August 2006

by Rafael Hernandez on August 10, 2006 · 0 comments

Virtual Hideout has a look at the SAPPHIRE PURE CrossFire Advantage motherboard. The board supports AMD’s Socket 939 CPUs as well as ATI’s CrossFire multi-GPU technology. It seems like quite the enthusiast’s choice although VH didn’t have much luck with…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 10, 2006 · 0 comments

GamePC has a review of the Intel Core 2 Duo E6600. We all know of Conroe’s computing prowess by now and while enthusiasts may be snapping up the lower clocked versions the E6600 is the starting point for the 4MB…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 10, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at a batch of graphics cards that fall in the mid-range pricing category. There are quite a few deals to be had that perform well in most of today’s titles but if you want something that’ll…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 9, 2006 · 0 comments

HardwareZone has a look at the Inno3D GeForce 7300 GT 256MB DDR3 graphics card. The 7300GT chipset is firmly entrenched in the low-end of the market but Inno3D has put some fancy memory and increased its clock speed beyond the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 9, 2006 · 0 comments

HardOCP has some thoughts on Nvidia’s recent move of allowing SLI GeForce 7950GTX cards to be setup and run by the regular joes out there. Previously it was limited to the high-end system builders, and with good reason as the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 8, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at DDR performance with Intel’s Core 2 Duo on the ASRock 775Dual-VSTA motherboard. The board gives you your choice of AGP or PCI Express graphics ports and DDR or DDR2 memory. A bit of an odd…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 8, 2006 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has Intel’s Core 2 Duo E6300 CPU up against the AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ of the energy efficient variety. Things stay close at stock speeds between the two chips but once the usual enthusiast touch is…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 7, 2006 · 0 comments

Guru3D has a look at the Enermax Galaxy 1000 Watt power supply. The unit is a bit over the top designed for those systems with extreme CPUs, mounds of memory, and that pair of 7950GTX cards you had your eyes…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 7, 2006 · 0 comments

PCSTATS has a review of the MSI NX7900GT-VT2D256E-HD graphics card. The unfortunately named board is one of the first retail products to provide HDCP support with a chip you’d actually want to game on. Good performance and all of your…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 7, 2006 · 0 comments

TrustedReviews has a look at the eVGA 131-K8-NF44 MicroATX motherboard. Normally they aren’t anything special but this particular board supports Nvidia’s SLI multi-GPU technique. An interesting board but it has so many compromises you might want to look elsewhere, unless…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 3, 2006 · 0 comments

HardOCP has a look at the EPOX MF570SLI motherboard. It’s based on the Nvidia nForce 570 SLI chipset which allows for that extra special multi-GPU gaming touch. It’s not the fastest board available but it does a good job and…

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