March 2007

by Rafael Hernandez on March 20, 2007 · 0 comments

PC Stats has a look at the PowerColor X1550 graphics card. The board comes set up with 512MB of video memory which seems odd for a low-end product. A decent enough performer but don’t expect miracles, even at the high…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 20, 2007 · 0 comments

DailyTech has the details on Velocity Micro’s new line of home theater PCs. They’re designed with digital media in mind coming in with CableCard tuner so that you can play over-the-air and cable based digital video programming. Impressive features and…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 20, 2007 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 hard drive. The drive can store a terabyte of information (before you format it of course) and offers up some very nice performance that rivals the fastest of drives. It looks…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 19, 2007 · 0 comments

DailyTech has a bit about AMD’s plans for its future platform. The Torrenza platform allows for custom built chips to be tossed into a dual-CPU machine allowing for added functionality and speed in specific fields while Fusion brings together stream…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 19, 2007 · 0 comments

Guru3D has a nice write-up on what’s going on at this year’s CeBIT trade show. The show sports all manner of hardware that has been released or will be released shortly, unfortunately most of the really cool stuff is shown…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 19, 2007 · 0 comments

VR-Zone spied a DTX based motherboard at the CeBIT convention. The standard was designed by AMD for use in smaller cases although the smaller motherboards themselves can but placed into full sized ATX enclosures. Interesting form factor that should take…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 16, 2007 · 0 comments

Think Computers has a look at the Lenovo ThinkPad X60 Tablet PC. The device sports all of the right features for your tablet focused applications with an Intel Core Duo CPU and a swivel screen for your positioning needs. A…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 16, 2007 · 0 comments

Hardware Secrets has a look at the overclocked MSI GeForce 8800GTS 320MB graphics card. The board sports that same great mid-range performing chip from Nvidia but it comes out of the factory set at clock speeds a good bit above…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 15, 2007 · 0 comments

PC Perspective has a look at the Asus M2A-VM motherboard. The board is one of the first on the market to use AMD’s new 690G chipset which sports a healthy integrated graphics chip with DVI output. A great choice for…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 15, 2007 · 0 comments

TweakTown has a pair of pictures and some early details on a car computer Shuttle has been developing. Beyond the usual space constraints in a vehicle Shuttle has to design a system with proper cooling for its cramped quarters and…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 15, 2007 · 0 comments

The Tech Report jumps in with a look at this year’s Game Developers Conference. It’s set up as a place where all of the major game producers get together and toss out all sorts of PR talk but, on occasion,…

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