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by Rafael Hernandez on August 24, 2004 · 0 comments

Hexus.net takes a look at the OCZ 2GByte PC3200 Performance Series Dual Channel Kit. The company is known for its high-speed memory with incredibly low latency timings but this memory set is designed strictly for consumers that have huge amounts…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 24, 2004 · 0 comments

X-bit labs continues its power draw measurements of modern day graphics cards. This time around they take a look at a NVIDIA based lineup of boards and compare the results with their ATI numbers. It would appear that both companies…

Read more Graphics Card Power Consumption: Part 2

by Rafael Hernandez on August 24, 2004 · 0 comments

Legit Reviews did a bit of researching on the general lack of high performance cooling options for Intel’s latest line of high speed and high temperature CPUs. The comments they did get from company reps some to point to a…

Read more LGA 775 Confounds Cooling Manufacturers

by Rafael Hernandez on August 24, 2004 · 0 comments

DigiTimes has a small tidbit on why it may be harder to find AMD’s Athlon 64 and Sempron processors overseas. It seems the company’s recent price cuts have led to a rise in sales making their more sensibly priced chips…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 23, 2004 · 0 comments

Virtual Zone has a review of the HIS Excalibur X800 Pro IceQ II VIVO which sports and Arctic Cooler which was mentioned earlier today. The card also bundles in some decent game titles and features some compelling tweaking options, if…

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 23, 2004 · 0 comments

X-bit labs gathered up a few tidbits on the upcoming ATI RV410 chipset which will probably make its way into X700 branded boards in the near future. The chip will be a slimmed down version of the R400 found in…

Read more ATI's Midrange Plans

by Rafael Hernandez on August 23, 2004 · 0 comments

InsaneTek has a look at the new video card cooling line from Artic Cooling. The new Silencer lineup covers most modern video cards in a wide variety of configurations and all boast better cooling potential than most stock heatsinks and…

Read more A Look at the Arctic Cooling Silencer Lineup

by Rafael Hernandez on August 23, 2004 · 0 comments

Elite Bastards do their own thing with a copy of a stress test put together by Valve, makers of Half-Life 2, using their new Source graphics engine. The numbers are a but different than other comparisons floating around due the…

Read more More HL2:Source Benchmarks

by Rafael Hernandez on August 23, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a rather exhaustive list of info on popular CPUs going back a few years with specifications, code-names, and commentary. Quite an interesting list to look back on and it sure does show the rapid-fire of product launches both…

Read more Modern Day CPU Lineage

by Rafael Hernandez on August 22, 2004 · 0 comments

Burning Issues has a look at the highly capable Iwill DK8N Dual AMD Opteron motherboard. The board sports NVIDIA’s NFORCE3 Pro/250 and when paired with a proper OS to make use of its features it displays some monsterous performance numbers….

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by Rafael Hernandez on August 22, 2004 · 0 comments

BleedinEdge has a review of the budget priced Chaintech VNF3-250 motherboard which can be host to a Socket 754 Athlon 64 processor. The board is lacking, somewhat, feature wise, but for the price, it’s pretty tough to beat the board’s…

Read more Chaintech VNF3-250 Reviewed