FastLaneHW has a review of the Soyo KT880 Dragon 2 motherboard. The board makes use of VIA’s KT880, its only dual channel chipset for the AMD Athlon/Sempron Socket A CPUs. The board is not the fastest available but it looks…
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Hardware Analysis has an interesting article on the perceived “quirkyness” of chipsets for AMD’s various CPUs. Third party companies such as VIA, Nvidia, ATI, and SiS create system chipsets that allow AMD CPUs to communicate with the rest of a…
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HotHardware has a look at new chips that Intel has added to it Pentium 4 processor line. The new CPUs bring in some refinements that are meant to speed up the chips and cut down on heat production as well…
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System Cooling has a review of the Scythe Arctic Silentium 2 PC enclosure. The case uses an odd setup in order to keep a system cool while maintaining low noise output. A nice looking mini/mid tower but its custom powersupply…
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Hexus.net has some performance numbers from ATI’s X800 and X850 Pro graphics cards. The boards make use of chips similar to that of their high-end card offerings but a few features, mostly pixel pipes, are disabled. Good performance and image…
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System Cooling takes a close look at Arctic Cooling’s Silencer 4 heatsink/fan combo. The cooler attaches to most reference design ATI Radeon X800 graphics boards extending their width into a second expansion slot. The extra space allows it to exhaust…
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SFFTech has a review of the Iwill ZMAXdp small form factor barebones PC. The standout feature of this box is its dual AMD Opteron processor capable motherboard crammed into a miniature case. What’s most impressive is that they were able…
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CNN Money’s Game Over column has an inkling that more advertisements are set to hit video games. They note an ingame feature in the MMORPG EverQuest 2 allowing users to order a pizza, in the real world, using an in…
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Legion Hardware has tested the Swiftech H20-120 watercooling kit. The setup includes everything needed to get started with cooling an Intel Pentium 4 (s478) and AMD Athlon 64 processors. A great package which is capable of shaming one of the…
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PCSTATS has a look at the AOpen n250a-FR motherboard for AMD’s older socket 754 Athlon 64s and Semprons. The board makes good use of the Nvidia nForce3-250 chipset and performs well compared to the socket 939 based chips/motherboards. An inexpensive…
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Controlled-Insanity has a review of the Silverstone LC04 enclosure. The case’s layout lends itself to HTPC usage for which they toss in riser adapters for a pair of add-on cards which includes the AGP slot. A nice clean layout that…
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