General News

by Rafael Hernandez on April 11, 2004 · 0 comments

Intel seems to be having some initial problems with its upcoming i925X chipset and DDR2 ECC memory and they expect a delayed launch for their “Nocona” processor according to AnandTech. Early i925x chipsets won’t have the ECC feature at all…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 11, 2004 · 0 comments

Warcry brings news of Vivendi Universal Games/Sierra offering up free versions of Starsiege Tribes and Tribes 2 early next month. They’re doing it to get a bit of press before the next version in the Starsiege saga, Tribes: Vengeance is…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 10, 2004 · 0 comments

Hexus.net has a review of the ASUS SK8V, a motherboard designed to handle AMD’s current high end 64-bit chips, the Opteron and Athlon FX. It appears to be a high quality board with some very impressive performance numbers and enough…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 10, 2004 · 0 comments

NVIDIA’s next video chip, rumored to be named GeForce 6800 Ultra, may require quite a bit more power according to The Inquirer. So much more power that NVIDIA allegedly is recommending 480watt power supplies in order to power your system…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 9, 2004 · 0 comments

PC Perspective has the goods on AMD’s Athlon 4 2800+ which was designed wth the price conscious consumer in mind. It’s not the fastest processor available, obviously, but its price to performance ratio and its support for future 64-bit apps…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 9, 2004 · 0 comments

Microsoft has had to put some of its advanced features on hold in order to ship its next major operating system, Longhorn, out in time according to Business Week. With a 2006 launch date looming they’ve “done the right thing”…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 9, 2004 · 0 comments

The simply named Computer Trade Show took place this past week in the UK and The Tech Zone has a good amount of info and pictures from the show for your perusal. Lots of interesting products and a man in…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 9, 2004 · 0 comments

X-bit labs brings news of MaxSelect’s, a Russian computer firm, AMD Opteron powered server. The beast of a machine is the first Opteron server that can take up to 8 CPUs. It can also handle a maximum of 64GB of…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 8, 2004 · 0 comments

Designtechnica has an interesting opinion piece on the state of high fidelity audio formats such as SACD and DVD-Audio which hasn’t been marketed very well by the music industry and, as a result, very few releases make use of the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 8, 2004 · 0 comments

Tom’s Hardware Guide has a bit of information gleened from a PDF file AMD mistakenly placed on its website. The PDF contained details of a new mobile processor, the Athlon 64 2700+, which has much lower power requirements compared to…

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 8, 2004 · 0 comments

NVIDIA’s first Athlon 64, the nForce3 150, was poorly received due to its lackluster feature set compared to VIA’s offering at the time. They seem to have remedied the situation with the nForce3 250Gb which the Tech Report just happens…

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