HotHardware tests out a laptop sporting the ATI Mobility Radeon X700. The GPU has most of the great features of its desktop counterpart and includes some power consumption friendly technology. Strapped to a beefy laptop the chip is capable of…
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AnandTech has compared four audio solutions ranging from on-board, consumer level, and a low-end professional sound card. The add-on cards demonstrate better audio performance than on-board chip but it shows just how far integrated audio has come with Intel’s HD-Audio…
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GamePC has tested a pair of Native Command Queuing (NCQ) capable drives along side the blisteringly fast Western Digital Raptor. The drives are quite speedy, although non-NCQ results would have been nice of them to include, but the pure spinning…
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Lost Circuits has a review of the Sapphire RADEON X800XL graphics card. The board utilizes ATI’s latest mid-range chip and pairs it with some faster than normal memory to keep it competitive with other mid-range solutions and, in some cases,…
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VIA has released its Grease Monkey PC video game updating service. The software is capable of scanning a system and automatically search for new patches for gaming titles. Interesting service and at $15 for a year very inexpensive. If it…
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Ars Technica takes a look under the hood of AMD’s 64-bit capable CPUs. The Opteron and Athlon 64 lines have been a popular chip line because of its performance, 64-bit potential, and scaling. Ars goes about explaining how the chip…
AnandTech has a look at a pair of DFI motherboards which use variants of Nvidia’s nForce4 chipsets. The Ultra and SLI based boards are on their testbench and with DFI’s new found skills at creating enthusiast boards the crew at…
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CNET News has some coverage on AMD’s plans for its Geode line of x86 CPUs suitable for embedded applications. The chips feature low power consumption and good performance which can bring added benefits and features to products such as portable…
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DigiTimes had a chat with the man behind Shuttle’s popular XPC small form factor PCs. The topics vary from design challenges and market threats to Apple’s Mac mini. Interesting insight into what has been one of the more exciting product…
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Techniz has a review of the GIGABYTE GA-8I915G Duo motherboard. The board supports LGA775 Intel Pentium 4 processors and uses the i915G chipset which includes a respectable built-in graphics chip. A good choice for getting a system going out of…
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AMD and Intel have raised their respective market shares by a few tenths of a percent in the fourth quarter of last year according to Mercury Research. The gains are from the market shares of VIA and Transmeta who have…
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