PC World writes of Intel’s plan to launch a 64-bit version of its Xeon processor line next week. The chip will be able to run both 32-bit and 64-bit code natively similar to the AMD Athlon64/Opteron line. Since it is…
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X-bit labs has a fiew details on Intel’s planned dual-core Itanium2 64-bit processor which was, apparently, demonstrated in Japan recently. The chip will feature 24MB of cache next to its dual CPU core attached to a quad-pumped 667MHz bus…the chip…
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eWeek has word of Fujitsu’s planned speed ramp up of its SPARC64 chips which are usually found in Sun Microsystems PCs and servers. The CPU is getting pushed to a peppy 1.9GHz clock rate with 3MB of L2 cache which…
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VR-Zone Hardware has a retail version of the Visiontek XTASY Radeon X800XT PE in their testing labs today, and boy does it perform. The X800XT PE is the current top product from ATI offering great speed and image quality along…
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AnandTech has a peek at ATI’s HDTV Wonder TV Tuner card. The card comes in at a somewhat hefty $200 price-point but when you consider other makers were charging $300 or more for their boards it’s something of a “bargain”….
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Legit Reviews has some time on their hands so they pushed their Intel LGA775 CPU based board and DDR2 memory to higher clock speeds with a bit more voltage and chronicled it in their forum post. Initial DDR2 performance was…
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PCWorld writes of MTI Micro Fuel Cell’s technology which could conceivably power laptops without the need for batteries. Their Mobion technology has some nifty characteristics such as handling the water by-product its fuel cell creates internally, killing the need for…
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DigiTimes has some predictions on just what will drive Intel 915/925 chipset sales this coming year. It seems that Intel will be launching three new Celeron processors at low price points which may drive sales of motherboards with the new…
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AMDZone has a look at the FIC Ice Cube HU61 small form factor PC. The barebones PC is designed to take AMD Athlon 64bit CPUs of the 754 pin variety and hosts a bunch of standard features that everyone should…
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GameSpot has a small amount of info concerning performance figures for Alienware’s upcoming dual graphics card technology dubbed “ALX”. The system runs a pair of NVIDIA GeForce 6800s tied together with some hardware and software to boost the system’s video…
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DriverHeaven throws a testing sample of ATI’s upcoming, mid-range, Radeon X600XT PCI Express video card into a high end Intel LGA775 CPU/i925x system and churned out some numbers in today’s popular video games and other assorted applications. They didn’t bother…
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