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by Rafael Hernandez on May 18, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a review of the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB hard drive. The storage capacity the perpendicular recording will allow is mind-blowing with this being an early example and we can only expect much larger sizes in the future. A…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 17, 2006 · 0 comments

AMD has a new mobile chip on the way in the form of the Turion 64 X2. As you can guess it’s designed for notebook PCs and the like bringing 64-bit support and dual channel DDR2 to the party. It’s…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 16, 2006 · 0 comments

ars technica has some info on Apple’s latest mobile PCs. The new MacBook line brings along Intel Core Duo CPUs in a smaller 13″ widescreen notebook. The usual white version is available in addition to a much darker black motif…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 16, 2006 · 0 comments

DailyTech has the details on Sony’s UMPC product named the VAIO UX. It’s one of the slicker looking UMPCs with a slide-up screen that reveals a keyboard underneath. The Sony nametag bumps up the price to 1800USD but it is…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 16, 2006 · 0 comments

HardOCP has the skinny on the BFGTech GeForce 7600 GT OC graphics card. The middle of the graphics market has seen some nice products come its way with all of the image quality benefits of their bigger brothers at some…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 15, 2006 · 0 comments

ThinkComputers has a look at Corsair’s latest GPU and motherboard chipset waterblocks. These should be interesting to those looking into water cooling and when combined with the company’s Nautilus external cooling rig it’s a powerful cooling trio for your system…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 15, 2006 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a look at a segment of the graphics market that gets very little press, the budget boards. ATI, Nvidia, and even S3 have put in some good performance and features in the low end and while…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 12, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a review of the Asus 7600GS and 7800GT Silent graphics cards. As their name would suggest the boards use passive coolers which can be good for media PCs although the cooling duty is then passed on to your…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 12, 2006 · 0 comments

The Electronic Entertainment Expo is the gaming industry’s chance to show off their latest titles and hardware along with a healthy dose of good old vapourware. Come see what a few websites have uncovered at this year’s show: AnandTech Guru3D…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 10, 2006 · 0 comments

Guru3D has a look at the HiS Radeon X1800 GTO IceQ3 graphics card. The x1800gto is a slightly crippled version of the x1800XT/XL chip destined for the mid-range of the market. While it does have a missing quad of rendering…

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 10, 2006 · 0 comments

HardOCP(Consumer) has a look at one of Puget System’s Custom Gaming PCs. It’s not a true SFF, but a fully featured MicroATX system packed with some great hardware. A nice PC but it’s on the very pricey side and their…

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