by Rafael Hernandez on March 7, 2005
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hardCOREware has a review of the Soltek SL-K890 Pro939 motherboard. The board uses VIA’s PCI Express capable K8T890 chipset. The chipset does not support Nvidia’s SLI technology but it’s capable of mathing the nForce 4 chipset’s performance when using single…
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by Rafael Hernandez on March 7, 2005
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Legion Hardware has a review of the Thermaltake Rocket water-cooling kit. The setup uses a large finned aluminum tube to passively cool the liquid. A quieter way of doing things and it seems capable enough to handle heat from the…
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by Rafael Hernandez on March 7, 2005
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System Cooling has a look at the Koolance VID-NV2-L06 GPU cooler. The liquid-cooling block is designed for the Nvidia GeForce 6800 line of graphics cards which happen to mount all of their memory on the front of the board allowing…
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by Rafael Hernandez on March 4, 2005
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Viper Lair has a brief look at the A.C.Ryan RyanPower2 450Watt power supply. The PSU uses the popular modular cable technique which reduces cable clutter and can improve case airflow. Looks like another decent choice in the underserved modular PSU…
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by Rafael Hernandez on March 4, 2005
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HotHardware has a look at the ATI TV Wonder Elite TV/FM-Tuner card. The Wonder Elite is not capable of handling HDTV streams, which will make it obsolete very soon, but its features, software, and image quality make it one of…
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by Rafael Hernandez on March 4, 2005
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AnandTech has a review of the OCZ VX DDR memory kit. The memory is rated to run at low latencies at moderately high speeds, unfortunately you’d need a motherboard that supports high voltages to the memory or make some warranty…
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by Rafael Hernandez on March 4, 2005
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Macworld has a look at the Mac port of id Software’s Doom 3 video game. Their top of the line dual G5 system struggled quite a bit in the game posting very low scores. It might be a problem with…
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by Rafael Hernandez on March 3, 2005
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Hardware Zone has a review of the Gigabyte N411 notebook PC. The laptop uses Intel’s popuular Centrino chipset package along with a 14″ LCD screen crammed into a slim and sleek casing. Its integrated graphics isn’t the best but for…
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by Rafael Hernandez on March 3, 2005
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PC Perspective has taken in the sights and sounds and PR banter from the Intel Developer Forum. A number of interesting products were at the show including Intel’s dual-core CPUs and Nvidia chipsets. Exciting hardware coming out from Intel and…
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by Rafael Hernandez on March 3, 2005
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ipKonfig has a review of the Corsair XPert memory kit. The package comes with 1GB of high performance DDR memory and a pair of LED displays which can be set up to monitor memory vitals and display custom text. High…
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by Rafael Hernandez on March 3, 2005
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bit-tech has a look at a trio of graphics cards one sporting Nvidia’s GeForce 6600GT chipset and the other two make use of the ATI Radeon X700 Pro GPU. Good performance in most of today’s game and with recent price…
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