March 2007

by Rafael Hernandez on March 14, 2007 · 0 comments

HardwareZone has an early look at the Arctic Cooling Accelero S2. The graphics card cooler is the company’s first passive design for those that enjoy the silent treatment. A snazzy looking cooler but you’re limited to the low-end of the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 14, 2007 · 0 comments

BetaNews has the story of IBM’s production of 65nm Cell processors. The chips can be found in Sony’s high-end gaming console, the PlayStation 3, and with these newer, smaller, and cooler running chips, Sony and other Cell users should be…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 14, 2007 · 0 comments

Core Security Technologies has found a supposed flaw in OpenBSD’s IPv6 implementation which could leave it open to malicious attacks according to ZDNet. The operating system is the backbone of many networks given its usually very reliable framework. A look…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 7, 2007 · 0 comments

DailyTech writes of AMD’s plans to bring Unified Shader Architecture to their mobile/handheld graphics chips. It’s the same sort of technology found in the Microsoft Xbox 360 and DirectX 10 class graphics cards which allows for the computing elements (shader…

Read more AMD Gives Mobile Devices Some Grunt

by Rafael Hernandez on March 7, 2007 · 0 comments

Guru3D has a look at the eVGA nForce 680i SLI motherboard. eVGA is better known for its graphics card lineup but the latest Nvidia chipset with Intel Core 2 support made them jump into the fray. A fantastic choice for…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 7, 2007 · 0 comments

HardOCP does their system evaluation thing on a custom-built AVADirect Home Theater PC. The system comes with a solid set of features, although it should with the price tag on the thing, and it managed to pass the [H] crew’s…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 6, 2007 · 0 comments

altgamer has a look at the Sapphire X1950Pro AGP graphics card. The AGP slot has been seeing fewer and fewer GPUs making its way to it, what with it being phased out a good almost 3 years ago, but Sapphire…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 6, 2007 · 0 comments

DigiTimes writes of the true DirectX 10 graphics card battle set to begin in the second quarter of this year. Nvidia has been all alone in the DX10 arena, not that it has mattered with no games using the API,…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 5, 2007 · 0 comments

Hexus.net has a snapshot of an ATI external graphics card test board. The product is designed for future systems which will allow the graphics card to operate outside of the system confines. It’s an interesting technology which could lead to…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 5, 2007 · 0 comments

Or at least what kind of performance you can expect from them. The Tech Report looks at a trio of 4 core solutions from AMD and two Quad core CPUs from Intel (they throw in some dual core results for…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 4, 2007 · 0 comments

bit-tech has a look at the AMD 690G chipset. The chip brings a ton of great features to the AM2 platform including a reasonably competent integrated graphics core for those business machines and HDCP/HDMI support for those HTPCs. A nice…

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