October 2006

by Rafael Hernandez on October 20, 2006 · 0 comments

Rage3D has a look at a pair of ATI Radeon X1950 Pro graphics cards running in a CrossFire configuration. The cards are the latest design in ATI’s mid-range product lineup offering good performance and image quality for the price. Impressive…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 20, 2006 · 0 comments

GamePC has a look at the Nvidia nForce 570 and 590 SLI chipsets for the Intel Core 2 Duo CPU. The chipsets offer up multi-GPU gaming features and while you’d expect the 570 to be slower in such a situation…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 20, 2006 · 0 comments

TechSpot has a review of the Crucial DDR2 PC2-5300 (10th Anniversary) memory kit. It’s been a good long ten years with quite a number of different memory technologies popping up but Crucial is still that same solid standby and this…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 19, 2006 · 0 comments

Hot Hardware has a bit more information on AMD’s 4×4 computing platform. The initial launch will be focused on a dual socket motherboard with two dual core CPUs which can later be upgraded to their K8L chip allowing for two…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 19, 2006 · 0 comments

PC Perspective has a look at the Alienware Aurora m9700 “notebook” PC. The system mates an AMD Turion CPU with SLI Nvidia GeForce Go 7900GS graphics and RAID 0 hard drives. A monster of a system that will handle most…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 19, 2006 · 0 comments

TrustedReviews has a look at the Sony Vaio VGX-XL202 media center PC. The system could pass off as an A/V component on your home theater rack and it’d fit in quite well with its myriad of connectors and HD TV…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 18, 2006 · 0 comments

Viper Lair has a review of the Asus EN7600GT SILENT/2DHT/256M graphics card. As you might’ve guessed this Nvidia 7600GT card features a silent heatsink with a rotating fin/heatpipe portion which you can swivel into the best position for airflow. A…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 18, 2006 · 0 comments

Hi-Techreviews has a look at the Zalman Reserator 2 water cooling unit. The radiator/reservoir/pump is contained a mass of aluminum with enough surface area to make it a viable cooling solution. It’s not for the performance minded but it should…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 18, 2006 · 0 comments

ProClockers has a look at the Asrock ConroeXFire-eSATA motherboard. Asrock is up to its old tricks again with a decent board featuring ATI CrossFire and Intel Core 2 Duo support all on the older Intel 945 chipset. It’s a strange…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 17, 2006 · 0 comments

Legion Hardware has a look at the SLI performance of Nvidia’s Geforce 7900GS graphics cards. The card, by itself, is a solid mid-range offering at a good price point paired up with another board it’s a compelling choice compared to…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 17, 2006 · 0 comments

MadShrimps has a look at a number of XSPC’s water cooling products. The hardware they tested included a fancy CPU water block, pump, all aluminum reservoir, and a 3 fan radiator. This is some serious hardware, especially on the radiator’s…

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