by Rafael Hernandez on July 27, 2005
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Techgage has a small chat with Andy Keane, VP of marketing for AGEIA. The company will be releasing an add-on card which will improve physics performance in gaming titles (that support it) and possibly other software arenas, if they hop…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 26, 2005
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Designtechnica has a look at the Philips ShoqBox PSS110 alarm clock. It’s not just an alarm clock, it tossees in everybody’s favorite function, MP3 playing, into the mix. A sleek unit and small enough to take along on extended travel…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 26, 2005
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Viper Lair has a review of the Hiper Type-R Modular 580Watt power supply. The removable cables on units like these go a long way to clearing up case clutter and improving airflow. A nice looking unit with a secure cable…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 26, 2005
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AnandTech has a look at the Gigabyte i-RAM pseudo-solid-state card. The device accepts your good old DDR memory, hooks up to an available SerialATA port, and pretends it’s ye ‘ol hard disk drive but it can maintain much higher transfer…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 25, 2005
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AnandTech has a review of the MSI NX7800GTX graphics card. The Nvidia GeForce 7800GTX based card is the same old generic layout that its competitors are rolling around with but that means it also has the same great image quality…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 25, 2005
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The Tech Report has finally taken a look at the Asus CT-479 Pentium M to Socket 478 adapter. The device is designed for motherboards that feature BIOS support for the mobile chip, meaning most of the Asus 478 line, combined…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 25, 2005
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GamePC has a look at the Areca ARC-1210 PCI Express SerialATA RAID card. They decided to pit the board against the company’s PCI-X version of the card using four very capable SATA drives. A nice performer but there isn’t much…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 22, 2005
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HardwareZone has a look at a pair of Micro-ATX cases from Cooler Master. The Centurion 540 and 541 offer up some features which other cramped enclosures skimp on such as a decently sized air intake and cooling fan areas over…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 22, 2005
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Xtreme Resources has a look at two versions of Thermalright’s XP-90 heatsink. The original version had a copper CPU block with a few heatpipes connected to aluminum fins while the newer 90c is an all copper design. A pair of…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 22, 2005
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AnandTech has a look at ATI’s CrossFire multi-graphics board technology. The boards have been vaporware for quite a few months now but it appears that the performance is still there and with prices dropping it might be a viable solution…
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by Rafael Hernandez on July 21, 2005
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Designtechnica would like to tell you its own tech support nightmare story. PC peripherals are sometimes necessary for better performance in your favorite apps but when the manufacturers decide to limit what you can do with your hardware, or, give…
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