Hardware Analysis has a short guide on how they went about bringing down their Intel “Prescott” based PC overall system temperature. The Prescott core is a 90-nanometer version (with some enhancements) of Intel’s classic Pentium 4 CPU which runs a…
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OCWorkbench has a two video card roundup featuring the XGI Volari V8 and the S3 Deltachrome S8 chipsets battling it out with better known GPUs. It’s not a pretty sight for one of the cards due to some hairy driver…
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X-bit labs has the goods on the ASUS SCB-2408-D external CD-RW/DVD combo drive. Its specs aren’t the greatest with a max 24X CD burn speed and 8X DVD read with no DVD writing capability at all but it more than…
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Sudhian Media measures the heat output of the new 90 nanometer, die shrunk AMD Socket 939 Athlon 64s on the market. In general these early die shrinkings turn out to be a nightmare for cooling as you have less surface…
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hardCOREware has put three motherboards with integrated graphics processors to the test in their mini-roundup. The ATI and Intel integrated video solutions aren’t the fatest available, downright offensive to a gamer at any rate, but they do make for a…
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GamePC delves into Microsoft’s latest release of their Windows XP Media Center Edition. The operating system is designed for media centric PCs but it can still be used as a regular run of the mill OS as well. Looks like…
The Tech Report has another grand roundup of products, this time they have a look at 8 different power supplies from various manufacturers. The PSUs range from the low end in pricing and performance to the high end modular supplies…
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PC World has the specifications of the Sony Vaio VGX-X90P which is a very capable media centered PC with a very hefty pricetag. The computer is able to record up to 7 video channels simultaneously and can be configured with…
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ZDNet has some info on a new chip design by ClearSpeed which crams 96 individual processing cores into a single package. The Avebury isn’t a general purpose CPU like the ones AMD and Intel are famous for and, considering its…
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AMDZone takes a gander at the low-cost Chaintech SK8T800 motherboard for the AMD Athlon 64. The company keeps the numbers of features they toss on to the socket 754 board to a minimum but it still provides great performance and…
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GameSpot has the story of a few analysts who believe that the Sony PSP launch may be delayed into next year for Japan and could possibly be up to a year away for the US. Tons of reasons to delay…
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