August 2007

by Rafael Hernandez on August 15, 2007 · 0 comments

Hardware Canucks has a look at the Tagan 2-Force II 600W power supply. The company has a nice string of quality units under its belt as of late and the 2-Force appears to carry on that tradition. It’s not a…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 14, 2007 · 0 comments

bit-tech pits the latest in mid-range graphics cards against each other. The Radeon HD 2600 XT and the GeForce 8600 GT offer up compelling feature set (DX10 support, HD offloading) but they aren’t the performance beasts you’d expect in the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 14, 2007 · 0 comments

HardOCP has a look at the Corsair VX450W power supply. The unit, despite its fancy outter shell and neon green labels, seems to be a rebadged Seasonic power supply which has a good track record for quality hardware. A nice…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 13, 2007 · 0 comments

X-bit labs has a look at 7 different 22″ LCD displays. It’s a wild world out there with viewing angle this, and panel bit-depth that thankfully they’ve taken up the cause. Some nice displays out there but with 24″ “pro”…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 13, 2007 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at the ZEROtherm BTF90 CPU cooler. The heatsink has an either lovable or, depending on your perspective, atrocious butterfly design but aside from the aesthetics it does sport heatpipes and all copper fins which leads to…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 13, 2007 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a look at Hitachi’s Deskstar 7K1000 hard drive. It represents a major milestone, which will likely be blown by soon enough, in storage capacity. A good performer if you have a need to cram as much…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 9, 2007 · 0 comments

PC Perspective has their own go at the Diamond Multimedia Viper HD 2900 XT graphics card. The board features 1GB of DDR4 memory which is much and about twice as much total memory as other XT cards. A great performer…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 9, 2007 · 0 comments

phoronix has a look at the ASRock ConRoe1333-DVI/H motherboard. The board is another strange design from ASRock providing 1333MHz FSB support for Intel’s latest Core 2 chips as well as integrated graphics all from the rather “ancient” Intel 945G chipset….

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 9, 2007 · 0 comments

Legit Reviews has a look at the ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT, 2600 Pro, and 2600 XT graphics cards. The boards hit the low-end to mid-range price points in style with decent 3D performance but its most sought after feature…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 6, 2007 · 0 comments

Legion Hardware has a look at the effect CPU speeds have on game performance under Nvidia GeForce 8×00 GPUs. CPU scaling is a forgotten variable when looking at the latest and greatest in gaming hardware while it’s one of the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 6, 2007 · 0 comments

GideonTech has a review of the Antec Nine Hundred PC case. The enclosure has that “either you love it or hate it” styling and is loaded with no less than 4 fans and can go as high as 6 if…

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