General News

by Rafael Hernandez on August 19, 2004 · 0 comments

InfoWorld has the details on the newest updates for the 64-bit editions of both Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional. Not much in the way of details except for word of Bluetooth support and a new user interface…

Read more Windows 64-bit Beta Updates Available

by Rafael Hernandez on August 19, 2004 · 0 comments

PC World has a bit of a write-up on the huge number of improvements that consumer-level digital cameras are seeing and the small pit-falls these new and improved devices bring about. Interesting points to take into consideration when looking into…

Read more DigiCams Cramming Features: Too Much of a Good Thing?

by Rafael Hernandez on August 18, 2004 · 0 comments

Gamers-Depot has some performance figures up for ATI’s Radeon 9800 Mobility, a huge upgrade over its previous 9700 notebook video chipset. The 9800 offers some serious speed advances in the mobile arena turning laptops into viable gaming machines….

Read more ATI Radeon 9800 Mobility Performance Analyzed

by Rafael Hernandez on August 18, 2004 · 0 comments

PCSTATS has a review of a PCI-Express video card for the budget concious. The MSI RX600XT-TD128 is built around the ATI Radeon x600 video core which has native support for the PCI-E interface. It won’t keep up with today’s top-end…

Read more MSI RX600XT-TD128 Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on August 18, 2004 · 0 comments

Hexus.net has their take on Intel’s latest mid-range server CPU, the 64bit Xeon processor code-named “Nocona”. Well they do it one better and actually have a go with a dual processor Xeon setup and run it against a dual CPU…

Read more 64-bit Intel Xeon Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on August 18, 2004 · 0 comments

ExtremeTech has the skinny on AOpen’s latest small form factor barebones the XC Cube EX915. The company managed to fit an Intel 915G chipset/LGA 775 motherboard into a compact case while maintaining all of the advanced features (sans DDR2) usually…

Read more AOpen XC Cube EX915 SFF Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on August 18, 2004 · 0 comments

Virtual Zone got its hands on a copy of Counter-Strike: Source and benchmarked it on a variety of video cards. CS: Source is, in a nutshell, Counter-Strike ported over to the Source engine which Half-Life 2 will run on. Seeing…

Read more Counter-Strike: Source Performance Comparison

by Rafael Hernandez on August 17, 2004 · 0 comments

HardOCP has a review of the Abit AV8 AMD Athlon 64 based motherboard sporting the VIA K8T800 Pro chipset. The usual plethora of expansion ports and connections are all there as well as the settings packed BIOS that Abit is…

Read more Abit AV8 Reviewed

by Rafael Hernandez on August 17, 2004 · 0 comments

There’s a bit more info trickling out of this years QuakeCon with Bjorn3D’s Day 3 insight into the goings-ons at the event and now PC Perspective has some show details as well as a load of pictures to go along…

Read more Continued QuakeCon 2004 Coverage

by Rafael Hernandez on August 17, 2004 · 0 comments

AMD is pretty proud of itself for shipping out its first batches of 90 nanometer 64-bit CPUs. The first lot are Athlon 64s destined for low power mobile devices and we should soon see some desktop versions hitting shelves. The…

Read more AMD Shipping 90nm Athlon 64s

by Rafael Hernandez on August 17, 2004 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a preview of an interesting motherboard which brings together Intel’s new Socket 775 processors with their previous generation 865PE chipset. The Soltek SL-865Pro-775 allows people to salvage their “old” DDR memory and AGP video cards and upgrade to…

Read more Soltek SL-865Pro-775 Preview