biostar TForce 590-SLI Deluxe. The MSI has the 570 version of the chipset which offer fewer features overall. The two boards are nice early examples for the AM2 platform…
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HardOCP has the details on ATI’s physics processing plans. It would seem they teamed up with Havok in order to have one of their graphics cards, in a multi-GPU system, act as a dedicated physics processor. A crazy arrangement, especially…
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Bjorn3D has a look at the PowerColor X1800 GTO graphics card. The board is a slightly crippled version of the higher end X1800XTs and, as of late, have been at a modest price range. A good performer for the money…
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AnandTech has a ton of info out of this year’s Computex trade show. Quite a bit of interesting hardware on the way including news of some very power hungry graphics cards and a slew of new motherboard designs. Those 300Watt…
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TweakTown has some thoughts and insights before this year’s Computex Taipei begins tommorrow. It’s a massive show and while very little earth-shattering news is uncovered there it’s a huge showcase for much of the hardware we’ll be seeing, and purchasing,…
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Hardware Secrets has a review of the Arctic Cooling NV Silencer 6 (Rev. 2) GPU cooler. The design does take up a slot that’s below the graphics card but the expansion trade-off leads to some great cooling performance with a…
The Tech Report has a look at the dual GPU, dual slot Nvidia GeForce 7950 GX2. The boards are the basis for Nvidia’s Quad SLI plans but it doesn’t want end users mucking with the hardware, rather if you want…
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