September 2007

by Rafael Hernandez on September 26, 2007 · 0 comments

digit-life has a look at the Infrasonic Quartet sound card. The card has all of the makings of a professional level card although it comes in at a price tag that should be doable by the home user and some…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 26, 2007 · 0 comments

TweakTown has a look at the ASUS BC-1205PT Blu-ray ROM drive. The product will allow you to read(playback) your Blu-ray discs on your PC and it includes playback software. A nice enough product for the price which is a must…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 26, 2007 · 0 comments

HotHardware has a look at the XFX GeForce 8600 GT Fatal1ty graphics card. As with any Fatal1ty labeled product you can expect some form of extra added incentive for that added gaming edge, in thise case it’s a silent cooler…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 24, 2007 · 0 comments

OCIA has a look at the Arctic Cooling MX-2 thermal compound. The company has had its own thermal paste pre-applied on most of the heatsinks they sell and as the enthusiast community has found it performed very well. This new…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 24, 2007 · 0 comments

HardOCP has a look at the Matrox TripleHead2Go Digital Edition device. The unit can be used to split a high resolution signal and divide it between three seperate displays. It allows for some flexibility compared to a single large display…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 24, 2007 · 0 comments

HArdwareCanucks has a look at the Thermalright HR-11 VGA backside cooler. If you’ve ever had the pleasure of placing a finger on the rear of a GPU while it’s running you’d notice the large amount of heat and probable burns…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 20, 2007 · 0 comments

Macworld writes of Stanford University’s Folding@Home project reaching an important milestone in number crunching. The project has hit 1petaflop of processing power for their protein folding simulations, most of which was provided by the PlayStation 3’s Cell CPU. Impressive numbers…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 20, 2007 · 0 comments

Modders-INC has a look at the Xigmatek HDT-S1283 heatsink and fan combo. The cooler would appear to be your run-of-the-mill tower unit with the appropriate heatpipes but the company decided to have the heatpipes come in direct contact with your…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 20, 2007 · 0 comments

The Inquirer writes of Compal’s breakthrough in notebook cooling at Intel Developer’s Forum. The company claims to have perfected a system where the lid of a notebook, where the LCD resides…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 19, 2007 · 0 comments

2CPU has a look at Intel’s upcoming “Harpertown” server CPUs. The chips are made with a 45nm process and sport quite a bit more cache than previous Xeon models lending itself to some powerful number crunching duties. Impressive hardware for…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 19, 2007 · 0 comments

AnandTech has some day 2 coverage from the Intel Developer Forum. They chronicle Intel’s plans to shrink the PC and make it much less power hungry and they’ve even got their sites on hardware that could one day create..well…media richer…

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