September 2006

by Rafael Hernandez on September 12, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech takes a crack at upgrading an Apple Mac Pro. The system is causing a buzz with its rather impressive feature set that other system builders have yet to match at the same low price tag. It’s not all fun…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 11, 2006 · 0 comments

PC Perspective has a review of the Koolance PC4-1025BK liquid cooling system. Their cooling rig is mounted to a Lian-Li aluminum case and features a massive radiator that is cooled off by three 120mm fans. A potent, and slick looking,…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 11, 2006 · 0 comments

HardOCP has a review of the MSI K9A Platinum motherboard. It features ATI’s Radeon Express 3200 Crossfire chipset which, of course, supports the company’s multi-GPU technology. A good choice for your AMD AM2 CPU with plenty of enthusiast features to…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 11, 2006 · 0 comments

MAXIT Mag has a review of the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro heatsink. The LGA775 cooler features the heatpipe and alumimum fin design we’ve all come to love as well as a proprietary fan that minimizes noise output. Quite the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 11, 2006 · 0 comments

Geek.com has the story on Samsung’s marvelous new PRAM invention. The Phase change RAM is a non-volatile storage memory that boasts speeds 30 times faster than the usual flash memory. A nice alternative which could end up cheaper due to…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 9, 2006 · 0 comments

TweakTown has gathered 9 different DDR2 memory kits and did the usual “push ’em til they fail” testing method. The latest motherboards allow for some healthy frequency settings and a number of this kits do not disappoint tossing out impressive…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 8, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at the Abit AW9D-MAX motherboard. The board features Intel’s top end 975X chipset with ATI CrossFire support and, most importantly, Core 2 Duo compatibility. A solid board with the features and performance to match the competition….

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 8, 2006 · 0 comments

gD Hardware has a look at the Killer Network Interface Card. The specialized peripherals have been getting a bit of a beating over the past year and this card, with its $280USD MSRP, was not immune to the attacks. It…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 8, 2006 · 0 comments

GamePC has a look at five motherboards from Asus which support Intel’s Core 2 Duo CPU. They range from the mundane to the high end, jam-packed with all sorts of goodies like SLI support, silent chipset cooling, and many different…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 8, 2006 · 0 comments

the Inquirer seems to believe that AMD’s 65 nanometer CPUs will be shipping in a month’s time. The smaller die size will allow the company to get many more chips from a wafer which should lower costs and the chips…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 7, 2006 · 0 comments

CGSociety has a look at the Dell Precision M65 and M90 notebook workstations. The machines share similar components with other notebooks until you reach the 7200rpm harddrive, 4GB max memory and Nvidia Quadro graphics chips. Two serious machines for 3D…

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