by Rafael Hernandez on May 12, 2005
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HardwareZone has a review of the PalmOne Treo 650 PDA/cellphone combo. The gadget packs in quite a number of features which has made it popular with those who have one too many electronics vying for space in their pockets. A…
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by Rafael Hernandez on May 12, 2005
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GamePC compares SLI performance on Nvidia’s nForce4 SLI chipsets. Their testbeds include both an Intel EE and AMD FX55 chip run under a number of graphically intense gaming titles. Good numbers on both platforms, although, with newer cards being announced…
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by Rafael Hernandez on May 11, 2005
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Silent PC Review has a look at the Antec Phantom 500Watt Power Supply. Low-noise/Silent computing is turning into a profitable niche where units such as this can demand quite a price premium. The PSU is mated with a slim fan…
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by Rafael Hernandez on May 11, 2005
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The Tech Report has a beefy roundup consisting of three dual AMD Opteron motherboards. The server boards all feature the Nvidia nForce Pro 2200 with the Tyan product going overboard with the addition of a nForce Pro 2050 daughter-chip. A…
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by Rafael Hernandez on May 11, 2005
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AnandTech runs their batch of tests on the new Asus P5WD2 Premium motherboard. The board features Intel’s 955X chipset which supports their dual-core CPUs and offers up a pair of PCI-E 16x slots which may or may not support SLI….
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by Rafael Hernandez on May 11, 2005
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SimHQ has a look at Microsoft’s Windows XP Pro x64 Edition under the very critical game benchmarking category. They test out a number of flight simulators, which are notoriously computing power hungry, and toss in an FPS for good measure….
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by Rafael Hernandez on May 10, 2005
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Computerworld has the skinny on Microsoft’s latest semi-monthly patch updates for its various operating systems. There isn’t much major on the XP/2003 front but there is a serious exploit patched for Windows 2000 flavors. Windows Update/pester your admin/do what you’ve…
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by Rafael Hernandez on May 10, 2005
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PC Pro has the details on the deluge of spy shots taken of Microsoft’s upcoming Xbox”2″ console possibly ruining their design surprise. Barring a last second switchero gamers will be seeing a whiteish colored system that’s, thankfully, smaller than the…
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by Rafael Hernandez on May 10, 2005
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t-break has a review of Abit’s gamer oriented Fatal1ty AN8 motherboard. Abit is well known to the enthusiast crowd so they though they’d start up a new line with features their fans could appreciate. A good looking board with tons…
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by Rafael Hernandez on May 10, 2005
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AnandTech has a test of Crytek’s 64-bit patched version of their popular Far Cry first person shooter. The game was one of the first to heavily push graphics and shader usage and along the way they’ve added new effects which…
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by Rafael Hernandez on May 9, 2005
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Bytesector has a look at the Sharp Aquos LC45GX6U LCD display. The 45″ screen can work as a massive monitor for your PC or, more sanely, as the center of your high-end home-theater system. Quite a lot of real estate…
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