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by Rafael Hernandez on February 28, 2005 · 0 comments

HIS has been adding exotic heatsinks to every card they can get their hands on, this time they tackle the high-end market. t-break has a review of the HIS x850XT IceQ II graphics card featuring ATI’s top end chip and…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 28, 2005 · 0 comments

GamePC has a roundup of four PCI Express capable boards for AMD’s Athlon64 (s939) CPUs. The boards each tout a different chipset with entries from ATI, VIA, and two from Nvidia making a showing. The MSI/ATI board is one of…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 28, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech has gathered four motherboards from a number of manufacturers which support Nvidia’s SLI graphics technology. Each board has its own distinct feature set and layout making it a bit more difficult to choose the right SLI board. Great choices…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 25, 2005 · 0 comments

HotHardware has a look at the Skyhawk echo-Q IMC6375 small form factor barebones PC. The machine makes use of Intel Pentium 4 (s478) CPUs and includes on-board audio and video for an inexpensive setup or tack on your own graphics…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 25, 2005 · 0 comments

MSNBC/Forbes teamed up to create a list of the ten coolest gadgets for gamers. The list includes a number of portable game systems and a highly tuned gaming PC. They’re all game related but most of them can’t be considered…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 25, 2005 · 0 comments

Guru3D has a review of the HiS Radeon X800XL graphics board. HiS has done its usual cooling upgrade to the reference X800XL design mating a massive heatsink and fan to their latest board. Good performance and modest overclocking potential from…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 25, 2005 · 0 comments

BetaNews has the details on the newest version of Firefox. The web browser update has a few fixes and patches for various security vulnerabilities and stability issues. The biggest fix on the list is a change to the way the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 25, 2005 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at the Nvidia GeForce Go 6800 Ultra mobile GPU. The chip is an improvement over their previous mobile 6800 GPUs and when paired with a powerful processor it’s capable of impressive performance in games that rivals…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 24, 2005 · 0 comments

PC Stats tested the performance of two MSI NX6600GT-TD128E graphics cards in an SLI setup. The Nvidia GeForce 6600GT based cards are a midrange solution by themselves but when paired together they near and sometimes exceed the performance of high-end…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 24, 2005 · 0 comments

Information Week has some info on AMD’s demonstration of its dual core CPUs. The chips should be hitting PCs in the second half of this year, for consumers, and will help to speed up applications which can handle multiple instruction…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 24, 2005 · 0 comments

Neoseeker has a look at what all the fuss is about surrounding the DFI LanParty UT nF4 Ultra-D motherboard. The board foregoes the old serial and parallel ports for modern features. All sorts of speed records have been set with…

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