April 2007

by Rafael Hernandez on April 9, 2007 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6800 CPU. The chip is the fastest consumer processor Intel offers featuring four cores and is almost 300MHz faster than the previous top chip. Quite the performer but you’ll be…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 9, 2007 · 0 comments

X-bit labs has a look at three of the larger LCD displays on the market. On their testbench are 30″ displays from Dell and Samsung as well as a 27″ monitor from Samsung. A nice collection of screens with plenty…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 5, 2007 · 0 comments

t-break has a look at the MSI NX8800GTX OC Liquid graphics card. The board is a “run-of-the-mill” 8800GTX powered beast with a fancy liquid cooling rig preattached and some higher clock speeds to go along with it. It’s not all…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 4, 2007 · 0 comments

DailyTech writes of Intel’s Centrino Pro platform. It’s designed with IT admins in mind allowing for remote access to any company machine for management or support purposes. With notebook computer sales overtaking desktops it was only a matter of time…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 3, 2007 · 0 comments

AnandTech started out with a simple plan of attempting to get CableCard support going under Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system only to run into issues along the way. The hardware/software itself is fine but when the cable companies get involved…

Read more CableCard/OCUR/Vista Dance

by Rafael Hernandez on April 3, 2007 · 0 comments

Guru3D has a look at the Inno3D GeForce 7950 GT i-Chill graphics card. They took the mid-range graphics chip, limited it to 256MB of memory and added an impressive looking passive cooler to the mix for that silent operation approach….

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 3, 2007 · 0 comments

HardOCP has a look at the Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 950 USB HDTV tuner. The tuner can access analog cable channels and digital over the air TV stations (although why it can’t handle unencrypted digital cable channels is an odd choice). It…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 3, 2007 · 0 comments

VR-Zone wasn’t content to just get early access to an Nvidia 8800GTS based graphics card, they had to go and overclock it as well. A series of warranty voiding steps later and they were sitting with a 1GHz GPU and…

Read more Nvidia 8600GTS Overclocked/Tested

by Rafael Hernandez on April 2, 2007 · 0 comments

thetechlounge has a look at the Apple TV multimedia streaming/playback device. Getting a computer into the living room has been a dream of most PC manufacturers and (as anemic it is hardware wise) Apple’s first attempt is getting quite a…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 2, 2007 · 0 comments

Bjorn3D has a review of the Thermaltake Purepower Express 250W videocard powersupply. The unit is designed to slide into an empty 5.25″ bay in your PC so that the unit can provide power to your graphics card(s) without the need…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 2, 2007 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at the Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus motherboard. The board uses Nvidia’s nForce 650i chipset and combined it with an AMD targeted southbridge to make a hybrid motherboard that sports two full X16 PCIe slots for use…

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