PC Stats has a look at the Asus Vento 3600 PC enclosure. The case has the lines of some sort of futuristic weapon but in reality it’s a heavily plastic cladded steel case. A stand out design although, for the…
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FrostyTech has an analysis of the guts of a NEC Valuestar G desktop’s cooling system. The setup uses a water cooling kit designed to last for years with no user intervention and is designed to cool off the warm running…
Yahoo News has the details on Google’s upgrade of its Gmail service which will bump storage space up to 2 gigabytes. The move is probably there to outshine its competitors but if they want to play host as an email…
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HardwareZone has complete its testing of five motherboards based on VIA’s K8T800 Pro chipset. The chipset is designed for AMD’s Athlon 64 processor line and implements older forms of expansions slots such as AGP and plain-old PCI. A good batch…
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The Tech Report takes a crack at a mass storage harddrive from Seagate. The Barracuda 7200.8 has all of the features you’d expect from a new SerialATA drive including large storage space and native command queuing support. Decent speed and…
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GamePC has their own set of tests for the ASUS Pentium M to Socket 478 adapter. The gadget allows you to connect Intel’s mobile friendly chip to a supporting Pentium 4 motherboard bringing the cost of entry down a bit….
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Microsoft has wrapped up work on its Service Pack #1 for their Server 2003 operating system. Updated versions of their OS are no doubt heading to their presses but they do offer a download link for the update. Weighing in…
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HotHardware has a trio of SLI capable motherboards on the test bench today. DFI, Gigabyte, and MSI Nvidia nForce 4 SLI boards make an appearance each with their own distinct features and options. A few frames per second seperate the…
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DigiTimes has the details on Sparkle Computer’s upcoming Nvidia powered graphics card line. At the top is the company’s 6800Ultra video card with 512MB of speedy GDDR3 RAM on board. Its cost is rather high, hopefully other manufacturers have lower…
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Overclockers Australia has a selection of 13 power supply units they take a crack at. The supplies range from bland and underpowered to bold and server ready. Interesting testing methods they employ, perhaps better than dedicated tools as they’re used…
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neoseeker has an in-depth look at the various settings one can change on an AMD Athlon 64 platform and how it affects performance. Each setting, by itself, has little to do performance wise but by mixing and matching enthusiasts have…
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