LostCircuits goes into the details, lots and lots of detail, of DDR-II and GDDR3. DDR-II is set to become the new memory standard for high speed processors while GDDR3 is designed for memory bandwidth starved video chips. It does have…
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Hexus.net has a few details and pictures of the Silverstone TJ-06 PC chassis that appears to use a WTX-like form factor where the motherboard is flipped giving the CPU first shot at incoming cooler case air. Innovative design and an…
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Sudhian has a review of the IWill ZMAX-AP Intel Pentium 4 based small form factor PC, not to be confused with the ZMAX-dp dual processor SFF that has gotten a lot of buzz recently. It looks like a good start…
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GamePC has access to the nicest toys as evidenced by their review of the Intel Pentium-M 735 CPU, formerly code-named Dothan. The 735 is a 1.7GHz processor with 2MB of cache designed for laptops and based on the old Pentium…
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Yahoo News has the story of the highly lucrative, high-end gaming PC market which the larger PC makers have recently targeted. The $2 billion a year in sales is a little surprising but I suppose it makes sense when these…
Read more Game PCs, High Profit
OCWorkBench has strolled around the Computex show grounds this week and has a large number of product images in their Day 3 coverage. A ton of interesting stuff, but comanies really do need to cut down on all of the…
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X-bit labs has the story on ServerWorks’ plans to develop a chipset for AMD’s Opteron processors. They design chipsets with features that cater to multiple processor servers and workstations which the Opteron line just happens to be able to function…
Read more ServerWorks AMD Chipset in the Works
BBC News has a story on the FTC’s planned proposal to overhaul the U.S. Patent system which has been severely abused over the past few years by people and companies patenting everything and anything, including things that have had blatantly…
Read more Patent Gold Rush Days Over?
Digital Photography Review writes of a new memory card from Pretec Electronics that is able to be written to at 18MB/s and read from at 22.5MB/s, generally speaking that’s blazing fast for flash memory. The 2GB card probably won’t come…
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ExplosiveLabs put together a comparative review between three small form factor Pentium 4 based PCs from Epox, Biostar, and FIC, each featuring the Intel i865 chipset. They do a good job of going over each SFF’s features and include a…
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HardwareZoom has a large number of photos from Day 1 at the Computex Trade Show which has been going on this week. There are a ton of innovative products coming out of the show this year but the most interesting…
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