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by Rafael Hernandez on March 30, 2005 · 0 comments

3D Velocity has a look at the Enermax CS-718 Server Class Case. The enclosure uses a “flipped” motherboard configuration and wind tunnel design to cool system CPUs well. It doesn’t look like much of a server option though as this…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 29, 2005 · 0 comments

SilentPCReview has a look at the guts of a Shuttle XPC SB81P barebones PC. The SFF cube accepts Intel’s Pentium 4 (775) CPUs and uses a BTX formfactor in order to maintain cooler temperatures in such a confined space. Their…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 29, 2005 · 0 comments

GamePC takes a look at Intel’s top end 3.73GHz Pentium 4 Extreme Edition CPU. The processor has received something of a makeover giving it a speed boost which, in turn, pushed it to the top of the performance charts. Unfortunately…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 29, 2005 · 0 comments

Beyond3D has Club3D’s mid-range to high end ATI-based lineup on their hands today. The Radeon X800 XT PCI Express and AGP versions as well at the X850 XT (PCIE) are on their test bench pulling up good numbers in all…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 29, 2005 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a review of the Gigabyte GA-K8VT890-9 motherboard. The product uses VIA’s K8T890 chipset which is another solution that brings PCI Express support to the AMD Athlon 64 platform. It isn’t much of an enthusiast board but,…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 28, 2005 · 0 comments

Bytesector has a look at the ThermalTake BigWater cooling kit. The setup includes everything you’d need to cool most modern CPUs. They ran into a few build-quality issues, which you don’t want when dealing with a water cooling setup, but…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 28, 2005 · 0 comments

HardOCP has a review of the EPoX EP-9NPA+ Ultra motherboard. The board uses an Nvidia nForce 4 Ultra chipset so it isn’t SLI capable but it has many other great features such as an uncluttered component layout and BIOS options…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 28, 2005 · 0 comments

Phoronix has a review of the D-Link Wireless 108G Gaming Router. The device has a number of “optimizations” for gaming and multimedia traffic as well as gigabit ethernet ports and 802.11g WiFi support. A powerful device if you’re a gamer…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 28, 2005 · 0 comments

techPowerUp has a review of the Thermaltake Schooner fanless video card cooler. The cooler is a complicated and large mass of aluminum and copper with a bit of fin action sticking out the back if a case. Interesting design which…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 25, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at the 3Dlabs Wildcat Realizm 800 graphics board. The card is a mid-high end 3D workstation graphics card which pairs two of their graphics chips and a ton of onboard video memory for good performance in…

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 25, 2005 · 0 comments

Designtechnica has taken a liking to the Gateway M210XL notebook computer. The slim and trim laptop makes use of an Intel Pentium M processor and the unfortunately slow integrated graphics of the system chipset. Great space saving design for productivity…

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