February 2007

by Rafael Hernandez on February 12, 2007 · 0 comments

Overclockers.com has a few new pictures of a supposed AMD “R600” based graphics card. The card does look mighty large, what with its 24W cooling impeller and all, but it should be smaller for the retail segment. All we need…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 9, 2007 · 0 comments

HotHardware has a look at iSilence and IceQ Turbo versions of the HIS X1650XT. The IceQ features a large quiet cooler designed to pump the cards heat out of your case while the iSilence goes completely passive. A nice pair…

Read more HIS X1650XTs Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on February 9, 2007 · 0 comments

VR-Zone comes in with a supposed leaked image of a graphics card sporting AMD’s upcoming R600 GPU. The card looks mammoth but a good 1/4th of the length is attributed tto the bracket for system builders and OEMs. The card…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 9, 2007 · 0 comments

Tweaknews has a look at the Noctua NC-U6 chipset cooler. The device is a completely passive design which is a nice thing to see in a world of small high-pitched fans mounted on chipsets. A potent device with proper system…

Read more Noctua NC-U6 Chipset Cooler Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on February 8, 2007 · 0 comments

DailyTech has some info on Nvidia’s upcoming MCP72 chipset. It’s designed for AMD’s future Opteron/Athlon 64 AM2/AM2+ processors which means PCIe 2.0 and HyperTransport 3.0 support are in the cards. It’s shaping up to be a powerful chipset and it…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 8, 2007 · 0 comments

DriverHeaven has a look at the AMD Radeon X1650XT graphics card. The X1650XT GPU was released a number of months ago into the mid-range market as a competitor to some of Nvidia’s dominant products and while it provided great performance…

Read more AMD Radeon X1650XT Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on February 8, 2007 · 0 comments

GamePC has a bit of a look at the various flavors of Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system and runs some performance tests. ReadyBoost, XP versus Vista, 64bit versus 32bit, it’s all in here with a fair amount of testing under…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 8, 2007 · 0 comments

AnandTech has some early tests using Silicon Optix’s HD HQV software on AMD and Nvidia graphics solutions. The competitors made great strides with their playback of older formats such as DVDs but how well would they handle 4 times the…

Read more HD Image Quality Tests

by Rafael Hernandez on February 7, 2007 · 0 comments

HardOCP has a look at the DFI ICFX3200-T2R/G motherboard. The Intel LGA775 board features the AMD/ATI R600 chipset and is likely to be the only board the hold that distinction given chipmaker rivalries. It’s a solid board with the usual…

Read more DFI ICFX3200-T2R/G Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on February 7, 2007 · 0 comments

Xbit labs has a look at the Nvidia based Asus EN7950GT and EN7900GS graphics cards. The cards fall into the mid-range price/performance bracket although the GT variant is the bigger brother in this roundup. A nice pair of cards which…

Read more Asus EN7950GT and EN7900GS Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on February 7, 2007 · 0 comments

TweakTown has a look at the PCI-E X1 Galaxy GeForce 7300GT graphics card. The board has the same features as those found on X16 based cards except for the system bandwidth. It’s not pretty, performance wise, but if you’re looking…

Read more Galaxy GeForce 7300GT PCI-E X1 Reviewed