TheTechLounge has a look at the Soyo Raptor 400 Watt power supply. What makes this particular device stand out is its adjustable voltages through a drive bay mounted panel. Low voltages can lead to instability so this is perfect for…
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GamePC has another fine article, this time they compare the performance of PCI Express versions of mid-range chips from both NVIDIA and ATI against their older AGP cousins. Decent performance out of the boards though a revisit would be great…
Ace’s Hardware has received some performance numbers, from IBM, for their new line of POWER5 dual core processors in the industry standard SPEC line of benchmarks. Very impressive performance nubers but I think most chip makers can catch up once…
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Storage Review does their usual, exhaustive testing on three hard drives in their work shop. Western Digital, Seagate, and Hitachi are in the lineup this time with drive sizes coming in at 250, 200, and 400GB respectively. All three perform…
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CNET News has the details on what will be a big launch date for Intel’s newest line of Xeon server processors, their first mid-range server chip that can handle both 32-bit and 64-bit instructions natively. The big system builders are…
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A pack of angry crustaceans have a roundup of fourteen power supplies from various manufacturers, both old and new to the market. They range from a modest 300 watts to a beefy 550 watts, some created better than others. MadShrimps…
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No that’s not a typo. ASUS marketing folk thought it would be a great plan to name an NVIDIA GeForce 6800 powered video card the V9999 Gamer Edition. Naming issues aside it’s a very potent card and should handle all…
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Microsoft will allow 64-bit processor server owners to upgrade their copies of Windows Server 2003 to the 64-bit Edition for free when the product is launched. No mention on if it’s limited to OEM servers or any valid Server 2003…
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Computerworld has the details on a patch Microsoft has just released, a few days early remarkably, for its Internet Explorer browser. The patch apparently closes a severe hole which could lead to a compromised system so the patch is highly…
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AnandTech put together a round up of motherboards that support AMD’s latest Socket 939 processors. They grabbed the top boards from the well known manufacturers and give you the low-down on each of the board’s features and their performance compared…
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EA has purchased a game development studio, located in Britain, that goes by the name of Criterion. The company also happens to make a suite of tools that’s very popular with game developers when it comes time to making games…
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