TweakTown has a look at the GigaByte and XFX versions of the GeForce 8600GT graphics cards. The mid-range DirectX 10 capable cards sport some advanced filtering and video playback features but they lack a bit of performance in existing DX9…
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AnandTech pondered whether a pair of 1TB hard drives were worth running in RAID 0. The storage load is balanced between the two drives in RAID 0 giving you (supposedly) better performance but if one drive were to fail all…
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AMD has released a new set of drivers for its Radeon line of graphics cards bringing them up to version 7.4. The drivers sport, supposedly, massive gains in OpenGL based titles under Microsoft’s Windows Vista for Radeon X1000 series cards…
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Auzentech, maker of various audio related products, is getting audio chips from an unlikely source: Creative Labs according to DailyTech. Creative has has a dominance over the audio add-in card field but this news might find another player getting some…
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AnandTech managed to get some bench time on an Intel “Penryn” core CPU. The chip sports a number of improvements over the Core 2 design it will replace in a years time and early results show it as quite a…
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techPowerUp! has a look at the Sapphire X1950 Pro Dual graphics card. The company combined all of the bits and pieces found on a pair of X1950 Pro boards and crammed them all into one. It actually sports a reasonable…
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AnandTech has a look at the Nvidia GeForce 8500 and 8600 GPUs. The chips are/will be the first mid-range DX10 capable GPUs to hit the market. Its performance isn’t all that great compared to the last generation of mid-range products…
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TweakTown has a look at the XFX GeForce 7600GT Fatal1ty in an SLI configuration. The cards feature passive cooling for that extra quiet gaming experience, although you will wnt proper airflow to keep them from overheating in such a tight…
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MadShrimps has a look at five different heatsinks in their latest roundup. The coolers take that grand heatpipe approach with the Coolermaster design going all out with spots for two 120mm fans. Good performance from all of them, you’ll just…
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BIOS has a look at the Alienware MJ-12 8550i desktop workstation. It’s not the usual gaming machine you’d expect from the company and it’s aimed squarely at the kinds of companies that design things, namely in 3D. A great, although…
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The Tech Report has a look at the Shuttle XPC SD39P2 SFF barebones. Shuttle has been somewhat quiet (as has the whole PC market) on the DIY small form factor front allowing the likes of Apple and Shuttle to peddle…
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