TweakTown runs the latest ATI Catalyst 6.12 drivers through their batch of Radeon cards trying to scope out performance improvements. The release notes for the drivers didn’t mention much in the way of performance improvements but these new drivers kick…
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HardOCP has a look at the Asus EN7900 GS TOP graphics card. The company takes the easy route to performance with this board, they set the core clocks quite a bit above the stock setting and even provide a shiney…
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TweakTown has a look at the GeCube X1950PRO Champion Edition graphics card. The thing that makes the card so special is its peltier cooling unit and massive cooling assemly mounted on it. A bit overkill for a mid-range card and…
AnandTech compares the AMD dual-core Socket F Opteron CPUs with Intel’s Woodcrest dual-core Xeons. The chips are some of the latest for the server and high-end workstation crowd offering up great performance although one seems to lend itself to more…
Microsoft has relaunched its website with the latest and greatest in Web 2.0ified icons, images, layouts, and content. It could also be because of their Vista operating system which will be released in a bit over a month. A fresher…
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HardOCP has a short write-up on some issues they, and some of their readers, have seen with the Nvidia nForce 680i chipset. It being an enthusiast targeted product, attached to pricey motherboards at that, these sort of issues can be…
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AnandTech follows up its look at Blu-ray playback performance with a test of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 HD-DVD on both the console and on a PC. The drive is somewhat inexpensive option to add to your PC, if it’s beefy enough,…
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HardOCP has a look at the Ajump Prive AM2A64 custom built system. Their system evaluation program is somewhat rigorous which you would expect from an enthusiast focused website but this one seemed to hit new lows in everything outside of…
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Penstarsys has a look at the Bluegears b-Enspirer sound card. There aren’t many reasonable choices in the audio card consumer market but this board boasts some interesting features, such as Dolby Digital Live support, that should make it a nice…
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AMD has launched its latest set of drivers for the Radeon series of graphics cards. The update brings the drivers up to version 6.12 and includes quite a few bug fixes but no real mention of speed improvements in specific…
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GamePC has a look at the Intel Xeon E5300 series of chips. It’s a Quad Core party with each chip adding on additional computing elements without increasing thermal loads or power consumption much. They’re theoretically faster than the dual core…
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