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by Rafael Hernandez on September 29, 2005 · 0 comments

hardCOREware weighs the pros and cons of going the barebone SFF PC route or putting a microATX system together. Two different form factors with the MicroATX allowing more flexible add-on card upgrade options. A tough choice but the SFF barebones…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 28, 2005 · 0 comments

Hexus.net thinks they’re on to ATI’s pricing structure for their Radeon X1xxx series of graphics cards. The top end MSRP seems reasonable for a 512MB graphics board and they have something for every price range which is nice thing to…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 28, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech does their thing with an ATI Radeon X800GT graphics card. The board targets the low end of the gaming market offering respectable speed in today’s titles at a decent price. A nice option if you’re in the market for…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 28, 2005 · 0 comments

AMDZone has done some benchmarking with the recently released Call of Duty 2 demo. A number of interesting results came out of their testing, most notably, a serious performance lead for the 512MB version of the ATI Radeon X800XL. As…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 27, 2005 · 0 comments

Bjorn3D has a look at the Biostar NF4SIE-A7 motherboard. The board brings SLI support to Intel’s LGA775 CPUs with the help of Nvidia’s nForce 4 SLI edition chipset. A nice looking product but it’s worth mentioning that Biostar doesn’t go…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 27, 2005 · 0 comments

MadShrimps has a look at the Vantec Stingray liquid cooling kit. The package contains everything you’d need to cool your processor, northbridge chipset, and graphics card all at a reasonable price. A nice looking set that performs very well but…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 27, 2005 · 0 comments

Neowin.net has the scoop on Microsoft’s Service Pack releases for three of its software titles. Office 2003, OneNote 2003, and Visio 2003 received the updates which bring together bug fixes and speed enhancements….

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 26, 2005 · 0 comments

ATI’s delayed CrossFire technology has hit a number of review sites which means it should be hitting store shelves in the very near future. The two card approach improves performance on today’s latest titles but a limitation in maximum resolutions…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 26, 2005 · 0 comments

Gamecloud has written down their thoughts of Valve Software’s soon to be released Day of Defeat: Source game/mod. The sought after title pits players as either Axis or Allied soldiers in a World War 2 backdrop. Valve plans on going…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 26, 2005 · 0 comments

Hexus.net has a roundup of 34 power supplies from a number of manufacturers. The products range from high-quality gear to junk that failed on them after some torture testing. A nice look at some of the popular models of PSUs…

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by Rafael Hernandez on September 23, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech pits the nForce4 SLI powered MSI P4N Diamond motherboard against the Intel 955X studded Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal. The two boards go all out on the features front providing support for a wide array of hardware but you’ll either have…

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