November 2006

by Rafael Hernandez on November 10, 2006 · 0 comments

Legit Reviews goes for the current dream machine build. Their system features an Nvidia nForce 680i chipset based motherboard fitted with a Quad Core Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 a healthy dose of fast memory and topped it off with…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 9, 2006 · 0 comments

PC Perspective has their own thoughts on the Nvidia nForce 680i chipset. It does its duty for the Intel Core 2 platform with support for SLI graphics and plenty of expansion options. An enthusiast’s dream board they were able to…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 9, 2006 · 0 comments

EPIACenter dives into territory they know well with their review of the Liantec ITX-6900 mini-ITX motherboard. The board is a bit different than the norm as it supports the Intel Pentium M CPU versus most of the weak CPU choices…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 9, 2006 · 0 comments

OCModShop has a look at the Silverstone LC16M home theater PC case. The chassis is another in a long line of slick designs from Silverstone, offering good looks and useful features such as full ATX motherboard support, a snazzy VFD,…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 8, 2006 · 0 comments

BetaNews writes of Microsoft’s gold stamp on their Windows Vista operating system. The often delayed OS has seen its fair share of criticism due to feature removal and increased system hardware requirements but, at the same time, it’s expected to…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 8, 2006 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a look at the Nvidia nForce 680i SLI system chipset. It’s designed for Intel’s latest CPUs which haven’t had much in the way of porper SLI support. It’s a feature packed chipset with some early good…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 8, 2006 · 0 comments

HardOCP has an early look at an ABS high-end system featuring the Intel Quad Core QX6700 CPU. The system is no slouch while fitted with a pair of ATI Radeon X1950 XTX boards in CrossFire a liquid cooling rig for…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 8, 2006 · 0 comments

HotHardware is one, of many, sites with a review of the Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX and 8800 GTS based graphics boards. The cards are, in a word, beasts featuring a massive cooler with equally massive amounts of memory and transistor…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 7, 2006 · 0 comments

HotHardware does their thing with the ATI CrossFire Xpress 3200 based ASUS M2R32-MVP and ECS KA3 MVP motherboards. The boards support AMD’s AM2 processors and that fancy CrossFire graphics setup and while they both are similar performance wise one runs…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 7, 2006 · 0 comments

t-break has a look at three different GPUs in their mid-range graphics card comparison. The Nvidia GeForce 7900GS and 7950GT are represented as is the ATI Radeon X1950 Pro. Some fancy coolers in this roundup but picking a winner comes…

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by Rafael Hernandez on November 6, 2006 · 0 comments

The Tech Report writes of the latest Folding@Home release that can run on a pair of ATI Radeon X1900 GPUs in your system. It doesn’t split the workload in a CrossFire like manner but it seems to set each GPU…

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