Hexus.net was lucky enough to get a motherboard outfitted with NVIDIA’s nForce3 250, their latest chipset for the AMD Athlon 64 processor line. It boasts a huge lists of features and matches up quite well with VIA’s chipset offerings so…
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Flexbeta gathered a few software firewall applications and probed for holes with various tools. With the large number of firewall choices available and the risk to system security for not running one so high there’s no reason to be without…
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Hexus.net has a review on what will probably be the last major chipset release that will support the AMD Athlon (non 64-bit) platform. The VIA KT880 has a feature set on par with NVIDIA’s Nforce2 chipsets but to find out…
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Sudhian Media has an informative, if short, article on the Rambus RDRAM memory technology and what lead to its demise in the PC market. A good read if you’re interested in knowing the sordid past of one of the more…
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AnandTech has a review on some innovative memory from Kingmax. The Kingmax DDR500 Hardcore Memory uses “Tiny”BGA memory chips which, theoretically, offer better signal and thermal characteristics than what we’re used to seeing from run of the mill TSOP memory…
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CNET News has the scoop on a drive Hitachi is set to announce this week, the Deskstar 7K400. The drive will have the capacity to store a massive 400GB of data and has a 7200rpm drive which should make it…
Read more Hitachi to Launch New Hard Drive
Quite a bit of press for S3’s upcoming graphics chips the DeltaChrome S8 and S8 Nitro today. Here’s a small roundup of sites with previews for the chip: AnandTech HotHardware The Tech Report…
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internetnews.com has the info on Microsoft’s latest batch of patches for its popular software. A total of three announced today but they don’t affect a large swath of users with the most widespread patch probably affecting Windows 2000….
Read more MS' Monthly Patches
It was only a matter of time before a company figured out how to effectively and easily label a CD and DVD by flipping them over and “burning” the label. HP will be one of the first to market with…
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PCSTATS has an informative article on what RAID is and how to go about setting up an array in your system. RAID is a simple way to improve overall system performance since hard drives are usually the bottleneck in computers….
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Madshrimps has reviewed a nice selection of aftermarket coolers for video cards. With modern GPUs pumping out almost as much heat as processors, card makers are resorting to obnoxiously loud and inefficient cooling solutions straight out of the factory. This…
Read more GPU Cooler Roundup
