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by Rafael Hernandez on February 1, 2006 · 0 comments

AMDZone has a look at the Coolermaster Aquagate Mini R80 liquid-cooling kit. The cooler comes preassembled with all of the tubing attached and coolant filled making it an easy install process for the novice. A great little kit that’s surprisingly…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 1, 2006 · 0 comments

Legit Reviews takes a closer look at the ATI Radeon X1900 graphics chip. The cards are their current top-end product so they saw it fit to compare it in CrossFire form with Nvidia’s 7800GTX 512 in SLI mode. Quite a…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 1, 2006 · 0 comments

LostCircuits has a look at the nVidia Quadro FX4500 SLI graphics chip. The Quadro line is aimed at workstation applications such as 3D modellers and have their own driver set with specific optimizations focused on what those programs require the…

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by Rafael Hernandez on February 1, 2006 · 0 comments

HardOCP has a review of the ASUS Extreme N7800GT Dual graphics card. Asus piled on two 7800GT chips on a single board, with their respective allotment of memory making for a very large graphics card. It’s no faster than a…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 31, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a comparison between the “old” Apple iMac G5 and a newer Intel Core Duo based machine. They have a number of benchmarks with each CPU having some strengths and weaknesses but, with some optimizations, the Core Duo will…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 31, 2006 · 0 comments

Xboxic has the details on an update for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console. The “patch” clears up a number of nagging issues and bugs behind the scenes but beyond the generic bullet points there aren’t many details. For the few of…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 30, 2006 · 0 comments

Digit-Life has gone crazy and benchmarked 40 modern CPUs in a number of programs. They cover both single and dual-core CPUs from Intel and AMD and even toss in a few Pentium M results. A good list to consider if…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 30, 2006 · 0 comments

Big Bruin has a look at the 160GB version of the Seagate Momentus drive. Notebook storage has lagged a bit recently but the company’s latest drive line has managed to squeeze more data on platters by going perpendicular. There isn’t…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 30, 2006 · 0 comments

The Tech Report has a review of the Asus A8R-MVP ATI CrossFire capable motherboard. A few more designs featuring ATI’s chipset have been popping up at fairly decent prices. A nice option if you’re going with a CrossFire setup of…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 27, 2006 · 0 comments

AnandTech has a look at four different Nvidia GeForce 6800GS based graphics cards. The chip has been a surprising performer at the mid-range to low-end segment it sits at and it provides some inexpensive SLI options to the gamer on…

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by Rafael Hernandez on January 27, 2006 · 0 comments

Digit-Life has a review of the Foxconn Tuckaway mini-barebones system. The product supports Intel 775 chips but its non-existent room and power supply keep the options limited. A great concept but, perhaps, a choice of another Intel CPU to support…

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