November 2006

by Rafael Hernandez on November 30, 2006 · 0 comments

Digit-Life has quite a few AMD Athlon 64 capable heatsinks on their testbed today. It being a budget roundup you’re going to see a whole host of all aluminum or aluminum/copper base designs although one manufacturer was able to pull…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 30, 2006 · 0 comments

XYZ Computing has tested the Tagan Turbo Jet 1100W power supply. It’s designed for systems with a genuine power need such as an Nvidia 8800GTX SLI based PC or even an AMD Quad FX system. Quite an impressive power supply…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 30, 2006 · 0 comments

HardOCP has the low-down on the AMD Quad FX platform. The setup consists of a dual socket motherboard with a pair of their new FX dual core CPUs with access to four PCIe 16x slots. It’s a monster of a…

Read more AMD Quad FX (4×4) Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on November 29, 2006 · 0 comments

Bjorn3D has a review of the Antec SpotCool PC fan. The fan is mounted on a flexible line so it can be positioned at odd angles for those airflow lacking areas and can be attached at any screw mounting point….

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 29, 2006 · 0 comments

Legit Reviews tests out the ASRock ConRoe 945G-DV MicroATX motherboard. ASRock has some interesting designs for most of their boards with this one sporting an Intel 945G chipset instead of the usual 965/975 which grace other Intel Core 2 capable…

Read more ASRock ConRoe 945G-DV Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on November 29, 2006 · 0 comments

DriverHeaven has a look at the Rock SLI Xtreme SL Pro “notebook” PC. The system is more of a desktop replacement sporting an AMD Turion X2 2GHz CPU, 20″ LCD screen RAIDed notebook drives, and SLI Nvidia Geforce 7950GTX Go…

Read more Rock SLI Xtreme SL Pro Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on November 28, 2006 · 0 comments

MaXiT has a review of the Asus EN8800GTX graphics card. Nvidia’s 8800GTX is the current top of the heap from any graphics card manufacturer offering impressive performance and image quality as well as a bit of future-proofness with support for…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 28, 2006 · 0 comments

TweakTown has part 2 of their look at Intel P965 based motherboards. They all offer support for Intel’s Core 2 Duo CPU and although the chipset is not designed with multi-GPU support in mind at least one company was able…

Read more Intel P965 Motherboard Shootout: Part 2

by Rafael Hernandez on November 28, 2006 · 0 comments

HardOCP tortures yet another pre-built PC with their look at the AVADirect Custom SLI Gaming System. A nice selection of hardware in this one including Intel’s popular Core 2 Duo CPU and a pair of 7900GTs running in SLI. Quite…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 27, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech compares what you get for the money when buying that special someone a CPU gift. AMD and Intel have several lines to choose from and while it may be clear cut on the higher end models, from mid-range and…

Read more Shopping for that Holiday CPU

by Rafael Hernandez on November 27, 2006 · 0 comments

DigiTimes has the details on a few of the larger monitors making their way to store shelves. The NEC 25.5″ widescreen is the odd one in the batch with the rest measuring in at 30″ and sporting 2560X1600 native resolutions….

Read more Invasion of the Large LCD Monitors